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Bay Area bluest in blue state
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/31/4 | Joe Garofoli

Posted on 10/31/2004 1:01:48 PM PST by SmithL

Arriving home from the hospital after being treated for a heart attack, 84-year-old Carol Barnes inched up the steps into her Sunset District home and headed straight for her absentee ballot.

"She said, 'That ... Bush, I can't allow him to be president again,' " said her son, Bo Barnes. " 'I want to vote for Kerry to make the world safe.' "

Too exhausted to do more than cast votes for president and two propositions, the widow of an Army major signed the ballot and told her son they'd complete the rest later. Three days later, on Oct. 17, Carol Barnes died.

Within an hour of his mother's death, Bo Barnes mailed her absentee ballot, fulfilling her dying request.

Such soul-deep loathing of George W. Bush is common in the Bay Area,

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


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1 posted on 10/31/2004 1:01:48 PM PST by SmithL
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" 'I want to vote for Kerry to make the world safe.' "

Talk about hallucinating. Someone give that chump a drug test.

2 posted on 10/31/2004 1:02:52 PM PST by Prime Choice (Laura Bush is like everyone's sweetheart. Teresa Heinz-Kerry is like everyone's mother-in-law.)
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To: SmithL

makes it easy to just cut it out and let it go out to sea.


3 posted on 10/31/2004 1:03:00 PM PST by Gibtx (Pajamahadien call to arms.....)
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To: SmithL

I am headed on a trip to SF November 10. Boy, do I want to head in there gloating . . .


4 posted on 10/31/2004 1:03:48 PM PST by pa mom
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What is the problem with San Francisco? Why are they so mentally disturbed in your neck of the woods?


5 posted on 10/31/2004 1:04:41 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: SmithL

SF is a major leftist bastion.


6 posted on 10/31/2004 1:05:45 PM PST by Ptarmigan (Proud rabbit hater and killer)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I wish I knew, friend. I have it a bit better down here on the Peninsula, but not much.


7 posted on 10/31/2004 1:05:48 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: SmithL

Get out!! We did, due to the computer industry collapse. My entire family is still there and I miss my parents horribly, but I LOVE Georgia!! : )


8 posted on 10/31/2004 1:07:27 PM PST by Politicalmom ( Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts -D. Rumsfeld)
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"Three days later, on Oct. 17, Carol Barnes died."

After years of heavy drug abuse.


9 posted on 10/31/2004 1:07:38 PM PST by MisterRepublican
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To: SmithL

Well, guess what. I had a class IV brain tumor removed in August, and I cast my absentee ballot for Bush.

Works both ways.


10 posted on 10/31/2004 1:08:08 PM PST by fqued
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To: SmithL
A Kerry-Edwards Bay Area campaign poster:


11 posted on 10/31/2004 1:08:36 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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"Welcome to my world."

How can you stand it? I actually think of places like S.F. as foreign countries.


12 posted on 10/31/2004 1:09:34 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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I live in the Seattle area. We truly have some crazies here, but San Francisco still claims the title of most psychotic city in America.


13 posted on 10/31/2004 1:09:37 PM PST by Catmom
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Man, the Dems will make up all kinds of great stories to justify casting ballots for dead people, won't they?


14 posted on 10/31/2004 1:09:57 PM PST by bluefish (Holding out for worthy tagline...)
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Such soul-deep loathing of George W. Bush is common in the Bay Area,

Then that loathing is actually for you and me - good average Americans. It's a loathing that would be more than mutual but for our Christian patience and restraint.

And personally, I am no longer a patient man with the likes of the Bay Area.... "Slow to anger" doesn't mean much when we are provoked for 30+ years.

15 posted on 10/31/2004 1:10:27 PM PST by SteveMcKing
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She was not a citizen (ie. she was dead) on the date of the election, therefore her vote must be disregarded.


16 posted on 10/31/2004 1:10:44 PM PST by reg45
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welcome to my world of living in the Bay Area. However interesting event yesterday. A nice looking man in a suit and cowboy hat came to my door yesterday he was Africian American (excuse my spelling) I normally dont answer the door but I thought it was the post man. He introduced himself and said he is working for the Republican Party???Stunned I opened my screen door and came out to the front he handed me a Republican Party door banner of dont forget to vote. The only word out of my mouth was your a Republican I am shocked. Not shocked because of why you might think I was shocked another Republican in my Liberal bay area. He told me I know there isn't many of us here. Than he started talking about his family in Ohio and trying to really talk to them about G.W.
So I felt a sense of hope. However the only reason why the dems win is because of the Liberal Bay Area if you ever look at a map of CA and the Red and Blue areas a large amount of Red shows up it is just in LA and The bay area we have a higher number of people
not fair but that is the way it works


17 posted on 10/31/2004 1:11:10 PM PST by RightWingBev
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To: SmithL

Daed democrats voting early this election


18 posted on 10/31/2004 1:11:30 PM PST by nkycincinnatikid
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Within an hour of his mother's death, Bo Barnes mailed her absentee ballot, fulfilling her dying request.

It would seem to me that, at least by 'Rat standards, this is more than sufficient reason for Bush to send an army of lawyers into California and contest the election if need be. I'm not certain, but I thought a person needed to be ALIVE on election day in order to have their vote counted.

19 posted on 10/31/2004 1:11:58 PM PST by wagglebee (Benedict Arnold was for American independence before he was against it.)
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What is the problem with San Francisco? Why are they so mentally disturbed in your neck of the woods?

Isn't it amazing that a significant percentage of this country does not support our President. It must be the water.

20 posted on 10/31/2004 1:13:20 PM PST by Doe Eyes
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