POLL PROVES SMEARVET AD IS WORKING!!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Actually it shows just the opposite, but it seems the only way to get attention around here is to scream that the sky is falling.

Despite veterans' ad, Kerry remains in the lead

As the dust settles a bit, Kerry remains in the lead of MSNBC.com's White House Derby.

How potent an issue is Bush�s non-disavowal of the Swift Boat Veterans ad?

Those voters who don't believe Bush in general will never believe that he and his strategist Karl Rove didn't authorize the ad.

Voters may assume all anti-Kerry attacks are somehow conforming to a larger anti-Kerry strategy, and likewise on the anti-Bush side.

And in the end, the battle of Najaf may well matter more to voters than the battle on the Mekong River in 1968.

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A new Pennsylvania poll from Franklin & Marshall College released Thursday showed Kerry with a six-point lead, 48 percent to 42 percent over Bush, but still within the margin of error, which was 3.8 percent.

The undecided amounted to eight percent. If one accepts the traditional pollster’s wisdom that two-thirds of the undecided ultimately vote against the incumbent, Kerry looks to be in fine shape in Pennsylvania.

Bush has made a remarkable 32 visits to the Keystone State since becoming president. This is puzzling in that he lost Pennsylvania by more than 200,000 votes last time. This could end up as one of the smartest — or most ill-advised — investments in modern campaign history.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5770431

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. Kick for new headline

[DemNoir]

2. Thanks for the caps and two exclamation points

It really drove the point home for me.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. Did you bother to read the post and the linked article?

[Cocoa]

3. I believed it when I first heard it

this was one of the many smears that a certain Skull and Bones buff threw around on the Internet, a long time ago, before I even knew who Kerry was.

Another one was that Kerry somehow subverted the BCCI investigation.

It's a conscious strategy by these smearers: take a Kerry strength and attack him on that strength.

[Old and In the Way]

5. You had me going......especially when I saw it was you who posted.

That elevated the BP about 20 points.

But I truly believe that the polling results will be extremely disappointing to Rove and the RNC attack dogs. I suspect that it will backfire bigtime (syncronicity...Franken said the same thing as I was typing the word!). It will only firm up those that are leaning to Kerry and may peal a few and weaken more of the Bush supporters. It will only motivate Kerry supporters to fight these unAmerican fascists with even greater energy.

Why should anyone believe that Bush supporters would be truthful? There is no administration that has been so blatently untruthful with the American people.

People are sick of the gutter level character assassinations that is the trademark of these criminals. Reasonable Americans have had it with those that will support an AWOL do nothing over a man who volunteered to serve and shed blood for his country.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

6. Sorry about that, but it gets frustrating

when no one wants to pay attention to good news, yet fear-based panic seems to be contagious.