John Kerry Asks Ohio To Vote Early

This was just posted on the Dem Daily from one of our Ohio area bloggers - it's great report from JK in Ohio today. They'll be more on Ohio later, too...

John Kerry Asks Ohio To Vote Early
Posted by Javelin
October 3rd, 2006 @ 9:23 pm

Earlier today Senator John Kerry visited Columbus, the state capitol of Ohio. He spoke at a local church community center to a gathering of local residents, media, and politicians about the importance of voting early. There were about four TV stations, a few videocameras, and live blogging through OhioDems. The mayor of Columbus Michael Coleman, Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (US Rep. from the Cleveland area), and other local politicians spoke and made comments. Senator Kerry also took some questions from the residents and provided the media with a Q+A session after the event.



The Senator stressed that Ohioans have been blessed with a new law change that allows them to vote early. The law change he was speaking of allows registered voters to cast their ballots from now until election day, whereas in the past absentee balloting was only granted in difficult circumstances and caused a lot of headaches for those requesting to do so.

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:patriot:

K&R.

Indeed he did!

And if he is, do you think it's a good idea?

He won't confirm though - he'd rather focus on the mid-terms.

who TRY to ignore that he received greatest number of votes ever cast for president.

Now WHY would any Democrat ignore the vote totals and IGNORE vote suppression, purged voter rolls, and rigged machines?

Because they don't WANT acknowledgement of Kerry's IMPRESSIVE win against warlord Bush - they prefer he be cast as a loser, so they roll with that instead of exposing and dealing with machine fraud and rampant election fraud, which points directly at Terry McAuliffe and Donna Brazille who FAILED in their 4 year task to secure Dem votes and COUNTER the RNC tactics of vote suppression.

How did they do? Or maybe the question is _ WHY did they allow the party infrastructure to be so weak that it never did its job?

Senator Kerry Wows Students at The Ohio State University
Posted by Javelin
October 3rd, 2006 @ 10:49 pm

After a medium sized event earlier in Columbus, Senator Kerry spoke to a huge crowd of students at Ohio State University, the media and many of the Democratic candidates who are poised to take positions in the state and federal government. Excitement filled the University Union not unlike what was seen in the campaign of 2004.



This was a GOTV event and there were so many students in the East Ballroom with buttons, handouts, yard signs, etc. that it was hard to believe that ‘06 was only a midterm. Each of the other candidates made a short speech and then it was on to the Senator.



After an embrace with Mary Jo Kilroy (a leader in recent polls for a seat in the US House), John Kerry resonated with the crowd immediately with a poke at the GOP. “It’s been an exciting four days for the Republicans in Congress; it’s been a whole four days and not one of them had to resign. And it’s been around six months and Dick Cheney hasn’t shot anybody!”. {eruption of cheers}

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Imagine how it must be for Mr. Kerry.

That he was elected president of the United States, but for the counting of a few ballots, his place in history was stolen from him and his party - us.

He knows every vote should count, but not every vote is counted. Who, besides him and Al Gore, knows the true pain of elections gone bad?

Yet the stalwart man rises up and addresses the crowds, keeping to the fight, not giving in, staying true to democracy.

It is a great loss we as a country have suffered - not having our choice seated at the head of the table - and we may never recover, but we will if John Kerry gets his way.