[Cincinna]

Is it really possible for CA to be in play? That would be terrific!

I see in the polls that Rudy winning in the NY suburbs, coming close even in heavily Dim NYC. The strange thing is that Her Heinous is strong in Upstate Rural NY.

[sofaman]

NY is close...NJ is very definitley in play. They have very fond memories of Rudy...Her Thighness is definitely strong in certain areas. The voters in those areas would for Donald Duck if he was the Defeatocrat candidate.

[California Patriot]

California will go Democratic yet again. Take it to the bank.

One reason is that voters here are stupid. Another is that CA media is incredibly bad -- not just liberal media in general, but unbelievably superficial TV news. We don't have a lot of Reagan Democrat types anymore. And, polls show that Californians don't care as much about terrorism as Americans generally.

As for upstate NY, I think part of it is that the region has become an economic basket case. A region that's an economic basket case, unless it's strongly religious, will trend Democratic. In the NYC area, out-of-control immigration has screwed us, as in CA. Rudy is unlikely to carry NY state, let alone the city. However, he will do better than any other Republican could, which should be of some help in winning the nationwide popular vote.

[texicali]

Rudy will play very well in CA....similar to Ahnuld

[Richard Kimball]

Upstate NY tends towards blue collar union types, I believe. Very strong organization in the unions. I've met several NY union types from the FDs up around there who have moved into Texas, and they're almost communist in their beliefs about government control of the workplace.

Around here, we're aghast at many of the initiatives pushed by the northeastern AFL-CIO IAFF people. For example, they want the union to push legislation preventing a paid firefighter from working as a volunteer firefighter when off duty. That would never be a popular position in Texas, as many firefighters live in small towns with volunteer departments, but work in larger cities. We also believe what we do off duty is none of the union's or the fire department's business, as long as it's legal and we're not representing ourselves as members of the department for gain. We had an issue a few years ago where a guy was a stripper off-duty, and was using the department name when performing. The department asked him to stop doing it, and he started calling himself the firefighter stripper instead. The department was cool with that.