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To: stockman_scott who wrote (148605)	10/22/2004 9:47:27 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This time the bush lead should build and by ED it wont be close. Kerry cooked his own goose with the hunting shot and later today with the pink tie when speaking to a womans group. The dems are already producing Hillary buttons for 08. reuters.com Reuters Poll: Bush Holds Two-Point Lead Over Kerry Fri Oct 22, 2004 07:25 AM ET By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush holds a slim two-point lead on Democratic rival John Kerry in the stretch run of a tight race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Friday. Bush led Kerry 47-45 percent in the latest three-day tracking poll, within the poll's margin of error. Bush had a 46-45 percent lead the previous day. About 6 percent of likely voters are still undecided between the president and the Massachusetts senator 11 days before the Nov. 2 election, and neither candidate has been able to break 50 percent since the poll began on Oct. 7. "President Bush picked up another point today, but 48 percent has been the ceiling reached by either candidate in the last couple of weeks," pollster John Zogby. Bush and Kerry hit key swing states on Thursday. Bush criticized Kerry's health care plan during a visit to Pennsylvania, and Kerry went to Ohio to question Bush's decision to limit new embryonic stem cell research. The poll found the candidates essentially tied among many voter blocs, including independents, women, Catholics and military families. Kerry led by double digits among 18-24 year olds, and Bush led by double digits among 25-34 year olds. The number of likely voters who thought Bush deserved re-election was 46 percent, while the number who wanted someone new was 49 percent. Only 45 percent rated Bush's presidential performance as excellent or good, while 54 percent said it was fair or poor. The poll of 1,213 likely voters was taken Tuesday through Thursday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. The rolling poll will continue through Nov. 1 -- the day before the election. A tracking poll combines the results of three consecutive nights of polling, then drops the first night's results each time a new night is added. It allows pollsters to record shifts in voter sentiment as they happen. The poll showed independent candidate Ralph Nader, blamed by some Democrats for drawing enough votes from Gore to cost him the election in 2000, with the support of less than one percent of likely voters.