Kerry visit spotlights state primary
05/18/2004
By CHARLES E. BEGGS / Associated Press
A visit by presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and spirited Republican races for nominations to two Democrat-held congressional seats put some zip into Tuesday's mostly low-key primary election.
Kerry's visit was his first campaign trip to Oregon, one of about dozen presidential toss-up states in recent polls. He appeared with former rival Howard Dean at a Monday night rally in Portland. He also had a planned appearance for Tuesday.
A poll taken May 6-8 and May 10 for the Portland Tribune and KOIN TV showed Kerry favored by 50 percent of those surveyed to 46 percent for President Bush. Putting independent Ralph Nader into the mix dropped Kerry's support to 47 percent to 45 percent for Bush and 3 percent for Nader.
The telephone survey by Research 2000 of Rockville, Md., of 603 likely voters had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Democrat Al Gore won Oregon in a 6,700-vote squeaker in 2000.
With no measures on the statewide ballot and little in the way of highly charged statewide races in the mail-in election, voter participation was running relatively low.
Ballots had been received from just 28 percent of registered voters through the weekend, the secretary of state's office said Monday. That was about the same pace of voting as in the 2002 primary, when a total of 46 percent of voters cast ballots.
A wild card in Tuesday's primary is Ohio U.S. Rep.Dennis Kucinich.
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