A Republican lock on the South?

Newsobserver ^ | 31-may-2004 | John Wagner

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Dan from Michigan]

John Kerry is the worst type of candidate for the South (Or Midwest...or anywhere outside of Beacon Hill for that matter)

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie politics bump

[Ciexyz]

Good news bump.

[prophetic]

I'll predict that Kerry's face will be MUCH worse for it when he sees the outcome post Election day.

He'll be so shocked to discover the size of the landslide that Bush won and the states which Kerry & the Democrats has taken for granted goes over to Bush by a very significant margin.

[isthisnickcool]

A stuck up metrosexual with a BAH-stun accent? Who faked his way to obtain purple hearts so he could run away from Vietnam after pretending to be John F. Kennedy in his own "PT-109"? Then came back from Vietnam and trashed the people that really fought there? A man who got other US soldiers killed because of his big mouth? $1,000 haircuts? $7K bicycles with his name on them? Jet plane that says he's already president? Botox? Married to and living off of a funny talking woman who got all her money just because her husband died? Not do well in the South? Duh!

[blam]

Bush will be a landslide in the south which also has a strong military tradition.

Baldwin county, Alabama, last time, voted 70% for Bush. There is not one Democrat left in the county government.

[TomServo]

Dixie Bump!

The South's gonna do it again...

[stainlessbanner]

Late night bump

[scott7278]

I believe it will be Bush in a landslide -- I can't see the southern states voting for a liberal northerner. All of the above statistics are southern vs. southern candidates, which foreshadows major trouble for Mr. Kerry.

[wardaddy]

TN, NC and FL are arguably the most prone to toss-up.

TN elected Bredesen because he is a modrut and the last Governor who was a Republican was a buffoon and a liar.

Plus, the Republican candidate against Bredesen was ineffectual.

TN is probably 55% Pubbie.....I wish it were more but like NC, it has seen huge migration from the North. I'd guess metro Nashville (1.5M) is now 20-25% Northern transplants....not that all are libs but most of the libs on my street are Northern....anectdotal I know.

Lots of Mexicans now too and here they vote heavily Dem and I think all the candidates they have fielded here are Dem.

[goldstategop]

John F*ckin' is a Yankee Brahmin. He's never been south of the Mason-Dixie in his entire life. With the exception of stops in Florida, the South is no go territory for a liberal Democratic presidential candidate.

[wardaddy]

You're on the other side of the bay aren't you Blam?

[blam]

"You're on the other side of the bay aren't you Blam?"

Yup. I'm in Mobile county. Our voting record is close to that of Baldwin county but not quite as good.

[LibKill]

I'd sooner die than vote for Jane Kerry.

Texas bump.

[jmaroneps37]

lurch won't carry a single Southern state. Those who say he will, must explain on what issues he will carry Dixie.
How about national security ( hee hee ) how about the economy ( hee hee 0 Oh wait lurch will win in the South on cultural issues. Yeah that's it, Southerners will vote for the most liberal senator in America but a state like New Jersey ( lurch only up 3 - for at least 3 weeks straight ) might not vote for lurch - right!
The difference here will turn out to be who the pollsters speak to. Watch out for rat pollster psyops polls.
Remember zombie had the South Dakota special last Tuesday 13 points to the rat. It was actually 51/49 on election day.
Do you believe this was due to an honest mistake? I don't.

[Redbob]

Tennessee elected Phil Bredesen, a transplanted Yankee (!) as governor purely because of RINO Don Sunquist, who set the Tenn GOP back maybe 20 years!

Bredesen's opponent, Van Hilleary was perhaps not the most effective campaigner, but I question whether it's fair to call HIM "ineffectual." After all, in his run for Congress in '94 he did beat the much-touted Jim Cooper.

Van was a wonderful Conservative in Congress, and Tennessee would be fortunate to have him again

[Redbob]

"MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, TEXAS"

Collectively, 49 electoral votes!

And THIS time, Texas will put out enough votes for Bush to win the popular vote too!
As he would have last time if so many, confident of a Bush landslide, had not stayed home.

[TXBSAFH]

Running a rich elitest New England yankee just will not get much traction in many parts of the South.