Kerry: I Fibbed About Hillary Poll
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry has finally come
clean on the fib he told at last week's "Rock the Vote" presidential debate -
where he claimed that he led New York Sen. Hillary Clinton by a whopping 15
points in a recent presidential survey.
As NewsMax.com reported the next day, about two-thirds of the way through the
proceedings, CNN moderator Anderson Cooper turned to Kerry and said, "We've got
an e-mail for you. It says, 'What do you think about the recent polls that put
Hillary Clinton 20 percent ahead of all you guys?'
Without missing a beat the Massachusetts Democrat shot back, "Well, it all
depends on which poll you look at. I saw a poll the other day that showed me
about 15 points ahead of her."
As we noted, every major media poll taken on the 2004 race since Al Gore
withdrew last December shows Hillary leading the Democratic pack, usually by 20
or more points. In a Quinnipiac University survey released two weeks ago, Sen.
Clinton bested Kerry by 36 points.
MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews reported that he contacted Kerry's
office last week to get the source of the poll cited by the candidate but aides
couldn't come up with an answer.
Today, however, Congressional Quarterly campaign correspondent Craig Crawford
reports that Kerry has finally owned up to the fib, with a staffer admitting
that the presidential hopeful "misspoke."
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