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Gallup gets a different answer than today's Pew Research Kerry lead

It is curious.

The Pew poll released Monday (today) finds American voters still consider Bush far stronger than Democratic rival John Kerry in defending the country against terrorism (but less so than before), and while Kerry has lost ground on domestic issues after the Bush ads, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press still has 47 percent for Kerry and 46 percent for Bush. When independent Ralph Nader is in the mix, the two remain tied, while Nader gets 6 percent.

And the ket item is that swing voters who before Clarke's allegations were made public were over 75% yes as to Bush "strong on handling terrorism" are now just over 50% saying Bush is stronger on terrorism.

The ads have hurt Kerry on jobs, with the Kerry advantage over Bush of almost 20 points in the Pew poll in mid-March now down to eight points, 45-37, in the new survey, and likewise on healthcare Kerry's advantage over Bush shrank from 28 points to 13 points.

But this is a "vacation" result - the lower vacation "profile" really has not been made up by the move-on ads.