Gallup poll: Bush up by seven

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Poll: Bush apparently gets modest bounce

Monday, September 6, 2004 Posted: 7:19 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Last week's GOP convention in New York City appears to have given President Bush a modest bounce and a small lead among likely voters, according to a poll released Monday.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,018 adult Americans, including 778 likely voters and 926 registered voters, was conducted by telephone September 3-5.

Bush's convention bounce appeared to be 2 percentage points.

The percentage of likely voters who said he was their choice for president rose from 50 right before the convention to 52 immediately afterward.

Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee, was the choice of 45 percent of the likely voters interviewed in the most recent poll. He had 47 percent in the poll taken August 23-25...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/06/...poll/index.html

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and this means nothing it's all in the swing states! This is why I will be in New Mexico on elction day and weekend!!!

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and this means nothing it's all in the swing states! This is why I will be in New Mexico on elction day and weekend!!!

According to most places keeping up with this sort of thing, Bush is taking the lead in those areas too. Most statisticians will tell you that you don't build more than about a 3 point lead nationally without carrying enough swing states to win the Electoral College. Everytime a candidate has lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College, the margin has been very thin nationally. It's just the way it works.

But, there is still a long way to go.