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To: American Spirit who wrote (136)	10/25/2004 12:35:44 PM
From: StockDung	Respond to of 1449

FEW DOZEN TURN OUT TO HEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL ELECTION PREACH XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN OCT 24, 2004 12:00:01 ET XXXXX FEW DOZEN TURN OUT TO HEAR ROSIE O'DONNELL ELECTION PREACH Exclusive Rosie O'Donnell addressed a nearly vacant CLUB OVATION Saturday night in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida during a get-out-the-vote rally for Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry. "You know, there's only like, you know, maybe 38 of us here and maybe we can just like tap a keg and put on some disco, and totally party," O'Donnell deadpanned. The debacle came one night after only a couple hundred came out to see Cher rally for Kerry at Miami Beach's CROBAR disco. "There were supposed to be thousands of people here tonight. I'm not sure why that didn't happen, obviously the people putting on this thing were just not very good at it," an embarrassed Cher explained to the crowd. A top Florida Democratic party official dismissed the weak back-to-back club turnouts as any indication of voter enthusiasm for the Kerry candidacy. MORE At CLUB OVATION Rosie endorsed Kerry's assertion in debate that America needs to pass a "global test" before acting in the world. "The best part to me in the entire debate was when John Kerry said we have to pass a global test before we enter into a war. And you see George Bush got all nervous because frankly the word 'test' terrifies him," O'Donnell said to scattered chuckles. "He never passed one at Harvard or Yale, but whatever. But there is a global test. It's the global test of decency, of humanity, of integrity. That's what our country stands for as we lead the free world. Let's take back our country. Let's elect John Kerry." Rosie said the Bush Administration's actions go "against the foundation of what our country was built on," giving example of Administration telling the "United Nations we would ignore their doctrine and their resolutions." MORE Rosie continued: "Every single thing this White House has done goes against the foundation of what our country was built on. For us to tell the United Nations we would ignore their doctrine and their resolutions, for us to say that we will not adhere to the Geneva Convention during this war. We are America, we are better than that. We were built on the foundation of freedom and truth and equality for all people. And the rich, corporate, horrible, horrible people who have been destructing and ruining everything this country was made on has been really unbelievably damaging to all of us spiritually, emotionally, monetarily." Rosie advised the audience to ignore any and all media in last days of the election race and to keep telling themselves "Kerry by a landslide!" "Just remember this, don't believe the media in these last nine days. Tell yourself every day when you wake up and every morning when you have a worry or a doubt or whether you believe FOXNEWS: Kerry by a landslide. Because America knows the difference between genuine and junk." MORE Finally, Rosie spent an inordinate amount of time at the end of her speech cracking jokes about THE VIEW co-host Star Jones, suggesting that the daytime diva's weight loss was not the product of "diet and exercise," but of plastic surgery: "Star Jones is my body double. She's getting smaller every day. I'm telling you ladies, it's diet and exercise. [Rosie pauses giving disbelieving look, then makes popping noises as she motions around her body implying plastic surgery] No problem, [singing] 'I believe in dissolution.' Okay, that's fine. She's alright. She's married to some guy, it's fine. Ah huh. Yeah. The thing is -- it's fine, it's alright, leave it. What do I care? I don't even watch TV in the day... He is a cute boy. And I'm gonna leave it there because I see that camera rolling. And all the Kerry thing will go away and it'll be 'Rosie O'Donnell Attacks Star Jones!' And in the Enquirer it'll be 'Crazy Lesbian Goes Insane At A Kerry Rally.'" Developing... ----------------------------------------------------------- Filed By Matt Drudge Reports are moved when circumstances warrant drudgereport.com for updates (c)DRUDGE REPORT 2004 Not for reproduction without permission of the author

To: American Spirit who wrote (136)	10/25/2004 2:30:02 PM
From: StockDung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1449

Bush Has 48% to Kerry's 45% in Daily Zogby Poll (Update1) Oct. 25 (Bloomberg) -- President George W. Bush leads Senator John Kerry by 3 percentage points in the daily Reuters/Zogby poll. A Washington Post survey released yesterday showed the two candidates in a statistical tie. Bush is backed by 48 percent of 1,204 likely voters questioned Oct. 22-24 by Zogby, and Kerry, the four-term senator from Massachusetts, is supported by 45 percent. The poll's margin of error is plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. Reuters/Zogby polls over the previous three days showed Bush up 2 points. Five percent of likely voters remain undecided. Bush had backing from 49 percent of 1,638 likely voters the Post polled Oct. 20-23, and Kerry had 48 percent. The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points. With eight days until the election, most national polls, including one released Oct. 23 by Newsweek, show the race statistically tied. The tally in the Electoral College determines who wins. These votes are apportioned among the states based on congressional representation. State polls show neither candidate has amassed the 270 needed to win. State Polls Zogby telephone surveys Oct. 21-24 of about 600 likely voters in each of 10 closely contested states show the candidates statistically tied in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Together those states have 89 electoral votes. Bush is up by 5 points in Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes, and 5 points in New Mexico, which has 5 electoral votes. Kerry leads by 10 points in Michigan, which has 17 electoral votes. Each poll has an error margin of 4.1 percent. A review of state polls shows Bush ahead in 21 states, including Texas and Utah, with 173 electoral votes. Kerry leads in 13 states, including New York and Oregon, with 188 electoral votes. In 16 states that have 177 electoral votes, including Pennsylvania and Florida, results of the most recent polls are within the margin of error. In the Newsweek magazine poll Bush led Kerry 48 percent to 46 percent among 880 likely voters surveyed Oct. 21-22. The spread is within the poll's 4-point error margin. A Time magazine poll released yesterday found almost half of registered voters are very or somewhat concerned that vote fraud and problems with counting ballots will mean the winner of the Nov. 2 election won't be legitimate. The tracking polls by Reuters/Zogby and the Post are conducted daily and the results are a rolling average of three or four days' worth of results. A portion of the total sample is interviewed each day. The earliest results are dropped when a new day is added. Zogby International is based in Utica, New York. Reuters Group Plc, the world's largest publicly traded provider of financial information, is based in London. To contact the reporter on this story: Catherine Dodge in Washington at cdodge1@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Glenn Hall in Washington at ghall@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: October 25, 2004 11:05 EDT Advertisement: You've worked, you've saved, now PROTECT your nest egg