Presidential Race

It’s Raining Polls….

Survey USA Illinois for Presidency

10/7/2004
Kerry (D) 55%
Bush (R) 39%
Other/Undecided 6%
Data Collected 10/4/04 – 10/6/04
Sample Population 644 Likely Voters
Margin of Error 4.0%
Client WBBM-TV Chicago
KSDK-TV St. Louis

I’ll assume this won’t make it’s way to the GOP website.

SurveyUSA uses computerized polling which most people are still skeptical of the reliability of the effects of such methodology on samples.

Standing Up To Dean?

Cheney from the debate:

“So they, in effect, decided they would cast an anti-war vote, and they voted against the troops. Now, if they couldn’t stand up to the pressures that Howard Dean represented, how can we expect them to standup to Al Qaeda?”

Uh-huh. But can this administration stand up to Grover Norquist

John McCain:

“Throughout our history, wartime has been a time of sacrifice. … What have we sacrificed? As mind-boggling as expanding Medicare has been, nothing tops my confusion for cutting taxes during wartime. I don’t remember ever in the history of warfare when we cut taxes

This is an attempt to sell this war on the cheap. Want a graphical description of the problem, go see Brad DeLong