Poll: Bush way ahead in Florida

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Lieberman leads Democrats in state survey

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head-to-head matchups with his major Democratic challengers, Bush led by 20 points or more.
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The survey on issues and the president's popularity was conducted last week among 625 registered voters, with a margin of error of 4 percent. Mason-Dixon also ran an "over-sampling" of 379 registered Democrats, to test the strength of Bush's challengers, and that sampling had a 5-percent error margin. The polling was sponsored by the Tallahassee Democrat and several other newspapers and broadcasters in the state.
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Cabrera noted that Bush's handling of the war was favored by only 54 percent of those surveyed, while 52 percent supported his economic policies.
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Coker said it was significant that Bush's favorable name recognition stood at 53 percent, compared with 30 percent unfavorable. That's a 4-percent increase since July in the number of voters with an unfavorable view of the incumbent, but much better than the favorable-unfavorable ratios of Dean (21-22 percent), Lieberman (32-27 percent) and retired Gen. Wesley Clark (24-18 percent).
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He said Bush's 54-percent approval on conduct of the war and 52-percent voter confidence on the economy mean "it will be very difficult for the Democrats to win in Florida" next year.
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No chads were harmed in this poll:p

CkG
 

Genesys

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its because Jeb is Dubyas brother and they have some sort of conspiracy going on!

there, i just answered for all the libs.
 

DealMonkey

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Hmmmm, interesting, but I have a hard time taking anything FL says with any degree of seriousness. :p
 

Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: Genesys
its because Jeb is Dubyas brother and they have some sort of conspiracy going on!

there, i just answered for all the libs.
Patriotism is the forte of the elder voters which are in great numbers in Florida and Bush has played that card to the hilt! That's smart politics and even if you question Bushes intelligence there is no question that those who are running his re-election campaign are some of the saviest in the business..unlike the DNC.
 

Wolfdog

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We'll see just how long his popularity lasts once the seniors in florida figure out he just screwed them with the new healthcare package.
 

chess9

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A lot of folks here remember the Lieberman name of course, plus we have a lot of conservative retirees and a not insubstantial Jewish population. Lieberman is a very good man and I could have supported him if he had been more dovish on the war. Unfortunately, I think if he were elected he'd have us in as bad shape as Sharon has Israel.

If Bush wins Florida this time I will be very, very surprised. Only a rip roaring economy will save his butt here, IMHO. (OTOH, the economy IS picking up briskly so there is hope for Bush.)

-Robert
 

chess9

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Red:

Uh, yup! The Republicans have played the American electorate like an Amati. The Dems are strumming a broken banjo with 1 string tuned to E Flat, sorry to say. But, that's the nature of Dems....

-Robert