Dukakis Lead Widens, According to New Poll

[Frank Cannon]

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/26/us/dukakis-lead-widens-according-to-new-poll.html

In the aftermath of the Democratic National Convention, the party's nominee, Michael S. Dukakis, has expanded his lead among registered voters over Vice President Bush, the probable Republican nominee, according to a Gallup Poll.

This was among the findings of a national public opinion poll of 948 registered voters conducted late last week for Newsweek magazine by the Gallup Organization. The telephone interviews took place on July 21, which was the last night of the convention, and on the night after that.

Fifty-five percent of the 948 registered voters interviewed in the poll said they preferred to see Mr. Dukakis win the 1988 Presidential election, while 38 percent said they preferred to see Mr. Bush win. The poll had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

This represented a shift in Mr. Dukakis's lead from the 47 percent to 41 percent advantage he held in the last pre-convention Gallup Poll, taken by telephone July 8-10. In that poll, 1,001 registered voters were interviewed.

Nominees usually enjoy a lift in the polls after the nomination. Ed Slaughter, project director at Gallup, pointed out that in 1984, Walter Mondale's standing rose 12 points after the Democratic convention that year. But the improved standing dissipated within ten days, Mr. Slaughter said.

Another poll, conducted in Texas, also showed Mr. Dukakis gaining ground from the convention. The survey of 504 registered voters likely to cast ballots, conducted on Friday and Saturday by Peter Hart, a Democratic poll taker, showed Mr. Dukakis leading Mr. Bush by 50 percent to 40 percent. A survey of that size has a sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points. A Hart survey of 265 such voters for The Chicago Tribune from July 5 to 9 had shown the race even in Texas - 46 percent for Mr. Dukakis, 46 percent for Mr. Bush, with a sampling error of plus or minus six percentage points.

[Frank Cannon]

Boy. If this keeps up, we're going to have a real problem.

[libertybele]

Boy. If this keeps up, we're going to have a real problem.

uhh...Huston, we already have a real problem!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

He was a weird little dude wasn't he?

[r9etb]

He was a weird little dude wasn't he?

Yeah, you could say that:

[Oceander]

Strange to think about looking back at 1988 as the good old days

[corbe]

    Trump could not BEAT Dukakis or Even Gary Hart if it weren't for James Comey.

[Cripplecreek]

He was a weird little dude wasn't he?

Futurama did an episode where they had a parade and in the parade were "The Fighting Dukaki", little midget Dukakises in  tiny tanks.

[Frank Cannon]

Yeah, you could say that:

It's why Kitty drank nail polish remover.

[Frank Cannon]

Was thinking the same thing and that trump is even weirder than Dukakis.

But do you think he is crazier than Thomas Eagleton?

[corbe]

   I don't know @Frank Cannon, It worked for this Guy.

[Frank Cannon]

   I don't know @Frank Cannon, It worked for this Guy.

Interesting. Basically our Presidential candidates are as such:

[corbe]

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