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October 24, 2004
New Voters for Kerry
A new Ipsos-AP analysis of their poll data shows new voters leaning very heavily toward Kerry.
Among LVs who are new voters, Kerry is favored over Bush by a smashing 25 points, 60-35. Moreover, these new voters were twice as likely to say they'd been contacted by the Kerry campaign (38 percent) than by the Bush campaign (16 percent).
The Ipsos-AP analysis provides this sketch of new voters' demographics and political attitudes:
New voters tend to be young (64% are under 35), unmarried (54%), with some college experience (36%) and holding down a full-time job (63%), often in the service sector or skilled trades. They say the country is heading in the wrong direction (68%) and disapprove of Bush’s performance as President (63%) and his handling of Iraq (65%), in particular.
Obviously, the more of these voters that show up at the polls on November 2, the better for John Kerry.
Posted by Ruy Teixeira at 10:59 PM | link
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