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Survey: Independents Wary of Vote in '04
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Thursday, August 7, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON - Independents, who outnumber Democrats or Republicans, need a good reason to head to the voting booth, according to a survey released Thursday.
The poll, conducted for the New Democratic Network, found that slightly more than 40 percent identify themselves as independents, 32 percent called themselves Republicans and 27 percent said they were Democrats.
But these so-called "swing voters" were more than twice as likely not to vote than people who consider themselves Republican or Democrat, a factor for the candidates running in the 2004 election.
"They have to be appealed to in a nonpartisan way in order to overcome their hesitance of politics itself," said Mark Penn, who did the poll for the centrist organization.
Penn is the former pollster for President Clinton (news - web sites) and currently is working for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman (news - web sites), one of the more conservative contenders in the nine-candidate field.
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