Kerry running out of time in red states

MSNBC:

New polling data suggest that Sen. John Kerry has made little headway with voters in five states that President Bush narrowly won in 2000.

If Kerry wins only the states that Democrat Al Gore won in 2000, he will have 260 electoral votes, 10 shy of the number needed to win the White House.

In polling conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research for MSNBC in the five states — Arizona, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio and West Virginia — Kerry is statistically tied with Bush in only one state, West Virginia, and trails in the others.

Kerry is furthest behind in Arizona, where Bush leads him by 11 percentage points.

With only six full weeks of campaigning left, Kerry faces a difficult task in bringing voters in Republican-leaning states over to his side. So Kerry has invested heavily in Ohio, Nevada and West Virginia in a bid to pry some of the Bush states into his column.

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Another strikingly insignificant factor in the voters’ decisions is the mêlée over what both Bush and Kerry did during the Vietnam War era.

In Ohio, for example, eight of 10 respondents said the rival candidates’ Vietnam-era activities would play no role in deciding which candidate to support. Mason-Dixon found almost identical results in the other five states it surveyed.

One constant in the Mason-Dixon polling in all the states is that roughly seven out of 10 Bush supporters said they supported him because they like him very much.


Forty-three percent or fewer Kerry voters like him.

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