Posted on 10/02/2004 12:03:54 PM PDT by Nataku X
October 2, 2004--A Rasmussen Reports survey of 1,000 Likely Voters conducted Friday night found that 52% believe John Kerry "won" Thursday night's debate. Forty percent (40%) disagree and think George Bush emerged victorious.
Predictably, by overwhelming margins, Republicans and Democrats each thought their candidate won. Those not affiliated with either party gave the nod to Senator Kerry by a 63% to 24% margin.
Still, regardless of who they want to win, 53% of those surveyed believe George W. Bush will be re-elected. Thirty-two percent (32%) think Kerry will win. Coming out of the Republican National Convention, 52% expected a Bush victory while 38% thought the Kerry/Edwards team would win.
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Bush voters still expect their man to win. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Kerry voters think the Democrats will win.
Six percent (6%) of voters say the debate changed their mind about how they will vote this November. This includes 3% who now say they will vote for Kerry, 2% for Bush, and 1% who are now undecided.
One interesting twist is that 64% of Kerry voters now say that Presidential Debates are very important. However, only 23% of Bush voters share that view.
That will be shocking....depending on the weightings -
Excellent observation.
Another newbie. The clarification was he has a lead in some particular preference category, not overall, or so that's the content of another thread.
Are you serious? Newsweek will say Kerry is in the lead? Are you sure you heard correctly?
For all the talk about how much of a Peoples President" he is, he certainly didn't want or feel comfortable talking about his record and his vision. It appeared he felt it wasn't worth his time. Sure, he was up against an unworthy opponent. But many people want to know more about why somethings have not gone well and what the plan, other than stay the course, is to improve it. President Bush didn't want to share that. Not with us and certainly not with Kerry present.
The Democrat lying slime such as McAwful will try to accuse Bush of these Kerry failings in their usual "projecting" mode. Only the greater truthnet of the blogosphere can defeat this projection and paint the accurate picture of the Kerry who will say anything regardless of inconsistency, erroneous premises contained, or lack of clarity in order to seem to be what he is not. He would be elected for what he can pretend to be, not what he is. Bush is to a great extent, the opposite. It is testing time for the new media.
Speaking of Kerry's own words, here is a link to
The ulitimate John Kerry ad.It is hillarious.
And being new here has nothing to do with me asking if anyone had heard anymore about the poll. Grow up.
I heard E. Clift spout something about Kerry leading in a new NewsWeek poll. (Then I checked on here and have seen two other posters say a new newsweek poll would show Kerry in the lead).
That is why I was asking for clarification.
What an EXCELLENT idea!
My daughter lives in Austin, and is early thirtyish. She gets a huge amount of anti-Bushing from everywhere. She told me recently she was not going to vote this time. She was registered at her old address and never re-registered at the new one, and didn't care enough this year to mess with it. Of course I was not speaking to her since.
But she called to tell me she watched the debate, and she could tell Bush was tired and kind of off his game, but what she saw of Kerry really gave her the creeps.
Enough to cause her to go a register her new address so she could vote for Bush.
She said Kerry was feeding us a load of crap, and Bush at least is giving us the truth!
Good girl.
Yes, and the second part of the plan is that the last debate is domestic issues. Kerry is mistakenly viewed as stronger here by lamestream media talking heads. In reality, his far left views become far more pronounced when domestic policy is concerned. Rove understands this.
In the end, it was more important for Bush to visit with FL hurrican victims than rest for foreign policy debate - Kerry's numbers so bad there nothing can help, and the words he so clearly delivered there will hang his campaign.
I TOTALLY hear your frustration, BUT, put yourself in GWB's shoes for just a moment; if you had every single question STACKED against you by a KNOWN liberal who wasn't himself calling Kerry on anything and then your opponent just crams as much crap in each of his 2 minutes, you would have possibly been equally as aggitated and frustrated.
Did anyone catch that Lehrer was cutting GWB off on one question before GWB's green light even came on?? (I 'think' that's what I saw)...confirmation?
You are sadly to say, correct. G.W. for the first time put out a sub-par performance when the stakes were high. He should rebound at the next debate.
G.W's stump speeches the last two days have been great!! If only he would have said half the things at the debate itself.
Allowing Kerry off the hook for his 20 year Senate voting record was a huge mistake. (Being wrong on the cold war, wrong on the first gulf war, wrong on cutting the CIA, wrong on cutting Military budgets, etc).
Yet not once did G.W. lay into him on this and that is why the Kerry camp is so happy and why the MSM say Kerry won.
Make sure and bother her on the day before Election Day to go to the polls!
Rasmussen had Bush and Kerry within 2% of each other one day early last week if I remember correctly, so at a 3% gap, Bush is gainng ground.........
I used to go to school at UT-Austin. It is full of lefties there.
as to looking better, which I grant IS important, who would we expect to "look better," the guy who hasn't shown up to work in 2 years and spent his afternoon getting a manicure or the guy who works 7 days a week and spent his day comforting hurricane victims?
Excellent! where's that going to play?
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