Posted on 02/10/2004 7:35:54 AM PST by veronica
PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey finds a hypothetical presidential contest between President George W. Bush and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry a dead heat. Bush receives 49% support among likely voters and Kerry 48%. Last week, Kerry led Bush by 7 points, 53% to 46%, but a month ago -- before the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary -- Bush led Kerry by 12 points, 55% to 43%.
Bush also does slightly better this week than last against the other three major Democratic candidates.
While Bush trailed North Carolina Sen. John Edwards by one point last week, the president leads by four points now. Bush leads retired Gen. Wesley Clark by five points now, compared with three points last week. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean trails Bush by 10 points in the current poll, compared with 7 points last week. Changes since last week in the relative electoral strength of Bush vs. each of the candidates, Edwards, Clark, and Dean, are all within the poll's margin of error. Still, Bush's improvement against each of the candidates is consistent with the significant improvement in Bush's standing against Kerry.
The poll results show that the political landscape has changed dramatically since the beginning of January, when Bush enjoyed double-digit leads over the Democratic candidates. Still, it is not as positive for Democrats as it was last week, when Kerry led Bush by seven points. The change from last week could be related to a decline in the positive publicity Kerry received in the wake of his dramatic victories in Iowa and New Hampshire. Whether the political landscape continues to move back in Bush's favor or stabilizes at a more competitive level remains to be seen.
Bush Approval Up to 52%
Bush's job approval is now at 52%, compared with 49% a week ago, and 59% a month ago.
John Kerry makes me want to vomit. He is so full of sanctimony, it's practically dripping from his mouth. I, I, I, I...I bet he could even best clinton in the use of "I" category.
FWIW, I watched the MTP interview last night and I thought W did fine. Peggy Noonan is all wet. She's so caught up in the beltway think and talk that she has totally lost any connection with real people.
How many rounds in your fight? If it is a Heavyweight Championship, and I think it is, that's 15.
I think you meant 10 rounds, so if you did, I say Bush pound Kerry with hard jabs to the ribs from the beginning of the fight, and start pounding him hard around the seventh round! Don't wait 'til the tenth. It might be too late.
They thought Kerry said Butt-tocks
"you gotta admit we did do a good job of duplicating a buttocks" the docs said "not our fault the guy doesnt speak clearly"
there you have it..."
Its because he looks like the north end of a south bound camel
Maybe the cheap botox really doesn't last as long as the expensive stuff.
Really? I've been away too long. When did they change a Heavyweight Championship fight from 15 down to 12 rounds?
"My gosh, did you see the size of them jaws?"
(From an old joke about a guy with diarrhea sticking his butt out a car window and letting fly, hitting a pair of old hobos alongside the road)
It is amazing to me how this primary fight has been solely driven by poll results. If Dean polled higher against Bush, he'd have all the delegates by now.
Wait 'til October.
It is well-known that undecideds break 2-1 against the incumbent and it is clear that Gallup here wanted to favor Kerry. A charitable motivation is that they want to gin up a race where there is none. 44% Bush, 38% Kerry and 18% undecided (for example) just does not make interesting poll results.
I'll do a little checking......
The other day I picked up a newspaper and found, page one, above the fold, that a three-star generalette in the Army, name of Claudia Kennedy, has her skivvies in a knot. It's because an unnamed he-general groped her years ago. Yep, he did. She says.
...Next day, so help me, another page-one piece: They had discovered the identity of the groper. Yes, there he was. Guy named Larry Smith. This revelation was treated as a great astonishment, as if the press had found Clinton in bed with his wife. The obvious question--"Who cares?"--eluded capture.
Now, why do you think Kennedy (some now call her Attila the Hen) is doing this? She's likely to destroy the guy's career, heterosexuality being in disrepute in the military, and she knows it. Groped? At her age you'd think she'd be grateful. Do we have overkill here? Revenge against the patriarchy? Generalized resentment against the unsatisfactory nature of life?
Who knows?
What vile act did Smith perpetrate? Did it involve a cattle-prod? Farm animals? Dunno. The papers did report a definition of harassment once given by Claudia the Combat-Ready: "His hand lingers on your back. He touches you on your upper arm and you can't tell if he's a touchy-feely person. All you know is that he gives you the creeps."
The horror.
Me, I'm trying to figure out the whole concept of sensitivity in generals. Generals are supposed to be warriors. I read that in a book somewhere. Here we have one coming unglued, positively delaminating, over something that middle-school girls handle every day.
I'm trying to picture a generalette at war. It's not easy. Historically women have not been warriors, but booty. (Why do you think all those guys with the swords and shields wanted to break into the city? Not to steal the crockery.) But I'm trying to be modern. It's not going well.
Let us say that Pyong Yang decides to acquire Seoul. Massed artillery cuts loose in January. Wind howls along those bleak Korean valleys with paddies frozen to steel. Bullets whine, wounded scream, arms and legs fly through the air like migrating birds. Remorseless North Korean infantry run around with those pointy things on their rifles.
And here comes General Kennedy charging across the landscape, yelling, "Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaak! Don't touch me!"
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