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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:32 PM
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How would you feel is the Republicans pull it off on election night?
The same as Hillary?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBv8bgHgfQ

It looks impossible. Just a lesson to learn from Blair in the UK. Do not take giant poll leads for granted. Remember it looked impossible for Republicans to win in 2000 and 2004. The pain of Florida and Ohio will never disappear. Nor should it. It should be a salutory lesson that there should be no celebrations until the job is done and Obama is on the stage in January, accepting the Office of the Presidency of the United States of America.
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lisa58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:34 PM
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1. like I did in 2004 and 2000
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helderheid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:34 PM
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2. Indeed.
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JSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:36 PM
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5. I will feel much worse than '00 and '04
because that will truly be the end. :cry:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:27 PM
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26. Shocked, stunned, furious, desperate? Did you feel soemthing like that?
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:35 PM
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3. Well I know that they won't. Americans are done with them.
:shrug:
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:35 PM
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4. video is no longer available. nt
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:38 PM
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9. yes it is
just click the link. It is Hillary calling the election a turning point.
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:15 PM
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25. It worked for me now. nt
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:33 PM
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27. Fair Play
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darius15 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:36 PM
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6. Sick to my damn stomach.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:36 PM
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7. That was excellent -- and I'm guessing others, like me, when viewing it remember
the horror of the last two elections. Truly numb from shock and grief.

Thanks for posting this.


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PM7nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:37 PM
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8. It never looked impossible for Republicans to win in 2000 and 2004.
In 2004 I fully expected to Bush to win.
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FLyellowdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:39 PM
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10. I was devastated in 2000 and 2004
but if McCain wins this thing, I'll look back at the two previous elections like they were the good old days.
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:48 PM
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14. Good Good
This is what is needed in the last month.

Republicans turn out because their Pastor will screw their choirboy son if they do not, they fear the Devil will rise from the White House and start a new rapture. There is not that much different from the Westbro Baptist Church and Palin.

The biggest obstacle to Obama in the Whitehouse will be his supporters declaring he has won before a vote is counted. It may well be the case that the Republicans are damaged, but Americans are seen as stupid for a reason. You do not vote.

60% turnout in 2004? That means 30% of the population got you this headline here in the UK.

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MANative Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:41 PM
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11. I'd be utterly despondent. n/t
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:43 PM
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12. i'll feel like Joe Momma. nt.
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:09 PM
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22. Who is Joe Momma??
Anyway there is still too much complacency here. Celebrate after victory.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:46 PM
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13. I'd never be able to sleep without knowing....
but it was a really profound statement from Hillary.
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quantass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:50 PM
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15. Now look how much better Hillary is compared to Palin...Palin is a disgrace.
Edited on Fri Oct-10-08 06:51 PM by quantass
But in terms of VP choice, Biden is goldmine pick!
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Riddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:51 PM
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16. If that happens, we, as a nation, need to don the V for Vendetta masks
and take back our country by whatever means necessary
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 06:53 PM
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17. Or perhaps we undo the folly
of King George?

Our lunatic George led to your lunatic George many years later.
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IndianaGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:02 PM
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18. GOP stole the elections of 2000 and 2004. If they steal this one, they deserve a bloody revolution!
And liberals better get over their phobia about guns!

The Left should be as well armed and disciplined as the Right.

Do our rulers and ruling classes expect the peoples to permit this awful thing? Will not a cry of horror, of scorn, of outrage not seize the peoples and cause them to put an end to this murder? Will they not ask: For whom? what's it all for? Are we mentally disturbed to be treated this way, to allow ourselves to be so treated?

The Junius Pamphlet by Rosa Luxemburg

http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1915/junius/ch01.htm
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always_saturday Donating Member (155 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:03 PM
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19. I would feel violated and that I had to pay for my own rape kit.
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GarbagemanLB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:03 PM
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20. Let's just say I will be done with national politics. If Democrats can't win in 2008, then this
country is doomed.
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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:08 PM
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21. I can't think it. I can't.
But I (heart) Hillary.
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:12 PM
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24. Think it.
And get voters out on election day to stop it happening.

Diebold or not.

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Onlooker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:11 PM
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23. If the polls and exit polls show Obama wins, then we must heed the words of Thomas Jefferson:
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

"And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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Lerrad Donating Member (383 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:42 PM
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28. Robbed!
I live in Ohio. I attended the hearings after the election, and was shocked by what I heard. And now those memories are coming up again in a very realistic way.

There are already allegations of voter fraud here in Ohio. Thousands of voter registration have illegibly been purged from the system in six swing states, 600,000 in Ohio alone.

In Ohio you can now register and vote on the same day. And now we are learning that many of the early votes may not be counted, because the registration methods were supposedly determined to be illegal. It is now being appealed.

Same old things starting all over again. I can hear it now "The exit Polls don't mean anything."

Yes, here we go. Obama will have to gain at least a 25% percent lead to pull this off. No one can argue with the poll numbers, if he has that much of a lead.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:43 PM
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29. Hiding this thread I will not look at negative shit tonight
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TheBigotBasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-10-08 07:59 PM
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30. This is not negative
In the run up to the 1997 General ELections Blair in the UK kept reminding his supporters of the possibity of a COnservative victory. That got rid of the complacency that helped rob them of their victory in 1992. He also achieved the highest ever PArliamentary majority.
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