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Democrat Barack Obama defeats Republican John McCain 51% to 44% in an election for President of the United States in Washington State today, 08/13/08, 83 days until the election, according to this latest SurveyUSA pre-election tracking poll conducted exclusively for KING-TV in Seattle and KATU-TV in Portland Oregon. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released one month ago, when Obama led by 16 points, Obama is down by 4 points; McCain is up 5. Among women, Obama had led by 22, now leads by 15. Among men, Obama had lead by 10, now trails by 1. Among voters younger than...

I need ballot help from the Washington State Forum. Would any of you mind moving the discussion to this thread so that I can get a handle on the candidates? This impressive video is Randy Neatherlin running for Representative District No. 35 Position No. 2.

If our culture and society keeps going backwards the only ones left that will be able to make it will be the upper class which is what Obama is part of, he will be worse then Clinton was to our culture because their will be so many young minorities that will look up to him and if he fails like i suspect he will then the crime in the inner cities will only get worse and the robberies will go up.

He doesn't admit it, but Dino Rossi seems to have made up his mind to run again for governor. Even as the 2004 Republican nominee faces an investigation of whether he illegally used his public policy foundation as a front for a 2008 campaign, he reportedly is moving toward an announcement of his candidacy sooner than he has indicated. Some of his 2004 campaign operatives have been touting his 2008 prospects. Rossi's announcement is considered likely before Thanksgiving and possibly as soon as mid-October. On Sunday during an interview, he repeated what he's said for months: He will decide before...

Key races in Connecticut, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, and Washington State are covered.

You guys should check this group out. I met one of their members out in Ohio working with a congressional candidate. They knew what they were doing and I was impressed but i didn't realize that Alex had his own team until yesterday. I looked at their website its got some really solid ideas in terms of strategy. Check it out: http://www.vandenberg-strategies.com

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Bush is first president to choose yule card with a Scripture THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS About 2 million friends and supporters of President Bush found something in their mailboxes this month that no other president has offered: A holiday card with a Bible verse. This card has a line from Psalms, 95:2: "Let us come before him with Thanksgiving and extol him with music and song." Presidents have been sending season's greetings since Calvin Coolidge wrote "Merry Christmas" on White House stationery in 1927. And many presidents issued proclamations about faith-related events varying from the National Day of Prayer to...

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Colin Powell (search) said Wednesday the United States does not consider legitimate the results of elections in Ukraine, which the opposition says was marred by fraud.

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Things are looking up in Washington State! Dino Rossi ahead by 2000 votes and the remaining ballets to be counted are mostly in Pro-Dino counties!!!

Ideas for conservative (fiscal AND SOCIAL) slogans for signs/bumper stickers here in the Evergreen State: [in response to a piece of literature from the Murray campaign stating Nethercutt was "too extreme" for Washington]: Washington: Too extreme for America. If George Nethercutt is out of step with Washington, is Washington out of step with America? Think we're overpopulated? You're part of the population... Washington, the tri-bi*** state. [pending a Rossi loss] Have you "choiced" your unborn kid today?

Posted on Hannity.com: Tuesday October 26, 2004 11:43pm Post subject: True story: democrat stealing Bush sign -- True story: Last Thursday I put out one of my Bush/Cheney signs in my front yard. Between midnight and 3:00 a.m. someone stole it. On Friday night I put out sign No. 2. Since I didn't have to get up early, I thought my dog and I would "stake out" our sign. This time I put the sign a little closer to the gate leading to my backyard.

2004 US Senate Elections These are the states I am watching: Florida: I believe that Martinez will help Bush here. I think Cubans that are having doubts about Bush will support him when they vote for Martinez. I think most Hispanics would like to have Martinez representing them and that will push him past Castor. Castor comes off very old and too loyal to the “party.” And she is in real trouble when she has to explain about how she handled the “terrorist professor” when she was the president of USF. She has been around in politics for over ten...

(Note: I'm going to send out a fundraising email to raise money for George Nethercutt who is running against Patty (ossamamomma)Murray for US Senate. You are welcome and encouraged to use this email or any derivation there off for your own fund raising efforts.) KENNETH FOLEY: USAID Representative On October 28thth, 2002 Kenneth Foley was shot dead in front of his wife in Amman, Jordan by assailants who are now believed under the direction of Ansar al Islam’s Al-Zarqawi. Mr. Foley had a 40 year career working in public service starting as a Peace Corp’s volunteer in India in 1965....

Does anyone have an active url that has a video of the infamous Patty Murray speech praising "Osama as a great philanthropist"? If not a link, then where can I download the video directly to use an attachment in an email? I want to send it out as part of a fund raising email for Nethercutt. These will be non Washington residents so I figure hearing it from the horses mouth is better than just sending a quote to get the blood boiling again. Thanks in advance.

Latest Poll Shows Christine Gregoire (D) at 47%, Dino Rossi (R) 46%, also shows Rob McKenna slightly favored for Attorney General.

Washington State held its primary yesterday, and Larry Klepinger barely edged out Suzanne Sinclair for the nomination to challenge Democrat Rick Larsen for the 2nd Congressional District seat in the U.S. House in November. In a 10-minute conversation with Larry Klepinger at a state fair in August, the discussion ended abruptly when he said "You and I may not agree on this, but I believe a woman should have the final say on abortion." I responded, "Then I think Hitler should have had the final say on the Jews" and wandered off. Now that he is the Republican nominee, I...

Most recent poll puts Patty Murray ahead by 49% to 40%.

Pastoral Letters & Officials Sign of Faith…Bread of Life: A Statement by Alexander J. Brunett, Archbishop of Seattle on Catholic Participation in Political life Summer 2004 Upon ordination as bishop, I took for my Episcopal motto Signum Fidei – Panis Vitae. I adopted these words (sign of faith – bread of life) from John’s Gospel to characterize and guide my ministry because they summarize for me the centrality and powerful reality of the Eucharist in our Catholic faith experience. As we approach the 2004 elections, the bread of life we share at the altar stands at the center of a...

Gannett Fails One-Newspaper Communities/Counties- Port Huron Times Herald a Queue for Government Intervention? In particular, with today’s concentration of all reporting medium with just a few companies- who determines the void or lack of reporting in the best interest to citizens. I’ve challenged a Gannett newspaper, the Times Herald of Port Huron Michigan of its obligation citizens in one-newspaper counties. There appears to be an immediate need to make certain legislation be brought requiring corporate newspapers to better report news and serving the communities they cover. At a crucial time with the 2004 Primary literally days away- this particular newspaper,...

The poll of 600 likely Republican voters in St. Clair County Michigan’s State Representative District 81 countywide found Alloway leading Pavlov by 12 points, 48 percent to 40 percent in a three-way race with Yale Republican Steve Pray Nader included in the ballot test.

“A Michigan Impossible until we work together ending illegal state house electioneering practices” Joe Alloway-R Michigan House District 81 St. Clair County Michigan PORT HURON – JULY 11, 2004 - Please listen to a recent interview (http://66.92.134.175/~benburch/old/TrupianoShow-(10-5-2004).mp3) exposing Michigan’s #1 area to reform and that’s ending illegal activities in Michigan’s House Republican Caucus Communications Office! Very few citizens asked have no idea of what that word means. Folks, the bottom line is we’ve had some major problems in this antiquated, 50-person staffed office and they’re just coming public. Take recent revelations of state employees assigned to representatives as campaign managers...

I just got back last week from driving across the country, I live in Washington State and drove to PA in see my wifes family and took I-80 and I-90 back home. With my Bush/Cheney sticker from 2000 in my back window along with my W-04 sticker I got a aproviel rating of about 75% judging from the honks and thumbs ups from fellow drivers. Funny how I got the 1 finger salute from the folks with the Kerry stickers. My question to you is do you vent your hate and anger at fellow drivers on the road with a...

Last night, I was told that a report was recently published by some DC think-tank. This report ranked members of congress in order of taxpayer-friendliness, i.e. it examined their votes on tax-related bills and determined where any particular member of congress came in on higher or lower taxes for their constituents. The same person who told me about the report told me that a whopping 75% of house and senate members from my state were in the top 20 LEAST friendly to taxpayers in their voting records. Have any of you heard of this report? Can you point me to...

Are you a registered voter?? Do you know anyone who needs to register?? Check this out: http://www.ConservativeAlerts.com/vote.htm Ultra liberal "MoveOn" is attempting to register 100,000 new left wing voters. WE need to register 200,000 new conservative voters!! Just click on the above link, click on your State, fill in the necessary information, print it out, and mail it in!! It's a simple as that!! As you all know, this will be the most important election in our lifetime. Our future depends on it, and the future of our children depends on it. It is an election we MUST win!! DO...

SEATTLE -- The photograph on the front page of Sunday's Seattle Times captured a moment rarely seen publicly since the start of the Iraq war. Coffins holding dead American soldiers, draped with U.S. flags and placed in rows, nearly filled a cargo plane for the journey home to the United States.

I've seen the senate races heating up, but not nearly as much on the house seats. I'm mostly using information from DC POLITICAL REPORT and POLITICS1. STATES Alabama DISTRICT 3 - The other Mike Rogers (R) won in 02 with 50.3% over Democrat Joe Turnham(48.2%) in an open seat. So far, it looks as he is facing Democrat Bill Fuller, Ex-State Human Resources Commissioner. I haven't heard much about this race, but the first defense is hardest. Alaska SENATE - Lisa Murkowski(R) vs Ex governor Tony Knowles. This will be a tough race as Knowles is an ex-governor and Murkowski...

Senate Races to Watch 2004 South Dakota- I expect this one to be a barnburner. Thune is back and now there is a third party candidate (Tim Giago) that leans towards Daschle’s ideology. The Indian reservations in SD have been a haven for democratic votes and Tim Johnson owes his re-election to them. But now that an Indian candidate has applied to run, the Democrats are in trouble here. I expect Bush to visit often and the Republicans to put great effort into this race. The only thing that bothers me is the Janklow factor. He has done some damage...

Journalists, political pundits and other Hysteric Left activists are desperately trying to spin some cosmic significance out of Sunday's Spanish elections. The "conventional wisdom" is that the Spanish Election results are some sort of significant defeat for President Bush and the War on Terror. As usual the "News Media's" thinking is neither conventional nor wise. What all the various activists miss is the reality of American Exceptionalism. As much as the International Political Left hates, and try's to deny, the reality is the USA operates on a completely different political level then the rest of the world. On Sunday, the...

The reason for my apology was that throughout this primary season we have been hearing about the record turnout of voters participating in Democrat caucuses and primaries. I bought the lie. The truth is that, except for Iowa and New Hampshire, there has not been any sort of record turnout for the Democrats. Even in New Hampshire the vote was far less than what the Republicans had when they last had a contested primary in 2000. The Democrats this year had 219,787 votes in their primary. The GOP in 2000 had 239,523 votes. That 20,000 difference is major in a...

Vote.com has a vote on President Bush's current Ads. Please take a minute to vote here http://www.vote.com/vote/60212434/index.phtml

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/6/121052.shtml Well isn't this intresting. The "objective news media" supposed 9-11 surviors protesting Bush's ads are actually anti-war stooges financed by John Kerry's wife. Please take a moment and vist the New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CBS, NBC and ABC etc to email the Omsbudsman, the Publisher, the News Editor and demand to know why they allowed clearly partisan advocates of Kerry's Presidential Campaign were presented on their "News" programs with no reference to their ties to the Kerry camp. We absolutely must demand the "News Media" be held accountable for their free advertising for the Kerry camp.

http://www.georgewbush.com/tvads/ Here is a link to the 1st three Bush Re-election ads. As expected the DNC directed its "Objective News Media" mouthpieces at CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC to generate phoney hysteria about these ads. Compared to the demogagery and lies spread by the Kerry Campaign, Moveon.org and the DNC about Bush for the last 6 months, this is probably the mildest sets of ads that have run so far this political season. Please email this link to every person on you email contact list. We need to get as many people as possible to see these ads. They are...

Conservatives should write in Tom Tancredo in the primary ballot to demonstrate the depth of concern we have with the President. If enough do this, he will get the message.

Democratic incumbent Patty Murray continues to hold a huge fund-raising edge in Washington state's closely watched U.S. Senate race. New campaign finance reports show Murray has topped the $6 million mark in total donations and has more than $4 million on hand as she prepares to battle Republican Rep. George Nethercutt. Nethercutt, who has moved to Bellevue, Wash., to launch a statewide race, has raised more than $1.8 million and has almost $1.4 million on hand, his campaign said. Campaign finance reports for the three months that ended Dec. 31 are not due until Saturday night, but both campaigns released...

BELLEVUE -- U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt is moving his political base to Bellevue, where he will live and base his campaign to unseat Sen. Patty Murray this fall. A generation ago, George Nethercutt and his bride commuted to Seattle by ferry from a cabin on the Kitsap Peninsula, he to build up a new law practice and she to work for the City Council. Today Ne-thercutt is back in the 'burbs, the new kid on the block once again. The Spokane congressman, best known for knocking off a sitting speaker of the House in 1994, has moved to Bellevue and...

OLYMPIA — Dr. Federico Cruz, director of the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, will drop out of the governor's race and endorse Dino Rossi for the Republican nomination, sources told The Associated Press yesterday. Rossi, front-runner for the GOP nod, and Cruz, who has been running a low-key campaign since late July, scheduled a joint news conference today in Olympia. Republican sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said Cruz will defer to Rossi. Others said Rossi is definitely picking up Cruz's support and would solicit his help in wooing Hispanic voters.

<p>OLYMPIA -- Former state Sen. Dino Rossi and Attorney General Christine Gregoire each raised more than $300,000 in December toward their runs for governor, their campaigns said Tuesday.</p> <p>That still leaves Rossi, a Republican, well behind Gregoire, a Democrat. But Rossi can continue to raise money through the winter, while Gregoire is subject to a freeze on raising money.</p>

ISSAQUAH -- Surrounded by the stalwarts of his party, Republican State Sen. Dino Rossi of Sammamish launched his campaign for governor Monday, promising to end a 20-year stretch of Democratic control. ``For the past 20 years, this state has had a fatal flaw -- we're addicted to process,'' Rossi said. ``I say we need a little less process and a little more progress.'' But Rossi says his campaign is an uphill battle, and that he'll have to spend as much as $5 million to tell his story of being a ``fiscal conservative with a social conscience'' to Washington voters from...

Below is a list of each state and its "Political Party statistics", meaning that state's current governor, U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressmen, and who they voted for in the 2000 election.  This is useful data in trying to predict future voting trends.   AlabamaGovernor Bob Riley (R)Senator Richard Shelby (R)Senator Jeff Sessions (R)5 Republican Congressmen2 Democrat Congressmen2000 Election: Bush AlaskaGovernor Frank Murkowski (R)Senator Lisa Murkowski (R)Senator Ted Stevens (R)1 Republican Congressman2000 Election: Bush ArizonaGovernor Janet Napolitano (D)Senator John McCain (R)Senator Jon Kyl (R)6 Republican Congressmen2 Democrat Congressmen2000 Election: Bush ArkansasGovernor Mike Huckabee (R)Senator Blanche Lincoln (D)Senator Mark Pryor (D)3 Democrat Congressmen1 Republican Congressman2000 Election:...

A state lawmaker says that she will seek the Congressional seat being vacated by George Nethercutt, who is running for the U.S. Senate.

Patty Murray is warning K Street donors that she will interpret PAC contributions to Rep. George Nethercutt as a hostile act, even if the donors also give to her campaign.

<p>SPOKANE, Wash. — Republican Rep. George Nethercutt (search), who in 1994 toppled U.S. House Speaker Tom Foley, said Wednesday he will challenge Democratic incumbent Patty Murray (search) for the Senate in 2004.</p> <p>Click to learn more... Nethercutt, 58, a favorite of the White House, will give up his congressional seat to make the run. He said he met last week with President Bush, who encouraged him to get into the race.</p>

Cold feet: Every few months, it seems, Rep. George Nethercutt of Spokane tells the pliant Olympia bureau of The Associated Press that he may run statewide for senator or governor. The AP makes a big deal of it, only to watch Nethercutt later decide to keep the House as home. He may do it again, though Republicans say the nomination to oppose Murray is his for the asking. Guests at a recent fund-raiser co-hosted by ex-Sen. Slade Gorton chief of staff Tony Williams came away convinced Nethercutt won't take on Murray. Absent Nethercutt, local conservative activists are pushing Seattle Pacific...

I just voted in Snohomish County, and had a couple of observations. Turnout seemed typical. I voted at 10:30 am and the voters were mostly Socialist Security recipients and mental cases (like they say, the Short Bus always stops in Everett).I do have some concerns about the new machines. The first is, you have no way of knowing what is actually written to the chip. It could be anything, and the tech industry is not known for their ethics or support for the GOP. Secondly, and I should have prevented this, but they didn't let me put the card into...

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

The ENEMY forged the stolen steel Delighted at the pain we would soon feel A hot branding iron to burn a 9 and 11 In the hearts of all righteous under Heaven The demons smiled and admired their work Then dedicated it with an unholy curse The plans were laid well, the deceptions intact With stooges called "martyrs" they began the attack They boarded the planes with thin, tight-lipped smiles Politely nodding to each small child - In a short time they’d know TERROR too real When their KILLERS captured the pilot’s wheel May the TWIN TOWERS of bright beacon...

There are some great radio ads put out by the Republican challenger to Congressman Jim McDermott, Carol Cassady. To listen to them go to: www.cassadyforcongress.com Below is the ad copy. Baghdad Jim Chris: Jim McDermott says the President of the United States will lie to the American people. When he met with Saddam Hussein's emissaries he said the President would mislead the American people. McDermott charecterized Iraq as a "peace-loving" nation whose good intentions must be taken at face value.In Jim McDermott's Bizzarro World, Saddam Hussein is a truthful, peace loving Dictator and George W. Bush is a lying war...

Received this in my email box tonight http://www.rnc.org/flash/bushsavestheday.html