Posted on 10/15/2004 3:34:57 PM PDT by NewMediaFan
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A survey of likely Alabama voters found President Bush maintaining a wide lead over Democratic challenger John Kerry, with only two weeks of campaigning left. But races for state appeals court judgeships were close, with large numbers of voters undecided.
When asked whom they would support if the election were held today, 56 percent said Bush, 32 percent said Kerry, 1 percent said Ralph Nader, and 11 percent were undecided.
The random telephone survey, conducted by Capital Survey Research Center, the in-house polling firm of the Alabama Education Association, was conducted Tuesday through Thursday with 546 likely voters. The poll, released Friday, has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Poll Director Gerald Johnson said the results were almost identical to a survey he did a month ago. He predicted that in the Nov. 2 election, much of the undecided vote will go to Kerry and that Bush will end up with 55 percent to 60 percent. That would leave Kerry with 40 percent to 45 percent. In 2000, Bush got 56 percent to Democrat Al Gore's 42 percent, with Nader and others getting the rest.
Republican presidential candidates have carried Alabama in every election since Ronald Reagan in 1980.
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Kerry needs to pour all of his remaining resources into Alabama ASAP and turn this state around!
Now THAT is what I was TALKING about!!
In a sane and healthy country, it'd be double-digits all over the country!
/c8
Dan
John Kerry has snubbed all of Alabama, by his absence.
BAMA BUMP!!
I never would have guessed he was that close. We have work to do!!
I know this makes my son-in-law (Libertarian, ran for office and lost but had 19% of the vote in his County), daughter and son and daughter-in-law VERY happy. They are BUSH supporters.
Alabama is a fairly conservative State. In most County elections and in some State elections, voters still vote for the MAN and not the party. But they're plenty savvy about National Elections.
GOD BLESS THE SOUTH!!!
EVERY VOTE COUNTS
We are very smart in this state.
That many Alabaman's can't be wrong.
Sweet Home Alabama.
"Bush edges Kerry in Unimportant Southern Race."
Shhhhhh, let 'em keep thinkin' we ain't.
Well done, Alabama Freepers!!!
But, remember...EVERY vote will count!!
Kerry shouldn't even waste the jet fuel to go there, The President will win Alabama easily!!!
In Alabama, the product sells itself. In Shelby County (southern Birmingham), W stickers outnumber Lurch stickers 10-to-1.
The other important rule to remember is that if you post an article about Ann Coulter you most also post some pictures of her.
I have black friends, and they simply believe the most outrageous conspiracy stories about Republicans*. I can't argue past these beliefs. I guess it's a legacy of days gone past, but I wish it wasn't so. So many of the country black folks around here are otherwise conservative in all their values, very Christian, and there is absolutely room for them in the Republican party.
* The Reagan administration invented AIDS to prevent the Soviets from taking Africa.
* Crack cocaine was developed by the 1st Bush Admin's CIA to keep folks in the ghetto.
* Republicans prevented blacks from voting in Florida (2000) by having the police arrest thousands of blacks the day before the election, and released them a few days after the election, without filing any charges (a local black Christian radio show is saying this).
* The former democratic governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman, lost because black votes were thrown out in Baldwin county (even though Riley won by a greater percentage of votes than there are blacks in that county).
* The war in Iraq is killing primarily blacks and hispanic soldiers, even though this is proved false (72% white casualites).
I have black friends, and they simply believe the most outrageous conspiracy stories about Republicans*. I can't argue past these beliefs. I guess it's a legacy of days gone past, but I wish it wasn't so. So many of the country black folks around here are otherwise conservative in all their values, very Christian, and there is absolutely room for them in the Republican party.
* The Reagan administration invented AIDS to prevent the Soviets from taking Africa.
* Crack cocaine was developed by the 1st Bush Admin's CIA to keep folks in the ghetto.
* Republicans prevented blacks from voting in Florida (2000) by having the police arrest thousands of blacks the day before the election, and released them a few days after the election, without filing any charges (a local black Christian radio show is saying this).
* The former democratic governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman, lost because black votes were thrown out in Baldwin county (even though Riley won by a greater percentage of votes than there are blacks in that county).
* The war in Iraq is killing primarily blacks and hispanic soldiers, even though this is proved false (72% white casualites).
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