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There's a lot riding on just one speech

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Earlier this year, Maurice Carroll, a veteran political

reporter and now director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, tried

something new. He attempted to measure the likability of John F. Kerry against

that of President George W. Bush.

"I believe a candidate's likability is one of the elements a voter

considers when he pulls the lever," Carroll said yesterday.

One...

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