Poll: President Bush would lose to Kerry and Gore today
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Published:
Wednesday August 9, 2006
Print This Email This According to a survey by Scripps Howard News Service released by Ohio University which asked 1,010 "Americans to ponder their options in every U.S. presidential election held since 1964," two term President George W. Bush would lose to both Senator John Kerry and former Vice President Al Gore.
"46 per cent of respondents would support Democrat John Kerry in a repeat of the 2004 ballot, while 40 per cent would vote for Republican George W. Bush," according to Scripps Howard News Service / Ohio University poll.
Interestingly, Ralph Nader captured 7% in the survey, even though the independent only garnered 0.4% of the popular vote in 2004.
In a "rerun" of 2000, the poll suggests that Gore would beat Bush with 46 to 38 percent. Gore did win a slightly larger percentage of the popular vote in the 2000 election (48.4% to 47.9%), but after a month-long battle that reached the Supreme Court Bush was awarded a majority of the electoral college vote.
In a rematch between Democrat George McGovern and Richard Nixon, the Republican president who resigned under threat of impeachment would lose by three percentage points (39% to 42%).
Poll results from last 6 elections:
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1972
George McGovern (D) 42%
Richard Nixon (R) 39%
1976
Jimmy Carter (D) 52%
Gerald Ford (R) 35%
1980
Ronald Reagan (R) 56%
Jimmy Carter (D) 30%
John Anderson (I) 6%
1984
Ronald Reagan (R) 64%
Walter Mondale (D) 24%
1988
George H. Bush (R) 53%
Michael Dukakis (D) 33%
1992
Bill Clinton (D) 52%
George H. Bush (R) 30%
Ross Perot (I) 12%
1996
Bill Clinton (D) 56%
Bob Dole (R) 25%
Ross Perot (Ref.) 12%
2000
Al Gore (D) 46%
George W. Bush (R) 38%
Ralph Nader (G) or
Pat Buchanan (Ref.) 9%
2004
John Kerry (D) 46%
George W. Bush (R) 40%
Ralph Nader (I) 7%
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More data from survey at this link
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