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... You see, I am not Senator Kerry who can convince fifty million voters that I am someone I am not. Nor can I convince the majority of American voters that I am a great and godly man as President Bush truthfully did last Tuesday. No. I am just a left-handed, dumb old Dutchman with a white goatee and a twenty-nine inch in-seam. To add insult to injury I am also a Patch Mountain brat. Now Patch is a mountain so far back in the boonies of Maine that it makes the average rural hick Mainer seem like a sophisticated...

Not everything came up roses for Republicans on Election Day. Republicans have much to crow about after last week's election. They have solid control of the White House and both houses of Congress for the first time since before the Depression. But this is still a closely divided country, and while the GOP won the major league pennants, Democrats did well in the AAA league of politics, the state legislatures. Republicans have to pay attention not only to where they are gaining votes, but also to the states and demographic groups where they are losing them. Last week, more than...

Catholics and moderately religious voters were just as important as very religious 'Born Agains' By Steven Waldman and John Green The congealing conventional wisdom is that super-religious, born-again Protestants—a.k.a. the religious right—carried President Bush to victory in 2004. A new Beliefnet analysis of the election data reveals this is only half right. There was indeed a flood of evangelicals to the polls—but it now appears that a dramatic shift in the Catholic vote was just as important and, in crucial states, probably more so. In addition, the big gain for Bush was probably among the moderately religious—and the secular—not the...

I see an unalterable divide. I really suggest everyone here go to Democratic Underground (where we are not allowed to post, per their rules) and read what they are saying. Expect a lot of anger, profanity, anti-religous bigotry and hatred. See a lot of mischaracterization of who we are and what we believe. I see this divide as somewhat permanant. On a personal level people can and do change. In my experience getting people to either become involved in the shooting sports or going to church and over time their politics are going to change. I run a discussion group...

Last ECB update: 11/2/04, 3:25 AM Current status: Bush 227 Kerry 186 With Tossups: Bush 289 Kerry 238

Latest vote tally shows Bush outpolling Kerry by 746,461 (50.05%) to 732,416 (49.11%).

Results for: Statewide Results Number Of Voters: 697032 Results as of: 11/3/2004 1:34:51 PM Candidate or Issue Party Votes Percent PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 339261 (48.1%) GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 357811 (50.8%) DAVID COBB and PATRICIA LaMARCHE Green 1140 (0.2%) MICHAEL PEROUTKA and DR. CHUCK BALDWIN Constitution 730 (0.1%) MICHAEL BADNARIK and RICHARD V. CAMPAGNA Libertarian 2211 (0.3%) RALPH NADER and PETER MIGUEL CAMEJO Independent 3714 (0.5%)

ALASKA: PRESIDENT (3) - Bush easily took a state that has gone Republican for the last 40 years. SENATE - Republican Lisa Murkowski led former Gov. Tony Knowles, despite resentment from many voters that her father, Frank Murkowski, appointed her to his old job when he became governor in 2002. HOUSE - Remains: 1R. Incumbent Don Young, who calls himself the "congressman for all Alaskans," won a 17th term. PROPOSITIONS - Alaskans rejected a measure to legalize and tax the sales of marijuana. Another measure fueled by the Murkowski controversy to eliminate appointments to fill Senate vacancies was trailing in...

Pray for Bush to win by a landslide so there will be no question or waiting to find out who won!

AMERICA could very well wake up on Wednesday, Nov. 3, not knowing who won the presidential election. Judging by the latest polls, the race is close enough in a number of key states that human error, technical foul-ups and the inevitable legal challenges could delay the results for days or weeks, in an unwelcome replay of 2000. The likelihood of trouble at the nation's 200,000 polling places may be greater in 2004 than in any year in memory. Absentee and mail-in ballots, provisional voting, redrawn districts, untrained poll workers, millions of first-time voters and unfamiliar new technology are all conspiring...

Just over six weeks before the nation holds the first general election in which touch-screen voting will play a major role, specialists agree that whatever the remaining questions about the technology's readiness, it is now too late to make any significant changes. Whether or not the machines are ready for the election - or the electorate ready for the machines - there is no turning back. In what may turn out to be one of the most scrutinized general elections in the country's history, nearly one-third of the more than 150 million registered voters in the United States will be...

Areias concedes to Denham Jeff Denham Rusty Areias November 22, 2002 Posted: 05:00:23 AM PST By JIM MILLER BEE CAPITOL BUREAU Democrat Rusty Areias conceded defeat to Republican Jeff Denham on Thursday in the race for the 12th Senate District after nearly all the votes in the five-county district were tallied. Denham's upset win in the bitter, costly contest came several days after the Salinas businessman declared victory, and more than two weeks after polling in the redrawn district that married large portions of the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys.

Sorry for the vanity, but I feel it is important that Freepers know the truth about the “fiasco” in Alabama. As everyone knows, Siegelman is claiming he received 19,070 votes in Baldwin County when the OFFICIAL CERTIFIED count is 12,736. Siegleman is claiming that 6000+ “"Votes were changed after midnight with nobody present." This is a pure Bald faced LIE, and SNEAKYMAN knows it. I will now explain the counting process and what happened in Baldwin County. My sources are Radio Hosts RICK & BUBBA – who worked the Riley War Room Vote Center last night and explained in detail...

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