New battleground polls keep Bush 'in the red'

MSNBC ^ | Oct. 20, 2004 | Tom Curry

[maine-iac7]

WASHINGTON - A new round of MSNBC/Knight Ridder polling in five battleground states that President Bush carried four years ago shows the president with the upper hand in West Virginia, Missouri, and Colorado over his Democratic challenger John Kerry, and very slim leads in Ohio and New Hampshire. And another survey in Nevada found Bush with a strong 10-point lead over Kerry.

The poll results are somewhat heartening for Bush, but Ohio, with 20 electoral votes, remains a potentially fatal problem for the president’s re-election hopes

[maine-iac7]

George McKelvey,mayor of Youngstown, Ohio. talked with Rush Limbaugh and told him that altho he has been a moderate Democrat all his life, a social liberal and a fiscal conservative - voted for Gore...told Rush: "I'm happy to tell you that I have received hundreds of letters and phone calls from people identifying themselves, not people I know, identifying themselves as Democrats who have also had enough. They can't take any more of the lies and the deception and that they are voting. They are Bush Democrats." He's voting BUSH. And says he thinks this may be happening all over Ohio. Says Kerry coming to Ohio today - to "duckhunt" - but Mayor beleives it's becasue he knows he's in trouble in Ohio. this is looking good, folks

[flashbunny]

bush up at least 5 in ohio
6 in wisconsin
new poll (with a small sample) showing a 3 pt bush lead in michigan.
Bush either tied or down 1 in new jersey.

Yet MSNBC has to make it sound like GWB is in dire electoral straits.

[ConservativeStatement]

He was on Bill O'Reilly's TV show and was very proud to support the President. He referenced Youngstown losing massive jobs in 1977 and said that no one blamed Jimmy Carter so why would anyone blame Bush now?

[maine-iac7]

Whoa! I just looked at the online poll on MSNBC - which has consistantly been way ahead for Kerry - It's Bush 52%/Kerry 48%

[charleston1]

"Yet MSNBC has to make it sound like GWB is in dire electoral straits."

Ya, I guess he could be in Kerry's shoes. Notice the perspective is not something like,

"Kerry can not break into a lead in any of five key battleground states carried by President Bush in 2000. He must do so if he is to gain in the electoral college."

[AndyTheBear]

Outside the battle ground states Bush is leading in Electoral Votes. Thus Kerry needs Ohio more then Bush does.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

They will try to get their edge in the courts.

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[AndyTheBear]

They are Bush Democrats...

Yeah, but what about all those Kerry Republicans? You know, the dead ones.

[onyx]

Youngstown's mayor is a GOOD democrat.
Now there's at least two of 'em. Him and Zell Miller.
Maybe more?

[dawn53]

The DUmmies are on it. It has been on their front page thread for days, and unlike most folks, they vote repeatedly in the same poll, by manipulating the system.