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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Quickie Insta-Poll on Edwards
Posted by DavidNYCCNN did a quick poll today (with an MoE of ��5%) about Edwards. I think the screen caps show it better than text alone would:
The "choice of running mate" number in the first panel looks very good, but I was especially glad to see the results in the third panel. Evidently, the phrase "trial lawyer" isn't as automatically toxic as many Republicans might hope. I also just finished the first section of Edwards' book Four Trials and I found it to be very moving and humanizing.
One other thing: I came across a new Annenberg poll (PDF) via Polling Report. Edwards currently gets a 31-17 fave/unfave rating, with 29% "neutral" and 22% undecided. His spread among independents is a nifty 36-8. The same poll put Kerry at 40-36-18-6. (MoE: ��3%.)
I can't wait for the next NC poll.
(Images thanks to Al Rodgers.)
Posted at 01:46 AM in General, North Carolina | Technorati
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I'd like to see what the numbers were for Bentson in 1988. I always thought that was an excellent pick- not to rain on the parade here.
Posted by: steve at July 7, 2004 05:35 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
What is interesting is how well Cheney was received in contrast to his total unpopularity today. What a contrast eh?
Santorum was on last night talking about Edwards. Classic comments (and I'm definitely paraphrasing): "Edwards may be an attractive and slick politician but..." and he went on how he was a liberal trial lawyer.
And Melissa Hart went on about how Edwards was personally responsible for high malpractice costs (this is something that primarily needs to be defeated in red country up here where HMO friendly politicians have helped convince people this is true).
Posted by: seamus at July 7, 2004 10:22 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
On your trial lawyers comments, this is from today's NY Times editorial:
"Before being elected to the Senate, Mr. Edwards made a fortune as a trial lawyer in negligence suits. The Republicans have made it clear that they intend to attack him on that count, and swing-state voters will undoubtedly be seeing ads blaming Mr. Edwards for the high price of malpractice insurance."
Posted by: seamus at July 7, 2004 10:24 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
Annenberg Favorables are measured on a 0-10 scale, which is very incongruous with other favorable numbers that have conisistently placed Bush's unfavorables at 6-10 points higher than Kerry's. Also, even in death Annenberg basically owns the entire neighborhood where I live. I trust the local aristocrat's poll about as far as I can throw it.
Posted by: Chris Bowers at July 7, 2004 11:04 AM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
What do you mean, measured on a 0-10 scale? They ask people, "How do you feel about candidate X, from one to ten?"
And seamus, yeah, that line of attack is incredibly maddening - especially when study after study shows that in states which have capped tort damage awards, insurance rates have still gone up! What a shock: Insurance companies continue to charge what the market will bear AND they have to make smaller payouts. A quick way to bigger profits.
When will doctors realize they are being TOTALLY duped by the insurance companies, who are pretending to be allied with them? Sometimes the free market isn't the solution - the only way to control insurance costs is by regulating what the industry can charge. If doctors ever awaken to this fact, then they'll form alliances with patients rather than insurance companies.
Anyhow, I think we could do a pretty effective ad on this topic. "Big insurance companies want to maximize their profits by refusing to pay their fare share," etc.
Posted by: DavidNYC at July 7, 2004 12:09 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
What do you mean, measured on a 0-10 scale? They ask people, "How do you feel about candidate X, from one to ten?"
Yeah, that's it exactly. Very strange, no?
Posted by: Chris Bowers at July 7, 2004 01:14 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
Bizzaro.
Posted by: DavidNYC at July 7, 2004 02:42 PM | Permalink | Edit Comment | Delete Comment
What did people think of Kerry's zinger last night?
Bush was asked to compare Cheney and Edwards as VPs, and he said that Cheney could step up to be president (implying Edwards' couldn't, of course). Kerry responded with "Yes, that's correct. And he has been stepping in as president for the past four years." Owch! That's more vitriol than I would have expected from Kerry -- and I like it.
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