Posted on 08/22/2004 11:31:30 PM PDT by FairOpinion
George W. Bush holds the upper hand in the 2004 United States presidential election, according to a poll by InsiderAdvantage. 46 per cent of respondents would vote for the Republican incumbent, while 43 per cent would support Democratic nominee John Kerry.
Support for Bush increased by four per cent since June, while backing for Kerry went up by three per cent.
George W. Bush (R)
Aug. 2004: 46%
Jun. 2004: 42%
John Kerry (D)
Aug. 2004: 43%
Jun. 2004: 40%
Source: InsiderAdvantage
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 500 registered American voters, conducted on Aug. 13 and Aug. 14, 2004. Margin of error is 4 per cent.
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Great! That was a real 'swift' rise in the polls. ;)
Doesn't seem in line with other polls, says nothing about likely voters.
From my observation, Bush tends to do worse among registered voters, than among likely voters, so let's hope he will do even better in the next poll, if they poll likely voters.
Seems like the slow implosion of the John F'n "flip-flop fop" Kerry campaign has been put on fast forward.
There starting to be polls showing Bush doing better, SurveyUSA showed Bush being close to Kerry in CA, now this poll.
We can't break out the champagne, by a long shot, but there is hope, things are close, they will probably stay close, but hopefully Bush can get those crucial extra few percentage points to win.
This is BEFORE the Convention. I'm convinced Kerry's toast. He's just too weird for Americans to picture having as President.
This poll was done on Aug. 13-14, they just released the results. They are comparing it with the June poll, which was before the convention.
Looks like Bush got the bounce!
I unfortunately agree.
I think Bush is now ahead in the battleground states. Its a guess but it fits well with the bizarre behavior we've been seeing over the last few days from Kerry and his flacks.
He is weird.
Anyone who thinks they're European Royalty is a weirdo.
I cannot put my finger on exactly why, but he gives me the creeps, something neither Clinton or Gore gave me to such a degree.
This is the most annoying GirlieMan petulent hypocrite whiner of any candidate ever to run for President in history.
WHAT is the democrat party's problem? Have they become INCAPABLE of nominating anyone sane?
Which polls?
It just gets worse and worse for numbnuts as more and more people realize he`s just one big bag of BS. Being that he`s a complete idiot, I expect him to put his foot in his mouth more and more everyday until Bush has a nice 10 point lead. I can`t wait. Something like Bush 56% Kerry 20% would be nice as well ha ha!
Nice Swift Bounce.. John O'Neil in '08.
I believe George Bush is a traitor to the American people and their Constitution. I believe he should be impeached for sacrificing American sovereignty to supra-national organizations and I suspect that he would be perfectly content to establish a neo-fascist corporatist state in which the government was allowed to trample individual liberties.
Now, have I sufficiently established my anti-Bush bona fides to write about John Kerry without being accused of being a Republican lapdog?
Bush is, without question, an execrable president. But that does not make John Kerry fit for the office. Nothing that Bush has done, or will do, has anything whatsoever to do with John Kerry's truthfulness, his character or his mental stability. Humans are not a zero-sum game.
And the truth is that John Kerry is a very, very strange individual. Bill Clinton was once described as an unusually good liar – Krazy John Kerry is proving to be an unusually weird one.
Although the mainstream media and the ABCNNBCBS cabal have done their very best to sweep the stunning revelations of Krazy John's former comrades-in-arms – the swiftboat veterans – under the carpet, enough word has leaked out from the blogosphere to wreak what would appear to be fatal damage to the Kerry campaign.
Even Kerry's most diehard defenders have already conceded he was not in Cambodia over Christmas 1968, regardless of what Krazy John has claimed was seared – seared – into his memory. We're still waiting to discover the owner of the hat which Krazy John says was given to him on one of his secret missions – missions so secret that his crew, his fellow commanders and his commanding officer all deny they ever happened.
Now Kerry's defenders are getting a little crazy themselves. The Washington Post ignored the exposure of Kerry's Cambodian lies in favor of reporting that the military records of Larry Thurlow, a swiftboat commander and one of the authors of "Unfit for Command," contradict Thurlow's own recollection of events. Apparently, we are supposed to see this as some sort of self-contradiction. However, the only thing it actually contradicts is Krazy John's version. For, as Thurlow explains:
I submitted no paperwork for a medal nor did I file an after action report describing the incident. To my knowledge, John Kerry was the only officer who filed a report describing his version of the incidents that occurred on the river that day.
It's too bad the Hero of the Mekong Delta didn't bother turning on his ever-present camera on the river that day – surely that would settle the issue. Written, directed and starring ... John Kerry!
Nor is the Washington Post the only media outlet determined to go down with the swiftboat. Two of Slate's biggest dogs criticized the vets' ad, saying:
Several Swiftvets then appear on the screen, saying they "served with" Kerry. This is a semantic trick. Edwards is talking about crewmates who, at one time or another, accompanied Kerry on his six-man boat. The Swiftvets served with Kerry only in the sense that they manned other boats in Vietnam.
Well, except for Steve Gardner, who served in Vietnam six times longer than Krazy John, and had this to say about his former commanding officer:
How can Kerry possibly be commander in chief when he couldn't competently command a six-man crew? Kerry was erratic. He hardly ever did what he was supposed to do. His command decisions put us in more peril then he should have. But mostly he just ran. When John Kerry looked out the bow of the boat and he saw tracer fire coming after him, he'd turn and run.
Kerry's propensity to turn and run is the one thing that Kerry and his critics agree upon. And Gardner's contention that Kerry "hardly ever did what he was supposed to do" is supported by Kerry's own description of his Silver Star-winning heroics, where he violated several swiftboat procedures and put his entire crew in danger in order to personally kill a wounded enemy, as if the boat's three .50 caliber machine guns would not have sufficed.
The strangest thing about Krazy John is not his overly vivid imagination, his propensity for self-serving fiction, or his creepy public persona. No, the most incomprehensible thing about John Kerry is the fact that anyone, Republican or Democrat, believes a single word that comes out of his mouth.
Vox is a Libertarian who doesn't like Bush. But he agrees Kerrry is too delusional to be President and that's all that matters.
Can't you let go and let us know how you really feel about kerry?
Here is the link to the article excerpt you just posted:
Krazy John Kerry
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40097
Search Free Republic, there are tons of polls. Everyone is pretty good at posting them as they come out.
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