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Politics : Vote Bush out - here are the reasons why -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (328)	9/22/2004 12:31:19 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 383

The Kerry Camp, Cautiously Giddy _________________________________ By Hanna Rosin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, September 22, 2004 NEW YORK Mario Cuomo was glowing after John Kerry's Iraq speech Monday at New York University: "Great! Excellent! Masterful!" raved the former New York governor, who sat near the front. "He's never been clearer. He's turning this thing around." And then, just as his handlers hustled him away, Cuomo turned to yell a few words of advice over his shoulder: "Now what he needs to do is be specific, hard, truthful, do more of the same." It's a tic that Kerry seems to invite with his endless searching and questing. In Kerryland, every supporter feels entitled to act as a mini-Joe Lockhart, suggesting a new phrase here, a tweak there. "I can't go anywhere where people don't tug on my sleeve and say 'Tell Kerry to do this,' 'Tell Kerry to do that,' " says Mark Green, the campaign co-chair in New York. "I guess it's a sign of how much they care." Or maybe how nervous they are. In polls over the past month Kerry is stuck at least a few points behind President Bush. So his supporters are like sports fans at the tail end of a season: It's dawning on them that time's running out and their team might not win, so they're bursting with amateur coaching advice. "Fifteen minutes into the speech I was thinking I need to get in there and do some heavy editing," says Catherine Wolcott, a supporter in the audience. "He just keeps repeating that stuff about the past and he needs to get to the future. "I'm, like, panicking," Wolcott adds. "I look at the poll numbers and think where are we and where is Bush? We got to get higher up." Kerry's supporters don't believe the race is over, particularly not after Monday's speech. Kerry's attitude was more tough, more mocking of Bush than he has been in the past: "If his purpose was to confuse and mislead the American people, he succeeded." The speech was received here as the beginning of Kerry's Incredible Hulk moment, when, angry and provoked, he finally unleashes his inner demon. Continued................. washingtonpost.com