Day on campaign trail with Kerry sways undecided voter.

Day on the campaign trail with Kerry sways undecided voter


December  18,  2003

Associated Press



by Holly Ramer
Keene, NH -
As the Real Deal Express rolled through the rain and fog across New Hampshire, a storm of indecision swirled in the mind of Roberto Fuentes.


The 19-year-old college student from Nashua has been leaning toward former Gov. Howard Dean in the Democratic presidential primary. But he wanted to give rival John Kerry a chance, so he took the Massachusetts senator's campaign up on an offer to ride along with the candidate for the day.

His mind didn't change in the miles between Concord and Peterborough or from Peterborough to Keene. But he clapped along with the crowd during Kerry's stump speech, and admitted having second thoughts about Dean when Saddam Hussein was captured earlier this week.

"After Saddam, something clicked - maybe I shouldn't vote for him," he said.

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- so why should a Clark supporter be gloating over this?

I like Kerry. I'm not gloating. I'm just making faces.

This guy, the 4 or 5 people who support him here, and his family. Way to go!

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Yet, he was "swayed."

... then maybe he should be voting for Bush.

Dean was right: catching Saddam did nothing to make us safer. the Iraq war did nothing to make us safer. quite the opposite, in fact. these stupid STUNTS cost us hundreds of billions of dollars, innocent lives lost, and international goodwill. on top of that, Americans are now more of a target for terrorists than before.

did the "terror alert level" go down when Saddam was caught? of course not.

think about it. despite occasional "successes", the George Dubyah war on terror is a war that will only end when the US is bankrupt.

of the region could make such a remark that Saddam's capture meant nothing for this country.

I suggest you study exactly why Clinton wanted Saddam out in 98 in his hopes to stabilize the region before the onslaught of a much more powerful force brewing there - Islamic fundamentalism, the Taliban, Al Qaeda and Bin Laden.

Many here neglect the greater good because Bush's goals can't be trusted. I agree, they cannot be trusted, but the goals of Clinton and Kerry can be. Progressive internationalism to combat the root causes of terrorism.

capturing him did not change that.

He said that we are no safer because of the capture.

For kicks why not try arguing against what Dean actually said?

and he betrayed me again after the Saddam news.

.........And STAY out.

and Dean wasn't, so you blame Kerry for noticing Dean's inconsistencies?

Nice logic y'all have going there. It won't work in the general election.

Oh wait, that was last week, before Kerry refered to the UN as "Simon."

Dean's antiwar rhetoric that he demagogued to the nth degree never matched Dean's actual position he took at the time of the IWR.

The guy's been there on Liberal causes from Day One -- from public education, to organized labor, to small business, to protecting the environment, to a woman's right to control her own body. He's been a fighter for the cause of Justice in the military, when he opposed the conduct of the war as a decorated Navy officer, in civilian life when he helped organized the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, in the Senate when he went after the BFEE in its Iran-Contra drug smuggling and BCCI affair, and until today as a candidate for President.

Given the facts, I'd wager the American people would agree Sen. Kerry would make the best President of all the candidates, of any party.

reexamine the candidates and their positions. World events are changing and the press seems to be reawakening. This will favor some candidates while a certain one may see an end to his "honeymoon".

Both Kerry and Clark had their opportunities to be that frontrunner and did not know how to play their cards.

They should have tapped Al Gore and blown the party to shit. No thanks.

have gone down versus Bush. Buyers remorse is sure to set in for the Dean faithful as national security concerns will be brought to the forefront by the other candidates.

Kerry, Clarks and Lieberman's stocks will be moving up.