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Politics : John Kerry for President? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3167)	10/28/2004 8:30:45 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 3515

Bush rallies 20,000 at Pontiac Silverdome In Pontiac, Bush emphasized security and pledged that America would not "show weakness." President Bush has fired up thousands of his Oakland County fans, who waved cardboard "W" cutouts. (Pontiac-AP, October 28, 2004, 7:33 a.m.) President Bush has fired up thousands of his Oakland County fans, who waved cardboard "W" cutouts and red, white and blue pompoms during an evening rally at the Pontiac Silverdome. "I'm asking you to get your friends and neighbors to vote," Bush told the enthusiastic crowd Wednesday night. "Make sure you don't overlook discerning Democrats like our friend Zell Miller." Miller, a Democratic senator from Georgia, appeared with the president and First Lady Laura Bush. The rally drew about 20,000 people, one of the best turnouts of his campaign. From Pontiac, Bush was heading to Saginaw, where he was to try to swing conservative Democrats his way at a Thursday morning rally. On Saturday, he campaigns in Grand Rapids, where he will try to energize the Republican base in southwestern Michigan. In Pontiac, Bush emphasized security and pledged that America would not "show weakness" under his leadership. He also lashed back against criticism that the military failed to secure munitions in Iraq. He said his opponent, Democratic Sen. John Kerry, rushed to conclusions following reports of the disappearance of hundreds of tons of powerful explosives stored in a military installation there. "Senator Kerry seemed shocked to learn that Iraq was a dangerous place full of dangerous weapons," Bush said, adding that the military still was investigating and the munitions may have disappeared before U.S. troops arrived. Wednesday's visit was Bush's second this month to Oakland County. Once a Republican bastion, the county has become more politically diverse in recent years, and Republicans are hoping to win the county for the first time since 1992. George H.W. Bush did it then, although Democrat Bill Clinton still carried Michigan that year. President Bush's first Oakland County campaign stop came Oct. 6 in Farmington Hills. Tom Mulcahy of Rochester Hills said he attended both appearances and was more impressed with Bush's speech on Wednesday. "He hit upon the issues that are most important to me security issues," the 45-year-old said. Before Bush arrived, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson asked the crowd gathered at the former home of the Detroit Lions: "Which candidate will carry Oakland County next Tuesday?" In response, a roar went up in the stands. Later, after the introductory speakers had finished, but Bush had not yet arrived, the crowd kept up its buoyant mood by doing the wave and chanting "four more years." Noel Kocher, 66, of Troy said he thought Oakland County would go for Bush this time, but not by a landslide. "All of our friends are Democrats, and we're going to show them," said his 65-year-old wife, Janice. Recent polls have shown Bush neck and neck in Michigan with Democratic challenger John Kerry. A poll published Thursday in The Detroit News found that 47 percent of 600 likely voters questioned said they supported Kerry, while 42 percent backed Bush. The difference is within the poll's 42 percentage point margin of error for both figures. Kerry's Michigan campaign director, Donnie Fowler, said Wednesday that Bush would try to scare Michigan residents into voting for him during his appearance in Pontiac. "It's simply a smoke screen of fear because these guys can't talk to Michiganians with a straight face about the economy or about health care or about ... Iraq," Fowler said. "He's going to try to say the economy is getting better. ... (But) in Michigan, it's about the worst manufacturing conditions in the country." Bush's visit was to come two days after Kerry rallied supporters in neighboring Macomb County, a swing county that is home to conservative Democrats who backed Republican Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Fowler said Kerry would campaign in Detroit on Sunday or Monday. Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark, a former presidential candidate, on Wednesday was campaigning for Kerry in Grand Rapids and Flint. On Tuesday, he was in Dearborn.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3167)	10/28/2004 8:32:12 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 3515

This is unbelievable: Bush, Kerry even in latest N.J. poll Published in the Home News Tribune 10/28/04 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Bush summoned support from Democrats whose "dreams and goals are not found in the far left wing" of their own party yesterday in a late-campaign appeal for crossover votes. Sen. John Kerry said that when it comes to Iraq, the man in the White House "doesn't get it, and he can't fix it." With less than a week until Election Day, one of New Jersey's most prominent political polls continued to show President Bush and John Kerry locked in a standoff among likely voters. On the campaign trail, Kerry asserted that Bush has made a habit of "dodging and bobbing and weaving" when it comes to tons of missing explosives outside Baghdad, added the four-term Massachusetts senator, and Vice President Dick Cheney "is becoming the chief minister of disinformation." The president accused his rival of "wild charges" unbecoming a man with ambitions for the Oval Office. Six days before the election, the president and his Democratic challenger appeared before large late-October crowds as their aides and outside groups made strategic adjustments for the campaign's end-game. Bush's high command put extra money into television commercials in Portland, Maine -- a bid to claim victory in next-door New Hampshire, where recent polls show Kerry the narrow leader. The challenger as well as groups supporting him stepped up efforts in Hawaii, customarily a safe Democratic state, but too close for Kerry's comfort in recent surveys. With polls reporting a high level of interest in the race for the White House, an Associated Press-Ipsos survey showed 11 percent of voters had already marked ballots in 32 states that permit early voting, and another 11 percent said they intended to do so. Yet there were problems as millions tried to beat the Election Day rush, and thousands of lawyers were primed to catch them. Officials in Florida's Broward County said up to 58,000 absentee ballots may not have reached voters who requested them more than two weeks ago. The presidential race aside, 34 Senate races and 435 House contests dot the ballot on Nov. 2, and candidates and parties alike strained for a late advantage. Republicans, heavily favored to retain their majority in the House, sought late upsets in races for Democratic seats in Missouri and California. But GOP officials also said Rep. Phil Crane, R-Ill., was in a difficult struggle to win an 18th term. GOP strategists also fretted over Sen. Jim Bunning's recent dive in the polls in Kentucky. "We have a horse race in horse country," crowed Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., head of the party's senatorial campaign committee. Half a world away, increased airstrikes and other military moves suggested U.S. forces were moving toward an assault against Sunni Muslim insurgents in Fallujah and neighboring Ramadi. American officials have not confirmed a major assault is near. Iraq has been a major focus of the presidential race, and a major military assault would have an unpredictable impact on the campaign in its final days. The polls made the presidential race out to be impossibly close as Bush and Kerry campaigned before large crowds in battleground states that will settle the election. In New Jersey, Quinnipiac University's survey released yesterday showed Bush and Kerry in a 46-46 percent deadlock, and the poll's director said fears of terrorism are aiding Bush in a state he lost by 16 percentage points four years ago. "Many New Jersey voters face security checks as they commute to New York," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. "They remember 700 Garden State neighbors lost on Sept. 11 and see the wounded skyline where the World Trade Center stood." While several other polls released last week indicate Kerry holds varying leads in the race, Carroll's polling has not shown a great shift among New Jersey voters since late August, between the national conventions. Bush's first stop of the day was beside a small, wind-swept airfield in Lititz, Pa., where the late-October breeze bore the scent of cow manure from nearby farms. In remarks repeated nearly word for word later in the day in Ohio, Bush devoted about a quarter of his speech to an appeal to Democrats -- although he acknowledged "they are not going to agree with me on every issue." For the third consecutive day, Kerry assailed Bush over the disappearance of nearly 400 tons of explosives in Iraq. "The missing explosives could very likely be in the hands of terrorists and insurgents, who are actually attacking our forces now 80 times a day on average," the Democrat said in Iowa, a state with seven electoral votes where polls show him and Bush in a tight race.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (3167)	10/28/2004 10:25:33 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3515

In Ohio, Bush Leads By Two Points (CPOD) Oct. 28, 2004 – George W. Bush holds the lead in the state of Ohio, according to a poll by Zogby International. 46 per cent of respondents would vote for the Republican incumbent in the 2004 United States presidential election, while 44 per cent would support Democratic nominee John Kerry. Three per cent of respondents would vote for another candidate, while seven per cent remain undecided. The election is scheduled for Nov. 2. Bush carried Ohio’s 21 electoral votes in 2000, with 50 per cent of the vote. The state has supported the eventual president in every election since 1964.