Yahoo! News - Poll: Insiders Not Backing Gore '04

Accurate, but be aware of an anti-Gore bias from the press corps.

Only 35 percent of those polled said Gore should run again, while 48 percent said he should not and 17 percent were undecided.


Asked who they favor in the 2004 race, 46 percent of respondents said they had no preference. Out of a list of 10 prospective candidates, 19 percent of those polled named Gore as their pick, 18 percent backed Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and 13 percent named Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina.


Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the outgoing Democratic leader in the House, was chosen by 10 percent. The other possible candidates were in single digits, including Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the 2000 vice presidential nominee, who garnered 4 percent.


"It looks like a party that's desperately seeking fresh faces," said Charlie Cook, a nonpartisan campaign analyst in Washington.