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Last week's Democratic convention boosted voters' impressions of John Kerry but failed to give him the expected bump in the head-to-head race against President Bush, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll finds.

In the survey, taken Friday and Saturday, Bush led Kerry 50%-46% among likely voters. Independent candidate Ralph Nader was at 2%.

The survey showed Kerry losing 1 percentage point and Bush gaining 4 percentage points from a poll taken the week before the Boston convention.

The change in support was within the poll's margin of error of +/-4 percentage points in the sample of 763 likely voters. But it was nonetheless surprising, the first time since the chaotic Democratic convention in 1972 that a candidate hasn't gained ground during his convention.

USA TODAY extended its survey to Sunday to get a fuller picture of what's happening.

A Newsweek poll taken Thursday and Friday gave the Democratic ticket a 49%-42% lead. Over three weeks, that reflected a 4-point "bounce" for Kerry, the smallest ever in the Newsweek poll.

(negritas mías)

Casa mal con la impresión que recibimos de los medios de comunicación de nuestro país, ¿verdad? Y es que resulta un tanto patético ver cómo han estado invirtiendo tanto capital informativo en Kerry, como si sirviera para algo: al fin y al cabo, se dirigen a una audiencia que no vota en las elecciones estadounidenses. Supongo que lo que interesa es clavar un nuevo clavo en el ataúd político de Áznar a través de persona interpuesta: el rival de su amigo tejano.

Menos mal que Michael Moore iba a cargarse a Bush con su panfleto celuloidal, y además la convención demócrata iba a poner en marcha la maquinaria electoral que iba a arrasar con todo aquél que se les pusiera por delante.