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Bush team confident in steady poll result
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| Last Edited | User 13 Apr 21, 2004 01:37pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Boston Globe |
| News Date | Wednesday, April 21, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Senior officials in the Bush reelection campaign are expressing growing confidence that the president has weathered weeks of rocky national security news -- and may even have benefited from it -- amid polls indicating that President Bush is holding steady against the likely Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
Political strategists in both parties had anticipated problems for Bush from a series of dramatic developments, including the harsh claims in a book by former terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke that the administration had failed to address terrorism and rushed to war against Saddam Hussein; the testimony of the national security adviser and other officials before the Sept. 11 Commission; and the bloody insurgencies and US casualties in Iraq.
But at a minimum, Bush appears to have held his ground. His advisers attribute the durability of his standing in part to an aggressive $40 million advertising blitz last month and his overwhelming head-start in fund-raising, which have helped neutralize negative events as long as the overall focus is on national security. |
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