AP: GOP Campaign Urges Post-Debate Spin

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON - The assignment: go forth and spin. The objective: win the battle of the post-debate polls. The Bush-Cheney campaign is urging supporters to go online after Tuesday's debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards in hopes of defeating what it calls the "Kerry campaign spin machine."

Operatives for Democratic candidate John Kerry "managed to mask their candidate's flip-flops on the war in Iraq" after last week's presidential debate, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman wrote in a letter to supporters.

"People's perceptions are shaped as much by their conversations around the water coolers as by the debates themselves," the letter said.

The e-mail, which was sent early Tuesday, asks supporters to vote in online polls, conducted by most major networks after the debate, and to print debate fact checks to spread the word. Bush loyalists also were encouraged to post their views in message boards targeting swing-state voters, chat in person and online with would-be voters, and forward the GOP's e-mail call-to-arms to five friends.

Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer said the Democrat's supporters are being encouraged to make their views known after the vice presidential debate, especially in light of the what he called "the lesson of 2000," when Al Gore's debate performance against George W. Bush suffered from negative buzz after a few days.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=2&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_el_pr/debate_spin

[Doosh]

1. kick

[Thrill]

2. Everyone bookmark the websites

that will have polls that can be freeped

[liberal_in_GA]

3. kicking this

we have to stay organized!

[Bluebear]

4. kick, pathetic

[Doosh]

5. kick again

[Minimus]

6. "managed to mask their candidate's flip-flops on the war in Iraq"

:mad: bite my ass Mehlman! :mad:

[Thrill]

7. KICK

[Pepperbelly]

8. lipstick on a pig. the orc is going to eat it and nothing will chagne it.