USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll results (Daschle is deeply saddened)

USA TODAY ^ | 3/30/04

[xzins]

Good points. I've not seen that new ad. Hope to very soon.

[numberonepal]

I like the numbers, but the swing in American opinion is beyond belief. Who are these people?

[JLS]

Don't believe everything about that poll. Remember the American people live in the economy. They know how it is going before the economic data reflect it.

So if the economy is good as it seems, the people know it. Now they may pull their punches about the economy to pollsters as the news indicates to them that acceptable opinion is that the economy is awful and it is Bush's fault. Some of those polled may not want to sound like rubes, so they say Bush is bad on the economy but still support him. This is the same effect that cause people to tell pollsters they are going to vote for an African-American when they are not, they do not want the pollster to think them as racists.

The more PC there is, the more the mainstream media acts like the Dim position is the only socially acceptable position, the more people will lie to pollsters and the less useful polls are. The good news for us is that it means polls are likely to under-estimate Bush strength rather than over-estimate it.

[bootyist-monk]

I think you are onto something. As usual, the Democrats overplayed their hand. If Clarke had been as hard on Clintoon as he was on Dubya, then he would have had more credibility in the eyes of middle America. But the line was BillJeff=Hero, Bush=Villain and it was clear to even the most casual observer that this was BS. Hard to square that with the facts that the only way Clintoon would have nailed Osama was if he was a piece of ass.

End result... Clarke looks like a partisan hack, the press looks more and more biased, Kerry is screaming into an echo tunnel and his topic (jobs) is knocked out of the newscycle, Bush's number track upward and the resolve of the Republicans hardens.

[highlander_UW]

OK, what scares me is the 9% think Kerry is too conservative!

[coffeebreak]

Who are these 9% who think Kerry is too Conservative?

Homosexuals that want to get married (and their friends). They should know that Kerry is only SAYING he opposes same-sex marriage because he knows he would lose if he didn't.

[goldstategop]

Probably Ralph Nader's Raiders. LOL!!!

[coffeebreak]

What's not mentioned in this poll is the Hamas leader's comments about Bush being an "enemy of God". If I were on the fence politically, that comment would make me more likely to vote for Bush. I think that comment is worth a couple of points in that poll.

[NYCVirago]

I think you are onto something. As usual, the Democrats overplayed their hand. If Clarke had been as hard on Clintoon as he was on Dubya, then he would have had more credibility in the eyes of middle America. But the line was BillJeff=Hero, Bush=Villain and it was clear to even the most casual observer that this was BS. Hard to square that with the facts that the only way Clintoon would have nailed Osama was if he was a piece of ass.

Excellent point. When Clarke said that Clinton's No. 1 priority, that was laughable. Even Clinton fans would concede that his No. 1 priority (besides the obvious) was the economy. Remember "it's the economy, stupid"? Clarke was so over the top in his Clinton worship that he just wasn't credible.

[muawiyah]

Today is a "Kattracks" day FUR SHUR.

By not sleeping Kattracks keeps ahead of the robot-like mind-numbed Liberal evil doers.

That's a good thing.

[Coop]

Notice that Nader takes the same amount of votes from Bush as from Nader.

That's been virtually a constant theme across a myriad of polls the past month or so. Very interesting.

[Coop]

It is interesting that Republicans are marginally "more motivated" to get to the polls this year according to the poll. Nice.

But not surprising. Despite all the rhetoric about a fired up Dem base, their primary turnout was quite disappointing given how contested and advertised the race is/was.

[babaloo]

Also, Kerry has attacked Republicans in general-not just the administration. He has singled out individual voters in town meetings and made that"off-mike" comment about how evil the Republicans are. That should cause the base to be more motivated and could sway independents who do not tolerate name-calling.

[Poohbah]

16 points in 40 days isn't a drop. It's a plummet.

[Poohbah]

Also, Kerry has attacked Republicans in general-not just the administration. He has singled out individual voters in town meetings and made that"off-mike" comment about how evil the Republicans are. That should cause the base to be more motivated and could sway independents who do not tolerate name-calling.

The "off-mike" comment was bad enough. The handling of same was pathetic.

But personally demeaning individual voters is just plain S-T-O-O-P-I-D.

[xzins]

I keep praying that the average American is that perceptive....and I think you're right that this time they just might have been.

The media's problem is that they cannot make the embassies in Tanzania and Kenya disappear, nor Khubar Towers, nor the USS Cole. (And many of us think Al Qaeda was involved in OKC Bombings....wouldn't that be an explosion if Pres. Bush revealed that OKC Al Qaeda connections were hidden by Clinton and KNOWN by JFnKerry?!!)

It's just common sense that all this didn't happen in the mere 8 months that Pres. Bush had the reins before 9/11!