As far as the poll is concerend, I found what Congressman Meeks (D-NY) said on Crossfire yesterday pretty much sums it up:
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CARLSON: Congressman, the poll that we just were talking about gets more interesting when you break it up.
What I was surprised by is that, of all the issues presented by pollsters to respondents, the economy was the No. 1 concern of most people asked. And George Bush won when you asked people who's a better steward of that economy. If Democrats can't win on that question, they have no chance in the fall. You know that.
MEEKS: Democrats are going to win on all the issues, because Democrats are moving in the right direction.
You just came from a month where you had this masquerade party. And what's going to come out clearly -- you don't have to take my word for it. But people are manufacturing John Kerry's record. In fact, you can just look at today's "Wall Street" -- I mean today's "Washington Post" talking about how his record is being distorted by the GOP. And these facts are going to soon come out.
I urge all of them out there to begin -- just pick it up on the Web site and look at the record of -- especially about defense and watch how similar that Dick Cheney, talking about the 1990s, different period of time, talking about downgrading some of our weapons systems, because we're going after the Soviet Union.
Look at it. The truth is going to come out. Now the time for this -- the four days that they had, those days are over. The truth will come out.
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MEEKS: You have got a convention where they mentioned Kerry's name more than they mentioned Bush's name. Never once did I hear Osama bin Laden's name.
And we're fighting the war on terror, I think that's the person who has terrorized us, not -- not Iraq. We talk about an administration that said in the beginning that it would cost us $20 billion and that the American taxpayers wouldn't have to pay for it, that it would come from the oil reserves in Iraq.
Well, we're now above $200 billion, spending $1.5 billion a week, based upon the lies that we were told. We were told when we went into Iraq they were going to be waving the American flag. Well, we don't see that happening yet. So there seems to be -- it's a disaster. And when the president said
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(They had to go to break after that).
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/03/cf.01.html
Basically, the whole convention was to scare people, scare them about terror and Iraq (completely different things, in case you still don't realize it), and to remind them of how wonderful the president was on and after 9/11. I'm not contradicting that the president did a good job immediatly following 9/11 (well after 7 minutes past at least), but having the whole convention with speaker after speaker go on and on about Bush is Great and crap like that makes me sick. And then you get the VP and P up there lying about how the economy is doing well. It is just hilarious.
So some people were fooled by this "masquerade party", but "The truth is going to come out."