Arizona poll: Bush, Kerry in tight race

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/30752.php

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee, are locked in a tight race among Arizona voters, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The poll found 41 percent favored Bush, while 42 percent favored John Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee for president.

The survey, taken July 15-18, contrasted poll taken by another organization June 30-July 7. That poll, by the Behavior Research Center, found Bush was leading Kerry 48 percent to 36 percent.

The most recent poll found Arizonans are equally divided on whether they approve of President Bush's job performance, his handling of the economy and the war on terrorism.

The poll, taken by KAET-TV and Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, found a majority of registered voters _ 55 percent _ disapproved of Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. Forty-two percent approved.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. That's not consistent with others but I hope it's true!

[bluestateguy]

2. I don't get it

The Arizona polls are all over the map. A poll from a couple of days ago showed Bush up 12. Then we hear this. I have seen this pattern many times with Arizona polls. I hope Kerry plays AZ hard (and there's no Nader to worry about there!), but at the end of the day I think Bush will take the state by 3 or 4 points.

[drmom]

3. What about the other 17%?

Even with Nader's usual 2-5%, that still leaves an awful lot of undecideds. Strange.

[King of New Orleans]

4. Ain't polls wacky

take 'em with a grain of salt. They ain't meaningless but they ain't definitive either.