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In 2000, the Wisconsin-based costume company began tracking presidential candidate mask sales by five different mask manufacturers and asked 12 different chains to research their sales history. What they found was remarkable: Since 1980, the candidate whose likeness has outsold his opponent's likeness has won the White House. So you can throw out the confusing, contradictory polling numbers being released almost hourly now by Time, Newsweek, Reuters/Zogby, ABC/Washington Post, CNN/USA Today/Gallup and Pooh Bear/Piglet/Christopher Robin. The numbers that truly matter, the numbers that unfailingly point to who will emerge victorious in the presidential election, are the number of Bush and...

TOP TEN (OR TWENTY) LIST OF MOST OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS FROM THE KERRY CAMP Help. I trying to come up with the top ten list of outrageous statements from the Kerrys, either now or in the past. You can add your suggestions. Maybe we can come up with a top notch list of really outrageous comments. First cut follows: 1. I actually did vote for the 87 billion . . . before I voted against it. JFK 2. They systematically cut off ears . . . raped . . . on a day to day basis (referring to our own soldiers)....

Sat Oct 16, 6:34 PM ET Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass.,visits the Village Grocery in Buchanan, Ohio, Saturday, October 16, 2004. He was there to buy a hunting license. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

October 17, 2004BETA MALEFor Women Who Count on Men to Be Jerks By RICK MARIN EN are mysteries. We do inexplicable things, like not calling after a "really great date." Or dropping off the radar for no reason whatever. Sometimes we appear unwilling to commit, but then a year later marry another woman! Go figure. If only women could, many seem to believe, wedding bells would ring across the land. But what if women don't want to know the real reasons we won't call or suddenly vanish or marry someone else? What if — and I realize that I could...

A talk show caller really hit the nail on the head with this one today:After three debates, there were three things Kerry could never bring himself to say,"I love my wife, I love my country, and I love God."

John Kerry is definately a spinning crystal and if you are not careful you can get caught up in that hypnosis... but all words and little action is the reverse of good Leadership. Refer back to all three debates study them, study Kerry's record ... shocking ... There was blatant hypnosis in the debate last night about the Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) story... It went something like this. "I was hunting in Iowa last year with a sheriff from one of the counties there, and he pointed to a house in back of us, and said, "See the house over...

In the second debate, Kerry said he visited the "kids" at Walter Reed "today" (Oct 8). Did he really do that or was it another BS lie?

In the vice presidential debate, Republicans thought Dick Cheney won and Democrats thought John Edwards won. I can understand both those judgments. In the first presidential debate, however you measured it, George W. Bush performed badly. But in the clash of veeps it was as if each contestant was playing his own game: One guy was playing a tennis match, the other football. If you thought you were watching the Super Bowl, the football guy was clearly the winner. If you thought you were at Wimbledon, the tennis guy was serving aces. One way to understand their isolation from each...

About tonight's debate, Mr. President, can I throw in my two cents' worth of advice? My credentials? Forget Botox, I knew your opponent before the chin job. I bought him a beer at the Red Hat when he was the poorest, not the richest, member of the U.S. Senate. I was there when his main squeeze, I mean law partner, Roanne Sragow, was approved for a judgeship. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, it wasn't Bob Dole or Billy Bulger who first hung the tag ``Liveshot'' on him. It was me. Look, you know and I know that he's...

Just walked into the kitchen where my wife was watching Saturday Night Live. The guy portraying Kerry explained Kerry so that even a liberal could understand... In effect, I'm consistent. I'm for the war when speaking to a pro war audience... against the war when speaking to an anti-war audience. Ending with "That's not filp flopping -- that's pandering!"

SPRING GREEN, WI -- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Spring Green, Wisconsin today where he unveiled the “Debate Briefing Book for Senator Kerry” (as prepared by Bush-Cheney '04) and issued the following statement. "Senator Kerry has taken so many different positions on the issues facing the country that we thought he would benefit from the overview of the most interesting debate -- the one John Kerry is having with himself.  He's been for the war, against the war and for it and against it again.  Last week, he became an anti-war candidate again.  This is a fatal...