March 16, 2004

UNLIKED & UNKNOWN:

Poll: Bush Moves Ahead Of Kerry (CBS, March 15, 2004)

Eight months from Election Day, it is already a nip-and-tuck Presidential race. George W. Bush currently leads John Kerry by three points among voters, while two weeks ago Kerry was up by one. Seven in ten of each candidate’s voters say they have already locked in their choices, and most voters already have clear opinions of the two presidential candidates’ qualities and their potential strengths and weaknesses in office. [...]

VIEWS OF THE CANDIDATES
(Registered voters)

Bush
Favorable 43%
Unfavorable 39%
Undecided/Unknown 17%

Kerry
Favorable 28%
Unfavorable 29%
Undecided/Unknown 41%


That's pretty impressive for the Senator--he's just been through a kid-gloves Democratic primary but already has higher negatives than positives and a huge number of people don't know who he is, though Karl Rove will be happy to tell them.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 16, 2004 12:13 AM
Comments

He has just brilliantly defined himself in his "Chirac and Cretien prefer moi" moment. Ironic, don't cha think?

Posted by: Tonto at March 16, 2004 1:10 AM

The louder the mainstream media shouts "this is gonna be closer than 2000," the more you have to doubt that assertion...

Posted by: M. Murcek at March 16, 2004 3:12 AM
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