Good morning Josh, any wire service or local TV in the Lancaster area showing the Amish at the polls? (Horse & buggies tied up outside?)...The Amish/Mennonite of PA could be a force...think about it...no phones to call and poll, therefore, not included in the polling data. Large families too. Keep us posted...
While standing in line to vote this morning in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, I couldn't help myself and began talking (loudly) about my 20-something year old neighbor (Capt. Mark Afflerbach) who was killed in Vietnam in 1968 by VietCong/Communists.
When I was growing up, Mark (nicknamed Whitey for his blonde hair) taught me how to swing on a rope swing, how to catch frogs, and how to climb trees.
I will never forget the day (in 1968) when four US ARmy Jeeps pulled up nextdoor. The high-ranking military brass walked briskly into the home, and although I didn't know what was going on, I later learned Mark had been killed by an incoming morter round.
A year or two later, a young punk named John Kerry began running around the country calling Mark and others like him "baby killers and war criminals."
Anyway, I was standing there recounting this episode in my life. I ended by loudly stating, "I would never in a million years vote for Kerry, a man who considers good Americans to be criminals while getting his political support from cretins like P-Diddy, or Talk Shitty, or Suck Titty, or whatever his name."
Needless to say, the poll watchers asked me to leave .... but not before I finished my story and got a short atta-boy from all the Republicans.
Rick Santorum was driving and talking on his cell phone to Steve Doocy. He was very upbeat about what western PA was going to do. He said no pollster has any way to guage the level of turnout in rural western PA, because nothing like it has ever happened before. I am not predicting anything. I report, you decide.
The key word is "Rural." Philly and Pittsburg will more than make up for it, and the DemonRats are shipping in New Yorkers to vote for Kerry.
Pray for W and Our Election
Hope for snow in Philly and Pittsburgh.
I arrived at my suburban (outside Phila) polling place at 8:00 AM and for the first time in 18 years there was a significant line, It took Mrs RVN and me close to an hour to vote. All of our neighbors were there poll watching, handing out lit, or scurrying off to do other work for the GOP. My wife is driving and working the phones, all in all a high energy GOP effort in our local precinct.
Also we both were in Lancaster last week, WOW!!!!!
I've heard the same thing. My buddy is a poll watcher, and the GOP rep told them last night that Iowa, Penn, FL and WI all look VERY good for Bush.
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