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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 07:06 PM
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Josh Marshall on Bush finding gay marriage "troubling"
This is great:

The president says he's "troubled" by the rush of wedding licenses being issued to gay couples in San Francisco. But I don't think that's really what's troubling them. I think what's really got their guts in knots are these numbers from the new CNN/USAToday/Gallup poll which shows that both John Kerry (12%) and John Edwards (10%) hold double-digit leads over the president among likely voters.

The poll actually has the president's approval number holding pretty steady at 51%. But his reelect number -- which is the more significant one heading into an election has fallen to the low 40s.

You don't judge a race when one candidate is in a trough. But this is quite a trough.


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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 07:44 PM
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1. More good stuff about buck-passing
"Knocked on his heels by increasing evidence that he willfully deceived the American public, President Bush is off to a new strategy of spreading around the blame. Let's call it the anti-buck gambit. Don't pass the buck. Just get an M-80, light it, put it over in the corner with the buck on top of it. Then no more buck, no more problem.They can run and they can hide.
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They can pass the buck, eat the buck, blow up the buck, hide it in the drawer, twiddle their thumbs and hope everyone forgets about it. But this buck is a MIRVed missile. And it's coming right for them."
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