Gunner wrote in message . ..

Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004 12:35 p.m. EDT
CNN/USA/Gallup: Bush Got Bounce From Dem Convention

The first poll taken after the Democratic convention shows a significant
bounce - for the Bush-Cheney ticket.

A CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday shows that among likely
voters, President Bush reaped a 5-point bounce from the Democratic
confab, and he now leads Sen. Kerry, 50 percent to 47 percent.

The new numbers represent a sharp reversal from a July 19-21 CNN/USA
Today/Gallup survey, which had Kerry leading Bush by two points, 49
percent to 47 percent.

Even among registered voters - a group that typically trends more
Democratic than likely voters - Bush picked up a 1-point bounce. The
CNN/USA/Today poll of registered voters has Kerry now leading Bush by 3
points, 50 percent to 47 percent. In the earlier survey, Kerry led Bush
by 4 points, 49 percent to 45 percent.

Commenting on the negative bounce for the Kerry-Edwards ticket, dejected
CNN political analyst Bill Schneider said Sunday, "The convention rallied
voters, but it rallied Republicans more than Democrats."

"All those questioned were questioned after John Kerry's acceptance
speech," lamented CNN's Wolf Blitzer.


As a guy living in the Boston area, I took the Democratic convention
to be a dismal failure -- I kept asking myself where is the beef?

Kerry's failure to lay down any plan to correct and recover from the
errrors he claimed went unanswered. No big surprise, since as a
Massachusetts resident we all here know John Kerry. He is all bluster
and totally without substance.

This guy cuts his attendance in the Senate more than any other
senator, never responds to his constituents mail and issues (unlike
Kennedy), and appears to spend most of his time focusing on his own
self-interests (such as moving a fire hydrant in front of his home to
a neighbors property so that he could have a parking place). This is
John Kerry's focus, and evidently reflects his rather strange sense of
priorities.

'Nuff said. I am no great fan of Bush, but I pity our country if
Kerry is elected president, because I have no reason to believe that
he would rise to the position, since he has already demonstrated that
he hasn't risen to the positin of senator.

Is John Kerry the best that the Democrats could come up with? If so,
it's pretty pathetic in my humble opinion!

Harry C.