44 DAYS TILL ELECTION: Taking a break from campaigning, President Bush spent Saturday at the Bush compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, and planned to visit hurricane-damaged Alabama and Florida on Sunday. Sen. John Kerry was in Boston for a fundraiser and the taping of his coming appearance on the “Dr. Phil” television program.
PRODUCT PLACEMENT
Jim Gamble, whose Right- WingStuff.com sells conservative T-shirts, buttons and bumper stickers, says John Kerry is so dull that’s he’s difficult to make fun of. But among the slogans popular on anti- Kerry merchandise are “Keep America From Committing Hari Kerry” and “If Kerry Is the Answer, It Must Have Been a Stupid Question.” The anti- Bush slogans are far more plentiful, perhaps because bumper-sticker artists have had four years to think them up. Among them: “Re-Defeat Bush” and “Why Change Horses Mid-Apocalypse
BY THE NUMBERS
61
The percentage of voters who say it is “very likely” they will watch debates between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, according to a new Pew Research Center Poll.
VERBATIM
John Kerry, noting Thursday that the University of New Mexico’s football team had beaten Texas Tech–for the first time in 20 years:
“I am basking in the glow of the victory of the Lobos. That’s the first win over Texas in a while and the next one’s coming in November.”
