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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564745)	4/14/2004 10:40:09 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Iraq War Prompts Voter Questions in Key U.S. State By Bob Weston, 4/14/2004 CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Mounting violence and casualties in Iraq may be straining support for President Bush in Ohio, a Midwestern state that could well determine his re-election this November. "I voted for Bush in 2000, but I'm having some second thoughts about him now," said 82-year-old Clarence Hammel, a retired jewelry company sales executive from Montgomery, Ohio. No Republican has ever been elected president without carrying Ohio. Bush won the state in 2000 with 50 percent of the vote compared to 46 percent for Democrat Al Gore. "He's got us in a terrible mess in Iraq and doesn't seem to have a good plan for getting us out of it. It has to be in an honorable way. We can't just cut and run," Hammel said on Wednesday. "At his press conference, he (Bush) just kept saying the same things over and over again. I can't buy into what he had to say," he added. His comments and those of others interviewed at random followed Bush's televised news conference on Tuesday night and revealed pain and worry on the home front. Bush promised at the news conference to pursue his course of action in Iraq as a matter of honor and national security. Ninety-three American troops have been killed in the past two weeks of combat, making April the deadliest month for the U.S. military since the fall of Saddam Hussein a year ago. In Dayton, nurse Mary Starr, 50, said she was "very positive for Bush" in the last election but "now it depends on how he handles the rest of the year ... we need to go about our business here in this country and get our boys home," adding the latter was her chief election-year issue. A recent poll from the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Cincinnati found only 46 percent of Ohio voters approved of the president's foreign affairs record, the lowest rating since he took office in January 2001. ELECTION BATTLEGROUND Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes, has been beset by job loses and could be, as Florida was in 2000, the state on which the Nov. 2 election turns. Chris Bryant, 43, a Dayton barber who is retired from the military, said she believed Bush would give his commanders the support necessary in Iraq. When she votes in November, she said she would ask whether she was better off than four years ago, and "I'm inclined to vote for him again." Another Dayton resident, Ron Gabberd, 67, a retired marketing executive, said he remained strongly in Bush's camp and nothing he heard in the news conference gave him pause. Gore, then vice president, narrowly carried the Dayton area in the 2000 election. In Cincinnati, Lois Wright, 78, said: "I don't like what is going on in Iraq, but I think Bush is doing all he can to stabilize the situation. Like he said last night, it's 'gut- wrenching' to see all the people being killed and taken hostage over there." "But I've been a Republican my whole life and I'm not going to change now because I know (presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John) Kerry couldn't do any better," she added. In Millersburg, Ohio, seat of a county where 77 percent of the voters backed Bush four years ago, the highest level in Ohio, businessman John Tope was concerned. "I was indeed a Bush supporter in the last election," said Tope who runs a small printing firm. But every day when he sees more American casualties, "that really bothers me, but I don't know what we can do about it." Support for Bush among his friends, he said, "certainly is wavering. It's not as strong as what it was," with job losses and the economy also a conce

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (564745)	4/14/2004 11:01:02 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

Go ahead and run against the Jews in November! You may still have half-a-dozen votes left to lose...