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Just a quick point. Maybe I didn't pay enough attention, but somehow I missed until today the Bob Beauprez won the final recount of Colorado's 7th district. Did I just miss it, or was it so suppressed by the media, so as not to adversely affect the "big victory" the democrats supposedly had in Louisiana? I don't know about you guys, but I just get a nagging feeling that we would have heard a lot more about this if Feeley had won, as more "evidence" that the democrats "are back". Don't you think so? For those of you who missed...

What bothers me the most about this whole thing is the motive behind the attacks on Trent Lott. To be frank, I'm not wild about Senator Lott, but I think that the CBC and the democrats in general are guilty of massive hypocrisy in all this. Most of the same people who are hounding Lott very quickly accepted the apology of Senator Byrd a year or 2 ago when he used the word "nigger" to describe people. That sounds a whole lot more offensive to me than anything Lott said. Byrd's history is far more sensational than Lott's, considering that...

Nobody wanted Suzie Terrell to win more than I did. I was one of the freepers who put my neck out and predicted that she would win, too. Deep inside, I knew it would take a small miracle to do it, but I actually believed that she would do it. When I got up quite early this morning to read the results (I didn’t stay up all night, thank goodness), I was genuinely surprised. I thought Terrell would win. And, of course, sadly, she didn’t. And, not only that, neither did Lee Fletcher, apparently, though the outcome there could potentially...

Senator Landrieu is making her last stand in the Louisiana. She’s as ornery as ever, fraught with claims that Terrell and the GOP are picking on her, and even guilty of “bold-faced lies”. “You’ve hurt me and my family,” she whines. Yeah, well, I guess the truth hurts sometimes, doesn’t it? Terrell calls you pro-abortion, and so you are by voting against attempts to restrict it in the military and in other ways. Just by voting in favour of the partial birth abortion ban doesn’t make you pro-life, as is often argued at the national level. Mrs. Terrell says that...

Of all the races that took place this year, the one that I probably followed the most closely was Texas. The Lone Star State is of high importance to the GOP, not only since it’s President Bush’s home state, but also because it’s status as the second largest state in the United States, second only to California. As most of us have heard and read, Texas went solidly Republican this year, as it has since the mid 1990’s. I’ve done a fair bit of study through exit polls and historical voting trends over the past couple of years to put...

Republican Bob Beauprez is the first congressman from Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. In the end, Beauprez pulled 81,530 votes and Feeley garnered 81,408 votes. Just 122 votes separated the two candidates, which will trigger an automatic recount of the results. Feeley won Adams and Arapahoe counties outright, but couldn’t overcome Beauprez’s lead in Jefferson County. The final vote tally came just after noon when clerks in the three counties that make up the district - Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson - all finished their final counts. The clerks had been delayed in producing vote totals because of a court ruling requiring...

Does anybody know if there are exit polls available for the elections? I can't seem to get them on CNN.

I ask my fellow Americans to join me in a word of prayer for the election later today. First of all, I want to remind everyone of what happened 2 years ago: I can remember my disappointment when I saw how painstakingly close the election was, with Gore having gotten so many votes. Prayer was the only thing that could carry George W. Bush through. It was important to so many of us, because we knew that America couldn't handle another 4 years of political sacrilege, and blatant rejection of God and His Ways. Here we are 2 years down...

Late shift appears to favor GOP By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY Key Senate races in Tuesday's congressional elections are too close to call, but Republicans appear to have gained strength in the final weekend as they fight to retain and perhaps add to their thin House majority. A USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll this weekend shows that in House races, likely voters prefer Republicans to Democrats 51% -45%. That marks a 9-point shift from two weeks ago, when Democrats led Republicans 49%-46%. The GOP's 6-point advantage mirrors the lead Republicans held in the final days of the 1994 election, when they won...

Latest poll shows undecided voters may decide Missouri Senate race By STEVE KRASKE The Kansas City Star A new poll shows Republican Jim Talent leading Democrat Jean Carnahan 46-41 percent in Missouri's red-hot U.S. Senate race, although a high number of undecided voters suggests either candidate could win. "This election is about a dead heat," said Ken Warren, a St. Louis University political scientist. "If I'm Talent, I'm glad to be ahead, but the number of `undecideds' is huge." The poll, conducted by the marketing research department of The Kansas City Star in conjunction with the Market Research Institute, said...

A couple of new generic House polls just released are pointing to what a lot of the little, individual CD polls are saying: the GOP is going to hold the U. S. House of Representatives. In fact, most of the polls are showing momentum in the GOP direction. Here's a quick summary: ABC News poll (conducted Oct. 24-27) shows GOP leading 49% to 47%, where the dems led 49-47 last time. Newsweek poll (Oct. 24-25) shows GOP leading 46-43% where dems led 46-43 last time. CNN/Time poll (Oct 23-24) shows Dems leading 47-43, BUT they led 46-40 the previous time...

GA Senate: Cleland... Modest Edge October 21, 2002 BY TONY ADAMS, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Poll: U.S. Senate race too close to call If the election for Georgia's U.S. Senate seat were held today, incumbent Max Cleland would have a modest edge over challenger Saxby Chambliss, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released Saturday. The poll, conducted Oct. 16-17 by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. of Washington, D.C., shows Cleland, a Democrat, leading Chambliss, a Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, by a margin of 47 percent to 41 percent. The kicker is that 9 percent of the 625 registered voters who...

Graham's lead over Sanders remains strong Friday, October 18, 2002 BY SCHUYLER KROPF Of The Post and Courier Staff Republican Lindsey Graham continues to hold a strong lead over Democrat Alex Sanders in the race to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond, a new Post and Courier-WCBD-TV News 2 poll shows. Graham, the state's 3rd District congressman, leads Sanders, the former College of Charleston president, by a 51-34 percent margin in the race to represent South Carolina in the Senate. The lead is nearly identical to June's margin, when Graham led Sanders by a margin of 52-36 percent. Since then,...

Poll: Dole still leads Bowles October 16, 2002 By David Rice and Dana Damico JOURNAL RALEIGH BUREAU Democrat Erskine Bowles' ads on Social Security and economic issues have helped tighten the race for the U.S. Senate, but Republican Elizabeth Dole remains 10 percentage points ahead, with 50 percent support to Bowles' 40 percent in a new poll. "The attack ads are working some," said J. Bradford Coker, the managing director at Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc., which conducted the poll. "But whenever you go negative, you run the risk of your own negatives going up. He had to do it,"...