Posted on 04/30/2004 8:45:33 PM PDT by demlosers
By a 47% to 41% margin, voters say they trust Bush more than Kerry when it comes to the economy.
April 30, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 50% trust President Bush more than Senator Kerry when it comes to national defense and the War on Terror. Just 38% now prefer Kerry on these issues.
From the President's perspective, those numbers are a little better than last week, but not as good as two weeks ago.
John Kerry's talk of going to the United Nations first as an Iraq policy is unlikely to be well received by many voters. By a 2-to-1 margin, voters believe our allies should follow the U.S. lead more often rather than having the U.S. follow the lead of others.
A related survey finds that Bush voters are confident that the U.S. is a good role model for the world to follow. However, Kerry voters are not sure if having other nations follow the U.S. lead would make things better or worse.
The issue of national defense presents other challenges for Kerry. Just 11% of voters know that Kerry has called for sending more troops to Iraq on a temporary basis. Seventy-two percent (72%) of his supporters oppose this position.
While voters have a clear preference for Bush on national defense matters, the candidates are more evenly divided when it comes to the managing the economy--47% say that they trust Bush while another 41% have more trust in Kerry.
The candidates have been closely matched on this issue all year.
A related survey found that 37% of Americans say that President Bush is doing a good or excellent job managing the economy. .
Perceptions of how the candidates will handle the economy and the War on Terror are the fundamental issues of Election 2004. Rasmussen Reports will provide weekly updates of the Bush-Kerry comparisons on these issues throughout the campaign.
Rasmussen Reports also provides daily updates on the Presidential Election, the President's Job Approval rating, and on the economic confidence of Consumers and Investors.
The national telephone survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports April 28-29, 2004. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. (see Methodology).
My greatest fear too! Come convention time, I hope he approaches The Punk at the podium, wraps his big Frankenstein hands around McAwful's neck and bellows "NO!".
He may politically be a "dead man walking but to quote Bill Cosby: "Gee don't he look like himself."
One of the first things a POTUS Kerry would do is GIVE BACK the Louisiana Purchase to France under the reasoning that the USA took unfair advantage of Napoleon Bonaparte when he was hard up for cash. At the time Napoleon needed funding PDQ to keep fighting his little wars with all of europe. I call mine the 'Kerry Land Refund Act'.
Oh and then he'd sell Alaska back to Russia for the exact purchase price that Seward negotiated. And for the same reasoning - the evil USA took advantage of the poor ignorant russians.
Then he'd give the Southwest back to Mexico. Florida back to Spain... etc, etc, etc.
Or to simplify things, he'd declare Martial Law and then cede all power to the U.N.
~~semi-sarcasm off~~
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