{"id":2855,"date":"2004-09-04T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/newsweek-poll-same-as-time-poll\/"},"modified":"2004-09-04T11:08:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-04T18:08:38","slug":"newsweek-poll-same-as-time-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/newsweek-poll-same-as-time-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek poll same as Time poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Newsweek poll taken after the convention echoes Time&#8217;s numbers: an eleven point lead for the President in a three-way race. <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/040904\/nysa058_1.html\">Here&#8217;s why:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn comparing the two presidential candidates, more registered voters think President Bush has strong leadership qualities than Kerry (65% vs. 47%), is more honest and ethical (62% vs. 47%), says what he believes and not just what people want to hear (66% vs. 42%), would trust him to make the right decisions during an international crisis (57% vs. 44%), shares their values (54% vs. 42%), and is personally likeable (67% vs. 59%). In addition, more registered voters think President Bush would do a better job than Sen. Kerry on various issues: terrorism and homeland security (60% vs. 32%), the situation in Iraq (55% vs. 37%), foreign policy (54% vs. 38%), taxes (52% vs. 38%), economy (49% vs. 43%), education (48% vs. 42%), and gay marriage (44% vs. 36%). More people say Sen. Kerry would do a better job than President Bush on healthcare, including Medicare (45% vs. 43%) and the environment (50% vs. 36%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People just don&#8217;t trust John Kerry, and &#8220;I&#8217;m not Bush&#8221; isn&#8217;t enough for most of us.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/polipundit.com\/archives\/2004_08_29_polipundit_archive.html#109431346471524034\">PoliPundit<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Newsweek poll taken after the convention echoes Time&#8217;s numbers: an eleven point lead for the President in a three-way race. Here&#8217;s why: In comparing the two presidential candidates, more registered voters think President Bush has strong leadership qualities than Kerry (65% vs. 47%), is more honest and ethical (62% vs. 47%), says what he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/04\/newsweek-poll-same-as-time-poll\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Newsweek poll same as Time poll&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-K3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}