Incumbent Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
Of those responding to the poll, 56.8 percent said they would vote for Taipei Mayor Ma of the opposition KMT and 17.8 percent said they would vote for Lee should the vote be tomorrow.
Eighteen percent were undecided and 7.4 percent said they would not vote.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
On the correlation between the year-end election and the 2004 presidential election, 37.1 percent said that the year-end mayoral elections in Taipei and Kaohsiung are the prelude to the battle for president of the country in 2004. Just over 40 percent disagreed and 22.1 had no opinion.
When asked who could best represent the KMT for the 2004 presidential election, 20.4 percent said KMT Chairman Lien Chan (
Lien finished a distant third in the 2000 presidential election. James Soong (
Regarding President Chen stumping actively for Lee, 45.4 percent said that traditional die-hard supporters in Taipei for the president are drifting away.
But 36.4 percent disagreed and 18.2 percent said they had no opinion.
The poll further showed that 32.8 percent of young voters, traditionally the supporters of the DPP, are drifting toward the opposition camp, compared with 42 percent who disagreed and 25.2 percent who said they had no opinion.
On the question of Ma's lack of popularity in southern Taiwan, traditionally the base of support for the DPP, and this effect on a potential presidential run, 46.3 percent said that it would be important, compared with 33.2 percent who disagreed, with 20.5 percent saying they had no opinion.
The TV station conducted the survey by calling 1,184 eligible voters in Taipei between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. Effective samples collected totaled 866 with a margin of error of 3.3 percent.
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