Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : HOWARD DEAN -THE NEXT PRESIDENT? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2485)	1/26/2004 5:27:50 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3079

I heard that Bush speech on NPR (class actions etc). Anything from Bush rings so hollow though, I doubt it resonates. On the same show there was an interview with a Virginia based budget thinktank who are appalled at the budget mess. The interesting part about the interview was the absolute certainty this guy had that Bush would win in 04. I think these DC-area pundits are way out of touch. The other thing this guy said was that the reason for the budget disaster was the recession and not tax cuts. No mention was made of the jobless "recovery" and the effect that has on tax revenues. A few more recoveries like this and the US may as well declare BK.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (2485)	1/26/2004 6:24:00 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3079

Dean Fights Back By Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 26, 2004; 3:47 PM Well, Howard Dean is either trailing John Kerry by a demoralizing 18 points (American Research Group) or mounting a furious comeback that has him just 3 points behind (Zogby/MSNBC). No wonder reporters have no idea what's going on in New Hampshire. The polls have been all over the map. Elsewhere on the polling front, Kerry leads Dean 37 to 14 in Michigan and 24 to 10 in Arizona (where Dean is in fourth, behind Clark and Edwards). In Oklahoma, Clark leads Dean 23 to 8 in one survey, 26 to 13 in another. A South Carolina poll has it Edwards 21, Kerry 17, Sharpton 15, Clark 14 and Dean 9. Are any of these polls accurate? Who knows? But they suggest that Dean could face tough sledding in the blizzard of primaries after New Hampshire. Dean stayed off Sunday morning television yesterday, but he's back today with some sharp comments about the press. "They're an entertainment business as much as a news media," he tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer. What about the Iowa rant -- surely that wasn't the media's fault? "You chose to play it 673 times," Dean says. That may be an understatement. Were the media being unfair? "If you want to be president of the United States, you had better be willing to take whatever the news media throws at you," Dean says. His wife, Judy, after her near-total absence from the trail, joined the interview, as she did last week's Diane Sawyer gabfest. Interesting tidbit after CNN played the excerpts. "Did he seem angry to you?" anchor Carol Lin asked. That, she said, was the feeling in the Atlanta newsroom. "He wasn't angry," Blitzer said. "He was just Howard Dean. He's very blunt." I saw Dean complaining about media concentration a few days ago in New Hampshire. All this is probably picking him up some votes, since Dean supporters tend to believe the Fourth Estate is unfair to their man. They would probably love this line from Molly Ivins's syndicated column: "The Washington press corps can do the most amazing imitation of a clique of snotty high school kids, and they were determined to find that Dean was not good enough for their clique from the beginning."