Posted on 11/01/2004 1:27:23 AM PST by GeronL
What’s up with Hawaii? Two polls in two Honolulu newspapers over the weekend showed George W. Bush with a small lead over John Kerry. That’s not supposed to be happening. Hawaii’s solidly Democrat. It’s a swing state only in the sense noted by Elvis (‘And when she starts to sway/I gotta say/She really moves the grass around’). Neither candidate has bothered looking in on the joint, or even advertising there. Instead, Senator Kerry’s been frantically bouncing around the Great Lakes — Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin. It’s gonna kill him if he’s got to zip halfway across the Pacific every other day to shore up his base with a hastily arranged coconut-shooting expedition on the beach at Waikiki.
One poll would have been easy to dismiss. But two make a trend. And so, for Bush, as the old song says, ‘Hello, Hawaii, How Are Ya?’ Whereas for Kerry, as the even older song says — 1878, written by Queen Liliuokalani — it’s ‘Aloha Oe, or Farewell To Thee’. Since joining the Union, Hawaii has voted for the Democrat presidential nominee by some of the largest margins in the land every election day except two: in 1972 they went for Nixon and in 1984 for Reagan. So one could argue, as some psephologists are doing, that this is in line with Hawaii’s tendency to vote for Republicans when they’re incumbents (George Bush Sr being the exception to that rule).
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...
pre-emption
LOL.
I used the real title... the REAL ONE!! =o)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;s=if%20bush%20goes%20i%20go
I did a search using your exact title...lookee here.
I never get tired of Steyn though.
well! =o)
** pats head **
We're sure you did, and you just missed it because it was posted two days ago. But did you have to go and excerpt him too? :)
If Bush loses I'm outta here. Whats the Australian embassy number?
...;)
excerpt.. well.. its on 3 different pages on the SPECTATOR UK site
I have a quiet faith...Don't start packing yet!
BUSH/CHENEY...FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION
If Bush goes, I go
Posted by GeronL
On News/Activism 11/01/2004 1:27:23 AM PST · 11 replies · 236+ views
Spectator (UK) ^ | Nov 1 | Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn: If Bush goes, I go
Posted by Pokey78
On News/Activism 10/28/2004 8:13:45 AM PDT · 125 replies · 5,549+ views
The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/30/04 | Mark Steyn
Yikes! Losing Mark Steyn would be almost s big a blow as losing George Bush! Thank God that neither is gonna happen.
I think the title is a little joke -- If Bush goes [TO HAWAII], I go [TO HAWAII].
"sephologists"
A sociologist who studies election trends
I learned something new today.
I've had the same problem with searches, and besides, who has the time to go back for two days. I wouldn't have seen this otherwise. Thanks.
LOL
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