Posted on 09/25/2004 2:58:12 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Coburn should be able to pull this one out with some fundraising help from around the country. That plus the old grassroots: go Oklahoma!
No, CNN tonight declared from a SD Argus-Leader poll that Daschle now leads Thune by five points, 50-45.
Ouch. I didn't need to hear that. The Argus-Leader is militantly pro-Daschle, but I always feel it safest to believe the least favorable polls. I'm not sure why this would have happened!
Do you have a link? I couldn't find anything about this on either the Argus-Leader site or the SD blogs...
It sounds like an entertaining event. Was it a fundraising dinner, or just a campaign appearance.
It was a fundraising dinner.
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I live in Tulsa in a neighborhood that is mixed, but has a large number of black professional families. Thursday evening a young black woman came to my door and asked for the two previous owners of the house. She had a clipboard with a form on which she appeared to have been recording names and addresses, with a Brad Carson sticker prominently displayed on the clipboard. No Kerry paraphernalia whatsover (wonder why).
When I told her that neither of those people lived here anymore, she asked me if I was a Democrat. I said 'No, I'm a Republican,' and she just politely said 'Oh, thank you' and went away.
Possibly Democrats getting names and addresses to use in loading the ballot box for Carson? I have thought since that I should have said 'yes, I am a democrat' just to see what her next move would be.
Very interesting..
This sounds like some sort of scam.
YES I DID!!! THANKS!!! Great pics and great after action report!!!
GREAT WORK!! I'm happy to hear that Coburn will be burning the airways with some new ads. That is WONDERFUL news!
"...Thune is still leading in SD, so this now remains, for me, the key Senate race. I lived in Oklahoma for 13 years, and want the best for the state -- and that is Dr. Coburn. The rest of us non-Okies will also greatly benefit from his presence in Washington."
Thanks for speaking out to non-Okies about this race, Agrarian. I have great concerns as well that it is crucial for us to hang on to this seat. I was in Texas recently. There is a person running for congress, and their signs are wonderful in that they show the importance of voting in representatives that will work with the President.
It has "BUSH-CHENEY-WOHLGEMUTH a great team" or something like that. Very effective. We need to grab onto that Bush coattail as hard as we can!! I hope the new Coburn push will emphasize that we really need a Republican senator if for no other reason than to help break the deadlock in the senate about judge appointments.
I have no heartburn about socially liberal guys like Guiliani running for Senate in NY (I hope he does, and that he wins!) -- because that's about what the state can elect right now, and because he would be a loyal Republican, unlike the ostensibly Republican Senators from Rhode Island and Maine. But I'm not going to pull out my checkbook for him, even though I like him. But places like Oklahoma are able to elect good, heartfelt across-the-board conservatives to Washington, and we need to help them.
We've got too few really good ones in Washington right now, ones who are conservative to the core the way Reagan was. I think Rick Santorum is one of those guys. One I have personally met is Sen Conrad Burns of Montana. He leaves you with the impression that his conservatism goes all the way to his bone marrow.
Coburn is another of those guys, and we need to help out in this race, from all over the country. The Dems are pouring tons of outside money into the state.
Keep working, Okie Republicans!
"Have you ever been to Mangum,OK ~ it was named after my great grandfather; R.Y. Mangum. :)"
My mother, born 1927, was raised in Mangum until her teens when my grandparents moved to Oklahoma City. Back in the 80s I belonged to a OKARNG unit (the 171st FA) that had one of its armories in Mangum. As a battalion staff officer I visited it often. The 171st FA was headquartered in Altus, OK and had units scattered all over SW OK.
My dad was born in the Mangum region in 1885 and moved to West Texas when he was three months old, his middle name is Mangum after his mother's father.
I was born in Loma Linda, CA in 1930.
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