Kerry 'Win' Against Bush In Debate May Provide Boost In Polls

[KittyWampus]

#1. This Article covers Luntz (GOP shill) extensively and also has someone from CATO (GOP shills).
#2. A polling group, Princeton Research Survey Internatinal, is identified as NON-PARTISAN. This implies that others such as Gallup, are PARITSAN.
#3. Luntz says that Kerry MAY get a lift in polls. If partisan polls decide to contine weighting results in Bush's favor or even weight them even MORE heavily in Bush's favor then those partisan polls may NOT show a Kerry lift.



...Kerry may get a lift in the polls, judging by the responses of undecided voters who said he dominated his first debate with Bush.

``I wouldn't be surprised if Kerry's poll numbers go up a point or two because he stood up next to the president and probably passed at least part of the credibility test of `can you imagine this challenger being president?''said David Boaz, executive director of the Cato Institute

`Presidential'

``Kerry is well poised to enjoy a polling surge,'' Luntz said in a statement. ``For swing voters, this was the first time in this campaign that Kerry stood side-by-side with Bush -- and he looked presidential. In fact, they think he dominated.''

Major polling organizations are conducting surveys now for release in the next few days....

Evans Witt, president of Princeton Survey Research International, a non-partisan polling firm, said he ``wouldn't be surprised'' if Kerry's approval ratings show ``a bit of a jump.'' `People's opinions are not fully formed on this,'' he said. ``They're going to watch the news shows, read the newspapers, go online, talk to their friends and then opinions will shift if they're going to shift.''

Participants in Luntz's focus group used words like ``confident, direct, secure,'' and ``reassuring'' to describe Kerry while they used words like ``nervous, disdainful, not well prepared'' and ``repetitive'' to describe Bush... A few of the voters complained that Kerry didn't provide enough detail. Just two of the 18 said Kerry was a ``flip- flopper,'' a label the Bush campaign has used to describe Kerry's position on the Iraq war.

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[Moderator]

1. Don't forget your links

Thanks

[demoman123]

2. "[T]hey think he dominated''--this is the key: who is the alpha wolf?

Or: who is the dominant chimpanzee? :)

Jane Goodall tells a story about Mike, the lowliest chimp in the troop, who discovered he could scare the other chimps by banging some trash cans together. Within a week or so, he was the most dominant chimpanzee.

[KittyWampus]

3. Kerry Definately Is The Alpha Male

in a more positive way the Jr.

[Mz Pip]

4. Rove needs to

get some trash cans for his chimp. I swear that there are plenty of braindead yahoos who would find that a reason to support Bush.

MzPip
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