Concord, N.H. ? John Kerry scored big among New Hampshire Democratic primary voters most concerned about beating President Bush in November and far outdistanced Howard Dean among moderates, the largest ideological group in Tuesday’s contest, an AP exit poll found.

Dean edged out Kerry among voters angry with the Bush administration and most opposed to the war in Iraq, but not by enough to undo the damage apparently caused by his screaming speech after he placed third in Iowa a week ago.

Half of Tuesday’s voters said they had made up their minds in the last week. Kerry won 52 percent of those who decided in the days immediately after Iowa, to just 15 percent for Dean.

But Dean rebounded, running about even with Kerry among those who had settled on a choice in the last three days, according to the poll of 1,846 voters conducted for the Associated Press and television networks by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky International.

Nearly six in 10 said Dean “has the temperament to serve effectively as president” and Dean far outpaced Kerry among that group, 43 percent to 29 percent.

But among the four in 10 who said Dean does not have a presidential temperament, 54 percent voted for Kerry and the rest split evenly among John Edwards, Wesley Clark and Joe Lieberman.