Quote:I'm not saying they are dumb, I'm saying I'm smarter.
You're smarter cause you were saying, well, the same as them?
"Heh heh. Yeah. Heh heh."
Leaving puerile silliness aside, this is interesting detail from that Newsweek poll with the huge Bush lead:
Quote:[..] voters who see terrorism as the top priority overwhelmingly prefer Bush (87 percent of those who see it as the top issue with vote for the president)
[..] Kerry is still favored by those who rank the economy (61 percent), health care (58 percent) and even, by a small margin, Iraq (51 percent) as their top issue.
That clarifies a lot, I think (even if it's just the obvious).
The next bit increases the puzzle again, tho. The Convention obviously changed a lot of minds - even tho fewer people than ever watched it:
Quote:[..] a record low number of registered voters report having watched the proceedings at home. Only about four in 10 (40 percent) voters claim to have watched at least some of the convention coverage on TV this week, less than the 48 percent who said they watched at least some of the Democratic convention in July.
[..] Bush's speech received similar marks to that of his challenger a month prior. Both speeches were well received, with 30 percent of voters saying Bush's speech made them more likely to vote GOP, while 10 percent say it made less likely. (At the DNC, Kerry had scored 32 percent and 8 percent respectively.) Less than half (45 percent) of all voters said they watched all or part of Bush's 62 minute speech Thursday night, a slightly smaller percentage than voters who saw Kerry's acceptance speech (51 percent).
Finally, one last interesting bit:
Quote:When asked which other individual speakers made them more likely to vote Republican, voters gave Rudy Giuliani and First Lady Laura Bush somewhat better ratings than Sen. John McCain and even California's movie star governor. Of the first lady's speech, 25 percent said they were as a result more likely to vote for the Republican ticket (versus 7 percent who said they were less likely); of the former New York mayor's, 24 percent were more likely (versus 8 percent less). Twenty percent were more likely to vote Republican because of McCain and 22 percent thanks to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Cheney's score (19 percent more likely versus 15 less) was far below [even] Democratic Sen. Zell Miller's controversial keynote speech [..] (21 percent said he made them more likely to vote Republican) [..]
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