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Kerry Plans Immediate Response to Bush's Speech / Rally in Ohio Set for Thursday Night
AP ^ | 8/31/04 | NEDRA PICKLER, AP

Posted on 08/31/2004 3:47:16 PM PDT by Former Military Chick

NANTUCKET, Mass. (Aug. 31) - Hours after George W. Bush is to accept the Republican Party's nomination for re-election in New York on Thursday night, Democrat John Kerry plans to respond at Ground Zero of the presidential campaign - Ohio.

Kerry is kicking off the general election in the battleground state that Bush won in the last race, as has every other Republican who's ever been elected president. Kerry plans a rally in Springfield, Ohio, just before midnight Thursday evening with his running mate John Edwards and their wives. Then the Democratic nominee plans a two-day bus tour to the Ohio cities of Newark, Akron and Steubenville.

Kerry is dispatching his three partners to Midwest battlegrounds that Democrat Al Gore won narrowly in 2000 - Teresa Heinz Kerry to Iowa, John Edwards to Wisconsin and Elizabeth Edwards to Michigan.

The tours come after Kerry kept a low profile at his family's Nantucket home during most of the Republican National Convention, with one notable exception. Kerry plans interrupt his getaway Wednesday to speak to the American Legion in Nashville, Tenn.

The Kerrys and Edwardses also had bus tours coming out of the Democratic National Convention five weeks ago, and the trip resulted in positive coverage in the local newspapers and television that reach swing voters.

The four states at the start of the upcoming trip have a combined 54 electoral votes and are among the most frequently visited by the presidential campaigns. The biggest target of the four has been Ohio, which has 20 electoral votes and has been visited 13 times by Kerry so far this year.

Although Bush won the state by four percentage points in 2000, he is vulnerable because the state has lost more than 200,000 jobs since he took office.

Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill said the message to voters in the general election kickoff will be that there is a fundamental choice in November - ''four more years of policies that benefit the few and catastrophic successes that blame the military for administration miscalculations, or the Kerry-Edwards plan to build an economy that strengthens and expands the middle class.''

Kerry's campaign plans to return to significant advertising in the coming days after a monthlong break. Kerry was mostly dark during August, except for a few small ad buys in six states to respond to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that criticized his military record. Kerry was saving his money to pay for the ads that will fuel his final two-month push. However, the Democratic National Committee's independent expenditure office, which can't legally coordinate with Kerry, filled in for him in August, spending some $37 million on ads promoting him and criticizing Bush.

Kerry will spend Sunday at his family home in Pennsylvania, then return to the campaign trail on Labor Day for a series of ''front porch'' visits. Once again, Kerry, Edwards and their wives will spread out to different swing states, this time in front of homes talking to neighborhood voters.

Kerry spokeswoman Allison Dobson said a high-profile representative of the Kerry campaign will hold one of the visits in every battleground state to promote his agenda. The campaign will pass out copies of the Kerry-Edwards book, ''Our Plan for America,'' which also goes on sale next week to the public for $12.95.

08-31-04 1011EDT

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: acceptancespeech; bushconvention; kerry; pissant; speech
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator

To: isthisnickcool

Coming on strong with WHAT?...
"Now that i am rested, i'm ready to take on Bush with my nuanced approach to terrorist threat and with the love of my folks in france and germany...i can feel the power surging through me now".
What a LOSER. It's over.
L-A-N-D-S-L-I-D-E.


62 posted on 08/31/2004 5:20:39 PM PDT by UltraKonservativen (( YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID ))
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To: NonValueAdded

How about the photographs of Kerry windsurfing in his flowered shorts? Talk about pathetic! Republicans ought to incorporate those images in an ad listing Kerry's missed votes. That and the Swift boat ads which are running here in Pennsylvania will kill him in my state.


63 posted on 08/31/2004 6:23:22 PM PDT by WestSylvanian
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To: Former Military Chick
Anybody know why the Kerry team did not want to the unwritten rule of being dark during the Republicans convention? I have looked over my notes and did not see Bush making appearances. If I am wrong let me know.

PANIC!!!

64 posted on 08/31/2004 6:29:09 PM PDT by c-b 1
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To: Former Military Chick
Kerry will spend Sunday at his family home in Pennsylvania, then return to the campaign trail on Labor Day for a series of ''front porch'' visits.

How many days off does this clown need? And how many family homes does he have -- seven?

65 posted on 08/31/2004 6:42:40 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: Former Military Chick

Does anyone know what part of Ohio Lurch will be in and when?


66 posted on 08/31/2004 7:49:35 PM PDT by nomad
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To: Former Military Chick
Ohio is not "Ground Zero" of anything. The writer should be ashamed of himself.
67 posted on 08/31/2004 9:15:34 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: adam_az
Has to get Bush off the next day's front page. So it has to come within the same news cycle. It is an excuse to give the media a chance to not record the Bush speech and accompanying bounce.

But nobody will be watching at 1 AM. It is newspaper thinking in a cable and internet age.

68 posted on 08/31/2004 9:19:25 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: adam_az
Has to get Bush off the next day's front page. So it has to come within the same news cycle. It is an excuse to give the media a chance to not record the Bush speech and accompanying bounce.

But nobody will be watching at 1 AM. It is newspaper thinking in a cable and internet age.

69 posted on 08/31/2004 9:19:53 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: JasonC

(sorry for the double post...)


70 posted on 08/31/2004 9:20:16 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Former Military Chick

I saw on the Nashville news that he was giving a little speech when he arrived here earlier tonight (stage set-up and everything). I couldn't make myself listen to it though.


71 posted on 08/31/2004 9:21:06 PM PDT by pnz1
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To: NYCVirago
How many days off does this clown need?

And how do they, with a straight face, steal Michael Moore's stuff and try to make President Bush's vacations into an issue?

72 posted on 08/31/2004 9:29:05 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC
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To: JasonC
But nobody will be watching at 1 AM. It is newspaper thinking in a cable and internet age.

Even that doesn't make sense - midnight's beyond the deadline for most of the major papers' morning editions.

73 posted on 08/31/2004 9:32:11 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC
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To: Former Military Chick

74 posted on 08/31/2004 9:36:12 PM PDT by crushelits
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To: Former Military Chick
Go ahead John, make our day!

I love when he shoots from the hip.

75 posted on 08/31/2004 9:38:47 PM PDT by hope (John Kerry is using the Mark Hacking recipe for disaster)
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To: CFC__VRWC
They will hold the presses for their boy wonder. Bank on it.
76 posted on 08/31/2004 9:39:46 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: commish

I hope Bush talks until 2 a.m. EDT.


77 posted on 08/31/2004 9:41:17 PM PDT by Howlin (John Kerry & John Edwards: Political Malpractice)
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To: pnz1

Hard to imagine anything could top the last 48 hours. Share posts and you will miss the time he is on.


78 posted on 08/31/2004 9:44:46 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: hope

perhaps shooting his bottom is better did not get an award for that ...


79 posted on 08/31/2004 9:45:31 PM PDT by Former Military Chick
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To: Former Military Chick

Presumably Kerry will be busing in people to stand in front of him while he speaks at all these stops? Otherwise, he's Carol Mostly Fraud when she announced she was running for President -- talking to himself.


80 posted on 08/31/2004 9:47:45 PM PDT by hershey
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