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US Election race: It's a tie
05/10/2004 14:31 - (SA)
Washington - United States President George W Bush and his Democratic rival, John Kerry, are tied in their race for the White House.
The newspaper said the survey had also found significant doubts about Bush's policies toward Iraq, with a majority of the public saying that the United States invaded too soon and that the administration did a poor job thinking through the consequences of the war.
Both Bush and Kerry had the support of 47% of registered voters surveyed in the poll.
Forty-one percent of respondents said they had confidence in Kerry's ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, up from 32% before last week's nationally televised debate, according to The Times.
Confidence in Kerry
Thirty-nine percent said they had a lot of confidence the Massachusetts senator would make the right decisions when it came to protecting against a terrorist attack, up 13% points.
However Kerry still trailed Bush on these issues.
Fifty-one percent of voters said they had confidence in Bush's ability to deal with an international crisis, unchanged from before the debate, and 52% said they had a lot of confidence in his ability to protect against a terrorist attack, up slightly from 50% last month, the paper said.
Meanwhile, Bush's strategy of portraying Kerry as an unprincipled flip-flopper appears to have stuck in the national consciousness, The Times pointed out.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said Kerry told people what they wanted to hear rather than what he really believed, about the same level as throughout the spring and summer.
The corresponding figure for Bush was 38%, according to the report. - AFP
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