This man is deeply saddened!
Posted on 08/01/2004 11:58:36 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Poll: No boost for Kerry after convention USA Today
Thats a dead link. I dont see this poll on cnn or gallups website. Are they covering up their own poll?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-01-poll-kerry_x.htm
Thanks for the good news.
Are you sure about this? I haven't seen this over at DU.
The change in support was... a stunning result, the first time in the Gallup Poll since the 1972 Democratic convention that a candidate seemed to lose ground at his convention.
This must be wrong. Newsweek just said that Kerry is in the lead. And aren't they the folks who separate fact from opinion?
OOOOPs, DU just posted this too.
The USA today article is filled with spin. First of all, they report Newsweeks poll to counter their own poll, which is unprecedented.
The first line in their article says "John Kerry's ratings have improved on several important issues". What a joke! Then they say that it is the first time since George Mcgovern that a candidate got a negative bounce from their convention. But Mcgovern DID NOT get a negative bounce from his convention. Gallup himself said that Mcgovern got no bounce either way from the 1972 convention. The truth is that this poll is BIG NEWS: John Kerry is the first Presidential candidate EVER to go down in the polls during his convention.
USA today has sunk to new lows in sabotaging their own poll and their own story! After censoring Ann Coulter, USA today is right up there with NYTIMES on the liberal-bias meter
This is kind of stunning. I think Kerry must be coming across not so much as a liberal as an empty suit to people.
OOOOPs, DU just posted this too.What is their take?--spin, explanation, whatever? What are they saying about it?
1972 was McGovern
This man is deeply saddened!
Are they suicidal?
Bush leading 50 to 47 among likely voters in new GALLUPUSATODAYCNN poll
CNN -- Late Edition Primetime
Sun Aug 01 2004
WOLF: we're also getting new information, the first new poll numbers since the democratic convention. they're coming in right now and they're showing an apparent difference between registered voters and likely voters. here to explain exactly what's going on our senior political analyst bill schneider. bill, this is the latest cnn/""usa today""/gallup poll. these are numbers that were completely taken, this poll since john kerry's acceptance speech. i want to show our viewers what the numbers show so far. among registered voters, this is important, registered voters, john kerry is now at 50% compared to george w. bush at 47%. you see what it was before the convention, 49/45 in favor of kerry. among likely voters, though, take a look at this. a difference, likely voters, 50% for bush, 47% for kerry. a reversal, the margin of error, though, 3% in this poll you see. well, first of all, explain the difference between registered and likely voters.
SCHNEIDER: wolf, about three-quarters of americans are registered to vote but in the presidential election typically only about half or a little bit over half will turn out to vote. so what the gallup poll does is screen people according to their interests, their intention to vote, their enthusiasm and screen out the 50% who in the typical presidential election are likely to vote. so, if this election is a typical presidential election, the likely voters show a slight lead for bush but if turnout is higher than that, and we get more registered voters actually voting that should help kerry.
WOLF: what do these numbers say about the so-called bounce out of this democratic convention?
SCHNEIDER: no bounce and that's striking. they show there might have been a very brief bounce, not a bounce but a blip i'd call it among people interviewed on friday after the convention kerry was ahead by five points. we continued to interview on saturday and those people -- bush moved into a slight lead of two points. we will continue to interview people but this looks like the shortest bounce on record.
WOLF: is that because the country basically had already made up their mind? there wasn't a whole lot of room for undecides? that's what the democrats keep saying.
SCHNEIDER: looks like they had a point. what we're see showing is before the convention the democrats were hugely enthusiastic about voting. over three-quarters said they were more enthusiastic than usual. after the convention the number of democrats who said they were enthusiastic went up only slightly. they already had their bounce but what really changed is that the republicans, the bush voters went way up in enthusiasm gaining eight points so it looks like, yes, the convention rallied voters but it rallied republicans more than democrats. the only good news for democrat, democrats are still more enthusiastic about voting than republicans are.
WOLF: we'll get more on these numbers throughout ""late edition."" thanks for that.
Developing...
Pardon my stupidity, but what does DU stand for?
Let's see: Kerry solidified his base by becoming a pacifist. Then he has a convention where he pretends to be a defender of freedom who will keep us in Iraq. That and the fact that the only thing he can think to say good about himself is that he fought in Vietnam over 30 years ago, ignoring everything that came after that. He must be coming across not only as an empty suit to some but as a hypocrite to others. Kerry is going to erode on the Democratic side. Only the most stringent Bush haters will stay with him. If Democratic candidates don't start separating themselves from him quickly, there will be a massacre in November.
Schneider is also deeply saddened...and so is CNN. CNN doesn't even mention the poll on its frontpage and neither does AP.
Pardon my stupidity, but what does DU stand for?
You're not stupid. DU=Democrat Undergroud, which is a very vile, vulgar and popular website/forum that some call the Dem answer to FR. Trust me, they are exactly what we strive not to be. They are also irrelevant.
FR management doesn't want us linking to stories there. I concur.
Democratic Underground.
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