http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103674,00.html<snip>
The latest FOX News national poll shows that if the 2004 presidential election were held today, President Bush would capture 49 percent of the vote when matched against former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (search), retired Gen. Wesley Clark (search), or Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt (search). Each of these Democratic hopefuls receives the same amount of support (36 percent).
If the Democratic opponent were New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (search), just over half of voters say they would support the president and almost four in 10 would support Clinton (52 percent to 38 percent).
Opinion Dynamics Corporation (search) conducted the poll of registered voters November 18-19.
"There have been a lot of polls showing Bush and a generic Democrat close, but the actual candidates are still not well enough known to close that gap," comments Opinion Dynamics President John Gorman (search). "The problem for Bush in these numbers is he doesn't have a clear majority and it is likely many of the undecided voters will not back him. For example, undecided voters in the Bush-Clark matchup disapprove of Bush’s economic performance by a 62 percent to 25 percent margin. That suggests those voters are currently more likely to decide for Clark than for Bush."