CNN finally shares the Dean/Bush poll results.

[madfloridian]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/05/elec04.poll.democrats.poll/

Though the poll is a few days old, CNN has not been upfront about sharing the part where Dean is 46% to Bush 51%. Neither has Begala nor Carville last I heard.

This article gives more details on it.

Of course they spin it, but they posted it.
SNIP..."Among likely voters surveyed, Bush wins 51 percent to 46 percent for Dean; only Lieberman gets that much support from likely voters in other match-ups...."

[LuminousX]

1. How many of us had to write CNN?

[arcane1]

2. "Results show Clark to be strongest anti-Dean candidate"

:wtf: is THAT supposed to mean????

[madfloridian]

3. That is called CNN spin.

:hi:

[maxr4clark]

4. Clark isn't an anti-Dean candidate

...or anti-Lieberman or anti-Kerry or anti-Gephardt or anti-X, where X is a Democratic candidate. The only candidate I have heard Clark be anti- is Bush.

I believe the CNN poll in question showed Clark v. Bush and Lieberman v. Bush as having the same percentage for Clark/Lieberman, but Bush having less support against Clark than against Lieberman. I think the poll also showed Lieberman/Clark getting more support in a direct X v. Bush scenario than anyone else but Dean.

CNN spin despun.

[madfloridian]

5. I agree.

:hi:

[DebJ]

6. only a 5% difference when many people don't even know who Dean is

looks very very good to me!!! Lots of the people I come into contact with daily don't even know who ANY of the Dem candidates are.

[adamrsilva]

7. The spin is disgusting

Just disgusting...

[windansea]

8. veddy interesting

With Dean getting only 22 percent of the vote when all nine candidates are listed (more than double the second-place challenger), it is tempting to assume that nearly eight in 10 registered Democrats don't want Dean as their party's standard-bearer.

[Cheswick2.0]

9. AND THEN IT SAYS

when put together head to head.... I think they used the term "Dean kicks their ass".

[_Jumper_]

10. Wow

:scared:

<Among those surveyed in the poll, the strongest anti-Dean candidate is Wesley Clark, the only Democrat who keeps Dean under 50 percent in hypothetical two-way match-ups.

But even against the former NATO commander, Dean has a 46 percent to 32 percent edge among respondents, the poll found.



But Dean clobbers the opposition in "what-if" head-to-head pairings with his strongest rivals: Dean over Lieberman, 50 percent to 32 percent; Dean over Kerry 51 percent to 29 percent; Dean over Gephardt 53 percent to 28 percent>