"bush's polls are down, so why isn't Kerry doing better?"

[AgentLadyBug]

FUCK!!!!! I'm so FUCKING sick of the FUCKING media asking this FUCKING idiotic question every FUCKING 5 minutes! He's FUCKING winning you JACKASSES!!!

ahhhhh..... much better..... sorry bout the excessive cussing....

[truebrit71]

1. No fucking problem!!! ;-)

I thought the same thing when I saw that...

They are such whores and enablers....

[SoCalDem]

2. Headline Nov 2004..."BUSH LOSES...SO DOES KERRY"

No one wins.. It's a tie.. It's a Do-over :)..Alert the SCOTUS:evilgrin:

[rock]

3. Calm down, most polls have not validity

Certainly not the ones that the media (puke, spit!) develop (make up).

[July]

15. Yep, you got it. Kerry IS doing better:

Check out www.thehill.com/mellman/051204.aspx and you'll see that, in historical terms, Kerry is doing better than anyone's giving him credit for.

[robbedvoter]

4. Fuzzyheads like Tavis Smiley repeat this BS as well

It's so easy to make a mantra! W is a hero for keeping the biped position, kerry is criticized for leading by so little? Yup. I remember 2000.

[prodigal_green]

5. sigh...because it is about the incumbant, stupid

stupid being the news presenter, not you AgentLadyBug.

[AgentLadyBug]

10. :) /eom

[izzie]

6. He is moving up do not worry. It is all coming home, just as we said.

do not swear, the thought comes over with out the swear words. from grandma.

[Chango]

7. I saw a good explanation for this....

People are focused on Bush, and not thinking as much about Kerry. The horse race numbers are relatively stagnant, while Bush's approval ratings plummet. They will correspond eventually.

[Caution]

8. Beacuse the people who intended to vote for bush just arent voting now.

while many swing voters switched to kerry, many more repukes simply arent voting and intend to stay home rather than vote for an *evil* democrat.

[quinnox]

9. I know it is annoying but wait until Kerry leads in

all the polls by 10 or more points.

I look forward to how they are gonna spin that one.

[HFishbine]

11. Um, er, well...

Today's CNN poll had Kerry at 51, Bush 46. I guess their rhetoric is once again behind reality.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Considering Bush has all the Media Whores, the Radio Whores, the spending

of $80 Million, those books of the Pubs, and several major News rags, not to mention the brain washing Fudies, Kerry is doing quite well.

Kerry will kick ass this Nov.

Bush is Toast.

[pacifictiger]

13. it takes time for reality to penetrate

the fog of delusion. Wait and see what next month brings. I can hardly wait.

[sofa king]

14. Remember the last time a Democrat kicked a Bush's ass.

Here's a great article from June, 1992: Can Clinton Save his Candidacy?

"Another Democratic strategist, who conducts polls for the party, told me that in head-to-head polling against President George Bush, who has substantial negatives of his own, Clinton does poorly. "I did a poll in Idaho for a Senate race and we found that Bush had a 61 percent negative job approval rating. And yet Bush beats Clinton by 2-to 1.""

and...

"In a head-to-head match up on March 20, Bush led by only 52-43 percent and Clinton was indeed within striking range. But as the weekly disclosures took their toll during the ensuing primaries, Clinton's margin fell to 54-38 percent on March 29 and then fell further to 54-34 by the beginning of April."

In 1992, Clinton's numbers stayed fairly stable around the fortieth percentile, while Poppy Bush's approval ratings steadily dropped. Then, after the Democratic convention, Clinton became "for real" and his numbers steadily rose until he was ahead by a clear majority come election day when pollsters asked only about a Bush-Clinton matchup.

Ross Perot appears to have siphoned off roughly equal numbers of voters from Bush and Clinton (though many still claim it was Perot who threw the election to Clinton), so we'll have to see how things turn out this time with Nader, as he clearly has more left-wing appeal than right. But it's certainly not the end of the world.