Kerry Slightly Leads Bush in N.J. Poll

[CShine]

WASHINGTON - Democratic challenger John Kerry has a slight lead over President Bush in New Jersey, a state Al Gore won by 16 percentage points in 2000, according to a poll released Wednesday. Kerry had 46 percent and Bush 40 percent, while independent candidate Ralph Nader had 7 percent in the Quinnipiac University poll. In May, Kerry was at 46 percent and Bush at 43 percent. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points for the survey of 1,167 voters, taken June 15-20.

Kerry's favorability ratings among those polled was still lukewarm, with 30 percent viewing him favorably and 28 percent viewing him unfavorably, said Clay Richards, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute. Thirteen percent said they did not know enough about Kerry to form an opinion about him.

When asked about Bush, 35 percent viewed him favorably while 40 percent viewed him unfavorably. Twenty-three percent offered no opinion.

Of those polled, 54 percent said they believed the war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do.

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[Melodybe]

1. Bull Shit! I have family in Jersey and they don't know anyone that likes *

Nobody, my grandmother said that is just NOT possible even her repub friends regret their vote for * and plan on voting Kerry.

[lancdem]

2. Glad to see Kerry gained 3 points in the last month

BTW, there's no way in hell Ralph Nader will get 7 percent in November, if he's even on the ballot.

[llmart]

3. Bogus poll....

any time you see Nader getting above 2%.