Two frontrunners in both presidential races are still neck and neck
US election race still neck and neck. So is Ukraine’s
Washington, Oct. 28 -- With Ukraine’s presidential election just three days away, and the US voting next Tuesday, all indications are that the two frontrunners in both races are still neck and neck
In Ukraine Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the main opposition candidate, liberal Viktor Yushchenko, neck-and-neck in the race for the support of the country's 36 million registered voters.
Most analysts predict neither candidate will win outright with the election going to a runoff between the two frontrunners on Nov. 14.
In the US election race meanwhile, polls continue to show a similar close race between the two main candidates.
The latest US Harris Interactive Poll puts President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry received 47 percent and 48 percent of the votes respectively in the latest poll, which surveyed 2,493 likely voters Oct. 21-25. Independent candidate Ralph Nader continued to get 1 percent. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
An ABC Daily News telephone poll on Oct. 23-26 puts Kerry ahead on 49 percent and Bush at 48 percent (poll of 1,631 likely voters). Nader received 1 percent. The results have a 2.5-point error margin for the likely voter sample.
