'You'll Hear From Us'
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And now the most interesting two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine:
Bush Push?
A new poll says that, in a head-to-head challenge, John Kerry now holds his biggest lead yet over President Bush. The gallup poll -- taken yesterday and the day before -- shows likely voters would choose Kerry over Bush 55 to 43 percent.
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What's more Kerry's Democratic rival, John Edwards, also would beat Bush, by 54 to 44 percent.
However, another poll -- taken through last night -- produced a different result. The Rassmussenreports.com tracking poll, which had also shown Kerry ahead of Bush now puts Bush ahead 48 to 43 per cent.
TV Crew Turned Away
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While Democrats were making the most of charges that President Bush didn't show up for duty as a National Guardsman, a TV crew showed up to a Senate Small Business Committee hearing on the president's budget.
But the TV crew was blocked from getting in ... by aides to the absent John Kerry -- the ranking Democrat on the committee who was away on the campaign trail. Still, a Kerry aide, quoted in the Washington Post, insists -- "it was a mistake" not to let the crew in, and it had nothing to do with any fear of TV pictures of the campaigning Kerry's empty seat.
'You'll Hear From Us'
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Speaking of TV crews being blocked, when reporting his story earlier from in front of John Edwards's Georgetown home, Brian Wilson was approached by a woman who insisted -- "I can't let you continue unless you get this cleared with the campaign folks in Raleigh."
Brian and his camera crew were on a public street, so he told her he didn't need clearance. The woman responded -- "You'll hear from us." Though she followed Brian in her car for a while, we haven't heard anything since.
Hamas Has a Suggestion
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The terrorist group Hamas says Israeli properties left behind under Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to evacuate Israeli settlements should be given to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. A Hamas official, quoted in the Haaretz newspaper, says these would become -- "special neighborhoods." But first, he says, there needs to be more suicide murders -- "in order to speed the withdrawal."
— FOX News' Michael Levine contributed to this report