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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (650788)	10/24/2004 5:36:30 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kenneth, you must go back to school and learn to spell. You spelled Hypocrite like this but the correct spelling of Hypocrite is K-E-R-R-Y ! jdn

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (650788)	10/24/2004 10:25:23 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

demagogue + hypocrite = JFK = johnflipkerry new equation in US politics

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (650788)	10/24/2004 10:38:11 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

By JIM DWYER and JODI WILGOREN Published: October 25, 2004 ACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 24 - Al Gore, the former vice president, sprinted across six pulpits Sunday morning to exhort African-Americans to avenge his disputed 2000 defeat in this deadlocked state, while Senator John Kerry hit South Florida, clapping along with the choir at another black church in Fort Lauderdale. Black voters are crucial for Democrats, and the party has been seeking to galvanize them in record numbers this year. But the urgency, with just over a week left in a breathtakingly close race, is also driven by recent polls showing President Bush's support among African-Americans may be double the 8 percent he won in 2000. The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington group that focuses on blacks, attributed the uptick largely to an unusual Republican push in black churches and the party's backing of a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages. Republicans said they had made inroads by spending more money than ever before on black media and outreach. "They've given us an opening and we've taken it," said the party chairman, Ed Gillespie. Mr. Gillespie and Ken Mehlman, Mr. Bush's campaign manager, credited their improved position among blacks in part to the president's "faith-based initiative'' to give religious institutions more of a role in delivering social services. David Bositis of the Joint Center noted that his poll also showed stronger opposition to same-sex marriage and civil unions among blacks than in the population over all. "I think Bush's faith-based initiative, combined with the gay marriage issue and also Bush's sort of overtly Southern religious personality has made him more popular among black conservative Christians," Mr. Bositis explained. Mr. Gore presented himself on Sunday as an example of the importance of voting. It was a pilgrimage that took him to six Baptist churches on the north side of Jacksonville, where nearly every person in every pew was African-American. While he was lacerating in his criticism of President Bush, he scarcely mentioned Senator Kerry, and neither did the pastors who were his hosts. Instead parishioners were urged to prevent a repeat of what Mr. Gore described as the injustice that had been done in 2000. The Democrats' effort came days after the Joint Center released its poll, which found 18 percent of black voters backing Mr. Bush, compared with 69 percent for Mr. Kerry. In the parallel survey before the 2000 election, Mr. Bush had 9 percent, just above what he earned on Election Day, and Mr. Gore 74 percent. Other studies have shown similar movement for Mr. Bush; the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll gave him 17 percent among blacks nationally, and one poll published Sunday in the St. Petersburg Times showed 19 percent of African-Americans here in Florida supporting the president. Both newspaper polls had large margins of sampling error because of the small samples of black voters.