{"id":1181,"date":"2004-03-31T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T23:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/defining-kerry\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T01:36:38","slug":"defining-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/defining-kerry\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bush Scores Points By Defining Kerry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A37462-2004Mar30.html?referrer=email\">Bush Scores Points By Defining Kerry<\/a> By Dan Balz, Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>Kerry officials acknowledge that the Bush campaign tactics over the past month have hurt. <b>&#8221;The Bush people dumped $20 million of negative ads on our heads; it&#8217;s going to have an impact,&#8221;<\/b> said Steve Elmendorf, Kerry&#8217;s deputy campaign manager. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A CNN-USA Today-Gallup Poll showed <b>Bush leading 49 percent to 46 percent<\/b> among registered voters, compared with a Kerry edge of 50 percent to 45 percent just after Super Tuesday. A Pew Research Center poll showed <b>Kerry leading Bush 47 percent to 46 percent<\/b>, down from 52 percent to 43 percent in mid-March. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s overall approval rating moved <b>up to 53 percent<\/b> in the CNN-USA Today-Gallup Poll, after dipping to 49 percent a month ago. Meanwhile, his favorable\/unfavorable ratings, which strategists watch closely as leading indicators of voters&#8217; attitudes, <b>held steady at about 57 percent favorable and 41 percent unfavorable<\/b>. Kerry&#8217;s favorable <b>dipped from 60 percent to 53 percent<\/b> over the past month, and <b>his unfavorable rating rose from 26 percent to 36 percent<\/b>. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[T]he Bush strategy is aimed at preventing Kerry from crossing a threshold of acceptability among voters interested in changing the direction of the administration&#8217;s policies. Voters &#8221;want a change in principle,&#8221; [Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg] said, and the Bush campaign &#8221;wants to make sure there&#8217;s no candidate for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Scores Points By Defining Kerry By Dan Balz, Washington Post Kerry officials acknowledge that the Bush campaign tactics over the past month have hurt. &#8221;The Bush people dumped $20 million of negative ads on our heads; it&#8217;s going to have an impact,&#8221; said Steve Elmendorf, Kerry&#8217;s deputy campaign manager. &#8230; A CNN-USA Today-Gallup Poll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/defining-kerry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Defining Kerry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}