Poll Reveals Missouri As Battleground State

[StlMo]

Poll Reveals Missouri As Battleground State


One week before Election Day, a new KMBC 9 News and Kansas City Star poll revealed that President George W. Bush has a narrow lead over Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in Missouri.

Bush continues to lead in Missouri, which is no surprise, but for a couple of weeks, there's been a rumbling that Kerry might take the state.

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The Kerry campaign has not advertised in Missouri since the Democratic Convention last summer.

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There are two important things to remember about the numbers in this poll.

First, the president is below the 50-percent mark, which is a sign of concern for any incumbent candidate.

The other is the 6-percent undecided figure.

Political experts believe that undecided votes this late usually break to the challenger, or they just sit the election out.

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http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/3857768/detail.html

[VOX]

1. C'mon, Mo! "Show Me!!!"

You can do it, even if the Cardinals didn't! :yourock:

[Mojambo]

2. That would be a great "get" n/t

[gulliver]

3. I think we are going to win MO.

If we are within 4% we will more than make up for that with breaking undecideds and turnout. Democrats are far more motivated this year than in 2000. And there is a massive ground operation going on.

[StlMo]

13. The massive ground operation is the key.

Volunteer for John Kerry in Missouri:
http://www.johnkerry.com/signup/states_vol_www.php?st=mo

ACT Missouri Voter Mobilization:
http://actforvictory.org/act.php/static/gotv_signup_mo

[RevCheesehead]

4. LANDSLIDE! (or is it "Land Shark?")

[StlMo]

20. That picture really is great!

[lanparty]

23. You know why Kerry will win????

That crowd is HUGE. And I'd bet my right nut that they didn't drag a single Republican out of it. Kerry is not afraid to talk to those who are philisophically opposed to him. He is better able to reach soft-Republicans and swing voters than Bush is!!!!

[MO_Dem]

5. Oh, how I hope we can do this!

It's going to be a battle royal of the small town/rural fundies vs. our great pals in St. Louis and K.C.

[StlMo]

18. I believe we will. It won't be easy, but we can do it.

:dem:

[strategery blunder]

6. As I'm voting in Missouri, I approve this message

:)

[Robeson]

12. I approve you approving it! Go Mo! "Show" the country!

[usregimechange]

7. DNC ads light in MO but here, nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

8. How's that for an Oct. surprise LOL

[missouri dem]

9. GOTV and Missouri is blue

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/49/powerlines-meyerson.p...

ORLANDO, Florida — I have seen the present, and it works — I think.
I have spent the past week observing the official Democratic Party and
unofficial 527 field operations in the battleground states of Ohio and
Florida. And I have found something I’ve never before seen in my 36 or
so
years as a progressive activist and later as a journalist: an
effective, fully
functioning American left.

Those liberal organizations that already knew how to do politics — the
AFL-CIO, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) and a few others — are
doing it better than they have before. Those liberal groups that stayed
aloof
from elections or phumphered ineffectually are now playing the game
like
seasoned pros. New organizations have arisen to mobilize sometime
voters; the
largest of them — America Coming Together (ACT) — will have 12,000
staffers in each of the three biggest battleground states
(Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Florida) on Election Day.



The AFL-CIO inaugurated this program in three states last year — not
coincidentally, Florida, Ohio and Missouri. The goal was to open a line
of
communication with the nonunion white working class, and by the
evidence of
the AFL-CIO’s numbers and my Garfield Heights walk, the goal has been
reached and then some. The three Ohio canvass operations have recruited
541,000 members — a clear majority of whom support John Kerry,
according to
the federation’s polls. In Garfield Heights, fully half the persons
listed
on the SEIU’s walk sheets were Working America members (the other half
were
either regular union members or retirees). Though it was just
midafternoon, a
number of working-age men were home. Asked what issue mattered to them
most,
they said jobs; asked their candidate preference, they said Kerry. Take
Ohio’s unemployment rate, add the activities of ACT, Working America
and
other such groups, and you understand why this is one Bush-2000 state
that
won’t be Bush-2004.


Here in Orlando, ACT is getting out the vote in the black and Latino
communities, while the LCV targets more upscale white suburbs. The
Sierra Club
plays the LCV’s role in Tampa, where it has a thriving chapter. “On the
environmental side, we never figured out how to work together before,”
says
Allan Oliver, who heads the LCV’s Orlando operation. “Now, I’m on the
phone to the Sierra Club every week; we say, how can we do this
better?” The
527s even share their private polling — a common-sense pooling of
knowledge
that was utterly unthinkable before the prospect of four more years of
George
W. Bush concentrated the progressive mind.

[StlMo]

19. Exactly - "GOTV and Missouri is blue"

Blue Missouri!

[Loki]

10. My 20 something daughter still lives in Kansas City

and she and all of her friends are voting Kerry. Missouri has the honor of having a favorite son president Harry Truman, and I say it's time for Missouri to bring in home for Kerry.

[sunnybrook]

17. Give 'em Hell, Kerry!

[StlMo]

11. We can win - if we mobilize in high numbers. Missouri needs you!

Missouri DUers: Please, call all the potential Kerry voters you know.
Call them before and on Election Day to urge them to get out and vote Democratic!

My fellow Missourians, we need volunteers.
Your country and state need you!

Volunteer for John Kerry in Missouri:
http://www.johnkerry.com/signup/states_vol_www.php?st=mo

ACT Missouri Voter Mobilization:
http://actforvictory.org/act.php/static/gotv_signup_mo

[SaintLouisBlues]

16. Roadtrip!

ACT needs more volunteers in St. Louis for sure. We are shorthanded.

[StlMo]

21. Hell Yeah!

Any DUers who travel to St. Louis:
We'll give you a great welcome!
:beer: :toast: :beer:

[loudestchick]

14. I knew we were still in play!!!!

The Repugs are running scared here in KC...sign stealing, tailgating me and then giving me the bird (w/ my 3 kids in the car!) Patterson's millions can't buy her a seat in Congress and all the bushies will have to face that they ARE NOT the majority in the show-me-state!!!

[StlMo]

15. That's right: We're the majority. The Bushites are just thugs.

:dem:

[lanparty]

22. Zogby says ...

Zogby says that undecided's break late AGAINST the incumbent. Mix that in with the inherent bias in the polls and this looks good for Kerry!!!!

[StlMo]

24. Yes.

:kick:

[JPJones]

25. kick n/t

[Clintmax]

26. Kerry Endorsements in Missouri

All four major cities newspapers in Missouri (Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield and Columbia) have officially endorsed John Kerry! I'm from Springfield but live in Florida now, and I'm SO happy that Missouri is going to go BLUE!

[StlMo]

28. I feel good about MO too.

Blue Missouri!

[missouri dem]

27. It is unbelievable how hard people are working and how motivated

that they are. We want it more than they do and we will win. The last time we had a strong Democratic turnout was in 92. This feels so much stronger, look for massive turnout and a nationwide LANDSLIDE.

[StlMo]

30. It really is impressive how hard Democrats are working (unlike Bush).

I think you're right: We are going to have massive turnout here and throughout the nation.

[fujiyama]

29. The state could be a real upset

I wish MO DUers the best of luck in getting out the vote in that state!

[fishwax]

31. Throughout the country

the undecideds are breaking our way. We've had polls tonight in MN, IA, and NH that show that.

I've got a good feeling about Missourah.

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[Gore1FL]

32. I hope we carry MO -- but I have some concerns

I have a new polling place -- different from 2002 which was different from 2000.

I drove by Saturday to find it -- hardly any parking, and frankly, if anyone shows up there won't be all that much room inside.

While I am not going to say factually that something is up, my gut sure leads me in that direction.

I live in an area of St. Louis (County) that has a large number of African Americans.

Nov 2000 it took over three hours to vote and two were waiting outside in fairly cool weather. This does not look better.

[StlMo]

36. It's no accident. The GOP is trying to stop African-Americans from voting.

We can still win here, but it will not be easy.
The good news is that we should be better equipped to deal with GOP moves that go beyond unethical to illegal.

[tedoll78]

33. If it's this tight in Missouri without advertising,

we've gotta be doing quite well in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Ohio..

[Gore1FL]

35. there are a lot of 527s

They were especially endless today. Bush is still advertising.