POLITICS 88 : CAMPAIGN ’88 : Jackson, Simon Top Poll
A Chicago Tribune poll of 500 Democrats likely to vote in Tuesday’s primary shows Jackson with 32% of the support and the other favorite son, Sen. Paul Simon, with 29%. But the poll, taken Friday and Saturday and published in today’s editions, has an error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points, making the race a statistical dead heat.
A similar poll conducted earlier in the week showed Simon with 35% to Jackson’s 30%.
Among other Democrats in the new poll, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis was third with 20%, Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri had 5% and Tennessee Sen. Albert Gore Jr.had 4%.
The Tribune said 9% of the voters were undecided and 1% preferred none of the candidates.
The newspaper did not update its GOP poll, after one published Sunday found Bush beating Dole by 62% to 28%.
The new Tribune poll found Jackson’s support strongest in Chicago, which contains nearly half of the state’s likely Democratic primary voters. Simon did best in counties closer to his Southern Illinois home and in the rest of Cook County outside Chicago.
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