Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $2,680
3%  
Woo hoo!! 3rd Qtr 2025 FReepathon is now underway!!

Keyword: bouncewhatbounce

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • David Frum: BOUNCE? WHAT BOUNCE?

    08/03/2004 9:25:45 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 30 replies · 2,431+ views
    National Review ^ | AUG. 3, 2004 | David Frum
    So the polls have arrived, and they report virtually no bounce at all for the Dems from last week’s convention. Indeed, among registered voters, Kerry actually dropped a point. Among all adults, the results after Kerry’s best week of the year stand at 50-46 according to Gallup. Kerry now has nowhere to go but down. The Dems are blaming low viewership for the weak result. Still, it could have been worse: If more people had tuned in, and actually seen John Kerry speak, the Dems might actually have lost ground. Pride Goeth ... Almost every report from Boston agrees that...
  • The trends are all toward Republicans

    08/03/2004 8:13:44 AM PDT · by presidio9 · 76 replies · 4,896+ views
    Watching John Kerry give his acceptance speech, I was reminded of Richard Nixon. Kerry not only said he would make short shrift of an annoying war - but he also appeared shifty and sweaty, jowly and sallow, bobbing and weaving in front of the camera and "racing furiously," as the Washington Post's Tom Shales put it, through his text, as though he wanted to get finished in time to get to Locke-Ober's for supper. No wonder there was barely a bounce. On the other hand, maybe I don't know what I am talking about. The headline on a Salon.com article...