[Carol Lin, Cnn Anchor:] A live look now at the Comcast First Union Center where, tonight, George W. Bush will give his acceptance speech of the Republican nomination for presidency. Heading into his convention-topping speech tonight, let's see what numbers George W. Bush is pulling. Editor in Chief Frank Newport is taking the pulse at the Gallup Poll headquarters. How's it looking, Frank.
[Frank Newport, Gallup Poll Editor In Chief:] Well, it looks pretty good for George W. Bush. He's speaking tonight so we went back, Carol, and did a review of a lot of our interesting data on him. Very, very interesting given the prominence of President Bush and Bill Clinton in the discussion this week. We, a month or two ago, had asked a question: What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the two candidates? This is George W. Bush behind me, and look at that. "His father was president" was the number-one thing that people thought about when they thought about George W. So clearly his father is a big part of his image so far. We'll see if he can break away from that tonight. Just to show you the comparable data on Al Gore, when we asked the same "come to mind" question, guess what? It was Bill Clinton the first thing that came to mind on Gore. And, of course, that's what Cheney was trying to keep that connection going in his speech last night. We'll see what happens with that out in Los Angeles. Image of George W. Bush: We've been tracking it now for well over a year, all the way back to February of '99. It was actually more positive until he got into those primaries, then his negatives came up to a more typical range. As of last week, 63 favorable, 31 unfavorable. That's pretty good for George W. Bush. Fairly normal portrait for a politician in a very partisan environment like he is. It's the Democrats who had those unfavorable opinions. Here's the two strengths for George W. Bush. In all of our polling we've been showing all spring, strong leader, he beats Gore, as you can see, by a significant margin there, and an effective manager. He beats Gore by a significant margin there. So he'll want to really emphasize those in his speeches. But things that aren't so strong for George W. Bush are the following: Cares about the needs of people like you: He's just tied with Gore on that. He's going to have to show his compassionate side, as he talks about tonight. And over here, this is his bugaboo: complex issues, the thing people argue he may not be as strong on. The public puts him at parity with Gore. I think the public will be watching tonight to see how well he demonstrates his intellectual capabilities. That's where the public stands as we go into the speech tonight. Carol, back to you.
[Lin:] Still a very tight race, Frank. Thanks so much.