Polls Find Race A Labor Day Rerun

Two national polls released Monday find the 1996 White House race right where it was at Labor Day, with President Clinton keeping a double-digit lead over Republican Bob Dole:

ABC News, 636 likely voters interviewed Wednesday through Sunday: 52 percent supported Clinton and Al Gore, 40 percent preferred Dole and Jack Kemp, and 4 percent backed the Reform Party’s Ross Perot and Pat Choate. Sampling error: plus or minus 4.5 percentage points for each result.

ABC had the race at 51-40-7 in early September and 49-41-5 a week ago.

CNN-USA Today-Gallup, 745 likely voters, error margin plus or minus 4 points: Clinton-Gore 53 percent, Dole-Kemp 36 percent, Perot-Choate 5 percent. The tracking poll is a rolling average of nightly national samples.