Democrats lead in U.S. election: Reuters poll (44/33, Chimp at 36)

[jefferson_dem]

Democrats lead in U.S. election: Reuters poll

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent 15 minutes ago

Voters strongly favor Democratic candidates over Republicans in the November 7 congressional election and harbor growing doubts about the Iraq war and the country's future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Thursday.

Two weeks before voters decide which party controls the U.S. Congress, Republicans trail Democrats among independents and are still struggling to shore up their base conservative supporters, the poll found.

Democrats have an 11-point edge, 44 percent to 33 percent, when voters are asked which party's candidate they will support, up slightly from a 9-point lead in the last Reuters/Zogby poll a month ago.

The increase is within the poll's margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Independents favor Democrats by 12 points, and just 56 percent of self-identified conservatives and 68 percent of Republicans say they will vote for the Republican candidate. About 81 percent of Democrats plan to support the Democratic candidate, the poll found.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061026/pl_nm/poll_dc_1&printer=1

[texpatriot2004]

1. K & R nm

[greeneyedboy]

2. excellent. even before Foley, we had a nice 9-point lead. keep the momentum going.

just one question: and the other 19% of the Democrats are doing what? cutting their toenails?

[goforit]

3. Keep it up!