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I\u2019m sorry. It can\u2019t have been CNN because it was a CBS poll. CBS\/New York Times &lt;a target=new href=”http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/12\/opinion\/12KOHU.html”>poll&lt;\/a>, and CNN doesn\u2019t — well, it could have been. I don\u2019t know, folks. Who remembers what they were doing two days ago on a holiday weekend? Anyway, it\u2019s not good, and it\u2019s buried deep in the internals of a recent poll, and it wasn\u2019t reported, and it wasn\u2019t dug deep for. So this is something that is also not playing out well, and, see, just as I said: one week after telling that you say they\u2019re going to win the House. One week! It was today. One week ago today, they\u2019re going to win it House; going to win the White House; going to win the Senate. They had such momentum there was no stopping them now — McFadden and Whitehead, 1976. (singing) “Ain\u2019t No Stopping us Now&lt;\/a>.” We had this story by Donald Lambro and the Washington Times, “Base Yet to Unify Behind Kerry&lt;\/a>.” <\/line>Now, how does this happen? Is this media incompetence, too, or is this just the media doesn\u2019t want to “cheerlead”? . I have to laugh at Mr. Pummer (of CBS Market Watch) saying that the media does not want to “cheerlead” (the good economic news). What have be they been doing for Kerry if not cheerleading, because if they\u2019re not cheerleading for Kerry, he doesn\u2019t exist. They have to be cheerleading for him, when they talk about him and talk for <\/emphasize>him. [Lambro] “Democrats say they are more unified than ever in their determination to beat President Bush, but there have been desertions in the party\u2019s ranks by antiwar activists who back…Ralph Nader and grumblings from blacks and Hispanics who say Sen. John Kerry has taken them for granted. The Democrats\u2019 troubles with an often-contentious political base do not end there. Most polls show that at least 12% of all registered Democratic voters say they will vote for Mr. Bush, twice the number of Republicans who intend to vote for Kerry. ‘There is more unity in this election cycle than has ever been seen before, but that doesn\u2019t mean that there is no disagreement and everything is hunky-dory. That certainly is not the case,\u2019 said Democratic campaign strategist Maria Cardona.”<\/line> I don\u2019t buy this. I saw this said the other day, too. You know, some Democrat on some television network talking about these primaries. “Why, we\u2019ve never seen a candidate win this thing as fast as John Kerry did.” They cannot be serious. There is no energy behind John Kerry. All the energy is behind they hate Bush. The idea that Kerry is the most popular nominee of the Democratic Party ever just doesn\u2019t wash, folks. It isn\u2019t true; it isn\u2019t there. Nobody is acting this way. Kerry doesn\u2019t engender this kind of excitement, and yet that\u2019s what they\u2019re saying when they tell us, “We\u2019ve never been this unified. We\u2019ve never chosen a nominee this soon. Why, we set records. Did you see those primaries?” Yeah. They had to go begging for an audience to watch these primaries, where 10% turnout of Democrats in primary states is what was being counted and heralded as some huge big victory. Brian, what\u2019s the matter with you in there? You keep staring? Ah. Oh. He got sunburned eyeballs. He got sunburned. You\u2019re supposed to close your eyes. I thought something was wrong. You were blinking that something was wrong in here. <\/line><\/p>\n

“No one knows yet how many anti-war activists who formed the base of Howard Dean\u2019s army of supporters before his campaign imploded are backing Ralph Nader, but the consumer crusader showing some of his largest numbers in heavily Democratic states like Pennsylvania where he\u2019s polling 8% of the vote. Other episodes of party disagreement have broken out in the last month, when minority leaders expressed their displeasure with the mostly white makeup of the Kerry campaign staff. Among them, last month, Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza, one of the country\u2019s most politically powerful Hispanic organizations, openly complained to Kerry that not a single one of your senior staff is Latino.” [Kerry sing-song voice] “Weeeell, you should come to my hoooomes&lt;\/a> and look at the staaaaff there.” (Yzaguirre:) “Quite frankly, we find this deeply…” (clearing throat) Sorry, folks, I made that up. Sitting here having fun. (laughing) Something he would probably say. “Quite frankly, we find this deeply troubling and raise questions about the seriousness of your commitment to diversity.”<\/line>Ms. Cardona, who\u2019s mounting a major Hispanic TV ad outreach drive for the Democrats has said there was a meeting the other night of Kerry campaign outreach staffers and Latinos. It seems things are on the right track now.” So there\u2019s that, and then there\u2019s this in the Washington Post today&lt;\/a>. “In Democratic Strongholds in New Jersey, Voters Not Yet Sold on Kerry.” I\u2019ve been telling you about New Jersey for three weeks now. New Jersey, as of today, is in play. If they (Kerry\u2019s team) have to start spending money in New Jersey! Folks. New Jersey ought to be a state that they\u2019ve locked up, but this is not good news for John Kerry.<\/line>“Eugene Bradley does not swing. At 50, Bradley, an operations manager for Synagro, a waste management company, has been devoted to the Democratic Party for as long as he has voted. But these days, when Bradley thinks of the November elections, he almost always thinks of voting against President Bush, rather than for Sen. John F. Kerry. He can let loose a torrent of opinions about [Bush] …but when it comes to talking up the Massachusetts Democrat who would replace him, well… He would like to like Kerry. He would like to sing his praises. He would like to feel — something — about him. ‘I am not that up on him,\u2019 Bradley said. ‘I don\u2019t feel a connection with him. He\u2019s basically another politician. In my heart of hearts, I think they could have dug up somebody better.'” <\/line> Just the idea! They did <\/emphasize>“dig somebody up.” I mean, Kerry looks like Lurch which is from the Addams Family which is a family that slept in coffins. They did “dig him up.” I called him in the TIME magazine story — did you see the TIME magazine interview, (Program Observer) Mr. Snerdley? Did you see that, Brian? The ten questions with Rush Limbaugh? It was good. It was good. Anyway, I called him “the charismatic dud,” and that\u2019s exactly what he is. He doesn\u2019t engender any excitement whatsoever. “I don\u2019t feel a connection with him. He\u2019s basically another politician.” He doesn\u2019t connect. By the way, all joking aside, that\u2019s an excellent way to describe his problems: “He doesn\u2019t connect with people.” He really doesn\u2019t, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m optimistic about this outcome, folks, because I think when it gets down to, you know, nitty-gritty time, people want to vote for. <\/strong>I know there\u2019s all this anti-Bush emotion and it\u2019s going to exist, but there\u2019s not that much hatred in this country. This is another — just like the media is misreporting or underreporting the economy, they are over-reporting the hatred for Bush. Vastly over-reported it. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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