I just saw this tracking poll from 2000 that gave me more hope.  It was from Oct. 27, just about a week before the election.  Bush 52, Gore 39.  This was after Gore "lost" his debates.  He still went on and got more votes than Bush.  The polls were wrong then and they are still wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/27/tracking.poll/index.html

Check out Kerry's daughter at Cannes....she is fabulous.  Wouldn't you rather have her as first daughter as opposed to Bush's two? (Wardrobe malfunctions are no big deal in France)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040517/photos_ts_afp/040517173816_rslri5ml_photo0

How petty can Bush get?  This on top of the marriage amendment...I find it unbelievable.

PARIS (AP) -- The United States is suspending imports of all French processed meat and poultry products, including cold cuts and delicacies like foie gras, because of food safety concerns, officials in both countries said Tuesday.

U.S. experts who inspected plants in France starting last month said they didn't conform with U.S. food safety requirements. Officials of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service found the sanitation systems failed to meet U.S. standards, said Steve Cohen, a department spokesman.

Cohen did not say what the problems were, only that officials believe the move is "vital to ensuring the continued protection and confidence of the public."

There seems to be a lot of Dean supporters who are saying that they will write him in if he doesn't become the nominee.  You can't possibly think that's a good idea.  If you guys pull another Nader then you will be blamed and hated for winning Bush the election even if you don't deserve it.  Just something to consider.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill likened President Bush (news - web sites) at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," according to excerpts on Friday from a CBS interview.

O'Neill, who was fired by Bush in December 2002, also said the president did not ask him a single question during their first one-on-one meeting, which lasted an hour.

"As I recall it was just a monologue," he told CBS' "60 Minutes," which will broadcast the entire interview on Sunday.

In making the blind man analogy, O'Neill told CBS his ex-boss did not encourage a free flow of ideas or open debate.

"There is no discernible connection," CBS quoted O'Neill as saying. The president's lack of engagement left his advisers with "little more than hunches about what the president might think," O'Neill said, according to the program.

CBS said much of O'Neill's criticisms of Bush are included in "The Price of Loyalty," an upcoming book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind.

Harsh!