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Polls indicate Clinton leading; voters satisfied with candidates ■ cLtUIIUN: Surveys oj likely voters show Clintons numbers are up from recent weeks The Associated Press NEW YORK — Most voters are content with their 1996 presiden tial choices, despite popular no tions about an unhappy elec torate. Six in 10 registered voters — in cluding 71 percent of President Clinton’s backers and 54 percent of Republican Bob Dole’s — are satisfied with the choice of presi dential candidates, an ABC News poll found. Thirty-eight percent overall were dissatisfied. Twenty-four percent of Clin ton’s supporters called them selves very satisfied with the choices; 9 percent of Dole’s back ers said that. The ABC poll and a CNN-USA Today-Gallup tracking survey, both released Monday, found that any recent tightening of the race has been reversed. Among likely voters, Clinton led by 15 points in the ABC poll and 22 points in the Gallup survey. In the ABC poll taken Wednes day through Sunday, 52 percent supported Clinton, 37 percent backed Dole and 5 percent fa vored the Reform Party’s Ross f Perot. Clinton’s numbers have ranged from 49 percent to 53 percent in ABC sampling since Labor Day. Dole’s numbers have moved from his current 37 percent to 41 per cent and Perot has been mired at 4 percent to 7 percent. In the rolling average of nightly Gallup polls Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Clinton was backed by 56 percent, up significantly from last week, when he slipped to 48 percent. Dole has slipped to 34 percent, down slightly from his Gallup peak of 39 percent in results re leased Friday, when he was 9 points behind Clinton. Perot has stayed stable at 5 percent. The ABC survey was subject to sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points for results among the 785 registered voters interviewed, and plus or minus 4.5 points for the 623 likely vot ers. The CNN-USA Today-Gallup poll’s error margin was plus or minus 4 points for 768 likely vot ers. Tracking polls strive for na tionally representative samples each night; the short interviewing period can cause results to swing from one night to the next, so they’re released in rolling aver ages. 1 MU m A I I fc. K MOW FAR YOU TRAVEL, / YOU’RE ALWAYS CLOSE TO CAMPUS. Oregon daily emerald on the world wide web http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ode Election: Health care should be considered ■ Continued from Page 1 financial aid programs to full levels of funding. Pro-education candidates on the state level would also be in favor of return ing students to eligible status under the Oregon Health Plan. Gray said students were made ineligible during state govern ment’s last biennium because of campus-based facilities and out side financial resources. “The rationale was that cam puses have student health centers and that students live off their par ents’ health plans,” she said. This is incorrect, however, be cause the decision did not take into account students who are not on their parents’ policies, Gray said. It also didn’t consider returning students, whose chil dren, but not them, are provid ed coverage under the Oregon Health Plan. According to a 1996 Oregon Student Association survey more than 20 percent of stu dents at Oregon State System of Higher Education schools have no health insurance. Candidate support of main taining and increasing funds to financial aid is another area stu dents should pay attention to, said Matthew Scotten, ASUO president. He said while pro grams like the Pell Grant have been maintained, their levels of funding haven’t kept up with in flation or increases in tuition, which has increased at OSSHE institutions by 80 percent since 1990. The ASUO developed the “perfect” candidate criteria be cause students are increasingly more likely to vote on issue and not party lines. 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