He's doing better than slick Willy at this point, as well as ANY PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGER IN US HISTORY!!! The corporate media will never tell you this because they love a tight race. This thing is Kerry's to lose.
read this:
http://www.thehill.com/mellman/051204.aspxsome snips:
Kerry’s legendary lead
“So Mark, how well is John Kerry doing?”
“Better than any challenger in modern times has ever been doing at this point in this race!”
“You wouldn’t know that from the press spin.”
“Like my mother always said (quoting Santayana), those who do not remember the past are doomed to relive it.”
Of course, some incumbents who went on to lose were doing better than Bush is today. The president’s father led Clinton by six points at this stage but was beaten anyway.
Thus, Kerry’s margin is 11 points better than was Bill Clinton’s at a similar point in time against Bush I. What, you haven’t seen that “Kerry stronger than Clinton” headline?
Only one challenger has ever done as well against an incumbent at a comparable time in the election cycle. Jimmy Carter had a similar six-point lead over the unelected and subsequently defeated Gerald Ford. The nation had just been through the long national nightmare of Watergate and Ford had pardoned Nixon.
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