****........It was Kerry's style that bothered people the most, suggesting that the senator may be saddled with
a negative public image similar to the one that plagued Gore in 2000, when many voters saw the vice president
as boring and stiff.
Those interviewed last week said Kerry came across as rich and affected, and seemed to say merely what he
thought people wanted to hear.
Stopped in a parking lot in Herculaneum, Mo., a half-hour south of St. Louis, Tom Nations and his wife
explained why they supported Clinton twice and would back his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, if she ever ran
for president, but won't vote for Kerry.
"I don't want the nation put in the hands of Kerry," said Nations, 50, a manager for a car dent-removal
company. Pressed for why, he paused before adding: "Kerry is just a speechmaking type. He just stands there
and is like, 'Four score ... ,' you know? I don't think he's prepared for what the country is going through."
His wife, Karen, a hairdresser, agreed. "I just want to feel safe and protected," she said. "Kerry, it's like he's
rehearsed in his speeches and guarded with what he says."
Several people said they would vote for the president as "the lesser of two evils."
"I like [Bush] less than I did then," said E. Keith Dean, 78, a Bush supporter in 2000, as he paid his lunch tab
at Jim's Steak and Spaghetti House in Huntington, W.Va.
But the president's criticism of Kerry as an untrustworthy politician seems to have stuck with Dean, a retired
architect: "I do think there's some validity to this, 'You can't trust what he says.' [Kerry] just changes from one
time to another. I don't have any confidence in him."
In the wooded hills of Braxton County, W.Va., where small farms dot the landscape along the Elk River, many
said they considered voting Democratic this time but lack faith in Kerry's ability to handle the country's
problems. Gore defeated Bush by just 190 votes here..........****
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.election13sep13,1,6569662.story?coll=bal-home-headlines
Still remember driving home from work to vote and hearing on the radio... “Exit polls show Clinton wins!” Ughhh...
The good thing about 2004 is that there's no Perot. Let's hope sanity rules on Nov. 2nd!
Mr. Heinz-Kerry consults with a dead politician as well, unfortunately he doesn't realize that Pat Paulsen was a comedian first and foremost.