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Kerry Just Can’t Connect
By Matt Margolis | June 7, 2004
Last month Kerry had started an ad campaign blitz which contained a series of biographical ads, hoping those would define who he was to the voters…
Many Americans who haven’t firmly settled on a presidential candidate still have unanswered questions about whether Democrat John Kerry would make an acceptable president, new polling suggests.
The National Annenberg Election Survey found that potential swing voters in the battleground states have not yet decided how they feel about Kerry. A fourth see him favorably and a fourth see him unfavorably, while almost four in 10, 38 percent, remain neutral about him.
Kerry just isn’t connecting with the voters — and it’s already June! This is pretty sad.
“Among the persuadable voters, Bush still trumps Kerry on strong leadership, despite the fact that on some other indicators these are not happy people,” Jamieson said.
While she said the election campaign remains wide open, “Bush is carrying some very important cards in this election.”
If Kerry hasn’t made that connection with voters yet, he’s in some serious trouble… But hey, that’s good for our country anyway…
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June 7th, 2004 at 10:51 am
More spin from an increasingly desperate Bush crowd. It isn’t Kerry who is in trouble, it is Bush. Bush is the one who can’t even hold the minority of the vote that he was elected with last time, despire almost four years of free advertising to do so. Read any decent political analyst. Sabato, Rothenberg, Fauchex, Cook, Walter. They will all tell you when an incumbent can’t break 50% in the polls consistenly, he’s got a big problem. Kerry is about where he should be, even, despite Bush’s huge advantages in cash and the power of incumbency.
June 7th, 2004 at 11:42 am
Kerrys winning last I heard.
June 7th, 2004 at 1:29 pm
Yeah, so was the Duke.
June 7th, 2004 at 1:34 pm
Yeah, but Dukakis wasn’t facing an incumbent president and Bush the Smarter had a much tougher time in the primaries while W had a free ride. Face it, its NOT a good thing for Bush to be either even or slighly behind Kerry, who really hasn’t run a great campaign at all.
June 7th, 2004 at 4:00 pm
the problem is people are highly influenced by what’s happening in Iraq — or atleast how the media is portraying it — and people haven’t realized how much better the economy is doing. after june 30th when sovereignty is transferred and once people recognize how good the economy is doing, Kerry will be walking back home to massachusetts….
not to mention that with the barrage of attacks on bush the past few weeks and months, the fact kerry hasn’t been able to pull ahead solidly is pathetic…
June 7th, 2004 at 4:05 pm
“Kerrys winning last I heard.”
Ummm Idiot your need to make sure you actually TAKE your pills every night. The doctors said those voices that you hear are all in your head.
June 7th, 2004 at 5:02 pm
The transfer of sovereignty to Iraq, assuming it happens, won’t change anything. We will still have troops dying in Iraq. As for a barrage of attacks, Bush has spent much more money on attack ads and is either behind or trailing. Through in the fact that undecideds tend to break down heavily against the incumbent and you begin to realize that Bush is in big, big trouble.
June 7th, 2004 at 6:21 pm
there are a variety of polls showing neck and neck and some with bush winning and some with kerry winning..
on another blog someone noted that the polls using a larger number of peopel polled found favor in Bush…
June 7th, 2004 at 8:46 pm
http://www.electionprojection.com/
I got this from Pardon My English AKA Matts brother site.
If you guys pulled your heads out your asses and stopped getting your news exclusively from Rush and Newsmax you wouldnt be so clueless.
*This time with good spelling Goodness!
June 7th, 2004 at 8:51 pm
Look to your right Um Yeah, i got the site linked here as well.
I’ve also addressed this before. other sites that do the same thing as EP show Bush winning… so explain that….
June 7th, 2004 at 10:43 pm
Which sites id like to see em.
June 8th, 2004 at 12:50 pm
Waiting…….
June 8th, 2004 at 1:51 pm
i have a job you know…
http://home.comcast.net/~gerrydal/index.htm
With Tossups:
Bush 247
Kerry 231
June 8th, 2004 at 2:42 pm
Current status:
Kerry 207
Bush 197
* Last ECB update: 6/7/04 11:42 PM
* Recently updated states: Iowa, Oklahoma, Michigan (again), Arkansas, South Carolina, Maine, Alabama, Minnesota, Washington, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Georgia (again), Connecticut, North Carolina, Oregon, Missouri, Illinois, New York, Texas, California.
* Last ECB Article: 6/2/04 “Travels” - Where have the candidates been going?
* Don’t forget to use the tip jar above!
Of Note:
* New Jersey– I’m stubbornly sticking with it.
With Tossups:
Bush 247
Kerry 231
June 8th, 2004 at 2:43 pm
Kerrys still winning unless Bush pulls off a miracle. So do you want to admit your wrong now?
June 8th, 2004 at 4:01 pm
Current status as of today, 6/8/04 3:10pm:
Bush 197
Kerry 190
With Tossups:
Bush 247
Kerry 231
UY, my point is, different people with differnt method produce different results.. you just want whichever is has the bleakest outlook for Bush to be the definitive one… and should that method show victory for bush, you’d change you mind and find another one which says the opposite.
June 8th, 2004 at 9:26 pm
Matt even if that were true thats not the point. The point is as of right now Kerrys winning Bush might still have a chance BUT KERRY IS STILL FUCKING WINNING…. for pointing out the truth you fucking mindlesss asshats got your patnies in a twist.
June 8th, 2004 at 9:30 pm
Winning??? How is he winning, at best it’s a dead heat.
June 8th, 2004 at 10:34 pm
Dead Heats mean 50/50 or maybe within 2%. Kerry has a pretty good lead. WTF is wrong with you, cant you ever admit it when you are wrong?
June 8th, 2004 at 10:36 pm
dead heat means anything within the margin of error of the poll, moron.
June 8th, 2004 at 11:34 pm
Hey Matt, You really get some dense trolls here, huh?
June 9th, 2004 at 8:40 am
What everyone is overlooking here is the role of undecided voters. ALmost invariably, they tend to side against the incumbent, since if he hasn’t won them over in four years, he’s unlikely to win them over in four months, four weeks or four days, or however much time is left until the election. Dick Morris, no friend to John Kerry or any other liberal these days, wrote a column a couple of months ago stating that you have to pad Kerry’s numbers in the polls by about three points to take into account the role of undecided voters, if that’s the case, and history suggests that it is, Kerry is really not in a dead heat with Bush, but has a measurable lead in most polls.
June 9th, 2004 at 9:44 pm
Well, all we Republicans can do is make sure WE vote and count on Democratic run counties to make the ballots too complicated for stupid Democrat voters.