Awesome CBS/NYT Poll numbers!

[MoonRiver]

In congressional match-ups Dems beat Pukes by 9!

http://www.pollingreport.com/cong2004.htm

Kerry beats * by 5, without Nader (with Nader in Kerry is down by 3 * by 2, but no way will Nader get 5% of the vote).

http://www.pollingreport.com/wh04gen.htm

* job approval at 45% (48% disapprove)!

http://www.pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm

WOO HOO! Imo, the polling trend is becoming crystal clear! Kerry is the candidate most Americans want in our WH! * is toast, unless he can steal (big time) another one!

:bounce:

[tabasco]

1. "no way will Nader get 5% of the vote"

Do not underestimate the stupidity of the utopians.

They make the perfect the enemy of the good.

[bushwakker]

3. He got less than 3% in 2000 when he was still St Ralph

and since then many progressives have caught on to his game. The GOP is not even making any attempt to hide their efforts to get him on the ballot.

[MoonRiver]

4. He's not going to be on the ballot in most states.

My guess is he'll get 1-2%.

[rock]

8. Right you are

I say 2% is a good guess

[JNelson6563]

2. Great poll

Imo, the polling trend is becoming crystal clear! Kerry is the candidate most Americans want in our WH!

IMO, the polling trend is clear alright. People are waking up to what a nightmare Team Bush has proven to be to this country and they want them gone. I never, ever hear great enthusiasm for Kerry out here in the real world. In the Dem office here, we get calls all the time for K/E lawn-signs, bumper stickers etc. Lots of Independents. To a person they all state their disdain for Bush as the reason for their request. These calls come in all day long, BTW.

Yes, we are ahead in the polls but let us be realistic about this. Bush is going to lose. There is no great love affair between the American people and Kerry. There is much mistrust, dislike, disappointment etc. with Bush and his merry band of thugs.

If Dems are smart they will help the American people remember how Team Bush has lied again and again and the subsequent nightmare situations we now have because of those lies.

Julie

[bushwakker]

5. The foundation for a Bush loss is there but...

JK needs to speak more clearly and concisely.

[MoonRiver]

9. Great points Julie!

I do think many are warming up to Kerry, though. I've always liked him, but backed off considerably following his IWR vote. That aside he's looking mighty good now. His intelligent, focused, and oh so presidential persona is helping to reveal AWOL morAn for the silly presidential caricature he is. People hadn't experienced 4 years of pure neocon hell being shoved down their throats, via * the lesser, in 2000. At that time, * looked like a harmless, if mentally challenged, "uniter". What a difference in perception today!

[Racenut20]

6. It is virtually a meaningless poll on the Congress

National percentages mean little when the Districts are shaped to assure incumbancy. Example, poll Pinellas County, Florida and find a majority registration of Democrats. Congressman Young, in his last race didn't even have a Democratic opponent. The southern part of the County is mostly minority and is included in a stretch across the
Bay to Jim Davis "safe" Democratic District and offsets the rich Repubs. in Hillsboro County. Most of the Country is like that (ie.Texas after the theft by ReThug Delay and the crew)

[MoonRiver]

10. Well, it demonstrates a huge dissatisfaction with Repukes.

I also believe the question includes Senate preferences.

Pukes can redistrict till they're blue in the face. If the majority of people, including and especially many of their (former) constituents, are fed up with the scum they will be voted out, as long as we are allowed to vote that is.

[bucknaked]

7. Keep in mind.... Bush, "lead us" through 9/11. "captured" Saddam, etc...

This isn't a normal incumbent. This has to be the most recognized, most familiar incumbent ever. All comparison to the recent-past incumbents (Reagan, Clinton, etc) are out the window.

September 11th put Bush on the map, and on the minds and memory of every American out there. And for him to drop like an Anvil in popularity, job ratings and all that, to even be challenged significantly by relatively unheard-of Kerry, is news in of itself!

The debates and the ensuing stutter-fest by Bush, will solidify Kerry's victory, and new address at 1600 Penn. Ave.