Rasmussen’s nightly tracking poll shows the President gaining from the third debate:
Thursday October 14, 2004–The debates are over and there’s less than three weeks until Election Day. The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%.
The Tracking Poll is based upon nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. All but a few of the interviews for today’s report were conducted prior to the completion of last night’s debate.
Prior to the debate, our latest rating’s for the President’s handling of the economy and the situation in Iraq provided further evidence of an evenly divided electorate. In both cases, the number who say the President is doing a good or an excellent job is roughly equal to the number saying he is doing a poor job.
Our latest Electoral College projections show the President ahead with 240 Electoral Votes to 194 for Senator Kerry.
Kerry’s high point was the first debate, and it will be all downhill for him to Nov. 2nd.
In a way, it makes me sad that Kerry’s going to lose because it means that Hillary will have the inside track in 2008. If we can get Giuliani and Schwarzenegger on the ticket, we can take her but that means changing the Constitution.