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Show DAILY HERALD AS South narrowly fa- dential debates. Democrats predicted the race vored Kerry in early August, will be even in the next week or but now support Bush 58 percent to 38 percent. two, especially in the dozen or so states where the election will Among aS registered voters, led the Democratbe decided ic ticket 51 percent to 43 per"They had a convention and cent, a modest bounce in sup-pogot a bounce just like we had a convention and got a bounce,' since early August, when said Kerry pollster Mark M Kerry Edwards led 48-- percent. He said Bush's gains were alThe reversal is the result of a d criticism ready eroding, pointing to polls month of taken during and after the conof Kerry's war record comvention that gave the president bined with a Republican Nationlead. ' al Convention scripted to under- a double-digi- t For the first time since Kerry cut the Democrat's credMify and cast Bush as a steady comwrapped up the nomination, the mander in chief, said strategists poll suggests that a in both campaigns. majority of voters approve of the president's job performance "There's something I dont 52 percent. The lifts him out like about Kerry too wishy-wash- y of the danger zone for incum," said Don Dooley, a 54-- y ear-ol- d conservative Democrat bents. . The percentage of voters who from Grand Prairie, Texas, who think the country is on the right is leaning toward Bush. "George is not the ideal kind of person, track rose from 39 percent to 44 but at least he's more prepercent since August. The nation's spirits, while less dictable than Kerry." than buoyant, are higher than The question now is whether when Democratic President Bush's gains are as temporary in 1996, Clinton was as they were for Kerry or the first sign of a fundamental polls show. Bush has fought an uphill batshift in the race. tle against voter anxiety, fueled "I don't know if we know ftiat yet," said Bush strategist by the loss of nearly 1 million Matthew Dowd, "but I think jobs during his term, rising health care costs and a war in there's beginning to be some Iraq that has led to more than permanence to it." He said the president could settle into a lead 1,000 U.S. military deaths. Half of voters approve of of 3 or 4 percentage points, Bush's handling of the econowhich could only be upset by a my, up from 46 percent in Au major event, such as the presi GQP-leani- Campaign Continued from Al " country is more important than creating jobs, and Bush is favored over Kerry by a whop Bush-Chen- ping 23 percentage points on who would keep the United States safe. "If we don't take care of the terrorists, we certainly wont have to worry about the economy," said Janet Cross, 57, of Portsmouth, Ohio, who switched from Democrat to Republican for the last election. Among those most likely to the Republican ticket of vote, ' Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney holds a lead of 51 percent to 46 percent over Kerry and Sea John Edwards, with independent Ralph Nader receiving 1 percent. The Affairs poll showed minorities, urban residents and other Democratic voters unified behind Kerry, as would be expected in the fall But he lost ground in virtually every other demographic group: lower educated voters, suburbanites, rural voters, the middle class, married couples and baby boomers. Many voters seemed to be retreating to Bush's camp after flirting with the Democrat, whose nominating convention focused almost exclusively on his Vietnam War record. For example, those in the ey rt -- n. 45 GOP-inspire- AP-Ips- os ' $4 99 Orig. $24-$3- gust and the highest since Janu-ar- y. His approval rating for the war od terrorism increased from 51 percent to 55 percent. Voters were slightly more likely to say a candidate's positions on issues is more important than leadership and personal qualities. Of those who cited issues, Kerry was favored by 10 percentage points. People making a gut level choice overwhelming favored 9 Bush, percent. On the question of who can be trusted to protect the country, Bush gained 7 percentage points and Kerry lost the same amount a swing. The shift was just as big on decisiveness, with 75 percent assigning that trait to Bush and just 37 percent saying they would use that word to describe Kerry. There was a swing in Bush's favor on the issue of honesty, an swing on strength and swing on which candidate would do better creating jobs. The survey of 1,286 registered Voters, conducted had a margin of error Sept. of 2.5 percentage points. The sample of 899 likely voters had , a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points. , . -- 65-2- nt AP-Ips- 7-- I Associated Press Writers Will Lester and Trevor Tompson contributed to this report. ' $099 $14 Remember Orig. Orig. 9 Designer Summer Tops Continued from Al ' never attended the ground wiD read a zero remembrance, poem for her son, Nicky Bran--' demarti, a financial analyst who worked in the south tower. He would have turned 25 this month. , Tm asking my son and God for the strength to be able to do this," Brandemarti said. "IU be reading the poem to him. It expresses how much we miss him and how we feeL" Bloomberg said parents and grandparents were asked to lead the ceremony because the city wants to "acknowledge their great sacrifice and thank them for helping all of us to shoulder the loss." During the ceremony, which will last more than two hours, families will be able to walk down the ramp to the footprints of the towers. The area, seven stories below street level, is considered sacred ground by many. It was there that rescue workers combed the debris with rakes, painstakingly , searching for the tiniest frag- - f ments of human remains. Three years later, work is still going on to identify the 20,000 pieces of human remains that were recovered. The medical examiner's office has identified about 1,570 people, or just 60 percent of ' 99 $40-$5- Nancy Brandemarti mother of a financial analyst who worked in the south tower the dead. They do not expect to match the remains of every victim because some parts were too badly damaged to yield readable DNA, and some people were essentially vaporized in the fiery collapse. A new skyscraper is rising from the World Trade Center Freedom site, the 1,776-foTower. 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