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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (54954)	9/8/2004 12:44:22 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

The race is still MUCH closer than some folks think it is... rasmussenreports.com Presidential Tracking Poll: Bush-Kerry Updated Daily by Noon Eastern Election 2004 Presidential Ballot Bush 48.2% Kerry 46.5% Other 2.1% Not Sure 3.1% RasmussenReports.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday September 08, 2004--The Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll shows President George W. Bush with 48% of the vote and Senator John Kerry with 46%. The Tracking Poll is updated daily by noon Eastern. Senator Kerry has not been ahead in the Tracking Poll since August 23. President Bush leads 88% to 10% among Republicans. Senator Kerry leads 79% to 17% among Democrats. As for those who are unaffiliated, 45% prefer Kerry and 44% Bush. Our data is collected via nightly telephone interviews and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. Today's report includes interviews conducted on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. This coming Friday will be the first report based entirely upon interviews conducted after both the Republican Convention and the holiday weekend. Today, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern, we launch our daily tracking service for Premium Members. Each day, we will provide daily results for Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina...>> __________________________ JW: The quagmire over in Iraq is getting WORSE each month...The 1000th soldier was just killed and this may give Kerry some ammo to turn the focus back onto Bush and HIS record with the economy and Iraq. Watch 60 Minutes tonight...and The New Yorker columnist Seymour Hersh will be launching an explosive new book next week called "Chain of Command"...Stay tuned.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (54954)	9/8/2004 12:55:34 PM
From: J.B.C.	Respond to of 89467

>>I have concluded that Bushy discontinued federal jobless benefits so that the unemployment rate could come down it worked, and he is now campaigning on it like a fool the even stupider public believes him<< You're just upset that no one wants to hire a pompous statistician with a Dr. degree.

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (54954)	9/8/2004 1:08:34 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 89467

Kerry: Bush's Iraq Choices Costing Americans at Home ______________________________ Wed Sep 8, 2004 11:14 AM ET By Patricia Wilson <<...CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry on Wednesday challenged President Bush's decisions before and after the Iraq war and linked the $200 billion cost of the war to economic woes in the United States. After months of defending charges of inconsistency on Iraq, the Massachusetts senator switched to offense with a speech at the site where Bush laid out his case for the ouster of Saddam Hussein because he could threaten the United States with weapons of mass destruction. "I would not have made the wrong choices that are now forcing us to pay nearly the entire cost of this war -- $200 billion that we're not investing in education, health care and job creation here at home," Kerry said. The Democratic nominee, fighting to catch up to Bush two months before the Nov. 2 election, told supporters at the Cincinnati Museum Center that the war in Iraq had consequences at home as well as abroad. "While we're spending that $200 billion in Iraq, more than 8 million Americans are looking for work ... and we're told that we can't afford to invest in job training and job creation here at home," Kerry said. "Because of this president's wrong choices, we're spending $200 billion in Iraq while the costs of health care have gone through the roof." The Kerry campaign on Wednesday also launched its first television advertisement focusing on Iraq. The 30-second spot will run in battleground states. "George Bush. $200 billion for Iraq. In America, lost jobs and rising health care costs," a narrator says. "George Bush's wrong choices have weakened us here at home." Because Kerry voted for the Congressional resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq and later voted against $87 billion to fund operations there and in Afghanistan, Bush has called him a flip-flopper and a political opportunist. Kerry says he backed giving the president authority to go to war but not how Bush handled the conflict. Since Kerry said last month that he would have voted for the resolution even if he had known that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, Bush has tried to convince voters that they agreed on the need to get rid of the Iraqi leader. Kerry's attack on Bush's pre- and post-war decisions came as the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq passed 1,000 and Vice President Dick Cheney said that if the Democrat were elected, "the danger is that we'll get hit again" by terrorists. One by one, Kerry listed assertions Bush made in October, 2002, and then tried to discredit them. Bush pledged to pursue diplomacy to resolve the Iraq crisis but instead he rushed to war, Kerry said. Bush promised to build an international coalition but instead the United States was bearing both the human and financial costs, Kerry said. Bush said military action was avoidable but instead he chose not to give weapons inspectors more time, Kerry said. "We know how wrong his choices were," Kerry said. "He says he 'miscalculated.' He calls Iraq a 'catastrophic success'... the hard reality (is) rising instability, spreading violence, growing extremism, havens for terrorists who weren't even in the country before we went there."....>> olympics.reuters.com