Bush Searching for Pennsylvania Votes

[Freddie Stubbs]

By DEB RIECHMANN
ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -

President Bush, hoping to move Pennsylvania to his win column in this year's election, is reaching out to voters in the state by touting record home ownership in America - a bright spot in the economy.

More than 68 percent of Americans own their own homes, and that record high flows seamlessly into Bush's "compassionate conservative" agenda. It's part of his concept of an "ownership society," which promotes the idea of Americans owning their own homes, and owning and managing their own health care and retirement plans, small businesses and the like.

In a trip to Pennsylvania on Monday, his 25th as president, Bush planned to visit with a new homeowner, tour a housing development and participate in a discussion of home ownership at a YMCA in Ardmore, about 10 miles west of Philadelphia.

Bush has been promoting initiatives to close the gap between white and minority home ownership. While more than 75 percent of white Americans owned their own home in the fourth quarter of 2003, according to the Census Bureau, the rate among minority groups was 49 percent or less.

more: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-elect/2004/mar/15/031501670.html

[TorchTheWitch]

1. in Ardmore???

EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!! Only a scant few miles from me if that. Figures he goes to Ardmore... home of big money Main Liners. I'll be sure to spit out the car window at him.

[11 Bravo]

2. Rumor has it

that prior to searching for Pennsylvania votes, * spent a week and a half just searching for Pennsylvania.

[NightNurse]

3. Does ARDMORE "count" As Pennsylvania anymore?

:shrug: :wow: :grr:

[mrgorth]

4. Worry not

It's being protested.

[Beetwasher]

5. Along w/ A Record Number of Home Owners is Also the Very

under-reported record number of bankruptcies and foreclosures...

[One Taste]

6. would he just get the

fuck out of my state?!:puke:

[Nicholas_J]

7. Late breaking pollshave Kerry winning Pennsylvania

President, Head-to-Head, PA
3/11/2004

Kerry (D) 49%

Bush (R) 47%
Undecided 4%
Data Collected
3/8/04 - 3/10/04

Geography
State of Pennsylvania

Sample Population
802 Registered Voters

Margin of Error
3.5%

Client
KDKA-TV Pittsburgh


WCAU-TV Philadelphia


WNEP-TV Wilkes-Barre

http://www.surveyusa.com/currentelectionpolls.html

[Zynx]

8. Home ownership rates are NEVER a sign of economic strength.

They can represent extreme levels of debt on the part of people who are living beyond their means.