Thursday, August 19, 2004

Tough crowd for Kerry

Kerry is not exactly wowing the veterans as this Chicago Trib article about his speech in Cincy yesterday shows:

Kerry's speech in Cincinnati drew about 6,000 people, fewer than half the 15,000 attending the VFW's national convention. The audience offered polite applause.

But many veterans did not clap at some standard stump-speech lines that usually draw applause, suggesting that numerous former warriors were skeptical if not hostile. At least two men heckled Kerry.


A presidential candidate is in town to make a speech during the VFW convention and barely draws 40% of the vets? And there's nothing in the article to indicate that ONLY VFW conventioneers were allowed in to see the speech.

Worse for Kerry: military folks vote at higher levels than the general population. To wit, 75% of military personnel voted in 2000 and the Department of Defense is taking steps to ensure that the Democrats are unable to disenfranchise the military as they sought to do in 2000 in Florida.

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