The Bushites are winning (AGAIN!!!)

This doesn't look good guys!

They are winning in Philadelphia. They are winning in Mississippi and Kentucky. I will not be surprised to see Jindal win in Louisiana.

Bushites are advancing!


John

The last I saw, MS is about even and Street is leading comfortably in Philly.

MS is very close
we might pick up a bunch of seats in the VA legislature

what #'s are you looking at?

breaking the tie in favor of the we Dems!

In local races. We won reelection in Salt Lake City.

Bush carried KY, and MS. And will again. But in all the areas we need to win, we are doing very well.

I think today is a good day for us.

We are ahead 22% in Philly and MS is tied!

We could still win in Louisiana if the Dem's do what they did last year with Landrieu!

for mississippi?

she could run for Breaux's seat in the Seante.

for ANYONE. Based the f*** on WHAT? The ECONOMY? The WAR? JOBS? Someone PLEASE EXPLAIN.

whistleass tells them what they want to hear and they fall for it.

I really hope this country wakes up and smells the coffee next year.

This pains me to admit, and I mean it really pains me, but I'm going to be honest. Hopefully, it will make a difference to somebody, somewhere.

Way back in the day, when I first registered to vote, I didn't know the difference between a Republican and a Democrat. I worked at an insurance company. As I looked around it seemed the Republicans were the ones with the money and the Democrats were the working stiffs - like me. Well, I wanted to be associated with the money guys, so I registered Republican. Simple as that. I didn't know.

Rush Limbaugh and the like pounded this country for years brainwashing people into believing Liberal is a dirty word and Democrat is worse. I never liked Rush Limbaugh from day one, so I should have known something was wrong way back then!

Newt Gingrich and his gang came along with their arrogance and their "Contract with America" and they pissed me off. I had never voted a straight party ticket before, but I did the first election after those bastards got in my face. I voted Democrat all the way down. Still, I really didn't pay much attention. My card said Republican. I didn't know I wasn't one.

Anyway, in 2000, I voted for Al Gore, after voting for Clinton twice, on my Republican Voter Card. (I must have really pissed somebody off, eh?) I hadn't paid attention to Bush. I don't remember knowing who he was. Since I'm an Arizonan, I was watching McCain, but I hadn't planned on voting for him. Anyway, when Bush stole the election I was furious. My husband couldn't understand why I was so upset. "I don't trust this guy! It's something in my gut." I told him. "Something's really wrong."

I changed my party affiliation after 9/11. That's when I started reading and learning and paying attention. I've been a Democrat all my life and didn't even know it.

Why is this? They didn't teach me about the differences in the parties in school and I wanted to be on the same side as the "rich" guys. Typical American? My parents never talked about who they voted for. It was a secret. Same as their parents. But, it's not anybody else's fault. It's mine. I was an apathetic American. I didn't think it mattered who was in the White House, really. I mean after watching the hell Clinton went through, I thought the President was simply a powerless figurehead, like an English monarch. I thought Congress would never let anybody do anything really bad. I actually thought none of them ever really DID anything, anyway. I was wrong. Maybe, even stupid. (You can say it.)

So, in the last two years I've gained a new vocabulary, I've signed, what seems like thousands of petitions, I've marched in the streets. (Me! Marching in the streets. I'm an Army veteran. That's the only time I ever thought I'd march anywhere.) I've freaked my husband out. He's a 20 year vet and a member of the "they're all the same" party.

"Why are you getting so wrapped up in this?" he asks. "They're all the same."

"It's about time I figured out what I stand for, don't you think?" I told him. "I've lived all this time and never took one moment to think about what I believe. And, they're not all the same. You'd better pick a side!"

He hasn't picked a side, yet, but I think I'm winning him over. And why did I go into this diatribe? Because, I don't think I'm THAT atypical. I think there are still a lot of people in this country who are so busy trying to keep their heads above water they've never really stopped to think about what they believe in. It's easier to believe what Bush tells them to believe in*. This is why so many people are still behind Bus. But the tides, they are a changing...

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P.S. Please, don't kick me out of the club. I REALLY like it here.


*An interesting aside: On C-Span the other day, some politcal analyst released a report in which part of it said people who attend church on a regular basis were more likely to vote Republican.

The place I used to work there was always open discussions berading Clinton and the Democratic party especially from the management. It was always a one way street there. I kept my mouth shut but I even think that wasn't enough. There was such an intimidading factor that I truly believe the attitude was "If your not saying anything you must be against us." I'm really glad I'm not there anymore.

I'm sure there is a lot of that going on in the country and Rush and his deciples seem to make it okay to do so. There is much intimidation to vote GOP, and a lot of it has to do with ones worries with upward mobilization and not wanting to make waves.

I like your story, Kimber.

I hope to see more like you in the immediate future.

Thanks for contributing. I've enjoyed your posts the last couple of days.

More Voters Deciding Not to Support Bush
Tue Nov 4,10:58 AM ET

By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer

ALBANY, N.Y. - More than four in 10 voters nationwide say they definitely plan to vote against President Bush (news - web sites) next year — more than plan to vote for him, according to a poll released Tuesday.


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• Poll Results (Marist College Institute for Public Opinion)



The survey by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion found that 44 percent of the voters questioned said they planned to definitely vote against the Republican president while 38 percent said they would support his re-election.


An April survey from the Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-based pollsters had found that 40 percent of voters nationwide planned to vote for Bush while 30 percent said they would vote against him.


The latest poll also found a drop in Bush's approval rating, which has been reflected in other recent nationwide polls. The Marist poll had the president's approval rating at 53 percent, down from 70 percent in its April poll.


In the new poll, voters were split on Bush's handling of postwar Iraq (news - web sites) and the economy.


Among Democratic voters, here was no clear choice about who should be the party's candidate. Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (news - web sites) led the way with 16 percent of Democratic voters backing him followed by Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites) of Connecticut at 12 percent and Rep. Dick Gephardt (news - web sites) of Missouri at 10 percent. The other Democratic contenders were all in single digits. One in three Democratic voters said they were undecided on who should be the party's nominee.


In theoretical matchups against the Democrats, Bush led them all. Closest to the president — 48 percent to 43 percent — was Gephardt.


Marist's telephone poll of 788 registered voters was conducted Oct. 27-29 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points

Hope you like it here, SCRUBDASHRUB! ANd thanks for the encouragement, we need as much as we can get.

I saw this poll on Countdown tonight. This is without a Dem frontrunner too. Hopefully the news gets better when the nominee is decided.

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Ohhhh----woe! The wailing and moaning here is goddamn deafening.

Haven't you folks ever played organized sports? Or some kind of competitive activity? The fucking moaning of loserdom is what produces losing. Just. Fucking. End. It.

Sometimes I think the imbecile freepers are right when they say that lefties and liberals are just whining balls of immaturity.

FIGHT, GODDAMMIT.