BUSH WOULD LOSE TO UNAMED DEM

[mburbank]

I'm not a believer in polls, but where certin folks on this Board are constantly telling me how popular W is, I thought I'd throw this out for grins.

Poll Shows Bush Would Lose to Democrat in Election


NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) would lose narrowly to a Democratic Party candidate if the U.S. presidential election were held now because of concerns about possible war and the economy, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday.

The Feb. 26-March 3 nationwide survey of U.S. voters by Hamden, Connecticut-based Quinnipiac University found that by a 48 percent to 44 percent margin, voters would pick the as yet unknown candidate out of nine Democrats running over the Republican incumbent. The survey of 1,232 voters had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent.

"This month, we find that an unnamed Democrat would edge out President Bush," said Quinnipiac University Polling Institute director Maurice Carroll.