Bush Backing Still Sought in Close Races

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) -

President Bush's detour to Virginia on his way home from Latin America on Monday shows that, despite all his troubles, he can still be considered an asset in a close political race.

Bush will try to push Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore over the edge in the deadlocked campaign's final hours on Monday night. The president and other state Republicans will appear with Kilgore, who served as Bush's Virginia re-election campaign chairman, in a rally at the Richmond airport.

Wrapping up a five-day trip to Latin America, Bush is scheduled to make the stop on his flight home from Panama.

The latest polls shows the Virginia governor's race is a dead heat between Kilgore and Democrat Timothy Kaine leading into Tuesday's voting.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-wh/2005/nov/06/110600783.html

just a couple more days...

Need a few more Dems in at Mayor and City Council there! Go Donna Frye!

Can't imagine that * still has some power after his dip in the polls last week!
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"...he can still be considered an asshat in a close political race."

I wonder just how much a Dem will have to win by to overcome the tilt of the electronic voting machine default for the Repubs?

It will be interesting to watch to see if all the machines produce the same Repub result in 06 or whether some races are allowed to proceed pretty much as they would have with only a minimal tilt for the Repubs. Hope I'm wrong (as I hoped I'd be wrong in predicting the 04 race for Bush), but I think the Repubs will gain about 2 or 3 seats in the mid-term elections around the country.

That's not to say that they'll actually win the elections. It's impossible to know who wins the elections with the electronic voting machines counting the votes. I just feel pretty sure that the elections will go for the Repubs as always, that is, assuming nothing major happens with regard to REQUIRED AUDITS, etc.

I look forward to the elections, if for no other reason, because sooner or later the Dems, one of them somewhere, will actually take off the blinders and see what's happening. Then, if that guy uses all the leverage available to him now in the courts, DU stats, Freeman, Conyers & OH, Clint Curtis, Eaton, etc. etc., what will happen? It's going to break somewhere some time and I feel privileged to be here to watch.

Becvause I'd wait and see how the election turns out before I claimed Bush was or was not an asset.

These days, mere voting may be a formality. I hope not, though.

* bought Ohio last yr.!