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...Bush won by courting “Nascar dads,” this year the consensus among political professionals is that it’s “security moms” that will pick our next President. In all three debates, both candidates made targeted appeals to these voters. All this focus on “security moms,” however, may be obscuring an equally, if not more important, trend: the rise of the young voter. In 2004, the candidate who wins will be the candidate who can swing the “college kid?...
...former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would indeed be fought on the question of trust, he said - not in one or another account of past events, but in his government's ability to keep the nation secure and protect its record economic expansion...
...Iraq war. But after pegging so much on it, Labor's message about Howard's truthfulness either wasn't believed or didn't matter. "There's no such thing as an honest politician, so it's not really an issue," says Arron Tomvald, a 33-year-old Liberal voter in Queensland's Longman. There will be questions, too, about Labor's campaign - from an unsuccessful candidate in Victoria, for one. Latham didn't make a single visit to his electorate, the candidate says: the campaign "has felt pretty New South Wales?centric...
...website, Liou said, provides an interesting snapshot of changing voter sentiment, especially after specific political events, such as debates and speeches...
...site also offers information about the candidates and help on registering to vote in the actual election—which Liou hopes will lead to greater voter turnout come November...