Now It's Showtime For John Kerry (new poll numbers - good news :)

[UpInArms]

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_29/b3892061_mz011.htm

The instant reviews are in. Voters have given Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry high marks for picking charismatic first-term North Carolina Senator John Edwards as his running mate. In a matter of hours, a dead-even contest was transformed into a 49% to 41% Kerry lead over President Bush, according to a July 6 NBC News Poll.

The veep bump is welcome news to Democrats who have been frustrated for months at their plodding standard-bearer's inability to pull ahead of a struggling incumbent. Kerry now is in a strong position against a sitting President as the July 26-29 Democratic National Convention nears. Most Americans tell pollsters that Bush doesn't deserve a second term amid the violence of a troubled Iraq occupation and the pocketbook pain of an uneven economic recovery. Kerry's military record has helped insulate him from the traditional GOP "weak on defense" assault. And he has raised far more money than any Democrat before him, turning what once looked like a 3- to-1 GOP cash advantage into something closer to a more manageable 2-to-1 difference -- or perhaps even a draw, if union expenditures and liberal "527" groups are taken into account.

Perhaps most important, Kerry has made deep inroads with the swing voters who will determine what is shaping up to be another close election. A July 1-3 American Research Group Inc. poll showed Kerry leading Bush among independents, 50% to 39%, with 4% going to Ralph Nader. While Kerry may yet bear down further on this bloc, just 4 in 10 independents believe Bush is doing a good job.

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[acmavm]

1. Well I guess that means that they'll have to kick those plans into

suspending the election into high gear.

[faithnotgreed]

2. we can only pray for them at this point. i mean seriously, they are

already so far gone, morally, militarily, and anything else you can name. they come at you from so many different directions with such twisted things, there is just no way to predict anymore what they will do.

im half laughing as i say this but i know they have so many people scared. not because * will win, but because he attacks from the most absurd and offensive places.

is it november yet

[PROUDNWLIBERAL]

3. Control of Congress Needed

If we can get control of Congress then we can set up committees to investigate what the Repukes have done to this nation and drive them farther from power!

[buycitgo]

4. just one of the houses is all it takes

also Kerry can set up any presidential factfinding commission he likes

my guess is, like Clinton didn't do to Bush I, he won't this time either.

BUT, he'll lose his ass fourf years from now if he doesn't do something to show how badly the juta fucked up the entire world, for which HE'll get the blame, and then we'll have god knows how many more years of nazi rule