[lbo-talk] Dick Morris: Why the New Polls Are Actually Bad News For Bush

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 20 16:09:06 PDT 2004


mike larkin wrote:


>Looks like Mr. Landslide is backpedaling.
>
><http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22968.htm>http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22968.htm


>After all, Kerry is, in fact, way too liberal for the average American voter.

Can someone forward Morris the URL for the lbo-talk archives? Evidently he hasn't been informed that Kerry is really a Republican.


>The genders see the War on Terror in totally different terms.
>Rasmussen reports that men, by 51 percent to 36 percent, say that
>the U.S. is safer than it was before 9/11. But women are evenly
>divided, with 41 percent feeling more safe and 42 percent, less.
>
>Women disagree with the entire Bush strategy of fighting terrorism.
>Offered a choice between "letting terrorists know we will fight back
>aggressively" and "working with other nations," men opt for fighting
>aggressively by 53 to 41 percent while women want us to work with
>other nations instead by 54 to 36 percent - a gender gap of 30
>points.

Sometimes it's so embarrassing to be a man.


>If Bush permanently alienates women by his words and tone in the War
>on Terror, he'll throw away the issue that he needs to carry him
>into a second term.

Maybe he should go on a toe-sucking tour with "Dick" Morris.

Doug



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