Zogby: 52% negative on Bush job performance, 50% say "no" to re-selection

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/campaign_poll_dc

Zogby said the poll reflected America's deep divisions going into the final month of the campaign. It found Kerry held a lead among young voters, single voters and voters in the eastern and western United States.

Bush had advantages with married voters, voters aged 30 to 49, households with veterans or someone serving in the military, and in the South.

The two were tied among voters more than 50 years old, and in the central and Great Lakes region, site of key swing states like Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.

The poll found 52 percent of voters had a negative view of Bush's job performance and 50 percent believed he should not be re-elected. That compared to 47 percent with a positive view and 44 percent who wanted Bush re-elected. But Bush had a more solid grip on his base of support, earning the backing of 90 percent of Republicans. Kerry had the support of 76 percent of Democrats, but led among independents 45-40 percent.

And remember - after Kerry gets elected - THE FIGHT CONTINUES to prevent the war profiteers and zealots from ever gaining control of our country ever again!

...from the same URL above.

"But while Kerry once hoped the economy would give him a vital advantage, he has not been able to break away from Bush among voters worried about the topic.

"Kerry's edge on the economy is gone," pollster John Zogby said. "Among those who cite the economy as the top issue, the candidates are in a dead heat -- Bush holding a slight edge" at 46-44 percent."

whatever you think of Bush, at least there is press freedom in Iraq now.



http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20041005-050048-8337r



The Web: Iraqi blogs building free speech

By Gene Koprowski
United Press International

Published 10/6/2004 10:04 AM
CHICAGO, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Iraqi citizens in al-'Amil district west of Baghdad lit candles after sunset last evening, said prayers and, for the second consecutive night, quietly protested against terrorism in Iraq, an online dispatch bravely reported Oct. 5.

An English-language report from a courageous American journalist in the field, where children were killed earlier by terrorist thugs at a celebration for the opening of a water plant? No. It is commentary and news reported by a trio of Iraqi brothers -- a doctor and two dentists living in Basra, Baghdad and Samawa City, in southwestern Iraq -- on their famed blog, Iraqthemodel.blogspot.com.

That Web log and reportedly 60 others are bringing to light events and public opinion in Iraq that are not commonly being aired in the conventional media in the United States and elsewhere.While American bloggers have challenged the veracity of major media reports, their Iraqi counterparts are creating a true, free press, online, in their homeland, for the first time in that country's modern history, using Internet technology. The blogs are getting 3,000 to 6,000 visits per day -- up to 200,000 visitors per month -- their producers told United Press International.

Why are you hijacking this thread?