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Bush leads in new Harris poll
Bush leads in new Harris poll
Rochester, NY, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- President Bush has a lead in overall Harris Poll figures released Wednesday, but Sen. John Kerry is showing strength in U.S. election swing states.
The Harris Poll said that, among likely voters, Bush was the choice of 48 percent of respondents, while 46 percent indicated support for Kerry. Independent candidate Ralph Nader received 1 percent support. The poll's margin of error is 3 percentage points.
However, when Harris defined ''likely voters'' as those absolutely certain to vote -- but excluded those who did not vote in 2000 -- Bush's edge balloons to 51 percent to 43 percent.
Harris broke its poll down in 17 swing states, where Kerry showed 51-percent support among those asked, while 44 percent chose Bush.
Pollsters also asked respondents whether they were voting for or against a candidate. Kerry's support was softer in that category as 40 percent of those asked said their vote for Kerry was really a vote against Bush. Fifty-eight percent said their vote marked support for Kerry.
Conversely, 82 percent of Bush supporters said their vote was for the president, while 17 percent said it was anti-Kerry.
Harris contacted 1,016 adults in the United States between Oct. 14 and Oct. 17.
By A Real Die Hard Fan
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Win the Presidential Election
4th-graders pick Bush -- 'because Kerry stinks'
Ask people of voting age who they want to win the presidential election, and the answers will range from impassioned to illogical. Informed to indoctrinated. Inspired to insipid.
When the people you're polling are fourth-graders, the results aren't much different. The 9- and 10-year-olds' answers are just a little more colorful. And candid.
Unlike the televised debates between the President George Bush and Democratic hopeful Sen. John Kerry, there was plenty of spirited discussion in Kosciusko and Attala County classrooms when the youngsters were polled last week. They cast their ballots privately, but were told they could talk about their vote if they chose to.
''John Kerry stinks,'' said Justin Self, who was in Mrs. Guess' class at Greenlee Elementary.
Most city and county kids agreed -- even if they didn't say it that way.
Quaneka Triplett, Willie Lewis and Kenya Fleming cast their ballots in Ms. Stingley's class at Long Creek.
Bush won big, taking 66 percent of the vote to Kerry's 34 percent (148 to 75).
Most of those who voted for him cited his experience and leadership during the ongoing war on terror.
By Curious Minds ask Why Mr Kerry
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KERRY'S SCARY VICTORY
KERRY'S SCARY VICTORY
Credit where credit is due: The Kerry campaign ran a supremely effective campaign of intimidation against Sinclair Broadcasting. Sen. Kerry may hesitate to use violence against America?’s enemies. But there?’s no questioning his willingness to violate Americans?’ free-speech rights.
Yesterday, Sinclair announced that it was dropping plans to broadcast in full the documentary Stolen Honor. The Kerry campaign has repeatedly tried to bully the senator?’s POW and veteran critics into silence. They have at last succeeded ?– and at impressively low political cost to themselves.
Suppose for a moment that President Bush had organized a campaign of boycott against theaters that showed Fahrenheit 9/11 ?– or that his supporters had tried to mobilize an FCC campaign against CBS for its anti-Bush 60 Minutes broadcasts. Or suppose that a Bush campaign official had threatened regulatory reprisals against a news organization that criticized him ?– as Kerry spokesman Chad Clanton did when he declared that Sinclair ?“had better hope we don?’t win.?” Don?’t you think there might have been an eensy-teensy media controversy? Not this time.
Nor have I noticed many media voices speaking up at some of the more sinister implications of the Sinclair shut-up. Josh Marshall yesterday posted a letter from former FCC chairman Reed Hundt that elaborated on his, Hundt?’s, reasons for believing that the FCC possessed the power to police Sinclair?’s news broadcasts:
Here?’s the most fascinating bit:
?“Sinclair calling their proposed new show news does not make it news. What in fact one may think of their broadcast can and should be judged after the fact. But since Sinclair's relationship to objectivity, as reflected in its press statements, is rather attenuated, one should suppose that Sinclair's new show may well be judged just as much a smear as the so-called documentary they apparently will no longer run. As a result, advertisers have just as much ground to be wary, and the FCC just as much basis to do its duty, and Sinclair just as much reason to feel the opprobrium of an aroused public, as was the case before this current and suspicious effort to disguise the true intentions of Sinclair.?”
(Italics added.)
Do the anti-Sinclair campaigners really mean to assert that the government has the right to decide which broadcasters have the appropriate relationship to objectivity and which do not? And that CBS for example has passed this test? Maybe it?’s not just Sinclair who had better hope that Kerry ?“not win.?” Maybe it?’s everybody who values his or her right to use electronic media to speak freely.
By Dr. Adel Burke
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Dick Cheney, a heart patient,
Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign Wednesday slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine.
The campaign complained that Treasury Secretary John Snow and Senate Majority leader Bill Frist also had jabs, despite Bush's advice that the young and healthy did not need to get an injection.
''Once again, the Bush administration proves that it is the 'do as we say, not as we do' White House,'' the campaign said in a statement issued in Pittsburgh where Kerry was campaigning.
''The very week that (health) secretary (Tommy) Thompson is telling Americans to keep calm, Dick Cheney, John Snow and Bill Frist are getting flu shots.''
''It is unfortunate that the Bush administration failed to do the work necessary to ensure that all Americans, including those most at risk, had been able to get shots as well.''
Cheney would fit into the government's definition of those most vulnerable to a looming influenza epidemic as he has a long history of heart disease.
Bush last week suggested in the final presidential debate that the young and healthy forgo the annual shot amid a shortage of vaccine that Kerry has blamed on the president's management of the health system.
By These Bird Needs Medical Help
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