What you might have missed in the most recent Washington Post-ABC News Poll

http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=2679

Since the general election began in earnest after Senator Kerry all but clinched the Democratic nomination (March 2), the movement between the Washington Post/ABC News polls of March and May is promising. Since March, Senator Kerry has suffered deterioration in nearly every key leadership attribute, while President Bush has stayed the same or increased.

Today, the race is dead even, just as we have maintained that it will roughly stay until the Democratic convention.

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President Bush has cut Kerry’s advantage on the economy by 7 points, and gained 7 points against Kerry on who the public trusts to handle Iraq.

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Since March, Kerry has lost 23 points on the attribute of “honest and trustworthy,” 18 points on “strong leader,” and 15 points on “understands the problems of people like you.” President Bush’s ratings on these attributes have remained stable since March.

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Furthermore:

• President Bush has a 60-point advantage over Senator Kerry on who “takes a position and sticks with it.”
• President Bush has a 17-point advantage on who “can be trusted in a crisis.”
• President Bush has a 16-point advantage on making “the country safer and more secure.”

 

Kerry has almost nothing to stand on. Even Bush has more to stand on than Kerry does. I think the Democrats came to realize months ago what a mistake having Kerry for the Democratic nominee is, because from what I can see most people are already sick of him.

 

he's a pretty weak candidate, and a bit of a waffler. it's kind of embarassing to watch.

 

Polls are pretty much as unreliable as the weather man on channel four.

 

While just about every poll I've heard recently suggests things aren't going too well for Bush (to say the least), things ain't too good for Kerry. And that's not a good sign considering Bush is so for the taking. Many people aren't excited about him.

 

which makes it pretty funny that so many people rely on them to prove their points.

 

Unless I'm mistaken, and I'm always mistaken, Clinton and Reagan were both losing in the polls this far out in the election.

 

Kerry sucks, Bush blows.