[DrDeb]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR PRESIDENT -- WE LOVE YOU!!

[NOTE: Over 45,000 members of the Presidential Prayer team submitted special birthday greetings to the President last Friday -- unfortunately, I missed the deadline for submission, so my family and I sent separate greetings via president@whitehouse.gov !!]

As I mentioned on Friday's DOSE, my family and I attended the President's Fourth of July speech at the US AirForce Museum (on the Wright-Patterson Air Force base) in Dayton, OH.

Yes, it was 90 degrees and HUMID; and yes, it took us 2 1/2 hours to traverse the last 3 miles into the parking lot -- but none of that mattered once we, and the rest of the crowd of 25,000 soldiers and civilians, saw Air Force One 'buzz' the base (my son is still talking about the 'fly over'!). And when the president took the stage -- WOW -- the crowd (and the soldiers on stage) just went crazy!!!
[Don't worry about future polls -- REAL people LOVE this president ! Note: Pollsters ALWAYS underweight conservatives in general and conservatives in 'flyover states' in particular!]

The article at the following link has some great quotes and pixes -- http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/07/05/loc_bush05.html

[hoosiermama]

Watched it on TV, and thought: "I know somebody in that crowd!" Looked for you even though I wouldn't have known ya if I saw ya! Know you represented us well!

[maica]

[Don't worry about future polls -- REAL people LOVE this president ! Note: Pollsters ALWAYS underweight conservatives in general and conservatives in 'flyover states' in particular!]

The article at the following link has some great quotes and pixes -- http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/07/05/loc_bush05.html


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Thanks for the link to a very positive news article. Nice to know that a paper can report a Presidential visit without the negativity which invades so many newsrooms these days.

I just learned about this 'underweighting' of polls last week, possibly Dick Morris mentioned it in an interview. Why have all the GOP spokesmen not let the world know about this? For years, news shows have used poll numbers as news items. Isn't it about time we are informed about the 'reality' of these numbers?

If I ever have a conversation with a dem about poll numbers, I think I will just say, "Oh, yes, 'underweighting' has to be factored in by polling companies in order to reflect all the votes of non-legal voters that will 'happen' on Election Day."

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for that link to the story of the President's Wright-Pat visit. I am so glad -- and envious -- that you got to see him.