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

To: American Spirit who wrote (40387)	8/4/2004 11:48:43 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Kerry and flip-flopper Zell Miller voted just alike on all defence budgets. Are you really that dumb? Do you realize how easy that statement is to disprove? Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004, H.R. 2658 senate.gov Passed 95-0, Miller: Yea, Kerry: Not Voting Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (April); Senate version, S. 762 (sent to conference, conference report passed as H.R. 1559) senate.gov Passed 93-0, Miller: Yea, Kerry: Not Voting Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005, H.R. 4613 senate.gov Passed 96-0, Miller: Yea, Kerry: Not Voting National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005, S. 2400; incorporated into H.R. 4200 by amendment; in conference senate.gov Passed 97-0, Miller: Yea, Kerry: Not Voting And the biggie... Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Iraq and Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Act, 2004, S. 1689 (sent to conference; conference report passed by voice vote as H.R. 3289) senate.gov Passed 87-12, Miller: Yea, Kerry: Nay And, BTW, there WAS NO earlier vote where Kerry could possibly have "voted for it before [he] voted against it." But hey! At least he voted for once.

To: American Spirit who wrote (40387)	8/5/2004 2:57:21 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Among Veterans: Bush 58% Kerry 35% 48% Have Family or Friends in Iraq or Afghanistan rasmussenreports.com Thursday August 05, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey shows that military veterans prefer George W. Bush over John Kerry by a 58% to 35% margin. Those with no military service favor Kerry by ten percentage points, 51% to 41%. The potential grassroots impact of the war issue is highlighted by the fact that 48% of Americans say they know someone who is currently serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. Among these voters, Bush currently has a ten-point advantage in the poll. Fifty-four percent (54%) of veterans know someone serving in these war zones. When it comes to perceptions of the situation in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is likely that information from family and friends has a bigger impact than news coverage. Overall, 47% of voters believe that Bush would make a better Commander-in-Chief than John Kerry. Forty-five percent (45%) take the opposite view and say Kerry would do a better job. This closely reflects the overall voter preference in the race for the White House (on the nights of this survey, Kerry attracted 48% of the total vote to 45% for Bush). Veterans prefer Bush as Commander-in-Chief by a 60% to 33% margin. Fifty-four percent (54%) of veterans give the President good or excellent ratings for handling the situation in Iraq. Overall, just 43% of voters give the President such positive ratings on Iraq. The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports August 3-4, 2004. The sample included 216 military veterans. Margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.