[demlosers]

[WoodstockCat]

This is registered voters at Bush 48% Kerry 46%..add +4 for Bush.

[Broker]

Running Eagle Story:

During a campaign tour of the Apache Nation, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he had a plan to increase every Native American's income by $40,000 a year.


Senator Kerry refused repeated requests for details of his plan, however. He also told the Apaches that during his Senate career, he has voted YES 9,637 times for every Indian issue ever introduced. Before his departure, the Apache Tribe presented the Presidential candidate a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name, Running Eagle. After Kerry left, tribal officials, being asked what the name meant, explained that Running Eagle is a bird so full of $hit it can't fly.

[agincourt1415]

http://www.kerryquotes.com/votingrecord.htm

John Kerry's Voting Record.

[Redbob]

BIG difference between "registered" voters and "likely" voters...

[spoiler2]

"attacks by Republican officials, have been increasingly successful in PLANTING the image of Kerry as an unreliable leader who flip-flops on the issues"

Notice how carefully msnbc chooses their words, inferring that Republicans are PLANTING an image of Kerry.

Would be much more correct if you simply substitute the word EXPOSING

[finnman69]

Clinton claims Kerry and Democrats represent Strength and Wisdom, I say they represent weakness and stupidity.

[KellyAdmirer]

Any time the Republican is ahead in an alphabet poll - ABCCBSNBCCNN - it's good news. I'm sure this is slanted the usual way, with way more Democrats surveyed than Republicans, etc., since that is the liberals' standard procedure. Still, I have a sneaking suspicion that all these suddenly grim articles about Kerry - such as the weekend AP analysis about him being behind in electoral votes - is just setting up all the "Comeback Kid" and "What a perfect convention" stories that will carry the liberal media through August.

[hobson]

perceptions that Democrats will work hard to reverse at their convention.

The DIMs will have to lie their pants off to accomplish this task.

[BluH2o]

It's evident a majority of Americans don't feel Kerry is bringing anything to the table ... he simply resorts to Bush bashing hoping that will propel his candidacy to the oval office. Isn't working and won't work ... people, fence sitters and conservatives, may not agree with every Bush decision ... but are confident overall in his leadership. Kerry is an unknown for the most part and his ultra-liberal credentials (in spite of the best efforts of his allies in the mainstream media to put them in a positive light) are a distinct liability.

[fourscore]

While I hope these results are accurate, I fear that the WaPo is setting up Kerry for a bigger post-convention bumb. The 2 point lead is within the margin of error. Let us say that the post convention bump is actually 5 points. Then add the 2 point margin of error on the high side after the convention and Kerry's bump is 9 points: the 2 they took from him before, the 5 he earned, and the 2 points on the high side of the error. Just a thought.

[Wyatt's Torch]

The support for Kerry is based in "he's not Bush". That is not the sort of thing that drives people to the polls. I remain convinced that the turnout for the Dems is not going to what it will need to be to beat W.

[smith288]

We need a huge ad campaign by someone that details Kerry's pro-communist past and his hatred of anything right of himself.

Heck, just a commercial of him dissing his fellow soldiers then a sound bite saying it was due to his "youth" as an excuse.

Go on with his VVAW career and what VVAW stood for and who they were backed by. Finalize the commercial with the very craptacular endorsement by the Communist Party of the USA...

I dont know how much more defining you could get.

[snarkytart]

"Jerry Springer said that paraphrased "You can't know a candidate by his voting record - you have to listen to him speak"!"


Lets see, it only matters what you say and not what you actually do?

YEAH OK!

Now let me pick up this chair and hit Jerry over his ugly head.

((((((SECURITY))))))

[rod1]

Wow I guess the "nothing but flip flop" is not a great long term election strategy. Who would have known?


Hey Carville--maybe FN actually has to take a stand (and then lose even more voters).

..if you do...if you don't.

[ZULU]

"I think it is the most important election since World War II," said Lee Gearhart, 72, a retired insurance agent in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. "It looked like it was a regular election to begin with -- until Mr. Bush got us into war."

Spoken like a true FDR type Democrat - Republicans = rich, Democrats = working people.

In reality, Democrats = EVIL, Republicans = stupid (so far anyway in this campaign).

[timestax]

The Presdential television debates are on the horizon, and we must be diligent in making sure CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, etc., do not give Kerry a bigger part of the t.v. screen, than Bush. I remember something about them doing that in the past...shortchanging the Republican candidate out of equal t.v. screen coverage during a debate.

[SunkenCiv]

Talk about your double bind... Kerry gains by going into seclusion, but now has to make clear what his policy positions are. Heh heh... Maybe he should stick with what he knows best -- flipping off veterans and laughing at Whoopi.

[SunkenCiv]

The poll suggests that negative ads by the Bush-Cheney campaign that have been airing since early March, as well as attacks by Republican officials, have been increasingly successful in planting the image of Kerry as an unreliable leader who flip-flops on the issues

The article suggests that negative coverage of the Bush-Cheney campaign by the partisan media shills haven't had much impact, except to rebound in favor of the President.