Posted on 11/02/2004 8:49:11 AM PST by KMC1
Senator Rick Santorum also told ABC in New York that GOP officials are planning on reviewing the matter closely and if necessary will consider judicial rulings in the matter to prevent fraudulent votes from being counted.
Senator Santorum also told ABC News that it appears that GOP turnout in central Pennsylvania is already reaching by mid-day 75% of the total turnout of 2000. Central Pennsylvania is the conservative core of the state and it appears that in the new 1.7 million voters registered by Republicans in the middle of the state that the majority of them will be supporting President Bush.
My thoughts are - if Pennsylvania is already at 75% turnout in GOP districts this means the GOP turnout operation is infinitely more successful than they had anticipated. It also reflects the "energized" vote that has been so reflected in the "internals" of the poll numbers which showed that President Bush's supporters have been from the outset the far more motivated voting block in this election.
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
Your anecdotals are confirmed! Schweet.
Sounds good. They need to stay on top of the fraud.
looks like Pennsylvania can be the biggest blue state to turn red this year.
Wow!
Santorum's a good egg and a team player. He's not gonna say anything negative today. He's a gamer.
Hooray, go PA!!!
true landslides start in PA and NJ!
It will be a landslide for Bush. Penn, Florida and Ohio go Bush and the steamrolling will begin and end there. An early night of good sleep.
Democrat Mayor from Philly on FOX: "There were fewer votes than alleged on machines." Geez, that's comforting.
Go PA Go! Kurt Schilling had to help there this week!
Dubya!!!!! W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 MORE YEARS!!! This is so exciting!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like good solid stats to me.
Santorum is the man!
I just voted in Pennsylvania. I live in the suburbs of Philadelphia (Buck County). I have never seen the turn out this large! I waited for 55minutes to vote. In my district there are 2895 registered voters. I was number 532. That's almost 20% by 11:30am. The line was even longer when I cane out.
I saw a Union Steel Worker with his Kerry shirt on today and a few with Kerry Buttons. My sense is more were for Bush.
If PA gets called for Bush, I will go to bed early with a smile (after celebrating with some champagne!)
GO PA!
Joe Pa endorsed Bush.
That goes a long way in Central PA...
I love that man. (In a strictly plutonic "hero worship" kind of way, that is.) :-)
Why don't they hold off on reporting the votes so Philly won't know how many phony votes they have to manufacture? Same thing in Florida.
I loved it when he said there's always fraud in Penn. and we knew it would happen.
National Review says Bush/Cheney is already filing suit to have Philly voting machine impounded.
bump
Excuse me, voting machines - plural.
I was never counting on Pennsylvania. If this state turns RED it's a BIG win for Bush.
Fight the fraud and turn out the vote. Man, getting PA would be huge
plus did you see the article by the Rabbi in WND....he said there are 70 million evangelicals. holy cow. if they vote, Bush is in!
Heavy voter turnout in the heavily Democratic and strongly union areas of Johnstown. And, believe it or not, I've spoken to a number of die-hard union members, including a union STEWARD, who voted for W!
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Oh! So there was 1999.
He's stating evidence, not happy talk ... we'll see, but encouraging signs.
we dont just watch history, we make history....
IF YOU HAVENT VOTED ALREADY, PLEASE GO VOTE!!!!
If they vote.... And let's hope they are spread out in the swing states.
I voted in Bucks today too. All the signs in our neighborhood had been Kerry ones until the weekend when a few Bush ones began to appear. A block up one home has both a Kerry and Bush sign and overnight a tall sign went up with a seniors for Bush on one side and doctors4Bush on the other. It towers over th eother two. LOL!! I told my husband that their dinners must certainly be lively. We're enjoying this since we're also a mixed marriage.
I can just hear Kerry's concession speech already, "I never really wanted to be president anyway. I am happy doing the job that I was elected to do, being the junior senator from Mass."
I couldn't sleep last night and was at the polls first thing in the morning, I've never been so jazzed for an election
Well, not meaning to burst anyones bubble but that 75% of 2000 is in the CENTRAL part of the state, which is known and always been HUGELY REPUBLICAN. Now massive turn out there is good, because it meanse Republican numbers are high.
You have to understand Pa... PA politically truly is, Pittsburgh in the SW, Philly in the SE and Alabama or Arkansas in between. Pittsburgh and Philly are the urban areas with large democratic numbers.... and the rest of the state the "T" zone as it is locally referred is OVERWHELMINGLY republican.
If they are having huge turn out in the T, that is good, because that means big Republican numbers.... and as I live in Pittsburgh, I feel confident saying that Kerry does not remotely have the support Gore did 4 years ago here.... Kerry may still win this area, but if he does it will be by a very nominal margin.
PA is going to come down to Philly. If Kerry comes out of Philly with a huge huge huge margin, he'll win PA.. if not, he will lose it. Since I'm not in Philly, I'm not going to predict how it will go, but I can say this, that is Kerry's only chance at winning.
There is no doubt the T is fired up this election cycle, and they don't like Kerry at all. Its also obvious that Kerry cannot depend on major win if a win at all in the Pittsburgh region... so its down to how much of a lead out of Philly Kerry gets.. if he gets out of Philly with only a few point lead, PA will go solidly Bush.
I like Santorum's optimism, but one thing that sticks in my mind is the GOP performance in 2000. In one of the more unusual scenarios in the U.S. that year, Santorum won re-election to the U.S. Senate while Bush lost to Gore. How does one explain the large number of Pennsylvanians who cast votes for both Gore and Santorum?
I'm not saying it's 'happy talk', and I don't mean it as a criticism. I just believe Santorum is the kind of guy that will accentuate the positive and keep the pressure on the other side until the final bell.
I'll prolly still stay up late enjoying my second bottle of champagne while toasting Little Tommy Daschle's DEFEAT!
What happens if Kerry takes NH and FL and we hold Ohio and win Penn? ain't that a 269-269?
Just returned from serving as Republican poll-watcher in heavily Republican central PA (working on lists to make follow-up calls for non-voters). Turnout is incredible. Long waits in suburban areas at 11:00 a.m. (i.e. not before or after work or at lunch but at 11:00 a.m.). People flocking to Republican HQ offering to help at anything. If motivating the base was the goal, mission accomplished.
The FR reports (which are highly anecdotal) are HUGH turnout in GOP strongholds.
Hopefully a long evening dancing and thanking Our Lord!
Santorum knows this state, and knows how to win this state... if he's out there calling PA already confidently, I will definately concede to his wisdom. He's not a pundit, he's a solid politician that knows his home turf.
I hope so.
I am going to be at my (liberal Dem) girlfriend's house until about 10:30. We agreed to not turn on the TV until we are already in our own homes to avoid arguments! So I won't be abreast of things till then.
Death penalty for voter fraud!
My friends son-in-law went to vote this morning before work,waited an hour and had to leave. Don't worry he will be back in line after work . I think he's Susquehanna Twship,in the burbs of Harrisburg.
It's gonna be a great night.
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