New Arkansas Poll shows Beebe leading in Gov race

The Arkansas Poll asked voters who they would vote for if the election were held today. 47 percent responded Beebe, while 40 percent chose Hutchison. 3 percent marked other and 11 percent did not know. 55 percent of Arkansans approve of the job current Governor Mike Huckabee is doing, while 32 percent disapprove. Approval ratings for President George Bush are at 36 percent, a 51 percent drop from 2001. Poll results indicate that both statewide ballot measures should pass by wide margins, with 73 percent favoring the higher education bond measure and 67 percent supporting the amendment legalizing bingo and raffles The Arkansas Poll was conducted in October by the Survey Research Center at the University of Arkansas and yielded 761 completed surveys from a random sample of adult Arkansans. Eight surveys or 1 percent of the total were conducted in Spanish. The margin of error in the poll is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. The Arkansas Poll has been conducted annually since 1999, with a total of more than 6,000 Arkansans having been interviewed. (Copyright 2006 Newsroom Solutions, LLC)