This from Dick Bell at the Kerry/Edwards campaign blog:
"No wonder George Bush rushed to attack John Edwards. In an overnight NBC poll after the announcement, Kerry-Edwards beat Bush-Cheney 49-41."The NBC poll undercut Bush's effort to present Cheney as more qualified to be president. In one of his typically smirking responses to a question from the press asking him to compare Edwards and Cheney, Bush replied: "Dick Cheney can be president. Next." NBC asked voters which VP candidate would make a better president. The voters picked Edwards over Cheney, 45-38.
"And to add to the angst at the White House, when asked which VP candidate was more optimistic about the future, Edwards beat Cheney, 49-28."
But just in case anybody needs more reason to dislike Cheney, here is Bob Herbert from the New York Times:
"According to Time magazine, 'The Washington Post once referred to Cheney the congressman as a `moderate,' prompting him to order an aide to call the paper's editors and `suggest they look at my voting record.'"As we've learned, there was nothing moderate about the Bush-Cheney tax cuts. They've transformed the Clinton-Gore surpluses into staggering budget deficits. And there was very little that was moderate about Mr. Cheney's voting record as a congressman from Wyoming. He opposed federal funding for abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. He voted against funding for Head Start, against subsidizing school lunches for poor children, against aid to college students and against the Older Americans Act, which offered nutrition and other services to the elderly."