<html> <body> the phrase "chicken little sky is falling" is most heard in description of the democrat reaction to the polls. the polls showing how rotten kerry is doing, be they flawed or otherwise, could be the best thing that's happened to the "man from Massachusetts."  he is making an effort to fight back, sort of.  appears the polls scared him -- or chicken littled him -- into making at least one or two sensible campaign statements.  and modifying his incompetent campaign staff. yet, chronic democrat apologists insist on arguing about the polls in order to take attention away from the campaign's, and the party's, obvious failures.  and to avoid a realistic discussion of what can be done to keep karl rove from tearing kerry apart like a plucked chicken. R At 09:04 AM 9/9/2004, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I didn't jump into the Chicken Little Sky is Falling debates over the weekend, but just a reminder that a lot of polls are showing a very close race still:   The Economist pollsters surveyed 2702 respondents from Sept 6-8 (completely after Convention and Labor Day) and found the race essentially dead even (margin of error +/- 2), with strong disapproval of Bush on job performance and where the country is going: <a href="http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/YouGovJ.pdf">http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/YouGovJ.pdf</a> (Also see Zogby/Wall Street Journal state-by-state polls showing Kerry with a lead in the electoral college: <a href="http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=860">http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=860</a>)     <dl> <dd>----- Original Message ----- <dd>From: <a href="mailto:mike_larkin2001@yahoo.com">mike larkin</a> <dd>To: <a href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org</a> <dd>Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:35 AM <dd>Subject: [lbo-talk] New CBS Poll: Bad News For Kerry <dd>"CBS) One week after their convention, the Republican ticket of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney hold a seven-point lead over Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards among registered voters surveyed in a new CBS News poll. <dd>The Republicans’ gain in voter support comes about through two changes that appear to have happened at that convention – a major improvement in the President’s approval ratings on handling terrorism (already the area where he scored best), and significant negative changes in perceptions of the Democratic nominee." <dd><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/09/opinion/polls/main642108.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/09/opinion/polls/main642108.shtml</a> </dl></blockquote></body> </html>