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August 06, 2004
Democrats Across the Board Are Pleased
"I can't even think of a single really dissonant note in four days,'' Carter Eskew, a top strategist for Al Gore's campaign in 2000, said. "I don't think there's been a convention in history in which that's true. We sat there in 2000 and looked at how Bush was able to tack to the middle with absolutely no blowback from the core constituencies of the Republican Party and said we should only be so lucky. Guess what? John Kerry is that guy."
Even the opposition was impressed.
"It's so tough for me to say to you on the record, and by that you know what I think," a Republican operative said when asked how Mr. Kerry did on Thursday." I think Kerry had a terrific convention. He presented an image that will be attractive to independents and undecideds. The convention was successful in giving the leopard new spots. For people who are just meeting Kerry for the first time, they made it tougher for our attacks to stick."
Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who set up a focus group in Cincinnati for MSNBC, said 14 of the 20 undecided voters in the room gave Mr. Kerry high marks, with 4 who cast ballots for Mr. Bush in 2000 switching by night's end.
Posted by rich at August 6, 2004 05:12 PM
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