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Dear XXXXXX, Within a matter of days, the Senate could face a truly momentous decision - one with consequences that will reverberate across America for decades to come. Senator Frist, the Republican Majority Leader, has a plan to make President Bush's judicial nominations immune to a Senate filibuster. If he can convince enough Republican Senators to go along, the nomination and confirmation of judges will become a tightly-controlled, one-party affair. We're working hard to make sure the Senate doesn't cross this dangerous line. Here's how you can help. Please Call Your Republican Senators Now! Please contact Senators Frist and Alexander...

Election 2004 - "Exit-Poll Disinformation Hoax Backfires?" Part V Manipulated Exit-Poll Data for Lethal Affect on Republican Voter Turnout Manipulated Exit-Poll Data to De-legitimize the Republican Presidency by Col. John H. Wambough, Jr. USAF (Ret.) j-bwambough@cox.net - www.nsar.us Election Reform: Count Votes - No More Winner Projections by Democrat Manipulated Exit Polls Permanent Link: http://WrennCom.Com/CommentaryArchives/2005/20y05m02d19-01.asp. [March 5, 2005] Manipulated Exit-Poll Data to De-legitimize the Republican Presidency - Whether the CACTECH/MIT Voting Technology Project (and December 5th Addendum) or analysis being done by statisticians such as Stephen F. Freeman (who likely understates sampling errors for Election 2004 exit polls), statistical analysis...

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry may want to consider running for president again in 2008. But his wife, local ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz Kerry of Fox Chapel, has made it clear she won't sit still for another campaign. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing," an unidentified Heinz Kerry friend told the Boston Herald. "Teresa will never do it again." Not necessarily, said Jeff Lewis, a Heinz Kerry spokesman. "Teresa Heinz is too smart to say that," he said. "She campaigned her heart out, as did her husband ... it was hard work and a great experience and we'll just go from there." According...

Kerry too slow to woo Catholics, activist saysLeader of Catholics for Kerry says he was frustrated by the senator's reluctance By DAVID YONKEBLADE RELIGION EDITOR GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Sen. John Kerry waited too long to talk about religion and when he finally did, it was too late to try to win the Catholic vote, according to William D'Antonio, head of Catholics for Kerry.An author and adjunct research professor at Catholic University in Washington, Mr. D'Antonio said yesterday at a conference on religion and the presidency that Senator Kerry hurt his presidential chances by insisting until the l1th hour that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democrat whose organization spent about $6 million to get out the Hispanic vote for Sen. John Kerry criticized the campaign's effort on Tuesday and warned that Democrats risk becoming a permanent minority if they don't do a better job. "John Kerry did not compete adequately for Hispanic votes, period," said Simon Rosenberg, founder and president of the centrist New Democrat Network. "If we don't reverse the gains that President Bush made, we can forget our hope of being a majority party again." [snip] Rosenberg, 41, is considering a bid for chairman of the Democratic National Committee,...

BACKSTORY Posted on FR In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken..... The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of: Al Franken and his wife Franni; Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker; David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker; Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time...

Former President Bill Clinton's 11th-hour campaign swing on behalf of John Kerry did nothing to boost the Democratic nominee — and may have actually hurt him, according to several political experts. Clinton, recovering from heart surgery, joined the campaign trail late in October with a week of raucous rallies in Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Florida, New Mexico and Nevada. Kerry lost all those states, except Pennsylvania. "He clearly didn't do much for Kerry," said Larry Sabato, who runs the political center at the University of Virginia. Sabato said Clinton probably hurt not just Kerry but also some Democratic Senate candidates across the...

He's soooo excited this is the first state to have flipped since 2000, etc. etc. This is really funny. Orderly with butterfly net approaching...

"We have to go by our own rules....our own traditions....we would rather be last than be wrong" Dan Rather just uttered these words. Without irony....and while stuttering severely. I may take off work tomorrow!!!!1 LNGOP'r

Wolfie Blitzer looks like he is about to cry. During his interview with the Ohio Secretary of State, Wolfie Blitzer adamently continued to focus on speculation about up to 250,000 provisional votes and how that could constitute a challenge by Kerry over the projected results. One of the most revealing questions of the Ohio Secretary of State. (Not quoted but close in context) "How do Ohio and Florida compare in 2004, and do you want the same controversey over the election as did Florida's Katheryn Harris since you too are a Republican?" It is obvious CNN and Blitzer are about...

Just announced on Fox. Unfriggin'believable - flour from the same sack as Gore.

Bush, Kerry Seek Edge From Bin Laden Tape With Three Days Left, Bush and Kerry Both Seek Political Advantage of Bin Laden's Re-Emergence The Associated Press Oct. 30, 2004 - Wrapping up a campaign shadowed by war and terrorism, President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry unabashedly sought political advantage Saturday from Osama bin Laden's re-emergence. "It's very helpful to the president," contended Bush ally Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., although the president didn't mention the menacing new message from bin Laden at a campaign stop in Grand Rapid, Mich. Rather, Bush declared, "The terrorists who killed thousands of innocent people...

“We’re Gonna Sue” - A Kerry Coup - Part One by Jennifer King, Managing Editor October 29, 2004 "The Heretical Housewife" The Kerry campaign recently announced a new strategy. Michael Whouley, the DNC’s elections operations operative and a (wink, nudge) Kerry “confidant” has publicly stated that the Kerry campaign has assembled an army of 10,000 lawyers and at least six “SWAT Teams” of lawyers and politicos waiting by fully fueled jets on election eve. When notified of a battleground state battle, the Kerry patrols will swing into action, jetting off immediately to file litigation in order to facilitate a Kerry...

After days of trying to make political hay over lost Iraqi explosives, the Democratic ticket turned Friday to an FBI probe of Halliburton as evidence of Bush administration special favors to special interests. President Bush was campaigning with actor-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger. "We need a president and a vice president of the United States who consistently stand up for the interests of the American people, and that's not what we're seeing right now," Democratic running mate John Edwards said on CBS Friday morning. Edwards was even more pointed Thursday night when he told 3,000 people at a Davenport, Iowa, rally, "You...

Something To Yak About - Kerry Playing Defense Coast-to-Coast As Support Erodes In Key States Interpreting the ebb and flow of campaign politics is as much art as it is science, but there's little left to the imagination when it comes to John Kerry's situation. The Gentleman from Massachusetts finds himself playing serious defense in states he should have wrapped up before Labor Day - not the sort of position that suggests a successful candidacy. Read on... Hawaiian Islands Backing Bush Back in 2000, Al Gore carried Hawaii (4 EV) by 19 percentage points. But the Oct. 17-20 SMS Research...

Democrats in Florida already are pursuing nine election-related lawsuits, accusing state election officials of conspiring to disenfranchise minority voters. Led by the Florida Democratic Party, the People for the American Way, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the AFL-CIO, the lawsuits target, among others, Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood, who was appointed by Republican Gov. Jeb Bush, President Bush's brother. The suits say Republican officials refused to count provisional ballots, improperly disqualified incomplete voter registrations, established overly restrictive rules to disproportionately hurt minority voters and actively sought to disenfranchise blacks. Matt Miller, a spokesman for...

BE AWARE!!! There is an e-mail in mass circulation that informs the reader that the Voters Rights Act expires in 2007 and upon expiration BLACKS WILL NO LONGER BE ABLE TO VOTE! Watch for this and inform people that the 15th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees ALL people the right to vote regardless of race. Also tell them there's no reason Bush wouldn't renew the Voters Rights Act, which BTW was renewed by Regan in 1982. ACT NOW TO COUNTER THIS HORRIBLE LIE!!!

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Democrat John Kerry on Sunday tried to persuade late-deciding voters that they can put their faith in his leadership by describing the values and beliefs that he says have guided him and would shape his presidency. Kerry said the Bible - and the American dream - says society must take care of its most vulnerable members, but in many ways that test is not being met under the country's current leadership. And he responded to some leaders of the Catholic church who have criticized his support of abortion rights and stem cell research. "I love my...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) on Sunday tried to persuade late-deciding voters that they can put their faith in his leadership by describing the values and beliefs that he says have guided him and would shape his presidency. Kerry said the Bible — and the American dream — says society must take care of its most vulnerable members, but in many ways that test is not being met under the country's current leadership. And he responded to some leaders of the Catholic church who have criticized his support of abortion rights and stem cell...

Bob Shrum, the man who brought you the Dukakis campaign of 1988, and made his candidate look ridiculous in a tank, has done it again. Now he puts Macho John in a fatigue jacket while someone else carries the late goose. I feel another Purple Heart application coming on. Joe Biden, the man who was forced out of the 1988 primary because he plagiarized his own life story from British Labour Leader Neil Kinnock, now informs the rest of us he thinks the president is "brain dead." Clinton is enroute to Philadelphia, Gore going to Florida, and attorneys flying every...

LAS VEGAS -- When John Kerry arrives in Reno Friday for his sixth visit to Nevada this year, he will underscore a dramatic shift in the geography of the race for the White House. Kerry, in a virtually unprecedented move for a Democrat, is relying more on the West than the South in his plan to reach the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. Once the party of the "Solid South," Democrats this year are not actively contesting any state in the region except Florida in the presidential campaign.Instead, Kerry has shifted his attention west, mounting major efforts in Colorado,...

All of the negative polling talk and hand wringing proclamations of what Bush should have be doing has made cause me to pause and think a little differently tonight. I am thinking about what Kerry's strategy really is. He obviously is spending a lot of time in FL and OH. This is from the WAPO. Updated 10/21/04 Tracking of campaign visits started on March 3, 2004 after it was clear that Sen. John F. Kerry was going to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. President Bush Sen. John. F. Kerry Pennsylvania (15 visits) Ohio (25 visits) Florida (14 visits) Florida...

GEORGE BUSH WILL SET FIRE TO YOUR HOUSE.... [Jonah Goldberg] Shoot your dog, eat your best cold fried chicken, jam your Xerox machine, grope your wife, give nukes to the Crips and the Bloods, raise taxes on the poor to 110%, give Margaret Cho a two hour nightly "comedy" special, replace vegetables with sand on all high school cafeteria menus and require that all women be handcuffed to their basement radiators until they breed the requisite 3 Aryan children this countries needs. If minority women can't churn out the good stuff, they stay handcuffed. And -- oh yeah -- he'll...

Just finished a phone call with my wife's cousin, who's an extremely liberal Democratic lawyer. She will be assigned a polling place in either Allegheny or Beaver Counties (southwestern PA), and will spend the day there, watching for "irregularities." She will be armed with legal papers dated that day, and ready to spring forth and slap them down if anyone tries to "intimidate" any voters. Freeze the process, she said. Think about that: Freeze our process.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. The Democratic vice president prematurely conceded the 2000 race to George W. Bush, then had to retract his concession after aides said Florida wasn't lost. He never declared victory, an omission Kerry's advisers --...

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. The Democratic vice president prematurely conceded the 2000 race to George W. Bush, then had to retract his concession after aides said Florida wasn't lost. He never declared victory, an omission Kerry's advisers -- many...

Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. The Democratic vice president prematurely conceded the 2000 race to George W. Bush, then had to retract his concession after aides said Florida wasn't lost. He never declared victory, an omission Kerry's advisers -- many of whom...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) has a simple strategy if the presidential race is in doubt on Nov. 3, the day after the election: Do not repeat Al Gore (news - web sites)'s mistakes. Unlike the former vice president, who lost a recount fight and the 2000 election, Kerry will be quick to declare victory on election night and begin defending it. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. "The first thing we will do is make sure everybody has an opportunity to vote and...

Kerry Ready to Declare Victory, Fight Loss Posted: October 20, 2004 at 1:11 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. John Kerry, bracing for a potential fight over election results, will not hesitate to declare victory Nov. 2 and defend it, advisers say. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. In short, the Democratic presidential candidate has a simple strategy for Nov. 3 and beyond: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. The Democratic vice president prematurely conceded the 2000 race to George W. Bush, then had to retract his concession after...

Rush is starting out with how the Dems are not going to make the same mistake Gore did, they will declare victory and start assembling a team to take over. He also said the main thing the lawyers will use is the "equal protection clause", because everyone uses different type of machines, they can claim everyone did not have an equal chance to vote.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Kerry has a simple strategy if the presidential race is in doubt on Nov. 3, the day after the election: Do not repeat Al Gore's mistakes. Unlike the former vice president, who lost a recount fight and the 2000 election, Kerry will be quick to declare victory on election night and begin defending it. He also will be prepared to name a national security team before knowing whether he's secured the presidency. [snip] The prospects for another contested election grow with every poll showing the race neck and neck. Gore prematurely conceded the 2000 race...

John F. Kerry's strategists pride themselves on the sheer speed of their advertising effort as they churn out one response after another to President Bush's attack spots. Now it turns out that some of the Kerry commercials are being written, edited, produced and put on satellites for the purpose of generating news articles. They have not actually aired on any network or local station -- except in reports about the Democrat's campaign. Since Sept. 1, the Kerry camp has released and publicized more than half a dozen commercials, on subjects ranging from taxes to health care to the war in...

CNN) -- With two weeks to go until Americans go to the polls, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry concentrated their efforts on the campaign trail Tuesday in the showdown states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Bush addressed an enthusiastic crowd in St. Petersburg, Florida, Tuesday morning, repeating his catchphrase, "he can run, but he cannot hide," in reference to his opponent's record in the Senate. It was the first of three Bush events in the state. (CNN.com's Candidates Tracker) "As proven by his record and a series of contradictions in this campaign, my opponent will say anything he thinks...

He said it on the tease leading in to the show. I'm watching now. Wanted to give a heads up.

We all remember the votes that were never counted in Florida 2000. So, while we are all working hard for a positive outcome on November 2nd, we also have to be prepared for a repeat of a 2000 stolen election. Below is a pledge for people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and protect the vote on November 2nd and making a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing this pledge, you will be joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd Urgent Response Network. Please sign the pledge...

ctober 18, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST The Lowest Blow By WILLIAM SAFIRE ashington The memoir about the Kerry-Edwards campaign that will be the best seller will reveal the debate rehearsal aimed at focusing national attention on the fact that Vice President Cheney has a daughter who is a lesbian. That this twice-delivered low blow was deliberate is indisputable. The first shot was taken by John Edwards, seizing a moderator's opening to smarmily compliment the Cheneys for loving their openly gay daughter, Mary. The vice president thanked him and yielded the remaining 80 seconds of his time; obviously it was not a...

John Kerry Flip-Flops on When to Use His Catholic Belief on Politics by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor October 14, 2004 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an editorial column on Friday, Fr. Michael Reilly, a NewsMax.com opinion writer, says he spotted a contradiction in Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's use of his Catholic faith vis-a-vis public policy. When it comes to issues like abortion, John Kerry has said he can't use his Catholic faith to legislate policy against abortion. As a result, he has voted six times against a ban on partial-birth abortion and 25 times during his twenty year Senate...

John F. Kerry is evolving from a reserved Catholic reluctant to discuss faith in the public square into a Democratic preacher of sorts.. From the pulpit to the pastures, Kerry is increasingly spreading a more spiritual messag... ...In what has become a familiar refrain of Kerry's sermons, he told the story of the Good Samaritan to illustrate God's calling to help the least of America's people. "This," he said, "is how you reach the kingdom of Heaven."

Democrats plan to send 1,000 New York lawyers to precincts in key battleground states on Election Day, part of a nationwide legal SWAT team that will include 10,000 attorneys in all. And they'll be ready to cry foul on behalf of John Kerry at the first sign of a hanging chad or botched butterfly ballot. "We're going to be there to make sure that every eligible voter gets to vote and every vote cast gets counted," Henry Berger, New York state counsel for the Kerry campaign, told the New York Post on Sunday. Six hundred New York lawyers alone will...

Despite Kerry's angel-faced sanctimony, this was a piece of premeditated gay-baiting (John Edwards used the same gambit in his debate with Cheney) whose transparent purpose was to keep some of the GOP's evangelical voters from turning out on Nov. 2. This was a miscalculation. Since the debate, the Christian right has been rallying to the side of Mary Cheney. Well-known political preachers like Jerry Falwell and James Dobson have gone out of their way to defend her right to privacy. Conservative radio talk shows and Web sites have been flooded with denunciations of Kerry and support for Mary. This reaction...

Pardon if this is a repost... Just watched the rebroadcast of Fox News Sunday. At the end of an interview among Chris Wallace, the Ohio Secretary of State, and the head of Kerry's Ohio campaign, the Kerry guy announced that "if every vote is counted in Ohio, Kerry is the winner." This at the end of a discussion on possible voter fraud and how to prevent it. The Kerry guy then said that Kerry has won Ohio even if it means holding up the Ohio vote tally for weeks or months, and he has lawyers standing-by to make sure Kerry...

The third Bush-Kerry debate may not change the outcome of the presidential election in November. But it may well be remembered as a milestone in the struggle for gay equality and acceptance. Give the credit for that to John Kerry. Toward the end of the debate, moderator Bob Schieffer asked both candidates if they believed homosexuality was a choice. President Bush said he didn't know. Kerry said that it is inborn, and cited an authority on the subject. "I think if you talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she'll say she is being who she was, she's...

Of Racism and Fear – The Modern Democratic Party By William Lee October 14, 2004 The 2004 presidential election is just weeks away and the Democrat Party is using a campaign strategy of racism and fear. Sadly, this is not something new, nor should it be surprising. We all remember the racism by geographical location implied in the James Byrd ads of 2000. Exploiting racially motivated murder for political gain was not beyond the pale for these propagandists back then, so why should we expect anything less this time around. The tactics are shameful. These tactics include radio ads that...

The Associated Press today reported on an official Kerry campaign/ Democratic National Committee election guide that instructs Democrats to make up charges of voter intimidation even if no signs or evidence of voter intimidation actually exist. This document proves the Kerry Campaign and the DNC are more interested in scaring minority voters than in working to reach out to them on Election Day, even if it means completely making things up. And late today we received reports that Americas Coming Together (ACT)-a group working to get John Kerry elected-is distributing flyers in Missouri featuring an old photo of a civil...

John Kerry says he's surprised by the flack over his lesbian comment. The media now in full gear scrambling to put out the fire on the Cheney lesbian comment made by John Kerry. He's not surprised by the flack over this. Folks, don't for a minute think -- you know, Edwards did it, Kerry did it. It means it's calculated. It means they've got some sort of focus group data that makes them think it's going to help them to do it. There's no other way to look at this. Kerry knows plenty of people who are lesbian and gay...

Liberal election lawyers who are trying to stir up mass hysteria over the false notion of voter intimidation should be charged with conspiracy and incarcerated. We are living in disgusting times when lawyers, aided by their bench legislating judges, have the power to derail the American election process through Orwellian methods witnessed in Communist Russia. President Bush needs a "preemptive strike" of his own, and declare that any lawyer who brings up false allegations of voter repression will be tried for conspiracy. The President then needs to add that he will have the FBI at polling locations assuring that partisan...

Democrat playbook opened to criticism Leaked page reveals push to use tactic of 'pre-emptive strike' By Peggy Lowe, Rocky Mountain News October 15, 2004 Democrats got caught with their election playbook open Thursday when a leaked page was published urging operatives to lodge a "pre-emptive strike" of claiming voter intimidation, whether it's true or not. Gleeful Republicans quickly called a press conference after the page from The Drudge Report went online, in which they denounced "a new low in gutter politics" that "played the race card." "They want to rile up the minorities to denounce tactics that do not exist,"...

Republicans are angered by a pamphlet that shows how Democrats plan to respond to problems - or nonproblems - minority voters might face. TALLAHASSEE - As the nation braces for another close presidential election, Democrats have distributed a manual to supporters in Florida and other battleground states listing tactics they expect Republicans may use to discourage minority voters from casting ballots. Democrats warn that minority residents could be incorrectly told by Republicans that they cannot vote if they recently moved, are behind in child support payments or fail to bring documents to the polls such as drivers' licenses or apartment...

There is a "great potential of a draft" to replenish U.S. forces in Iraq if President Bush wins a second term, Democratic challenger John Kerry said on a campaign stop in Iowa. Bush said in the second presidential debate that there would be no revival of the military draft under any circumstances if he is re-elected. "We're not going to have a draft, period," the president said. However, Kerry told The Des Moines Register, "With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft." The interview was published Friday as Kerry...