Gene Kearns wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:51:12 -0500, "John Gaquin"
wrote:


"Harry Krause" wrote in message

How's the turnout? How's the weather across the state?

Most news outlets reporting unusually high turnout. Some weatherfolk are
now downgrading the storm forecast.


Where the hell were they when we needed them???


Dunno, but the exit poll data is interesting:

The exit poll results, which were based largely on interviews conducted
with voters as they left the polls, showed that about half of voters
considered themselves Democrats, and nearly that many called themselves
independent or "something else." Forty-eight percent said they or
someone else in their household had served in the U.S. military.


(Half Democrats, half indies or something else...really interesting)


About a third said they had finally decided on a candidate within the
past three days, the exit poll results showed. Slightly more than a
third said they chose their candidate because they think he can defeat
President Bush in November. More than half said it was because the
candidate agreed with them on the major issues.

Asked to name the one issue that mattered most in deciding which
candidate to support, the largest number of those polled -- about 30
percent -- cited "health care/Medicare," an issue that Kerry repeatedly
emphasized. About a fifth said their biggest concern was the economy and
jobs, while a similar share said it was the war in Iraq.

About eight in ten said they were very or somewhat worried about the
direction of the nation's economy in the next few years.

Nearly two-thirds said they disapproved of the U.S. decision to go to
war with Iraq, and about seven in ten said they felt the war did not
make American safer from terrorism.



ALL issues on which Bush is very, very vulnerable. If Kerry is the
nominee, he'll have Bush on the run from the get-go.





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