The World Prays For John Kerry--Australian News
Advantage Kerry: the challenger pulls ahead of Bush in latest poll - World -
Washington: The presidential race has begun in earnest, and, for now at least, the Democratic contender, John Kerry, has the edge.
Already riding the wave of euphoria from last week's Democratic convention, Senator Kerry came out the clear winner in the latest Newsweek poll, beating President George Bush 52 per cent to 44 per cent in a two-way race.
He also cleaned up in a three-way race with the independent candidate Ralph Nader. The poll, published in Newsweek today, put Senator Kerry at 49 per cent, Mr Bush at 42 per cent and Mr Nader at 3 per cent.
The poll of 1010 adults was taken on Thursday and Friday as the Democratic Convention in Boston was winding down.
A separate telephone poll taken before Senator Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday put him ahead of Mr Bush by 5 percentage points.
Sixty per cent of those polled by Newsweek said they thought Mr Bush's policies and diplomatic efforts had led to more anti-US feelings around the world.
Senator Kerry has lost no time capitalising on his convention performance and at the weekend increased his attacks on Mr Bush.
On the second day of a two-week tour that will take him and his running mate, Senator John Edwards, to 43 cities and 22 states, he mocked Mr Bush's "turning the corner" slogan as being nothing more than a "little itsy bitsy" sound bite.
Mr Bush had recently trumpeted that "we are turning the corner and we're not turning back" on the US economy, and on Saturday spent his time trying to reassure voters in two states this was so.
In rain-soaked Ohio, a state he narrowly won in 2000, Mr Bush did acknowledge the state was not performing as well as the rest of the country.
"It lags in places like eastern Ohio, I know that," he told cheering supporters in Canton.
"We must have a president who understands that in order to keep jobs at home, America must be the best place to do business."
Not everone was convinced. Protesters who lined outside his rally in the city's civic centre called him a liar.
Although Mr Bush was the source of anger for disgruntled Ohians, it is Senator Kerry who is causing Mr Nader to see red. The independent accused the party on Friday of using dirty tricks to keep him off the ballot in key states and asked Senator Kerry to "call off your dogs".
At a campaign stop in Los Angeles, Mr Nader said Senator Kerry's "underlings" were "harassing, obstructing and impeding" his efforts to get on the ballot in all 50 states.
Mr Nader has been unpopular with many Democrats since running as a third-party candidate in 2000 and is seen as costing Al Gore the election.
However, Mr Nader on Friday dismissed accusations he was heavily supported by Republicans.
Agence France-Presse, Reuters, The Guardian
(BTW, Ralph, FUCK YOU Mother of all Election Disasters...aj)
Washington: The presidential race has begun in earnest, and, for now at least, the Democratic contender, John Kerry, has the edge.
Already riding the wave of euphoria from last week's Democratic convention, Senator Kerry came out the clear winner in the latest Newsweek poll, beating President George Bush 52 per cent to 44 per cent in a two-way race.
He also cleaned up in a three-way race with the independent candidate Ralph Nader. The poll, published in Newsweek today, put Senator Kerry at 49 per cent, Mr Bush at 42 per cent and Mr Nader at 3 per cent.
The poll of 1010 adults was taken on Thursday and Friday as the Democratic Convention in Boston was winding down.
A separate telephone poll taken before Senator Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday put him ahead of Mr Bush by 5 percentage points.
Sixty per cent of those polled by Newsweek said they thought Mr Bush's policies and diplomatic efforts had led to more anti-US feelings around the world.
Senator Kerry has lost no time capitalising on his convention performance and at the weekend increased his attacks on Mr Bush.
On the second day of a two-week tour that will take him and his running mate, Senator John Edwards, to 43 cities and 22 states, he mocked Mr Bush's "turning the corner" slogan as being nothing more than a "little itsy bitsy" sound bite.
Mr Bush had recently trumpeted that "we are turning the corner and we're not turning back" on the US economy, and on Saturday spent his time trying to reassure voters in two states this was so.
In rain-soaked Ohio, a state he narrowly won in 2000, Mr Bush did acknowledge the state was not performing as well as the rest of the country.
"It lags in places like eastern Ohio, I know that," he told cheering supporters in Canton.
"We must have a president who understands that in order to keep jobs at home, America must be the best place to do business."
Not everone was convinced. Protesters who lined outside his rally in the city's civic centre called him a liar.
Although Mr Bush was the source of anger for disgruntled Ohians, it is Senator Kerry who is causing Mr Nader to see red. The independent accused the party on Friday of using dirty tricks to keep him off the ballot in key states and asked Senator Kerry to "call off your dogs".
At a campaign stop in Los Angeles, Mr Nader said Senator Kerry's "underlings" were "harassing, obstructing and impeding" his efforts to get on the ballot in all 50 states.
Mr Nader has been unpopular with many Democrats since running as a third-party candidate in 2000 and is seen as costing Al Gore the election.
However, Mr Nader on Friday dismissed accusations he was heavily supported by Republicans.
Agence France-Presse, Reuters, The Guardian
(BTW, Ralph, FUCK YOU Mother of all Election Disasters...aj)
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