Election Recycling: Poll After Poll After Poll After Poll Edition
• Kerrywill accept nomination at convention; DNC expected to increase fundraising for post-convention spending. [ WP and NYT and LAT and BG ]
• Kerrybegins 11-day campaign on national security and foreign policy, including Iraq and terrorism: "We deserve a president of the United States who doesn't make homeland security a photo opportunity and the rhetoric of a campaign. We deserve a president who makes America safer." [ WP and LAT and BG ]
• Bushreelection would mean near universal spending cuts in the 2006 budget, White House memo warns. [ WP ]
•Democrats ponderKerry'scautious approach to campaigning. Foreign policy advisor: "They've basically made the strategic decision not to attack. Their polls have told them that they should let events take their course, letBushwallow in their own problems, and thatKerrywould suffer from going on the attack." [ NYT ]
•Critics question political timing of terror warning, sayBushneeded a distraction. [ NYT ]
•AsBush'sIraq policy eclipsesKerry's,some Democrats sayKerryshould call for deadline of withdrawal. [ LAT ]
• Bushcamp focuses onKerry. Mehlman: "The more people know about him, the more they find aKerrypresidency troubling. Poll after poll after poll after poll shows that. . .John Kerry'snet numbers have changed hugely." [ WT ]
•1 million new Hispanic voters are mostly located in swing states. [ BG ]
• Kerrycamp wants apology fromTerry Holtfor comment aboutKerry'stime in Vietnam. [ WT ]
•Civil rights groups warn of voting problems. [ USAT ]
• Gorecalls forRumsfeld, Rice, Tenet, Wolfowitz, Feith, Camboneto go. [ WP and NYT and WT ]
• Kerrylived paycheck-to-paycheck in his "gypsy" years, 1984-1995. [ WSJ ]