Poll: More Believe Bush Behind Attack Ads

[madmax]

Poll: More Believe Bush Behind Attack Ads
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 28, 2004

NEW YORK (AP) -- Americans increasingly believe President Bush's re-election campaign is behind the ads attacking Democrat John Kerry's Vietnam experience, a poll found.

Almost half in a poll taken this week say they think the president's campaign is behind the ads that try to undercut Kerry's medals for heroism while just over a third think the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is an independent group, the National Annenberg Election Survey found.

The Swift boat ads, which ran in three swing states earlier this month, challenged Kerry's wartime service in Vietnam for which he received five medals.

More: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Kerry-Vietnam-Opinion.html


The public's belief that Kerry did not earn his medals grew to 30 percent when the attack ads got widespread publicity on cable news networks. But that number has dropped to 24 percent now.

[David Dunham]

1. The ads still hurt Kerry. Now Kerry needs to run anti-Bush ads.

[coloradodem2005]

2. That is not much of an effect.

I guess these ads are backfiring bigtime.

[Guaranteed]

5. It's really not.

It could have been a lot worse. I think Kerry has handled this very, very well.

[CornField]

3. It doesn't matter if they believe it

What matters is if they care that he is behind it. More than a few of the FReepers that I know would wear it like a badge of honor.

[MrBenchley]

4. Watch that number grow...

I mean., really, how dumb do you have to be not to know who was behind this?

And by the way, isn't this Dumbya and his whole disgraceful career in a nutshell: He's so dumb, he ends up smearing himself with an ad that tried to attack the other guy! Wile E. Coyote was Young Tom Edison compared to the Texas Souffle.

And remember, the problem the GOP has isn't that there are vague connections between Junior Birdman and his inept crooked gang with any old ad...it's that the AD IS A PACK OF LIES and they SAID THERE WERE NO CONNECTIONS when there are.

[spooky3]

6. I agree.

[AmerDem]

7. Give it more time...

That figure will be increasing . I predict very soon!

[WindRavenX]

8. ayup

The next few rounds of polls should reflect this. This will fuck Bush big time. It may look like Kerry is getting sunk with these ads, but they will, in the end, end up hurting Bush BIG TIME.