NEW YORKERS SNUB BUSH IN 2004 ELECTION POLL.(CAPITAL REGION)

ALBANY -- A statewide poll out Thursday found 54 percent of the state's voters were more likely to vote for a Democrat than for President Bush.

Thirty-six percent of the New York voters surveyed by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute said they would back Bush.

Among Democratic voters, 50 percent said they would back Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for their party's presidential nomination, if she sought it in 2004. Without Clinton in the race, Sen. Joseph Lieberman of neighboring Connecticut was the favorite for the presidential nomination among New York Democrats, with 27 percent of them supporting his candidacy.

The telephone poll of 1,141 …