WashPost: Bush Fails To Sway Undecideds

[Darby]

Speech Fails to Sway These Undecideds



By Peter Slevin and Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, September 4, 2004; Page A01



CLAYTON, Mo., Sept. 3 -- Half a dozen undecided voters who gathered here to watch President Bush's acceptance speech made it clear before he took the podium that they had serious doubts about his leadership and his political choices. After listening to 62 minutes of carefully crafted oratory, Christopher A. Jackson found himself leaning ever so slightly the president's way.

But, then, after listing all that bothered him about the speech, Jackson announced that he still wasn't sure.

"I honestly don't trust the guy," said Jackson, 41, a businessman and registered independent.

In Goffstown, N.H., Kate Tullgren, 18, said she was undecided and might vote for Bush. Yet she greeted the speech with whispered sarcasm and scowls of incredulity. When Bush mentioned judicial appointments, she said, "What about Roe v. Wade, buddy?"


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60447-2004Sep3.html

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[Chili]

2. bump for morale

[Massacure]

3. It is because he threw so much Red Meat around

His bump is entirely from the Republican Base. It won't last long though.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I think there is a built in resistance in some people

to saying they've decided. They just don't want to jump on the bandwagon. But it sounds like most of the people in this article are going to vote for Kerry.

[Darby]

5. If Bush failed to sway undecideds, why the bounce? Makes NO sense.

[renegade000]

6. kick

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