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August 09, 2004

Monday Morning Blogwatch

In the tradition of blog news cross pollentation, here are a few tidbits that have caught my eye this morning...

Turnout for the Kerry-Edwards whistle-stop in Missouri is exciting:

20,000 in Kansas City, 10,000 in St. Louis, 5,000 in Jefferson City and 1,500 in Lawrence (just for Edwards).

Hundreds are even coming out after midnight just to wave at Kerry's train (article).

After witnessing Barak Obama's incredible speech (standing about twelve feet to his left) at the DNC, I can pretty well smell the GOP desperation as Keyes' enters the race late in Illinois. His hypocrisy is already well established, too, since Keyes (a Maryland resident) bashed Hillary in 2000 for her New York run with these words:

I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there, so I certainly wouldn't imitate it.

Go figure.

The Star-Ledger/Eagleton-Rutgers poll from Sunday shows Kerry beating Bush by 20 points in New Jersey. There's also a nice 25 point lead there among women. Bush also saw an increase in his "unfavorable" rating, up to 37 from 31.

Bush is also making his first visit to Virginia in more than a year this morning, evidence that he can't take it for granted as solid GOP territory any longer. More to come...

Posted by amahler at August 9, 2004 10:45 AM

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