New York: Kerry 57% Bush 34%

Wednesday, June 02, 2004

George W. Bush will be in New York to accept his party's nomination, but he won't be counting on the state's Electoral Votes this November.

The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of New York voters finds Senator John F. Kerry leading President George W. 57% to 34%. The poll's 23-point spread is close to the 25 percentage point victory for Al Gore over Bush in Election 2000.

Kerry attracts 57% of the votes from both New York's Investors and non-Investors.

Among New York voters under 30, just 27% plan to vote for the President.

Just 41% of New Yorkers Approve of the way Bush is performing his job as President while 57% disapprove. those figures are far below the President's national Job Approval ratings.

While Kerry holds a huge lead in New York, the race remains a toss-up on the national level.

Data for New York will updated again early next month. Rasmussen Reports has also recently released polling data for the states of Texas, California and Ohio. Other state polling data will be released each day this week.

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Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade.

This data has been compiled from a national telephone survey of 15,000 Likely Voters conducted by Rasmussen Reports from May 1-31, 2004. Each night (except Mothers’ Day), 500 interviews with Likely Voters were conducted. National results for the survey during that time frame show that President Bush and Senator Kerry each attracted 45% of the vote. State-by-state samples carry a margin of error that varies from +/- 3 percentage points to +/- 5 percentage points depending upon the state. Data for California, Texas, and New York carries a 3 percentage point margin of error. For Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, the margin of error is +/- 4 percentage points. For all other states, the margin of error is +/- 5 percentage points. In all cases, the margin of error is expressed with a 95% level of confidence. In some states, oversampling and supplemental interviews were used to obtain an adequate sample size for reporting purposes.

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