text: Abbas, Barghouthi Running Even in Palestinian Poll  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas  and jailed grassroots leader Marwan Barghouthi are  neck-and-neck in the Palestinian presidential election race to  replace Yasser Arafat, an opinion poll showed Monday.
inputs: Abbas, Barghouthi Running Even in Palestinian Poll  JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas  and jailed grassroots leader Marwan Barghouthi are  neck-and-neck in the Palestinian presidential election race to  replace Yasser Arafat, an opinion poll showed Monday.