BRAND NEW Newsweek Poll - Bush Bounce Deflating

[ruggerson]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040911/nysa006_1.html

One week after the GOP convention, the latest Newsweek Poll shows Bush's bounce slowly deflating. In a three-way trial heat, the Bush/Cheney ticket gets 49 percent of the vote among registered voters; the Kerry/Edwards ticket gets 43 percent of the vote; Ralph Nader/Peter Camejo get 2 percent, the poll shows. One week ago, in the Newsweek Poll taken at the end of the GOP convention and the day after the convention, Bush/Cheney had pulled to an 11- point lead (52% v. 41%) with 3 percent for Nader/Camejo. In a two-way trial without the Nader ticket, among registered voters, Bush/Cheney are ahead of Kerry/Edwards 50 to 45 percent, with five percent of registered voters undecided. One week ago in the two-way race, Bush/Cheney were ahead of Kerry/Edwards 54 to 43 percent with three percent undecided

[West Coast Democrat]

1. Of course! The last poll heavily weighted Republicans...

and was taken on the evening of shrub's speech.

[ruggerson]

2. This one still does

Even a poll that still overweights Republicans can't keep Shrubco afloat :)

[DemMother]

3. No kidding...

391 Republicans, 300 Democrats and 270 independents (I think it's even worse than before when it was something like 374 repubs, 303 Democrats and 300 independents.)

I wish I remembered enough math to figure out how to adjust this to reflect reality. Maybe the professor who writes in to Donkey Rising can do it. Or maybe someone here could.