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July 24, 2004
Kerry | 45% say Kerry should quit seat, poll indicates

BOSTON GLOBE: 45% say Kerry should quit seat, poll indicates

The Democratic National Convention hasn’t started yet, but the partisan gamesmanship is already underway in Boston. The Republican National Committee yesterday released a poll it commissioned that says nearly half of Massachusetts voters believe John F. Kerry should resign from the Senate as he runs for president.

In a survey of 500 Bay State voters conducted last Sunday and Monday, 59 percent said they ”are concerned” that Kerry ”missed 70 percent of the votes in the Senate over the last two years” and 45 percent say he should resign his Senate seat, according to an RNC spokeswoman, Christine Iverson.

Kerry’s spokesman shrugged it off, saying that the poll was conducted by the Republicans.



Posted by Laurence Simon at July 24, 2004 07:29 AM | TrackBack
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Is the RNC going to call for President Bush to resign while he campaigns?

Posted by: derby [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 24, 2004 08:10 AM

funny that the Democratic Gov of Mass called for the same thing a couple months ago. Maybe Kerry just never showed up for votes?

Chads

Posted by: Chads [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 24, 2004 08:50 AM

Let me get this straight… John Kerry is worried about a Republican bias to a poll conducted in MASSACHUSETTS??!

I consider someone who shows up for 11% of his job to be a slacker, for whatever reason he might have.

Posted by: Bostonian [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 24, 2004 09:20 AM

Chads,
The governor of Mass. is a Republican - Mitt Romney.

Posted by: derby [TypeKey Profile Page] at July 24, 2004 12:12 PM

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