Newsweek Poll: Kerry Wins Debate, Pulls Even
Realistically, I suppose it was just a matter of time until Americans realized that The Emperor Has No Clothes. Thursday night’s debate is proving to be that watershed event.
Now George W. Bush has an honest-to-God campaign on his hands. The question is whether or not Bush has the wherewithal to demonstrate that he is Kerry’s equal. Of course, he hasn’t shown much in his four years in the White House, has he? Now he’s being exposed as the empty suit he is.
Interestingly, though, I’m not certain that CNN and the Fox News Channel were covering the same event. CNN’s poll seems to at least reflect the reality of what took place Thursday night:
FNC, however, demonstrated for anyone who may have doubted their Right-wing agenda just how far they will go to spin events for their candidate. These maroons wouldn’t know “fair and balanced” if it bit them on their collective @$$….
The moral of the story? You might be able to spin reality, but you cannot change it. All FNC has succeeded in doing is demonstrating beyond the shadow of a doubt that they are not an impartial or “fair and balanced” journalistic organization. In fact, they are the unofficial cable channel and the de facto publicity arm of the Republican national committee.
John Kerry made George W. Bush look like a spoiled, petulant schoolboy who was being made to answer for his transgressions. Though James Baker tried to negotiate the debate format to his man’s advantage, not even Baker could create a format that hid the fact that his man had NOTHING.
Oct. 2 - With a solid majority of voters concluding that John Kerry outperformed George W. Bush in the first presidential debate on Thursday, the president’s lead in the race for the White House has vanished, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. In the first national telephone poll using a fresh sample, NEWSWEEK found the race now statistically tied among all registered voters, 47 percent of whom say they would vote for Kerry and 45 percent for George W. Bush in a three-way race.
Removing Independent candidate Ralph Nader, who draws 2 percent of the vote, widens the Kerry-Edwards lead to three points with 49 percent of the vote versus the incumbent’s 46 percent. Four weeks ago the Republican ticket, coming out of a successful convention in New York, enjoyed an 11-point lead over Kerry-Edwards with Bush pulling 52 percent of the vote and the challenger just 41 percent.
Among the three-quarters (74 percent) of registered voters who say they watched at least some of Thursday’s debate, 61 percent see Kerry as the clear winner, 19 percent pick Bush as the victor and 16 percent call it a draw.
My question for those of you who think Bush won the debate is simple: what in the hell were you watching? Or are you so blindly partisan that Bush could have debated naked and you still would have thought him victorious? WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT LITTER, willya?? Next time, you might try something other than watching the debate on FNC. Of course, if you’re going to be that blindly partisan, there’s no reason to hope that you’ll engage in anything resembling critical thinking anyway.
WE DESERVE BETTER.
