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[Mary Ann Parker]

Don't forget handwriting analysis is admitted in a court of law!!
Another nod to the President.
Didn't we already know about Kerry??
Make it a joyful day.
Mary Ann Parker
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Handwriting analysis claims to show traits of Bush, Kerry

By STEPHEN SINGER
Associated Press Writer

October 30, 2004, 4:29 PM EDT

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--candidateshandwr1030oct30,0,6473374.story

HARTFORD, Conn. -- President Bush is tenacious and efficient, and Sen. John Kerry is cautious and conceited _ at least, that's what an analysis of their handwriting shows.

Sheila Kurtz, who heads the Graphology Consulting Group in New York City, said the candidates' handwriting "crystallizes some of the feelings I had, what their stress level is, what they're thinking, whether they're diplomatic."


Kurtz called the analysis a "very useful tool" that supplements, rather than replaces, voters' views on how candidates stand on particular issues. The analysis was done without bias, she said.

Kurtz and other graphologists do not rely on signatures, but instead use compositions to analyze handwriting. For Bush, Kurtz used a November 1999 letter he wrote while governor of Texas.

Mark Hopper, head of Handwriting Research Corp. in Phoenix, said his analysis of the candidates' handwriting over many years shows Bush is efficient and impatient with tediousness. Kerry is a conceptual thinker, but inflexible and stubborn, a criticism the Democrat has used against Bush.

Kurtz analyzed Kerry's handwriting in a card the Democratic candidate wrote in 2000 to the late Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan of New York.

Bush's small lines on the top of stroke marks and a small hook to the left of a 'T' demonstrate he has a "tenacious single-mindedness," Kurtz said. His use of tightly closed loops in round letters belies a "tendency for narrow vision that might indicate his mind is shuttered almost completely to 'off-the-program' ideas," she said.

At the same time, spaces between letters within a word show that Bush has "considerable intuitive abilities," Kurtz said.

The "relative smallness" of Kerry's writing belies cautiousness and control, Kurtz said. "Straight, firm down strokes of the 'Y's" and "G's" show strong determination and follow-through, she said.

Despite the familiarity most Americans have of the two candidates, Kurtz said her conclusions are based solely on her analysis of his handwriting. She would not say whom she will vote for.

"It doesn't have any bearing with what we know," she said.

Calls were left to the Bush and Kerry campaigns seeking comment.

Hopper said Kerry's tendency to draw the upper portion of an "F," "H" and "L" is typical of someone who is "very strategic, abstract and theoretical."

Spacing between words by Bush demonstrates he is an introvert, despite his chosen profession, Hopper said. "It's an attempt to keep distance between him and others," he said.

He said he will vote for Bush.

The traits Kurtz examined of Bush and Kerry are no different than those she views when working as a consultant to companies seeking executives and managers, she said. The nation's chief executive, like corporate leaders must be a "decision maker, diplomatic, intuitive and open-minded," she said.


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