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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (15017)	8/31/2004 4:19:19 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

An interesting posting on DemocraticUnderground from "saracat" of Phoenix: I had a horrible experience canvassing today. We went out canvassing Democrats today to ask them to support Kerry and our local candidates. We were in apartment complexes and lower middle class housing. The young Democrats living there told us they were voting for Bush! We even met a young marine who said he was just back from Iraq and supports the war, which is why he is voting for Bush. These people have nothing and they are the ones Bush is hurting the most, and yet they support him. And they are registered Dems and young. Why is this happening. I thought our base was solid. This is very frightening. We walked for five hours and only met two people who supported Kerry on our Democratic list! What does this mean? The San Jose Mercury News, meanwhile, reports on a Kerry campaign appearance that exposed the horrors of the Bush economy: At the Daly City event, Lori Guy, a 35-year-old high-tech worker from San Jose, was held up as an example by Kerry as a victim of bad credit-card policies. She told the crowd how her employer, a large semiconductor manufacturer whom she did not identify, cut her salary after she moved West in 2000 to take a job. Her credit card bills piled up and she got socked with late payments, but she had no place to turn until she finally got back on her feet. In an interview later, however, Guy said she is still employed by the company and after two merit raises in the past year she now makes more money than she ever had. "I just want people to know there was no place to turn when I got in trouble," she said.