While the Democratic Party rallies in Boston at the Democratic National Convention, the presidential ticket of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and North Carolina Senator John Edwards holds a five point lead over President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney (48%-43%), according to a new Zogby America poll. The telephone poll of 1001 likely voters was conducted from Monday through Thursday (July 26-29, 2004). Overall results have a margin of sampling error of +/-3.2.

*Presidential Ticket %*	*July27-29*	*July 6-7*
Kerry-Edwards	48	48
Bush-Cheney	43	46
Undecided	8	5

Zogby International conducted telephone interviews of 1001 likely voters chosen at random nationwide. All calls were made from Zogby International headquarters in Utica, N.Y., from Monday, July 26 through Thursday, July 29. The margin of error is +/3.2 percentage points. Slight weights were added to region, party, age, race, religion, gender and presidential voter to more accurately reflect the voting population. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

Zogby America X-Tabs 07-29-04:
- If the election for president and vice president were held today and the candidates were Republicans George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards, for whom would you vote?
- Overall opinion - George W. Bush
- Overall opinion - John Kerry
- If the election for president were held today and the candidates were Republican George W. Bush, Democrat John Kerry, Independent Ralph Nader, Libertarian Michael Badnarik, and Constitution Party's Michael Peroutka, for whom would you vote?
- US Direction
- Overall, how would you rate President Bush's performance on the job?
- Do you think President Bush deserves to be re-elected, or do you think it is time for someone new?

Each question will include cross tabulations for the following subgroups:


First Age Group Breakdown	Second Age Group Breakdown
Political Ideology Progressive/very liberal, Liberal, Moderate, Conservative, Very conservative & Libertarian	Live Large City, Small City, Suburbs, & Rural
Gender	Household Income
Political Party Democrat, Republican, Independent, & Libertarian	Ethnic Group White, non-Hispanic, Hispanic, African American, Asian/Pacific & Other/mixed
Religious Affiliation Roman Catholic, Protestant/other non-denominational Christian, Jewish, Muslim & Other/no affiliation	Region of U.S East, South, West, & CentGrLk
Education	Born-again
Race White, Hispanic, African American, Asian, & Other