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Poll: Do the new OBL/AQ videos make a difference in the polls?

Telegraph

President Bush has opened a six-point lead over John Kerry in the first opinion poll to include sampling taken after the new Osama bin Laden videotape was broadcast on Friday night.

The Newsweek poll published yesterday, only three days before the presidential election, put Mr Bush on 50 per cent and Mr Kerry on 44 per cent. A similar poll conducted a week earlier gave the president 48 per cent to his Democratic challenger's 46 per cent.
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I imagine it should help Kerry demonstrating that Bush is incompetent
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Exactly. Any reasonable person would infer from OBL's grandstanding Bush's utter failure to capture or even put a dent in OBL's operation. (keep in mind that past events indicate that several years transpire between one big hit and the next.)
It's simply unbelievable anyone would try to spin it any other way.
 
Originally posted by: JustAnAverageGuy
I imagine it should help Kerry demonstrating that Bush is incompetent

But it will help bush.
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If being shown as incompetent mattered, Bush would be losing to Nader by a landslide.
 
Reasonable? Heheh... this coming from the people that still think Bush is in Iraq for those WMD's...

Based on the stupidity of people and their inability to think outside the box, Bush++;
 
Though highly irrational, it will help Bush.

Oh well, at least he'll provide more interesting news over the next four years.
 
Tyler Lisenbee, a property manager from Denver who was fishing with his 10-year-old daughter, Rachel, in a lake at a downtown park, said that he voted for Mr. Bush in 2000 but was leaning toward Mr. Kerry, mainly because of the war in Iraq. The bin Laden tape, he said, has not helped him make a choice.

"Bush has been in office all this time, and Osama is still running around," Mr. Lisenbee said. "I don't know if Kerry can do a better job, but maybe it's worth trying somebody new."

Mr. Lisenbee said he thought Mr. bin Laden would not affect the election at all, "unless if they catch him in the next few days - then I'd probably vote for Bush."
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Looks like Bush better get busy if he wants that guy's vote. 😉

Nice link, to the Times? No polling info etc...
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Sure it's anecdotal, about as useful, IMO, to the Newsweek poll.
 
Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
Originally posted by: arsbanned

Sure it's anecdotal
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:thumbsdown:

Funny how even posters here disagree... Note poll results
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If you factor the "no effect" and "hard to tell" with "Helps Kerry" the poll indicates strongly in his favor. But yeah, people other than Bush's drones can and will disagree with each other. That's a good thing.
 
The sad thing is that bin Laden probably wants Americans to vote for Bush. After all, Bush only irritates Islamic radicals (and pretty much anyone else disaffected with US foreign policy); he'll stir up the kind of violent opposition that someone as relatively friendly and politically savvy as Kerry would probably try to defuse.

So you could say that if you vote for Bush, the terrorists win. 😉
 
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