Wednesday, May 19, 2004
New Poll Puts North Carolina In Play...If Edwards Is VP Pick
Good news for Edwards supporters here and across the country. I think he'd be a great pick not only for this but to provide a contrast in styles from the more stoic John Kerry. And even if Kerry doesn't win NC, at least he would force Bush to spend a good deal of money here. (Thanks, Winston!)
If the presidential election were held this month, North Carolinians would choose President Bush over Sen. John Kerry in large numbers - unless Sen. John Edwards was on the ticket, too, according to a new statewide poll.
Bush handily beat Kerry 48 percent to 41 percent in a Mason-Dixon poll released yesterday.
But with Edwards as Kerry's vice-presidential running mate, the race tightens to a statistical dead heat - 46 percent to 45 percent.
Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee and the junior senator from Massachusetts, has given few hints about his choice of a running mate.
A running mate's potential to capture electoral votes is often one of many factors that a presidential nominee considers. In that regard, the poll could increase Edwards' chance at being picked, said J. Bradford Coker, the managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, Inc.
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