Poll shows Clinton lead over Dole jumps to 15 pts .  CHICAGO 1996-08-27  An ABC News poll released on Tuesday showed President Bill Clinton 's lead over Republican challenger Bob Dole stretching to 15 points in advance of the Nov. 5 election .  The poll , taken on Sunday and Monday as the president engaged in a whistle-stop train trip to the Democratic Convention in Chicago , put Clinton at 51 percent , Dole at 36 percent and Ross Perot of the Reform Party at 8 percent .  A similar poll conducted on Saturday and Sunday had showed a nine point lead for Clinton , ahead by 47-38 percent .  Dole , down by around 20 points in early August in ABC polls , had closed to within four percentage points immediately after the Republican convention in San Diego earlier in August .  Other polls also showed a strong Dole bounce after San Diego but Clinton then rebuilding his lead .  Tuesday 's poll involved 1,002 registered voters and had a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points .  ABC said a parallel poll of 824 likely voters showed the president ahead by 11 points , with Clinton at 50 percent , Dole at 39 percent and Perot at 6 percent .  The poll of registered voters showed a shift in favor of the Democrats in the elections for House of Representatives , with 51 percent saying that if the vote were today they would go for a Democrat and 41 percent opting for a Republican .  That compared with the previous poll 's 48-43 lead for the Democrats .  The poll gave Clinton a 53 percent to 39 percent lead over Dole if Perot were not in the race .  The poll indicated a fall in the number of people who believed [START_ENT] Dole [END_ENT] would be able to fulfil his promise to cut the federal budget deficit and cut income taxes by 15 percent at the same time .  It showed 23 percent believed it possible compared to 70 who believed it was n't .  That compared to 26-57 in the previous poll .
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