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To: LindyBill who wrote (68767)	9/10/2004 4:26:44 AM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	Respond to of 793597

In the latest ABC News poll, President Bush is pulling ahead of Democratic challenger John Kerry. (AP Graphics) Advantage Bush New ABC Poll Shows Bush in Lead Analysis by Gary Langer Sept. 9, 2004— The 2004 campaign enters its decisive phase with the advantage to President Bush, who has reasserted his personal and professional credentials, effectively driven up John Kerry's negatives and broken through to a lead in likely voters' preferences. According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, registered voters by a 27-point margin now say Bush has taken a clearer stand than Kerry on the issues, by 27 points call Bush the stronger leader and by 19 points say he would make the country safer. Bush also has a 22-point advantage in trust to handle terrorism, a 16-point lead on Iraq and perhaps a slight edge even on the lukewarm economy. Sampling, data collection and tabulation for this poll were done by TNS. These and other ratings have either reversed or eroded Kerry's position. After the Democratic convention Kerry had a six-point lead as more honest; now it's Bush +13. Kerry had a 13-point lead on a "vision for the future"; now it's Bush +9. Kerry had a 14-point lead on understanding people's problems; now they're essentially even (Bush +1). Moving these underlying views has enabled Bush to break out of the virtual dead heat that's defined the contest: Among likely voters in this ABC News/Washington Post survey, Bush has 52 percent support, Kerry 43 percent, Ralph Nader 2 percent. It's Bush's first lead beyond the margin of sampling error in any ABC/Post poll since Kerry seized his party's nomination in March. The race is 50-44-2 percent among all registered voters. The contest is far from over: This poll follows Bush's convention, a week in which he held center stage in public attention, and his convention "bounce" — an insignificant +5 points among registered voters — is an anemic one, on par with Kerry's +8 and below the average, +14, in polls since 1968. One difference is that Kerry left his convention in a dead heat among likely voters, while Bush leaves his with a lead. 2004 Election: Among Likely Voters Candidate Jul 25 Aug 1 Aug 29 Sept 8 Bush 50% 47 48 52 Kerry 46% 49 48 43 Nader 2% 1 1 2 But more important than the horse race at this stage are the attitudes that inform it. Sixty-three percent of Bush's supporters now say they're "very enthusiastic" about him, a new high for Bush in this important measure of motivation. Kerry's support, after dropping in advance of the Republican convention, is flat, at 39 percent very enthusiastic. And while 84 percent of Bush's supporters are affirmatively "for" him, that's true of just 41 percent of Kerry's; more of Kerry's supporters, 55 percent, are chiefly "against" Bush. abcnews.go.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (68767)	9/10/2004 4:30:13 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 793597

I like the way this blogger summed up fontgate thus far. rightonred.net A Few Small Davids Filed under: Blogging Media Fontgate— 12:51 am A lot of people (Wizbang, Politburo, and many others) are now asking whodunit. Some cry DNC plot; others say lone disgruntled Pentagon employee. Still others on the left say it was an elaborate Karl Rove rope-a-dope maneuver. Who knows. All we know right now is, apparently no one at CBS bothered to study these documents any longer than it took to read them. They say they sat on them for six weeks and had them examined. The blogosphere (and AP) have produced typography experts with names and credentials; so far CBS has not. No matter who was behind it (which we’ll learn soon enough), one thing’s for sure: the Old Media has just discredited itself even further, guilty of the kind of sloppy work for which they criticize the blogosphere. Remember Dead Zone, with Christopher Walken? The scene near the end when he asks the old German guy, “If you had known at the time what Hitler was going to become, would you have killed him?” The media has asked itself a similar question regarding Bush, and their decision is to take him down (politically), whatever it takes. In their view, cutting corners with the truth is justified in order to stop what they see as a real threat to their ideology - in fact, it’s their duty to cut corners in such a situation. They really believe they have a moral obligation to unseat Bush and save the country. Rather is of course a lefty, and his coverage is biased, and he’s certainly done shoddy work here. No doubt they’ll have some kind of explanation tomorrow. But no matter who Rather let himself be duped by, today’s victory is this: a few small Davids tripped-up a huge Goliath.

To: LindyBill who wrote (68767)	9/10/2004 6:20:22 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793597

<font color=blue>"When do you think the FBI will start investigating Kerry's staffers?"<font color=black> Strange, I have it on good authority that the "crooks" & "liars" are all in the Bush camp. Go figure? w2@schadenfrude/feelsgood/inmoderation.com