[ambrose]

It is beginning to look more and more as if the Gallup poll showing Kerry ahead nationally is the outlier. No way Kerry leads by 8-10% nationally if he isn't winning California bigger than this. This confirms Zogby and Rasmussen.

New PA poll shows Kerry up over Bush by only 5% - which was Gore's 2000 margin of victory. That simply makes no sense in light of the Gallup number. Someone is wrong.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are going for Kerry for one reason only - his biography. They're not nominating him cause they know his record well or cause he has compelling new ideas or is a dynamic, exciting candidate. Howard Dean had the dynamism and excitement and the Democratic establishment got himn out of the way cause he was the real thing. Kerry's momentum is all manufactured. No one really likes the guy and the Democrats went for Kerry cause Bush hatred is driving them. That's not the stuff a national party victory is made off. I mean all these polls coming out are only interesting in light of the fact that a scant two months ago no one ever heard of John F. Kerry and he was a political cadaver bound for the Museum Of Political Also-Rans. Only its Dean who wound up there. What I don't get about the Democrats is why they put their most exciting candidate out to pasture in favor of a phony plastic banana boring Washington insider.

[daybreakcoming]

(CNN) -- Democratic presidential hopefuls John Edwards and John Kerry both hold leads of 10 percentage points or more in hypothetical match-ups against President Bush, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday.
Half of those polled were called “likely voters”. What the ‘ell are “likely voters”??
Among registered voters, Kerry held a narrower edge over Bush, 51 percent to 46 percent. Edwards led Bush 49 percent to 48 percent in the same survey of registered voters.
More of those surveyed considered Bush a strong leader when matched against Kerry, 65 percent to 59 percent. But more said they considered Kerry honest and trustworthy, 61 percent to 55 percent.
Can we assume this 61% were “children left behind”? geeze