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  • Ron Silver Agrees With Billboards: Hollywood Elected Bush

    02/03/2005 3:32:57 PM PST · by srm913 · 31 replies · 1,414+ views
    NewsMax ^ | February 3, 2005 | Marc Morano
    Ron Silver Agrees with Billboards: Hollywood Elected Bush Marc Morano, CNSNews.com Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005 Stage and screen actor Ron Silver, in Washington for President Bush's State of the Union address Wednesday night, credited left-wing celebrities - particularly filmmaker Michael Moore - with helping to re-elect George W. Bush. "The celebrity backlash helped," Silver said. "Michael Moore, I think, was a big factor - a really big factor," Silver told Cybercast News Service in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, following Bush's speech. Silver's acting credits include the television series "The West Wing," and "Chicago Hope" as well as the movie...
  • Bush Victory in 2004 Election Much Deeper, More Widespread than Widely Reported

    02/05/2005 7:44:53 AM PST · by quesney · 36 replies · 1,739+ views
    The scope and depth of Bush's victory in the 2004 election has been grossly underreported. As far as I can tell, no major news outlet reported the following in the aftermath of the 2004 election From the 2000 to the 2004 election, the percentages of the electorate voting for Bush went up in all but 6 states and the District of Columbia. And the 3 biggest increases were in BLUE STATES: Hawaii, New York and Rhode Island. Blue states posted 4 of the top 6 increases and five of the top eight. Bush's margins of victory widened and his margins...
  • Political Payback: Does Bush 'Owe' Religious Conservatives?

    02/04/2005 7:52:26 PM PST · by Mr. Silverback · 45 replies · 616+ views
    BreakPoint with Charles Colson ^ | February 2, 2005 | Charles Colson
    “Does Bush Owe the Religious Right?” According to Time magazine’s cover story this week, the answer is, emphatically, yes. “Conservative churches mobilized as never before and helped re-elect a president they see as one of their own,” Time said. “Now they expect him to deliver for them,” leading the way Christians want him to on issues like abortion, gay “marriage,” and appointing conservative Supreme Court justices. The article—and the thinking behind it—may please many Christians, who delight in knowing they are powerful enough to elect “one of their own” to the most powerful office on earth. And having done so,...
  • Post-Election Poll: Abortion Helped Bush With Hispanics, Catholics (pro-life politics wins again)

    02/04/2005 12:34:15 PM PST · by Liz · 26 replies · 455+ views
    LIFE NEWS ^ | February 3, 2005 | Steven Ertelt
    Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new poll conducted by researchers at the University of Akron shows that the abortion issue helped President Bush make considerable gains in the 2004 elections among Catholics and Hispanics. The poll also finds Bush improving with most religious groups while those who attend church infrequently backed John Kerry. According to the survey, some 63 percent of Hispanic Protestants supported Bush in 2004 compared with just 32 percent in 2000. Meanwhile, Catholics gave Bush a 53 to 47 percent advantage over the Massachusetts senator, also an increase over Bush's 2000 numbers. Longtime Democrat voting blocs, both...
  • Study Finds Religious Polarization in U.S. Voters

    02/03/2005 6:43:29 PM PST · by neverdem · 21 replies · 502+ views
    NY Times ^ | February 3, 2005 | NA
    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Voters in last year's presidential election showed a new polarization within some religious faiths, a fact that may make it all the harder for Democrats to recapture the White House, according to a report released on Thursday. President Bush ``depended heavily on traditionalist Christians, while (Democratic opponent John) Kerry had a more diverse coalition characterized by minority faiths, the unaffiliated and modernist (more liberal) Christians,'' said the report. It was probably easier for the Republicans to mobilize their more homogeneous coalition than for the Democrats to mobilize their more diverse group, said the survey from the University...
  • Poll: Catholics Favored Bush Over Kerry

    02/03/2005 1:23:26 PM PST · by metalmanx2j · 42 replies · 782+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | Feb 3 | RICHARD N. OSTLING
    John Kerry (news - web sites) managed the best showing in decades for a Democratic presidential candidate among mainline Protestants, but his failure to capture a majority of Roman Catholics — people of his own faith — gave President Bush (news - web sites) an important advantage in last November's election, according to a new survey. Bush's showing also improved dramatically among Hispanic Protestants, 63 percent of whom supported him in 2004 — a 31 percent gain over 2000. The postelection phone survey of 2,730 people, conducted by the University of Akron and sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion...
  • 'Celebrity Backlash' Helped Re-Elect Bush, Actor Says

    02/03/2005 11:27:48 AM PST · by FlyLow · 92 replies · 3,482+ views
    CNS News ^ | 2-3-05 | Marc Morano
    Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - Stage and screen actor Ron Silver, in Washington for President Bush's State of the Union address Wednesday night, credited left-wing celebrities -- particularly filmmaker Michael Moore -- with helping to re-elect George W. Bush. "The celebrity backlash helped," Silver said. "Michael Moore, I think, was a big factor --a really big factor," Silver told Cybercast News Service in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall, following Bush's speech. Silver's acting credits include the television series "The West Wing," and "Chicago Hope" as well as the movie "Reversal of Fortune." He also is a co-founder of the Creative Coalition,...
  • Poll: Catholics Favored Bush Over Kerry

    02/03/2005 6:56:41 AM PST · by ZGuy · 37 replies · 852+ views
    AP via Yahoo ^ | 2/3/05 | RICHARD N. OSTLING
    John Kerry managed the best showing since in decades for a Democratic presidential candidate among mainline Protestants, but his failure to capture a majority of Roman Catholics — people of his own faith — gave President Bush an important advantage in last November's election, according to a new survey. Bush's showing also improved dramatically among Hispanic Protestants, 63 percent of whom supported him in 2004 — a 31 percent gain over 2000. The postelection phone survey of 2,730 people, conducted by the University of Akron and sponsored by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, is a close study...
  • Hollywood Bananas Over Bush Billboards

    02/01/2005 4:07:14 PM PST · by InvisibleChurch · 87 replies · 3,878+ views
    newsmax.com ^ | Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 6:31 p.m. EST
    Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 6:31 p.m. EST Hollywood Bananas Over Bush Billboards A barrage of billboard messages expressing gratitude to Hollywood for its "help” in re-electing George Bush is about to hit Tinseltown. And NewsMax hears Hollywood elites are not happy with the development. Citizens United, headed by former Whitewater investigator David Bossie, is set to release this week three billboards in view of the Kodak Theater – where the Oscars are to be held later this month. The billboards will – with a touch of sarcasm – "thank” Hollywood for helping to re-elect George Bush. The ads will feature...
  • GOP Sees Future In Black Churches (The Crumbling Of The Liberal Plantation Alert)

    02/01/2005 12:47:57 AM PST · by goldstategop · 72 replies · 2,435+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 02/01/05 | Tom Hamburger And Peter Wallsten
    But by courting conservative blacks in battleground states — reaching out through programs such as the president's faith-based initiative — GOP organizers believe they made the difference that secured Bush's victory in 2004. In Ohio, for instance, a concerted effort increased black support for Bush from 9% in 2000 to 16% in 2004, providing a cushion that allowed the president to win the pivotal state outright on election night. The Black Contract With America will be unveiled by Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., a registered Democrat from suburban Washington who backed Bush in 2004 after voting against him four years...
  • What got so many counties to shift from blue to red?

    02/01/2005 3:37:05 PM PST · by RWR8189 · 44 replies · 1,679+ views
    USA Today | January 31, 2005
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  • RNC Chief Credits Internet, Talk Radio

    02/01/2005 12:50:34 PM PST · by beyond the sea · 19 replies · 596+ views
    Newsmax.com ^ | 2/1/05 | unknown
    The new media played a significant role in President Bush's victory, his former campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, told a forum discussion at Texas A&M University last week. Mehlman, who now heads the Republican National Committee, pointed to cable news, the Internet and talk radio as key factors that transformed the 2004 race. "Without the Web or talk radio, [a campaign] has no word of mouth," Mehlman told the forum, in quotes picked up by the university newspaper, The Battalion. In contrast, the top GOP official noted, past presidential campaigns had been driven by the content of evening newscasts on CBS,...
  • Billboard Blitz to Blast Hollywood

    01/28/2005 1:48:32 PM PST · by hinterlander · 116 replies · 3,209+ views
    Human Events Online ^ | January 28, 2005 | Human Events
    HUMAN EVENTS has learned that a billboard blitz "thanking" Hollywood for the reelection of President Bush will be unveiled early next week. The advertisements feature the faces of liberal Hollywood icons Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn, and offer thanks to Hollywood their help getting President Bush reelected. Two versions of the billboard were created, both "thanking" Hollywood -- the first for "4 more years" and the second for "W. Still President." Billboard creator Citizens United, a group that advocates a return to traditional American values, has purchased the use of...
  • Did the "Liberal Media" Get the 2004 Election All Wrong? (Don't know whether to laugh or spew)

    01/27/2005 4:53:47 PM PST · by The Loan Arranger · 25 replies · 1,090+ views
    The Free Press ^ | January 16, 2005 | Gene C. Gerard
    In the days and few weeks immediately following the election last year, the media pronounced gloom and doom for the Democratic Party and its constituents, such as gay rights advocates. Journalists and media outlets of the left and the right, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, and Newsweek, among most others, announced that the Democrats were down and out, and that the evangelical Christians and the Republicans were the rising power. They divided the country into red states and blue states, and offered up glossy maps to show that most states were red and therefore Republican strongholds....
  • Ben Stein: Special Deliverance (another amazing essay)

    01/23/2005 6:38:33 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 53 replies · 2,465+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | 1/20/2005 | Ben Stein
    Tuesday Here I am in Easthampton, Massachusetts, standing in a drizzle, next to a football field where my son's team, Williston-Northampton, is playing their arch-rival, Suffield. This is a big game. Suffield is rated number one in the league. And our side is not rated number one. Nevertheless, we have a fine coach, Mr. Conway, and a hard working team, and a few parents on the sidelines. For some reason, there never seem to be any stands at these games so we have to stand on our own feet, in the sopping grass, and cheer and yell while holding umbrellas....
  • Kerry Criticizes Election Outcome At MLK Day Breakfast [Sore-Loserman ALERT]

    01/17/2005 10:17:16 AM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 109 replies · 3,138+ views
    AP ^ | Monday, January 17, 2005
    BOSTON— U.S. Sen. John Kerry, in some of his most pointed public comments yet about November's presidential election, invoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy on Monday as he criticized President Bush and decried reports of voter disenfranchisement on election day. Kerry, Bush's Democratic challenger, spoke at Boston's annual Martin Luther King Day Breakfast. He reiterated that he decided not to challenge the election results, but went on to say that "thousands of people were suppressed in the effort to vote." "Voting machines were distributed in uneven ways. In Democratic districts, it took people four, five, eleven hours to vote, while...
  • WP: Bush Says Election Ratified Iraq Policy

    01/15/2005 8:39:28 PM PST · by West Coast Conservative · 38 replies · 2,854+ views
    Washington Post (Page A01) ^ | Sunday, January 16, 2005 | Jim VandeHei and Michael A. Fletcher
    President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath. "We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me." With the Iraq elections two weeks away and no signs of the deadly insurgency...
  • Poll: Voters Staunchly Back One Candidate

    01/13/2005 1:46:29 PM PST · by metalmanx2j · 4 replies · 379+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | Jan 8
    WASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority of voters say they never changed their minds about whether they would support President Bush (news - web sites) or Democratic candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), a poll found. Only 16 percent of those who voted for Bush said there was a time when they thought they would vote for Kerry, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey. And 15 percent of Kerry voters said there was a time when they thought they would vote for Bush. The Annenberg findings lend support to the decision by the campaigns to spend more time on...
  • Reverend Al Sharpton: Bush Took Advantage of Gay Marriage Debate

    01/10/2005 7:40:04 AM PST · by gopwinsin04 · 42 replies · 848+ views
    President George W. Bush exploited feelings against gay marriage in his re-election campaign against Sen. John Kerry, former presidential candidate Al Sharpton said.Speaking Sunday at Atlanta's Butler Street Christian Methodist Episcopal, Sharpton said Bush used the gay marriage debate to draw attention away from the Iraq war and ignored domestic problems.'I think George Bush manipulated a lot of religious feelings when the president has little or nothing to do with marriage,' Sharpton said.The 2004 election was not the place for a moral debate, Sharpton said.Sharpton, who spoke to the Southern Blakc Caucus, said he believes black people may drift further...
  • Bush May Have Paid Michael Moore to Oppose Him

    01/09/2005 1:21:17 PM PST · by NYTexan · 54 replies · 1,846+ views
    scrappleface.com ^ | 2005-01-08 | Scott Ott
    Even as Tribune Media Services announced it had dropped columnist Armstrong Williams after he admitted receiving $241,000 from the Department of Education to promote 'No Child Left Behind', new allegations surfaced today that the Bush administration may have paid Michael Moore to oppose the president's reelection. Mr. Moore and the White House both deny the charges, but critics point to the "almost scary" relationship between Mr. Bush's electoral success and the vigorous efforts of the Oscar-winning filmmaker to tarnish the president's image. "The more he attacked Bush, the more Americans loved the president," said an unnamed spokesman for the American...