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To: MSI who wrote (15127)	11/4/2003 4:12:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

A "Pro" tells us how he sees it. THE NOTE Dowd also warned that President Bush could fall behind the Democratic nominee in the spring: "First, this is just the nature of a divided and polarized electorate. Second, once the Democratic nominee is all but assured, that person will receive a deluge of positive press at least for a couple of weeks, and this will temporarily be reflected in public opinion polls." ____________________________________________ The Bush-Cheney campaign released an internal memo from Bush-Cheney '04 Chief Strategist Matt Dowd that looks at where the president stands with one year to go before the election. The memo, to Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot and Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman, was yet another from Dowd that is cautionary about declining poll numbers and approval ratings and even goes so far as to predict worse numbers in the next few months. The campaign has consistently maintained that these polling numbers put President Bush right where incumbent presidents historically have been at this point in the game — and are not the Chicken Little scenarios that some political commentators make them out to be. On the president's approval numbers: "One major reason why President Bush's approval numbers have had such lasting power is that a majority of the public sees this President as honest and trustworthy, a strong leader, and believes that he cares about them. A second important reason for the sustained nature of these positive numbers in the wake of consistent negative media coverage concerning Iraq and the economy is that the public sees the president as presenting a clear and positive message on dealing with the public's concerns." On a close election in 2004: "Though at this time this is good news for a campaign headed into an election year, this race is likely to be very tight and go down to the wire. The country is very evenly divided, and with Democratic partisans lined up solidly against President Bush, this race will stay very close." Dowd also warned that President Bush could fall behind the Democratic nominee in the spring: "First, this is just the nature of a divided and polarized electorate. Second, once the Democratic nominee is all but assured, that person will receive a deluge of positive press at least for a couple of weeks, and this will temporarily be reflected in public opinion polls." abcnews.go.com

To: MSI who wrote (15127)	11/5/2003 2:24:20 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

Things are getting a little nasty over at the "Democratic Underground" URL _________________________________________ I Hope the Bloodshed Continues in Iraq Starpass Well, that should bring the bats out of the attic with fangs dripping. I won't be hypocritcal. It is politically correct, particularly in any Dem discussion to hope and pray and feel for our troops and scream "bring them back now". I'm fighting something bigger. I'm a 58 year old broad and I can tell you that what is going on in our country isn't the usual ebb and flow of politics where one party is in power and then another; where the economy goes through ups and downs.......yawn, yawn--just wait a bit and things will turn out peachy keen. That stupid la-la land is over. I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be "dead" for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But "indirectly" they are doing a lot. The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a shit hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary's Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts. democraticunderground.com