Posted on 09/16/2004 9:41:33 PM PDT by DadOfFive
that is why we have to place his face on the horses body!
"Sen. Kerry is like Seabiscuit: He runs better from behind," says Donna Brazile, who was Gore's campaign manager. But she acknowledges that "backbenchers" in the Democratic Party "have begun pushing the panic button."
I see it now . 13 LV 12 RV in a 2-way race.
BTW, I do like the front headline of USA Today online right now:
BUSH CLEAR LEADER IN NEW POLL
President surges 13 points ahead of Kerry
It's 13 without Nader; 14 with him.
" The race is on... Bush appears firmly planted in front... while Seabiscuit is sinking slowly..."
Who is she calling "backbenchers?"
Everybody known Democrat on the face of the earth is now officially on the Kerry staff.
Nope. Donna Brazille herself isn't on Senator Kerry's campaign staff...nor is Jesse Jackson, nor Harold Ford, nor Al Sharpton.
Oh, did you mean that every WHITE MALE strategist in the Democratic Party is already on the Kerry team?! My apologies. I misunderstood at first.
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Or that k could be an s, lol.
Why would he say something so wrong?
Interestingly enough, on Fox right now, they're saying the race is tightening up, and that the President, while leading in the popular vote is behind in the electoral vote.
:-)
New Campaign Manager of Kerry/Edwards
He was basing his comments on the Harris and Pew polls which show basically a dead heat.
Here's the AP story.....but remember that AP has blatant anti-Bush bias.
New Poll Shows Bush, Kerry in Virtual Tie
Updated: 10:31 PM EDT
By WILL LESTER, AP
WASHINGTON (Sept. 16) - The GOP convention gave President Bush a double-digit lead, but the race has settled into a virtual tie with voters still worried about the economy and Iraq, according to polling by the Pew Research Center.
The first of two national polls by Pew, done Sept. 8-10, reflected the president's post-convention bounce. Bush was ahead of Democrat John Kerry 52-40 among registered voters and by an even wider margin, 54-39, among likely voters, a narrower group.
By the second poll, done Sept. 11-14, the Bush lead had evaporated. In that poll, Bush and Kerry were knotted at 46 percent among registered voters. Among likely voters, Bush was at 47 percent and Kerry at 46 percent.
"There is a great deal of instability and uncertainty in the electorate," said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. "This poll finds a lot of the positive impact Bush had in the convention remains. But Bush's vulnerabilities on Iraq and the economy continue, and these have anchored the race."
After the Republican convention and its well-orchestrated criticism of Kerry, Bush grabbed a lead ranging from 5 points to 11 points in various national polls. That lead appeared to be shrinking in some polls by late last week, and a Harris poll out Thursday showed the race even.
"This gives Kerry an opportunity to stay in the hunt," said Kohut. "Some of the negatives that Kerry accumulated during the Republican convention have worn away."
Kerry's unfavorable ratings increased after the GOP convention but dropped slightly between the two waves of the poll. Fewer voters in the second poll had an unfavorable view of the Democrat, said Kerry is too quick to change his mind, and believed the risk of terrorism would be higher if he were elected.
Bush continues to hold a commanding lead on who would do the best job of defending the country from terrorists by 58 percent to 31 percent. And he's seen by more as a strong leader.
But people are more likely to disapprove of Bush's handling of the economy and are evenly split on his handling of Iraq. Almost six in 10 said it's not clear what Bush will do about Iraq if he is re-elected.
Seabiscuit won races. A better name for Kerry is "drongo" after a well bred horse that could never win a race. It's become an Australian term for a dumb loser:
".....There was an Australian racehorse called Drongo during the early 1920s. He wasn't a an absolute no-hoper of a racehorse: he ran second in a VRC Derby and St Leger, third in the AJC St Leger, and fifth in the 1924 Sydney Cup. He often came very close to winning major races, but in 37 starts he never won a race. Soon after the term became more negative, and was applied also to people who were not so much 'unlucky' as 'hopeless cases' , 'no-hopers', and thereafter 'fools'.
A drongo is a simpleton but a complicated one .... In an emergency he runs heroically in the wrong direction. If he were Superman he would get locked in the telephone box. He never wins. So he is a drongo."
The link is here if anyone wants to learn more.
http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/Austwords/drongo
But "he runs heroically in the wrong direction" sounds just like John F. "Drongo" Kerry.
One thing I don't understand is, given such a huge lead in the polls, why isn't Bush's approval rating higher than 49%.
Reading the poll, I can see where the confusion came from:
Likely voters: "Who would you vote for?"
Bush 55, Kerry 42 (13 point difference)
Then later they asked the questions: "which one of these candidates do you lean toward?"
THAT answer for likely voters was: Bush 54, Kerry 40, 14 point difference.
How can these polls be SO FAR APART?
Notice the age group that gave GWB his entire surge since August is the 49 and under group...that's everyone who was too young to serve in Vietnam combat.
Senator Kerry's Vietnam hero focus clearly turned them off, among other things.
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Bush's Lead Over Kerry Among Registered Voters |
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Age of Voter |
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18-49 |
50-64 |
65+ |
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% |
% |
% |
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Aug 23-25 |
-1 |
7 |
-5 |
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Sep 3-5 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
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Sep 13-15 |
13 |
1 |
1 |
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NET CHANGE |
+14 |
-6 |
+6 |
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Note: A positive number indicates Bush leads Kerry; a negative number indicates Kerry leads Bush. |
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