posted on September 16, 2004 02:18:26 PM new
Poor john, the news keeps getting worse and worse for him. All you lies are catching up to you....
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Kerry losing key strongholds to president
By Ralph Z. Hallow
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
John Kerry is losing support among Democrats, independents, women, Catholics and veterans, all of whom helped give President Bush the post-convention bounce he got — and still holds — in many polls.
The Bush tide, at least for now, is running strong in several battleground states.
Ohio, where Mr. Bush edged Al Gore by three percentage points in 2000, increasingly looks like a lost cause for Mr. Kerry. The Democrat is so far behind in that state that pollster John Zogby says he is "ready to take Ohio out of battleground category and make it a red [Republican] state. I have Bush with a solid lead of 10 points there."
In hotly contested Florida, the president now is up by six percentage points, 51 percent to 45 percent, in a Survey USA poll of 607 likely voters taken Saturday through Tuesday. In July, Mr. Kerry was ahead by three points in the same poll. Back then, the senator from Massachusetts led by 12 points among women and by three points among military households; Mr. Bush now leads by three points in each group.
Pennsylvania, which went for Mr. Gore in 2000, is now too close to call in the latest Rasmussen poll, and in Wisconsin, also won by Mr. Gore four years ago, Mr. Bush has an eight percentage point lead in the most recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.
Even in New York — one of the most reliable Democratic states in the past three elections — Mr. Bush is gaining momentum, now trailing by six percentage points in the Quinnipac University poll, which last month had Mr. Kerry leading by 18 points. A Marist poll has Mr. Kerry falling to an eight-point lead from a 14-point advantage in April.
Mr. Bush's poll gains have come by adding Democrats and independents to a solid base of Republican support.
Mr. Bush enjoys stronger backing among self-identified Republicans compared with Mr. Kerry's support among Democrats. In one major poll, 11 percent of Democrats say they will vote for Mr. Bush.
Mr. Bush made a giant leap forward among independents in a Sept. 6-8 CBS News poll, which had him with 39 percent of the independent vote last month but with 48 percent this month. Mr. Kerry's share of independents went from 44 percent last month to 39 percent in the latest survey.
Mr. Bush also has erased the so-called "gender gap," now enjoying a five percentage point edge among women in the CBS poll, which last month had Mr. Kerry with a seven-point lead among women. The Sept. 7-9 Time magazine poll found "surprising Kerry slippage among women — long a Democratic mainstay," with 45 percent now for Mr. Bush and 44 percent for Mr. Kerry, reversing Mr. Kerry's 50 percent to 36 percent advantage among women a month earlier.
The ABC News/Washington Post Sept. 6-8 poll found Mr. Bush "has gained ground particularly among men, among veterans, among independents and in some cases among white Catholic voters. The latter two are the quintessential swing voters in American politics."
Among veterans, that poll showed, Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry ran even at 46 percent each after the July Democratic convention. After a month of ads by a group of veterans critical of Mr. Kerry's Vietnam record, however, Mr. Bush now holds a commanding 55 percent to 37 percent advantage among veterans.
posted on September 16, 2004 02:23:04 PM new
Isn't the Washington Times a product of the REv. Sun Moon Whatever? It's hard to take that newspaper seriously.
The predictions now are for very low voter turnout in those states, like Florida, so hard hit by all the hurricanes. Today newscasters were saying people there will still be recovering from the disasters.
posted on September 16, 2004 03:01:53 PM new
clapping away at those results. GO BUSH!! Another FOUR years!!!
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Isn't the Washington Times a product of the REv. Sun Moon Whatever? It's hard to take that newspaper seriously.
I've never been able to understand when a news agency reports on a poll someone else took....why some appear to think that changes the results of that polls findings.
It doesn't. It doesn't matter if the NYT reports the poll findings or if DrudgeReport reports the finds....doesn't change the FACTS one tiny bit.
posted on September 16, 2004 03:10:06 PM new
Hey Bear, I will copy and paste from my other post about your Washington. Its seems to fit well. Below is what a friend said about Washington under Bush Cheney. Looks like you and Linda_K are a big part of it.
"Washington is interesting. The city resembles a research hospital containing one or more specimens of every disease that affects the body politic: avarice, ambition, selfishness and self-interest, incompetence, stupidity, duplicity, mendacity, lust, poverty, wealth, you name it Washington has it. It's all there in its purest form, on public display for anyone with the slightest spark of interest in human condition to muse upon or study. Washington has every identifiable species of pencil thief and con artist, all preying on their fellow man."
posted on September 16, 2004 04:31:15 PM new"Washington is interesting. The city resembles a research hospital containing one or more specimens of every disease that affects the body politic: avarice, ambition, selfishness and self-interest, incompetence, stupidity, duplicity, mendacity, lust, poverty, wealth, you name it Washington has it. It's all there in its purest form, on public display for anyone with the slightest spark of interest in human condition to muse upon or study. Washington has every identifiable species of pencil thief and con artist, all preying on their fellow man."
Thats ashame, all those demo preying on the common people. All the better reason to vote the dem's out of office.
posted on September 16, 2004 05:20:47 PM new
Sorry, Linda. I should have said it's hard for ME to take the Times seriously. I think it's one of the more radical Christo-fascist outlets in the country.
The poll they took would, of course, be accurate as they presented it.
I've just noticed so many of the right-wingers here quoting the Washington Times instead of some of the more venerable, and, to my thinking, respectable newspapers. We'll have to agree to disagree on news outlets, right?!
posted on September 16, 2004 05:43:14 PM new
Guess you must have missed the National Intelligence Estimate...it's just out today and reflects quite badly on how we've done in Iraq.
Guess you must have missed today's latest polls, which show that the bounce has gone flat and the race is on once again.
Guess you must have missed Senator Chuck Hegel's [R} words today. Very critical of the war in Iraq.
Iraq is going to be the issue of the election, not Teresa, not what happened 35 years ago.
posted on September 16, 2004 05:50:54 PM new
roadsmith - Of course we all have the choice of which news sources we read. But what I've said is that the results of [say] a Zogby poll, like the one mention in the opening post is *not going to change nor be different* no matter which news source reports their findings. ie: it said: "I have Bush with a solid lead of 10 points there." So it really doesn't make any difference who reports the poll findings.
As the lefties only use their left leaning sources if they back up their statements, so do we on the right. There's no way we could normally post an article from the NYT to support our 'rightie' positions.
And of course I don't know which news sources you're speaking about as being more credible....but if one is the NYT...I couldn't disagree more. Not only are they VERY slanted to the left but their top management has been changed, they've made many hundreds of corrections for untrue statements that they've printed and their writers have had to be fired. I don't judge them to be a 'realible' nor a 'respectible' source mainly for that reason...not because their a liberal newspaper.
posted on September 16, 2004 06:11:25 PM new
As far as reading everything you believe, I was in the 7-11 the other night and glanced at the World Weekly News. It said the November election was CANCELED.
Bigots are miserable people. Prevent Bigotry through Education.
posted on September 16, 2004 06:32:17 PM new
I find it funny one week kerry has the support of women and arab-americans, and the next week bush has their support. The biggest joke is the state polls. One poll has bush ahead by 15 in ohio, and the next day another poll has it even.......now the pollsters are pointing fingers at each other!
posted on September 16, 2004 07:20:54 PM new
Hey stick, Only John Kerry and John Edwards will win Pittsburgh as well as the whole state of PA. I was going to say put your money where your big mouth is lets bet who wins Pittsburgh. Then I thought its a bad bet. Phonies like you wouldn't pay if you lost.
posted on September 16, 2004 07:26:25 PM new
Somehow Bear I just knew you wouldn't understand my friends comments. This time you need to go back to your bunker with a dictionary. HA HA HA
posted on September 16, 2004 07:26:52 PM new
I live in PA....the conservative central part of the state, and I can guarantee you kerry will win.
BTW I got a recorded call from franco harris today about the johnstown edwards rally this sunday.....I cant wait. Teresa was at PSU tonight, but I could not make it.
posted on September 16, 2004 09:02:57 PM new
Gee sticks you mother Linda-K taught you well. When Kerry wins Pa you can keep your dollar. I would rather see you help the needy in your area. Take that dollar and buy a little candy and card bring the card and candy to a old shut in your area spend a few minutes talking to that person. You will be suprised at how good you and that shut in will feel. My wife is a secular Franciscan she went to a healing mass tonight, I hope she remembered to pray for guys like you. If you start felling better soon you will know why.
Prevent Bigotry through Education.