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HEADLINE: Bush Overtakes Kerry in Latest L.A. Times Poll
LA TIMES ^ | 8/25/04 | Ronald Brownstein

Posted on 08/25/2004 8:00:50 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

WASHINGTON -- President Bush heads into next week's Republican national convention with voters moving slightly in his direction since July amid signs that John F. Kerry has been nicked by attacks on his service in Vietnam, a Los Angeles Times Poll has found.

For the first time this year in a Times survey, Bush led Kerry in the presidential race, drawing 49 percent among registered voters, compared to 46 percent for the Democrat. In a Times Poll just before the Democratic convention last month, Kerry held a 2 percentage point advantage over Bush.

That small shift from July was within the poll's margin of error. But it fit with other findings in the Times Poll showing the electorate edging toward Bush over the past month on a broad range of measures, from support for his handling of Iraq to confidence in his leadership and honesty.

Although a solid majority of Americans say they believe Kerry served honorably in Vietnam, the poll showed that the fierce attacks on the senator from a group of Vietnam veterans criticizing both his performance in combat and anti-war protests at home have left some marks: Kerry suffered small but consistent erosion compared to July on questions relating to his Vietnam experience, his honesty and his fitness to serve as commander in chief.

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To: Blood of Tyrants
Kerry is UNFIT #20:
THUMBSUCKER SERIES
-PREEMPTION-
(the whole ball of wax)
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thanx to YaYa123
for pointing out Kerry's pointless pointer (a JFK wannabe artifact, no doubt)
+ his other studied, "wild, out of sync hand and arm gestures"

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"The Bush administration is so enthralled by the idea of preemption and American military might….This is the consequence of a policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triumph of arms."

John Kerry
COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS

3 December 2003





"I listened to what Senator Kerry had to say in Boston, and, with all due respect to the Senator, he views the world as if we had never been attacked on September 11th. The job of the Commander-in-Chief, as he sees it, is to use America's military strength to respond to attacks. But September 11th showed us, as surely as anything can, that we must act against gathering dangers - not wait for to be attacked. That awful day left some 3,000 of our fellow citizens dead, and everything we have learned since tells us the terrorists would do worse if they could, and that they will even use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons against us if they can. In the world we live in now, responding to attacks is not enough. We must do everything in our power to prevent attacks -- and that includes using military force."

Dick Cheney
VP's Remarks in Dayton, Ohio
Dayton Convention Center
August 12, 2004





"While I don't agree with Bush on a single domestic issue, they are all trumped by the issue of terrorism, where he has enunciated the Bush Doctrine and proven his ability to fight this war.

The Democratic Party just doesn't have the stomach to go after terrorists."

Ed Koch, a Democrat
Former New York City Mayor
will for the first time in his life vote for a Republican presidential candidate this year
Ed Koch: I'm voting for Bush
New York Democrat: Kerry doesn't have stomach to go after terrorists

22 August 2004

also:
Why Bush Must Be Re-elected
Edward I. Koch
22 July 2004

 


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201 posted on 08/26/2004 4:36:30 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: goldstategop
And the tag about a solid majority of Americans believing Kerry to be honest on Vietnam is BS.

Not so fast! Bush believes it..why not the sheeple?

202 posted on 08/27/2004 11:11:16 AM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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To: pantseatflyer

His botox is going backwards in this picture. Whewwwww!


203 posted on 08/27/2004 5:38:10 PM PDT by jaycee
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To: randog

Just what I was thinking. LATimes skews the numbers, so we can add another ten or twelve points Kerry's being buried under. Calling Hillary!!!! Help!!!


204 posted on 08/28/2004 7:54:13 AM PDT by hershey
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To: P.O.E.

How can Kerry appear before reporters and answer any questions? He can give stump speeches, but nobody's listening. It's over. He's a dead man walking.


205 posted on 08/28/2004 7:58:57 AM PDT by hershey
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