More poll goodness
Today's NYTimes/CBS poll (pdf) has lots of good signs in it besides just the horse race:
Kerry--45, Bush 42, Nader 5 (Bush led by 1 in the same poll 3 weeks ago)
--Bush's foreign policy approval numbers: approve 39, disapprove 55 (both numbers are the worst of his presidency)
--Disapprove of the way Bush is handling Iraq - 58%, the highest number since they started asking.
--Disapprove of the way Bush is handling the campaign against terror - 43%, the highest number since they started asking.
--Looking back,  do you think the United States did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, or should the U.S. have stayed out? right thing - 46, stay out - 51 (the least supportive of the war, both numbers, since they started asking).
--And in what seems to me to be essentially the same question, worded differently: Do you think the result of the war with Iraq was worth the loss of American life and other costs of attacking Iraq or not? Not worth it - 62%, the highest since they started asking.  So a bizarre 10% or so thought it was not worth it, but, looking back, the right thing....
 
And how about this one...on recognition of gay couples, 59% say they approve of either marriage or civil unions. only 38% say no legal recognition.
 
So, you say, this crowd must be weighted toward liberals?
How did you vote in the 2000 election--Bush 38, Gore 33, Nader 1, didn't vote 26.
12% say they registered to vote in the last year.
96% say they definitely or probably will vote in November.
 
Do you think of yourself as closer to the Republican Party, or the Democratic Party?
R-40%, D-54% (the Dem number has never been higher than that since they started this poll in Jan 1992)