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The latest polling shows Kerry pulling up even with Bush.

The combination of the utter disasterous situation the US is encountering in Iraq, combined with Bush's missing and/or doctored military records, is beginning to stick in a negative way to Bush, in the run up period to the November election.

I think finally even the Americans will join the rest of the world in supporting their rejection of Bush, and he will not be elected for a second term.

If I had to choose one word to describe Bush's re-election problems, it would be the SLEAZE factor. :blink:

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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Here it comes, this is just the beginning, but one can already feel the tide finally turning against Bush:

Bush and the house of cards

Bush and the house of cards

The chickens are coming home to roost for the Bush administration; as the situation in Iraq turns from bad to worse, the president's re-election chances are slipping away

By MICHAEL HARRIS -- For the Ottawa Sun

According to the latest Harris Poll (No. 66), the much-ballyhooed bounce for the president out of the recent Republican convention in New York has vanished. Ahead of Democratic rival John Kerry by 10 points as recently as June, President Bush now finds himself a point behind in the race for the White House.

The main reason for the tightening of the race is this stark statistic: 51% of respondents do not believe that President Bush deserves to be re-elected, though 45% still believe that he does.

Republican prospects are shrivelling in the long, cold shadow of Iraq. As the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal slug it out for their chosen candidate, the objective information on the Iraq war has gone from bad to worse for the administration.

 

Yesterday, the National Intelligence Council, in a document approved by the National Intelligence Board chaired by the acting director of the CIA, John E. McLaughlin, gave its first formal assessment of the war in Iraq since October 2002. It was an ugly picture. Best case, Iraq will remain "tenuous" in political, economic, and security terms for the foreseeable future. Worst case, it will slide into a chaotic civil war in which the United States will become an active ally of one of the factions vying for power. In other words, the U.S. may have found its West Bank and Gaza.

The expert pessimism about the progress of the Iraq war stands in sharp contrast to rosy assessments from the White House. For months the president has been hawkishly optimistic about Iraq, despite the bloody evidence of nightly newscasts and more than 1,000 U.S. dead in a war that the secretary general of the UN told the BBC this week was "illegal."

The credibility gap between the president's version of events in Iraq and the documented evidence to the contrary is growing ever wider. One of the administration's stock defences of the Iraqi fiasco is that average Iraqis are "better off" now that they are rid of Saddam Hussein. But if the quality of their daily lives is used as the measure of that assertion, it is at the very least highly questionable.

Read the whole article and you will understand why Kerry's going to win.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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Dear maplesyrup,

I hate to be a pessimist, but I think Bush is going to win. No one (well hardly anyone) in the US cares one whit about the situation in Iraq turning into 'dogsh#t'. The question is, "Did Bush make the average shmoe in the US feel safer?".

The old adage 'the devil you know is better than the devil you don't' is why re-election is the most probable outcome of any election.

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Do you feel safer? Seriously. I sure don't.

There is so much civil strife, so many peope being killed, including Americans, on a daily basis, it must be having some impact. Imagine if Canadians were being slaughtered like that, how we would be reacting, and thinking, in this country.

It just seeems to me that the present US Administration is becoming more and more isolated.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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