Poll shows Kerry with apparent slight lead over Bush in PA

[Freddie Stubbs]

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Sen. John Kerry has overtaken the other Democratic presidential candidates in the battleground state of Pennsylvania and apparently holds a slight lead over President Bush nine months before the election, a new poll shows.

The survey by the Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University Polling Institute showed the senator from Massachusetts favored by 61 percent of Pennsylvania Democrats, compared to only 15 percent for runner-up Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, the Pennsylvania leader in a similar poll taken in December, had slipped to third place with only 9 percent.

In a hypothetical one-on-one match, Kerry was supported by 50 percent of the respondents and Bush by 45 percent.

The horse-race results were accompanied by a decline in the president's statewide approval rating to 47 percent - the lowest detected by Quinnipiac since it began polling in Pennsylvania in June 2002 - and signs of widespread concern about the state's economy.

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[lancdem]

1. Yea!!!!!

I'm a PA resident, and Bush ain't winning here!

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. A Republican presidential nominee hasn't carried PA since 1988

[zbdent]

2. My uncle called me up the other night

Get this, lives north of Pittsburgh (yet another part of PA's Arkansas), owns a small business, loves to hunt and fish.

Sounds like prime Bush material, right?

Tells me "you're more politically knowledgeable than I am, the guys I am around are a**holes . . ."

I think he was complimenting me that I was giving him info at Christmastime that was verified in the past few weeks.

I'm pretty sure he voted for W in 2000, doesn't quite look like it this time around.