WASHINGTON – Dealing a severe blow to John Kerry's campaign hopes, which had soared after recent public opinion polls showed Kerry leading President Bush, renowned pollster John Zogby yesterday released his latest U.S. Supreme Court poll showing Bush leading Kerry by a commanding 5 to 4 margin.

The poll showed 0% undecided voters among the Justices polled.  

Political analysts said the news could be a death knell for the Kerry campaign, noting that beginning with the 2000 election cycle, Zogby's Supreme Court poll has proven the best of all polls in predicting the outcome of Presidential elections.

Exploiting a loophole in the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law, the Bush campaign is stopping at nothing to maintain its margin of support in the Supreme Court, with the President even remarking without a hint of sarcasm in a recent speech that Justice Antonin Scalia "looks like he lost weight."

For his part, having just returned from a "tour" of Thailand with Vice President Dick Cheney, a refreshed Justice Antonin Scalia denied that Bush's flattering comments would leave him unable to impartially decide this year's Presidential election.

"You already know this, of course, but I am the most brilliant, impartial jurist ever," Justice Scalia boasted, true to form.  "The nation is in good hands.  And don't worry, those hands won't be changing this year." 

"I have lost weight by the way," he added.  "So nice of the President to notice."