Oct 16, 2007 6:35 pm US/Pacific
No Nobel Bounce For Gore, Poll Shows
WASHINGTON (AP) ―
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A new poll shows that Al Gore's support for president has not been bolstered even with winning the Nobel Peace Prize.
AP
Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize hasn't translated into an increase in support for a presidential bid, a poll found Tuesday.
Asked if they would like to see the former vice president run for
president in 2008, people said no by a 54 percent to 41 percent margin,
according to a Gallup Poll. That was about the same as last March, when
people opposed his running 57 percent to 38 percent.
Even among Democrats there was no visible surge of interest in
Gore. In the new survey, 48 percent said they would like him to run and
43 percent said they would not. Last March, Democrats were in favor of
him entering the race 54 percent to 41 percent - statistically the same
as the new poll.
Gore, who won the prize last Friday for his work raising awareness
of global warming, has not said he is a candidate for the White House
but has never definitively ruled it out - including for a race in the
future.
When Democrats were asked their preference for their party's
presidential nomination for next year, Gore was chosen by 14 percent -
far behind Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., and just behind Sen.
Barack Obama, D-Ill. That was about the same support he received in a Gallup Poll in early October.
The poll was conducted Oct. 12-14 and involved telephone interviews
with 1,009 adults. The overall margin of sampling error was plus or
minus three percentage points.
The question on Gore running for president was asked of 502 adults
and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus five percentage
points. That included 183 Democrats, with a margin of sampling error of
plus or minus eight percentage points.
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