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Poll: Dean's Support Jumps in New Hampshire
Tue Aug 19, 2:38 PM ET Add Politics to My Yahoo!
BOSTON (Reuters) - Support for presidential hopeful Howard Dean jumped among New Hampshire Democrats over the past month, buoyed in part by a television advertising campaign, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
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The poll by the independent, non-partisan American Research Group showed that 28 percent of likely Democratic voters said they would choose Dean in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation state primary in January, up from 19 percent last month.
The former Vermont governor now leads his nearest rival, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, by 7 percentage points, the poll said. It marked the first time this year that Dean has led Kerry in the monthly poll, although nearly a third of those surveyed said they were still undecided.
Twenty-one percent of likely Democratic voters said they would vote for Kerry, down from 25 percent last month. Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri was the third choice with 10 percent of support, unchanged from last month.
Dean, Kerry, and Gephardt were the only candidates with double-digit ballot preference as Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman's support fell to 4 percent from 6 percent
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