TENNESSEE POLL SHOWS KERRY NOT SCORING POINTS ON BUSH NSR POLICY

A new poll of likely voters found Tennesseans overwhelmingly support the new source review (NSR) power plant pollution policy favored by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, but less than half know Kerry is advocating that approach -- and 15 percent wrongly attributed the policy to President Bush, who has made the program more flexible for utilities. One political analyst says voters' confusion over NSR reflects the fact that environmental issues are not top-tier issues in this presidential campaign. The confusion...