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December 28, 2005--Sixty-four percent (64%) of Americans believe the National Security Agency (NSA) should be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that just 23% disagree. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Americans say they are following the NSA story somewhat or very closely. Just 26% believe President Bush is the first to authorize a program like the one currently in the news. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is not while 26% are not sure.

Helen Hunt just got off the phone with Omaha radio hosts Todd and Tyler pushing for Kerry. Looks like I won't be watching my copy of Twister any time soon.

Kerry's scripted hunting trip today was an insult to the integrity of his core supporters in the Animal Rights groups, (PETA), Vegetarians, and others in the environmentalist faction fo the Democratic Party. Ralph Nader would never consider the barbarism of hunting. It's time these folks hear about and see Kerry smiling as he's walking with a dead goose he shot being carried by its neck.

Bush supporters say the Democratic challenger is no friend to hunters. YOUNGSTOWN — John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, went hunting today in Poland Township in an effort to show sportsmen and hunters that he is one of them. But officials with Ohio Sportsmen for Bush and the National Rifle Association, who recently endorsed President Bush's re-election bid, aren't buying it. "These guys are in fits about this because John Kerry has credibility as a sportsman and a hunter," said Brendon Cull, spokesman for the Ohio Democratic Coordinated Campaign. "For them to say he's not a sportsman and a hunter...