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March 08, 2004Swing Voters Prefer Bush Policies Overseas, Kerry At HomeI received an email from the Centrist Policy Network which highlights this Pew study of swing voters.
I track with this, strongly favoring Kerry on domestic policy, while weakly favoring Bush on foreign policy, with the net being pro-Kerry Posted by rickheller at March 8, 2004 06:38 PM Comments
This poll strongly reinforces what many of us have said, that among independents there's serious disenchantment with Bush on domestic policies coupled with general approval of his forceful (for better or worse) foreign policy. So it seems that it may come down to whether people feel America is safe enough vis-a-vis terrorism to express its sentiments on domestic issues. I've thought it might well come down to this as I have wondered about it myself constantly over the past few months. Are Americans ready to return to navel-gazing, as it were? Shall we return to our domestic obsession? My feeling is that Americans desparately want to return to looking inwards, but don't yet feel it's safe to do so. Posted by: bk at March 8, 2004 11:22 PMThe survey does seem to reinforce what you've been saying here, bk -- independents leaning toward Bush on national security, but Kerry on domestic policy. It's also why I think national security is the logical issue for Kerry to base a VP pick on. If he selects someone with unassailable national security credentials, he moves a step away from that notion that he's too liberal or not tough enough on defense. And he parries the Bush team's strongest argument. Pick someone who's both serious and relatively non-partisan -- like, say, Sam Nunn. Posted by: William Swann at March 9, 2004 08:58 AM |
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