Bush/Kerry tied in Arkansas!

[DaveSZ]

Put General Clark on the ticket and we win!!!!!!


http://www.dailykos.com/


Arkansas: Bush 45% Kerry 45%
Arkansas 2004

Presidential Ballot
Bush 45%
Kerry 45%
Other 4%
Not Sure 6%

May 3, 2004--President George W. Bush and Senator John F. Kerry are tied in Arkansas. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey in that state found both men earning 45% of the vote.

Adding Ralph Nader's name to the poll has absolutely no impact in this key Southern state.

Just 49% of Arkansas voters believe the U.S. is winning the War on Terror. Thirty percent (30%) believe the terrorists are winning.

Forty-nine percent (49%) of Arkansas voters say they trust Bush more than Kerry when it comes to national defense issues, but 42% prefer Kerry. On a national basis, the President has a larger advantage on this issue.

[Progressive420]

1. Add Wes Clark

and we will win it

[Padraig18]

7. Add any credible Southerner, and we'll win it.

Clark, Edwards, Breaux, etc. . AR and LA are both ripe for the picking! :)

[Moloch]

12. taa dow

n/t

[Blue_Roses]

2. this is great

news, especially with the stream of "bash Kerry" ads Bush has been putting out lately. I hope Kerry's ads are streamed as much. His new ones look GREAT!


Also, there are alot of soldiers from Arkansas in Iraq and there have been quite a few killed from Arkansas as well. If the truth of this war is resonated as the fraud of a war that it is, Kerry will do well here.

[_NorCal_D_]

3. With 6% undecided

Arkansas could go either way. However with Clark on the ticket... B-)

[Thrill]

4. Okay then why

not put the new bio ads in ARK too?

[R3dD0g]

10. I just heard one a few minutes ago.

It was great.

[democratreformed]

16. I've seen it too

several times.

[MallRat]

5. If Bush is fighting for his life in AR...

...against a New England Democrat, he's in very big trouble. Arkansas should be solid red in 2004.

-MR

[R3dD0g]

11. The lying little deserter has been flooding

the airwaves with a ridiculous ad that says Kerry voted against all the big ticket weapon systems that are made 'ratch 'er in Arkansaw'.

How stupid does the moron think we are? Does he really believe that we don't know there are no tanks or helicopters made 'ratch er'?

[Leilani]

6. Terrific News!!!

Wes will carry it over the finish line!!

[Pepperbelly]

8. If Kerry turns Bill loose for about two weeks before the election in the

Delta, Kerry will have it in a cakewalk.

[in_cog_ni_to]

9. Arkansas is Wes Clark's for

the GIVING! If he's on the ticket, we OWN Arkansas! Go Wes!

[Nicholas_J]

13. Kerry is correct to avoid a southern strategy

As Bush is firmly ahead in almost every southern state except Florida and as noted Arkansas. Kerry's stringest suit right now is to select a canidate who can firm up his leads in the midwest, the great lakes area, and that will not be Clark or Edwards. In Alabama, Bush leads Kerry by 19 points, and has leads nearly as large in other southern states. Arkansas would be welcome for Kerry, but it is not going to win the presidency for him, and try as he may Kerry is not cutting into Bush's lead thoughout most of the south. Kerry needs a running mate with the greatest chance of delivering him Ohio, Wisconsin, and shore up his lead in Michigan, which up until this week was in double digits, but with Bush's visit to the state has dropped into single digits. It will have to be Gephardt or Vilsack in order for Kerry to slam Bush with the large electotal vote states, and the states with the highest populations. There are five states which account for 20 percent of the entire popular vote and right now Kerry has them all. He must keep them and only Gephardt or Vilsack can deliver those states and even perhaps steal a few of the midwestern states from Bush. Neither Edwards or Clark can deliver any state outside of their homestate, but Gephardt is a regionally well know figure, as is Vilsack.

[dusty64]

14. I agree, but hope he doesn't write

off any region except the Mountain West. So far the strategy to campaign in "red" states is paying off and forcing the rethugs to spend money in places they did not expect. Turning out the vote in the South will also increase Democratic turnout in the VERY important Congressional races there and possibly make a few turn "blue" in November. The importance of Ohio brings up the danger of rightwing controlled "voting" machine companies and the head of diebold's promise to "deliver Ohio for bush".

[yelladawg]

15. Good News

How many more red neck states can Kerry pick up? I bet he breaks into the south and wins 2 or 3 there.

[R3dD0g]

17. Louisiana could go Kerry

It'd be very difficult. North of the Red River is solidly Baptist and probably unattainable. South of the Red is mostly Catholic and he would have a very hard time with the Lifers.

But, the whole state has been hit hard economically and it will be difficult for * to claim his tax cuts have helped anybody.

[Nicholas_J]

18. Kerry's 25 million in TV ADs

Is heavily focused on Louisiana and Florida

[Pepperbelly]

19. Remember Landreau's re-election ...

When she came out swinging at BUSHCO and his pirates, she surged and DESTROYED the BUSHCO minion against whom she was running.

[Nimble_Idea]

20. Yep, Clark is the way to go

Send both Clark and Clintond own there and have them camp out in Florida and Arkansas. And have Kerry and the rest Camp out in PA and Ohio.

My friends, it's a done deal.