How do you think the Kerry campaign is going

[WI_DEM]

How do you think John Kerry is conducting his campaign, so far, for president?

Like a presidential approval rating poll--excellent and good are positive ratings while fair and poor are negative ratings.

[JohnKleeb]

1. somewhere between excellent and good

He's making inroads in my state which hasnt gone democratic in 40 long years.

[WI_DEM]

3. what is your state?

[JohnKleeb]

7. Virginia

Markey says we're getting out of the desert/

[Justice]

2. Excellent

The media is against him. The media is against him. And the media is against him.

Still they guy is pulling ahead in swing states. He must be doin' somethin' right!!!!

[H2O Man]

4. I think that it is going

extremely well. Kerry is doing better at this point than I expected. We're going to have a victory in November, folks. And it'll be a great night of partying on DU!!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Good

But it could be more agressive.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. From the looks of things

I would say things are going very well.

[Skip Intro]

10. Holy crap! Goosebumps!

Where is that pic from?

Portland?

[Jokinomx]

11. Wow... great pic DoYouEverWonder!!! Where was it taken?

I think his campaign is going GREAT.... He just increased his lead in the latest poll in Michigan...my home state... I think they said 51% Kerry to 43% Bush... Chimp is trying hard here also... he has been to Michigan 18 times in the last year... this weekend " * " is in the Traverse City area.....again.. you must have an approved pass to enter...hehehe... chimp can't allow the average joe to attend... there would be too many anti-bushies show up...

:dem:


Here is a link to some pictures I took at the Grand Rapids, Michigan Rally on Aug. 2nd..

http://www.redsplash.com/ims/view_folder.php?f_id=418

[redandstinky]

18. Labor will win it

for Kerry in Michigan. But we all have to get in there and make it happen.

[MODemocrat]

8. Kerry is drawing enormous crowds

IMHO that's a very good sign his campaign is going pretty well. It's an uphill battle no doubt, but I'm proud of his campaign because I think he is running a clean one, and think it will pay off.
:thumbsup:

[BeatleBoot]

9. If I were the candidate, I'd rather be

Kerry than Bush right now.

This election hinges Bush's record and we all know it sucks.

Most Excellent for the Kerry campaign.

[soothsayer]

12. Kerry is rocking, and all this is PRE-DEBATES! He will clobber jr then.

IT'll be a bloodbath. dumbya might even have to drop out, he'll be so punchdrunk.

[BeatleBoot]

13. Let's Lower the debate expectations

just like they did in 2000.

Repukes kept saying, "Gore is going to beat Dubya in the debates", then when the debates came, Bush spoke his sentence fragments and everyone thought Bush did well.

Let's do the same thing for Kerry, this time around.

whaddya say?

[WI_DEM]

22. yes,

Bush got away with it in '00 just because they didn't need to change his diaper on stage.

[BillZBubb]

14. Kerry is taking a lot of hits and he's lost control of the debate.

Bush* (OK, Rove) is determining what is being discussed on the news. Instead of coverage of the overwhelming tilt of the Bush* tax cuts to the wealthy, we're talking about why Kerry voted for the IWR. Instead of talking about the lousy economy, we're talking about Vietnam. Instead of talking about the health care crisis, we're talking about a gay Governor. Instead of talking about the Iraq disaster, we're talking about Yucca Mountain. Instead of talking about the plummeting stock market and surging oil prices, we're talking about stem cells.

Kerry and Edwards need to find a way to control the debate, or they can kiss the current lead goodbye.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

15. If you think that, you might as well give up now.

We won't ever be able to control what is being discussed on the news, because the people who decide that are working overtime to elect Bush.

[BillZBubb]

17. I agree the media is behind Bush*, BUT...

if Kerry makes an agressive attack directly at Bush*, as Bush* and Cheney have been attacking Kerry, the press will have to cover it and it can then be debated through the press.

Kerry has to make the press pay attention, Bush* gets that by default.

For instance, Kerry can score points just using the Repug trick of squabbling over minutia--like the Pugs have done with "sensible". Draw the Pugs out, they might just make a blunder. But draw them out on OUR issues, not theirs. There are lots of other tricks like this.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

20. I don't agree that Kerry should lower himself to their level.

And there is absolutely no need to 'draw them out' so that they'll make a blunder. Their entire administration has been one blunder after another. This election is not going to be won by playing silly games with the Republicans. That stuff -- I almost thing it's all just designed to discourage people about politics and thereby suppress turnout. Because it's still true -- there are more Democrats than Republicans, and the larger the turnout, the better we do. This election is going to be won by the people rising up and voting this corrupt bunch out. And it's happening. There's going to be a huge boost in turnout, new voters -- if you're out and about it's hard to miss.

[BillZBubb]

21. "There's going to be a huge boost in turnout"

We will see. I've heard that song before.

[Protected]

16. If it was going "excellent," Bush would be down in the 35% area

But he's not, so I'm going to say "fair" is about what Kerry's doing right now.

[PeaceProgProsp]

19. Exceeding expectations. I didn't think he would ever be

ahead until the last two or three weeks.

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[WI_DEM]

25. "lies about his past?"

I can accept perhaps, "doesn't respond to lies about his past" but if you want to talk about liers we have no further to look than the present occupant of the White House and his web of lies which has plunged this country into the worst foreign policy debacle since Vietnam. Hell, Bush even had to cheat to get into the WH--I've never even heard AWOL mention that he lost the 2000 election by 500,000 votes. If you hear him speak he got some kind of mandate--yeah from the conservatives on the Supreme Court.

[molly]

27. I think *'s brain is so fried from his drug and alcohol

abuse, he really can't remember a lot of his past.

[molly]

26. Is that why he's beating * so soon?

[molly]

28. You said

"lets his wife talk" shame on you. Laura is the stepford. Teresa is the next first lady!

[molly]

24. Obviously he is doing excellent!

[mbee]

29. Basically he never really had to do anything except stand back and watch

busco get more and more tangled in their web of deceit and crimes.

[WI_DEM]

30. kick