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That same Strategic Vision poll asks Democratic and Republican voters which of the candidates for president would get their support.
Among self-identified Democrats, Hillary Clinton receives 48 percent of the support with Barack Obama well behind at 22 percent. The other candidates were much further behind with John Edwards at 10 percent, Bill Richardson at 5 percent, Joe Biden at 3 percent, Chris Dodd at 1 percent and Dennis Kucinich at 1 percent.
Ten percent of Democrats polled said they were undecided.
On the Republican side, 37 percent of those who said they were Republicans said they favored Rudy Giuliani with 20 percent favoring Fred Thompson, 11 percent naming Mitt Romney and 10 percent John McCain.
The rest of the field looked like this: Mike Huckabee, 4 percent; Ron Paul, 4 percent; Tom Tancredo, 2 percent, Sam Brownback, 1 percent and Duncan Hunter, 1 percent. Ten percent of those polled said they were undecided.
A poll conducted by Strategic Vision of 800 likely voters suggests that the race between Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire and Republican challenger Dino Rossi is a statistical tie.
The poll asked between Oct. 5 and 7 which candidate would get their vote if the election were held today. Gregoire was chosen by 47 percent, Rossi by 45 percent and 8 percent said they were undecided.
With a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percent, that means there is no statistical difference between the two results.
The same poll gives Gregoire lukewarm job-approval ratings with 48 percent approving of her performance in office and 44 percent disapproving. And only 29 percent of those sampled think the state is heading in the right direction with 64 percent saying it is heading in the wrong direction.
What do voters think of some other officer holders? U.S. Patty Murray had 54 percent approval, 35 percent disapproval; U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, 50 percent approval to 36 percent disapproval and President George Bush, 20 percent approval to 69 percent disapproval.
The state Legislature? Forty-four percent approve of the job being done in Olympia and 49 percent disapprove.
