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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (25862)	5/26/2004 8:03:54 PM
From: MrLucky	Respond to of 81568

I know you are into polls. Here is one for you today. BBQ anyone? <g> HAMDEN, Conn. - Voters would rather flip burgers and drink beer at a backyard barbecue with President Bush (news - web sites) than Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), according to a national poll that found Bush leading Kerry on "regular guy" qualities. Half of the registered voters surveyed said they would rather have a barbecue with Bush, while 39 percent chose Kerry and 11 percent either didn't know or would not answer the question posed by Quinnipiac University pollsters. More voters also would trust Bush, 46-41, to run the family business. But voters were evenly split on whether they would rather have Kerry or Bush teach their children. Mickey Carroll, the director of the Quinnipiac Polling Institute, said these offbeat questions were asked to try to get a peek at the personal, regular-guy qualities of each candidate. On the question of whom to vote for, though, voters were evenly split — 43 percent picked Bush, 42 percent chose Kerry, 6 percent chose Ralph Nader (news - web sites), and the rest said they did not know, would not answer, would choose someone else or would skip the election. "On the likeability, regular-guy quotient, probably Bush comes out a little bit better, but with who are you going vote for, it's a standoff," Carroll said. Carroll said the regular-guy quotient factors in to how voters make their choices, along with the candidates' stance on the issues and their experience and leadership qualities. "Does a guy's personality matter? The answer is yes," Carroll said. "To what extent? We don't know. When you vote for a president, everything gets stirred into the mix." The poll questioned 1,160 registered voters nationwide by telephone from May 18 to 24. The poll has a sample error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. news.yahoo.com

To: bentway who wrote (25862)	5/26/2004 8:15:49 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

Containment starts to look better and better everyday. Orca

To: bentway who wrote (25862)	5/26/2004 9:00:48 PM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 81568

Just getting out rewards the barbary pirates and results in requests for additional tribute. You don't pay kidnappers and you don't cut and run here. Reagan cut and run in Lebanon and we've only seen an increase in terrorism since. We cut and run in Mogadisha another signal to terrorists that terrorism works. The only thing these animals understand is anhilation.

To: bentway who wrote (25862)	5/26/2004 9:50:27 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Nader has no business being in the race. He openly lies saying he will take more votes away from Bush than Kerry. All he's doing is helping Bush. Nobody in their right mind just wants to abandon Iraq now. Not until there's a government in place which can handle its own security. That will take several years. To make it work we need the rest of the world helping us. We by ourselves have already failed there. Bushies juist don't like to admit it (yet). Kerry has been 100% right about Iraq from the beginning BTW.