he's going i
into semi-retirement.

Great read!!

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/nyc-breslin1101,0,7396742.column?coll=ny-ny-col umnists

Then a night or so ago, somebody finally tried a poll of cell phone users between the ages of 18 and 29. John Zogby conducted the survey in conjunction with Rock the Vote and the results showed Kerry at 55 percent and Bush at 40.

Then the Kerry people ran their own poll, which took a lot of work. It was the first time they had reached any cell phone users. The result was Kerry 59 and Bush 39.

Then I saw on television yesterday, and I hate to single him out, but he singled himself out, this fellow Bill Schneider on CNN and he is their election expert and he said that cell phones didn't mean anything. He's right. They didn't mean anything in 1950.

First votes counted in 2004 election.
Kerry: 7

Bush: 19

Not bad news, though.

2000:

Gore: 5

Bush:21

Nader: 1

That gives Kerry a boost from the under 20% that Gore received to  almost 28%.

Bush pissed off 2 voters in that cozy little burgh.

so I am seeing a trend.

If Kerry can extend this trend over the rest of NH, then he will bury the shrub in a torrent of electoral votes.

I am counting the NH 4 EV in the Kerry column on my Cspan electoral map.

And I watched the debate last night.

1. I learned that our troops are more facile.

2. I found out that the White House feels it neccessary to respnond to rumors on the internets [sic]. Very telling.

3. Bush is so used to having his way with the press, that he doesn't even feel that he has to let a let a moderator finsh a question at a debate. This betrays one personality trait: arrogance.

4. That Bush, while trying to score points, demonstrates that he really was the star of his Harvard business class. He isn't even aware of his financial history. His missed the point of Kerry's statement, but most people did, it does demonstate that Bush expects other people to be as dumb as him.

I went directly to that website that Dick Cheney told me to go, er.., tried to tell me to go. Factcheck.com told me the following:  "Bush does own part interest in "LSTF, LLC", a limited-liability company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales."

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx@docID=275.html

So Cheney doesn't bother to do his job as president of the Senate and meeet all of the senators (not just his party). And Bush is unaware of what he owns.

Are these people the best we can do as a country?

5. Kerry was prepared well and called questioners by their names. That won over the crowd. He was thoughtful and Bush was cranky.

6.Bush isn't funny, but people laugh at him because he laughs at himself. He thinks life is the Blue Collar Comedy tour. He hasn't ever had to deal with everyday American reality the way a family who loses their bread-winner or son in war has to. Reality has never meet with Mr. Bush and even if he loses, he will just treat it as he treats everything else..., with befuddlement.