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August 28, 2004
Bush | President Bush Gains In Connecticut

A recent poll shows Kerry’s lead over President Bush in Connecticut has shrunk to only seven points. According to the Greenwich Time:

Connecticut, which voted overwhelmingly for Al Gore in 2000, had been considered a lock for Kerry. But, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll, conducted Aug. 11-17 among 1,079 registered voters, Kerry leads Bush by seven points — 45 percent to 38 percent — with independent candidate Ralph Nader, a Connecticut native, taking six percent of the vote. Bush leads Kerry 43 percent to 36 percent in Fairfield County, according to the same poll.

Less than two months earlier, in a Quinnipiac poll conducted June 27-28 among 979 registered voters, Kerry held an 18-point lead over Bush in the state, 50 percent to 32 percent, with nine percent of voters favoring Nader.

From California Yankee.



Posted by Dan Spencer at August 28, 2004 01:57 PM | TrackBack
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With the Swift Boat Veterans and Kerry’s book The New Soldier available
online, he Kerry can only go down. Click on the link and just look at at the cover of Kerry’s book. That will finish him. It’s disgusting.

Posted by: somsy [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 08:21 PM

I don’t see how a few Freepers reading an out of print 70’s vanity press booklet are going to impact the Connecticut electoral votes.

How’s that possible?

Posted by: capitano [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 10:28 PM

In the for what it is worth department:

The most recent Time poll is showing a 46%- 46% tie amont registered voters and a 48%-46% lead for Bush among likely voters. Time is also indicating that the % of those who feel that we need someone else in the White House other than Bush has dropped below 50% for first time the in a long while. (http://www.pollingreport.com/

Rassmussen is also reporting that Bush is now leading in electoral votes for the first time this year. Until recent polling in five states changed the mix with several states now going from either “leaning Kerry” to “toss-up” or “leaning Bush.” In the Rassmussen accounting, if a candidate has five point or more in a state poll, that candidate gets the state as “leaning”; less than five point difference is classified as a toss up. (The following is from Rasmussen):

For the first time all year, George W. Bush leads in our Electoral College projection. Our latest data shows Bush holding the lead in states with 200 Electoral Votes. Kerry is ahead in states with 190 Electoral Votes and 148 votes are in the Toss-Up column. The magic number needed to reach the White House is 270 Electoral Votes. (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm)

I also saw for the first time here in the Mid-Atlantic region on cable TV the latest ad from the Swift Boat Vets for Truth ad. This is the one addressing Kerry’s after Viet Nam transformation to anti-war hero with comments from former POWs and wounded vets. Last night the DNC ran an ad on local TV of an empty factory while playing a phonograph of President’s Bush comments on an improving economy. This one was well done, but it does not have the hit-in-the-gut impact like the swift boat ad does.

Posted by: steve [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 10:33 PM

>>I don?t see how a few Freepers reading an out of print 70?s vanity press booklet are going to impact the Connecticut electoral votes.<<

Well, we can deduce from this what the spin is going to be now that Kerry’s own words - words that can’t be explained away as just “relaying what other people were saying” as some were saying about his Senate testimony - are now available for one and all to read. “Vanity press booklet”, indeed. Is the Senator next going to claim that it was ghostwritten for him?

Posted by: Joe [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 10:46 PM

He didn’t write it alone, it was also written by the VVAW; and David Thorne and George Butler edited it.

Plus he was a busy with other things like this. {link}

Posted by: capitano [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 11:27 PM

So John Kerry didn’t pass out inside Kaye Lenz? Bummer, man. Er…who is Kaye Lenz? (Then again, I saw “Willy Wonka” on TCM a few months back. I wish they had done a film of the sequel “The Great Glass Elevator”.

Posted by: Joe [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 28, 2004 11:47 PM

Kay Lenz was a very important influence on John Kerry’s intellectual maturation:

Kay Lenz (IMDB link)

Posted by: capitano [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 12:54 AM

Well, of course, the thespian who played such an important part in “Hitler’s Daughter” would be just the one to instruct Mr. Kerry in the dangers of right-wingism. Also of course, it’s preferable to being instructed by such as Susan Sarandon or Barbra Streisand, who could give a post-doctorate course in egoism.

Posted by: Joe [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 01:51 AM

Just in case any non Freeper wnts to read the book:

New Soldier

—==—

Steal this sig:

There is a big difference between William Calley and John Kerry. William Calley is a proven war criminal. For John Kerry we only have his word as an officer and a gentleman.

What is the War Hero Afraid of?
Form 180. Release ALL the records.

The Ads: Video links

Posted by: M. Simon [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 03:02 PM

I’m listening to Dylan’s “Idiot Wind”.

I think it ought to be Kerry’s theme song.

Pass it on.

—==—

Steal this sig:

There is a big difference between William Calley and John Kerry. William Calley is a proven war criminal. For John Kerry we only have his word as an officer and a gentleman.

What is the War Hero Afraid of?
Form 180. Release ALL the records.

The Ads: Video links

Posted by: M. Simon [TypeKey Profile Page] at August 29, 2004 03:23 PM

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