New Survey Spotlights Swing Voters

The Pew Research Center has released a survey that pegs the number of "swing" voters -- those not pre-committed to either President Bush or Senator Kerry -- at about 29 percent of the electorate. This is a considerably higher figure than most political pundits usually cite.

According to the survey, most of the swing voters are independents -- the rest are drawn about evenly from the Democratic and Republican party. They tend to support President Bush on the war in Iraq, but have doubts about Bush's handling of the economy.

Link:
Pew Research Center Three-in-Ten Voters Open to Persuasion -- Swing Voters Criticize Bush on Economy, Support Him on Iraq (released March 3, 2004)

Posted by Jeff Lemieux at March 4, 2004 06:09 PM