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Re: Poll: N.C. likes Dole more than Bush

cthayes75 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:20:09 -0500

Thank you for being one of only a few media outlets who correctly identified and pointed out that the Elon poll does not sample registered voters.

Re: Poll: N.C. likes Dole more than Bush

bkrueger — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:09:12 -0500

In another question, Elon asked how important Bush's performance was in evaluating Dole. Nearly half - 43.3 percent - said it was "not at all important." Nearly 40 percent said it was "somehwat important" (27 percent) or "very important" (12 percent).

Re: Poll: N.C. likes Dole more than Bush

dahedgehog — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:04:09 -0500

Given that the Dole policy agenda is the same as the Bush policy agenda, shouldn't these approval numbers be a lot closer?

Poll: N.C. likes Dole more than Bush

bkrueger — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:48:01 -0500

A majority of North Carolinians are satisfied with the job U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is doing. They're not so certain about President George W. Bush.

Those are the findings of the latest survey by the Elon University Poll, which surveyed 764 North Carolina residents Feb. 18-21. Elon did not limit its survey to registered voters or likely voters.

The poll found that slightly more than half of those surveyed approved (39.2 percent) or strongly approved (11.5 percent) of the job Dole is doing in the Senate. More than 26 percent of those surveyed said they didn't know how Dole, a Salisbury Republican, was doing.

Only 35 percent of those surveyed said they approved (25 percent) or strongly approved (10.5 percent) of the job Bush is doing. Almost 40 percent said they strongly disapproved of how Bush is doing.

The margin of error was plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.

"While Senator Dole receives decent reviews from North Carolinians overall, the Bush presidency is tempering her support a bit in the state, and this could prove a liability as she runs for re-election this fall," Hunter Bacot, director of the Elon University Poll, said in a statement.