Kerry jumps to the front
01/04/2004 22:37  - (SA)  

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Los Angeles - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry held a slight lead over Republican incumbent George W Bush in a US presidential election opinion poll released on Thursday.

Kerry was ahead 49% to 46% in the Los Angeles Times poll ahead of the November 2 election.

The Massachusetts senator leads even if consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who took votes from the Democrats in the 2000 election, takes part again.

With Nader a candidate, Kerry would get 47%, Bush 44% and Nader 4%, according to the poll of 1 616 people with a margin of error of 3%.

A majority believed accusations made by former counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke that Bush had not taken the terrorist threat seriously enough before September 11, 2001. Forty percent disagreed.

Fifty-seven percent said they believed Bush's main priority was to attack Iraq. Thirty-seven percent disagreed.

But 58% said they believed the publication last week of Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies", was intended to influence the presidential campaign.

Forty-six percent of those polled said Bush would be a "strong leader" while only 38% gave the same description to Kerry. Fifty one percent said Bush had a good judgement in a crisis, against 25% for Kerry, but the Democrat beat the Republican 43-33% in being close to the concerns of Americans.

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