Kerry Way Ahead in New Poll…

by | Sep 10, 2004 | POLITICS

At last, some good news for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry! A new poll, using a huge sample of 34,330 people, shows Kerry is favored by 26 percentage points over the incumbent president, George W. Bush. The survey, which has Kerry leading, 46 percent to 20 percent, marks an incredible turnaround from the latest Time […]

At last, some good news for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry! A new poll, using a huge sample of 34,330 people, shows Kerry is favored by 26 percentage points over the incumbent president, George W. Bush.

The survey, which has Kerry leading, 46 percent to 20 percent, marks an incredible turnaround from the latest Time Newsweek and Gallup polls, which have Bush up by between 7 and 11 points.

Only one problem for Kerry. The new poll, by a public opinion group called GlobeScan and the University of Maryland, did not survey Americans. It surveyed people in 35 foreign countries, from Mexico to Germany to Thailand. And, unfortunately, for Kerry, these folks won’t be voting in the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 2.


Cartoon by Cox and Forkum

“World opinion,” says an article trumpeting this silly survey on the front page of the Financial Times this morning, “is unlikely to sway American voters. A

James Glassman

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