Are the polls really that bad for Kerry? Probably not.

I believe that this election is the most important in American history, because it's a referendum on the Bush Agenda, which pretty much comes down to extremist policies (economic and otherwise) that favor private interest at the expense of public interest. I don't know if we, as a nation, will ever be able to recover from four more years of Bush.

In just four years, the Bush administration has squandered much more than just our budget surplus and thriving economy; George W. Bush has also severely undermined our nation's standing with the rest of the world. More people, in more countries, hate America than at any other time in our history. And they don't hate us for our freedom, as the republican talking point would have us believe. They hate us because of George W. Bush and the Neo-con agenda.

I believe that we must change course, and I believe that John Kerry and John Edwards will take us in the right direction.

It is against this backdrop that I have been listening to all the major cable news orgs talk about the double-digit bounce for Bush after the convention, and I'm sick . . .  with fear.

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