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...effort has been a phenomenal success, by some measure at least—the results in CNN’s poll after the last debate last Friday night had Kerry ahead 74-23 (with 3 percent saying it had been a draw), despite statistically reasonable polls done by ABC News and others which showed a much narrower 3-point lead...
...initial soundings from the first presidential debate brought Kerry some good news: an ABC News poll found that women gave Kerry stronger ratings than men did. A CBS poll indicated that Kerry's likability rating among undecided women had moved above the President's. But Kerry has more work to do. "We've suffered a little bit because of our focus on security," says Kerry campaign strategist Joe Lockhart. "We haven't talked enough about issues like health care that women care about." The campaign planned an immediate pivot: Kerry's speech last Saturday focused on the middle-class squeeze...
...Clubhouse is a boy's parents' fantasy, then life as we know it (ABC, Thursdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) is about a girl's parents' nightmare: three high school guys who care more about scoring with girls than on the infield. "They say boys think about sex every 15 seconds," says Ben (Jon Foster). "I think about it every five seconds." For life, this is the fundamental truth of teen boyhood--who can argue?--and the stories are all about sex, its pursuit and its complications. Handsome jock Dino (Sean Faris) has a girlfriend but can't get her to have...
...least give Housewives credit for looking at what our unrealistic ideals of domesticity do to women. Those ideals still rule on two new reality shows, Trading Spouses on Fox and Wife Swap on ABC, which give two moms a chance to run each other's homes. Both shows are a hoot, but they also judge women entirely in terms of their housekeeping skills. On Swap, a millionaire with four nannies tearfully realizes she needs to spend less time at the spa and more with the kids: "I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me!" Even Lifetime...
More than 40 years after June Cleaver, TV has again discovered the American housewife. She may wish it hadn't. In ABC's Desperate Housewives (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.), a suburban mom (Brenda Strong) wakes up one morning, does her chores, then shoots herself in the head. Her suicide leads her friends to question their own unhappy lives, from the career woman mired at home with her unruly kids (Felicity Huffman) to the maniacally perfect Martha Stewart wannabe (Marcia Cross...