Zogby 9/30/04: Race is Kerry's to lose

[DebJ]

The Race Is Still Kerry¡¦s To Lose...By John Zogby



"Tonight President George W. Bush and his Democrat opponent Senator John Kerry will engage in their first of three debates. Historically, these televised presidential debates have had a significant impact on the final outcome of several elections. In 1960, a polished and articulate Massachusetts Senator named John F. Kennedy showed that he could compete with a more experienced and older sitting Vice-President, Richard Nixon.

"And in 1980, when Americans seemed to have made up their minds about not voting for President Jimmy Carter, they needed to be assured that his opponent, Republican Ronald Reagan was more than a dangerous ideologue or a Grade B actor. Reagan delivered one of the great knockout blows in presidential debate history: ¡§Are you better off than you were fours ago?¡¨

"Tonight¡¦s debate is especially momentous because the race is extremely close, the two sides are very polarized, and there are only a small number ¡V perhaps only 6 million voters nationwide ¡V who are genuinely undecided. The stakes are important for both candidates, but much more so for Mr. Kerry.........."

The rest is here:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=873

[stevedeshazer]

1. Hi DebJ

Looks interesting. Is there a link?

[DebJ]

2. oops sorry I'll add the link

[stevedeshazer]

3. Thanks!

:)

[blondeatlast]

4. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Great article; it's what I've believed all along.

Nominated for the homepage.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Now that I've read the whole thing,

this passage stood out:

"From there we see a startling statistic: only 16% to 20% of undecided voters feel that the President deserves to be re-elected. Forty-percent of this relatively small group feel that it is time for someone new."

[wryter2000]

6. Wow!

And that's from before the debate. :bounce:

[tom22]

7. Zogby has put up several

inreesting commentary articles and he has been saying for months that all Kerery has to do to win is convince the copuntry he is a credible alternative to Bush. Greg Soznick (Clinton's pollster) said the same thing in may