So, I am a
Rasmussen watcher. Today:
Kerry 49
Bush 45
Sunday August 01, 2004--The latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows Senator John Kerry with 49% of the vote and President George W. Bush with 45%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern.
These results reflect a 4-point "bounce" for Kerry from the Democratic national convention. Last Monday morning, just before the convention began, Kerry and Bush were tied at 46% each.
This is also just the second day in nearly 150 days of polling that either candidate has moved above 48% in the daily Presidential Tracking Poll. The only other time this happened was shortly after Kerry announced North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his running mate. Other than that, both Bush and Kerry have remained within 3 percentage points of 45% on every single day of polling.
For what this is worth, it's a positive. I'll take it.
UPDATE:
Two-thirds of the interviews for today's survey were conducted following Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday night. Tomorrow's Tracking Poll update will be the first based entirely upon interviews conducted following the speech.
So tomorrow we might see "better numbers."
BTW: I am hopeful that others will post poll results that they have found on this diary.