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RealPoor Guru
Joined: 21 Oct 2002
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 Posted: 09/12/04 - 22:36 Post subject: Another nail in kerry's campaign coffin...
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| Quote: | WASHINGTON — A key source who was named to back up CBS News' claims about the authenticity of documents used in a report on President Bush's (search) Air National Guard service has recanted his support, saying the network got the information wrong.
Retired Major Gen. Bobby Hodges (search), a key source behind a "60 Minutes" story that claims Bush shirked his guard duty, said that now that he has seen the memos, he does not believe they are authentic. Hodges told FOX News that CBS did not call him until two days before the piece aired on the network last Wednesday night, and never offered to show him the memos. He said the network only wanted to discuss their content, not their authenticity. |
| Quote: | Even Jimmy Carter's former "strategist" is worried:
Caddell: Dan Rather May Have Cost Kerry the Election
Longtime Democratic strategist Pat Caddell said Friday that if documents aired by CBS newsman Dan Rather Wednesday night turn out to be forged, as alleged by experts, the presidential race "is over."
"It would be the end of the race," Caddell told Fox News Live. "It would be the end of the race," he repeated.
"[Democratic officials are] so involved in this," the former Carter pollster worried. "They have gotten themselves so involved in this issue [in] the last 24 hours that somebody's going to, if they're not authentic, they're going to be blamed for it. It's incredible to me that they've gotten in this."
Caddell said he wasn't trying to sensationalize the issue, explaining that instead "I'm trying to save my party, you know, by telling the truth."
He said that forfeiting the presidential race would be the least of his party's problems if Democrats are tied to any forgery scandal.
"The race is over – and we've got bigger problems than that," he warned. |
| Quote: | | Caddell was on one of the Fox shows yesterday saying he had a "very bad feeling" about who was behind this. He also said that even though he is a Democrat that on today, of all days (9/11) the truth must win out. I think he believes in his gut that these docs. came straight from the highest levels of the Kerry camp. |
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Posted: 09/13/04 - 00:19 Post subject:
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Nice.
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Luke Warm
Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 09/13/04 - 01:15 Post subject:
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"And 53 percent of voters say they are dissatisfied with the 'way things are going' in the United States (39 percent are satisfied). "
"...three quarters of all voters (74 percent) see Kerry as being “intelligent and well informed.” (Six in ten, 59 percent, would describe the president that way.) "
Those numbers are more compelling then this story ever was or is.
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Luke Warm
Joined: 25 Jun 2003
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Posted: 09/13/04 - 01:40 Post subject:
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These are a bit interesting (poll was released on the 9th - Id be interested in seeing same breakdown done next week):
(Post-RNC 7-8 Sept, Post-DNC 3-4 Aug, Change)
Is a stronger leader?
Bush 51% 44% +7
Kerry 35 40 -5
Is more honest &
trustworthy?
Bush 42% 36% +6
Kerry 37 43 -6
Understands average
American better
Bush 39% 36% +3
Kerry 43 47 -4
Best Describes Feelings If . . .
(Category, If Bush Wins, If Kerry Wins)
Enthusiastic 18% 15%
Confident 17 12
Satisfied 19 24
Dissatisfied 15 18
Angry 8 3
Scared 19 22
There should be some more detailed polls coming out. The surprising thing is, from the decided people polled, less than 15% of the people voting for a particuliar candidate said that they may change their vote. There was another interesting poll that broke down each candidate, issue by issue, but I cant find it atm. Eh, I find polls interesting since I like seeing the candidates react to them via strategy changes.
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