Republicans wins Kentucky and Mississippi governor race

Caster Star ^ | 11/4/03 | Robert Tanner

[xm177e2]

REPUBLICANS WINS!!! HOORAYS!!!!

[w_over_w]

Terry McAuliffe is a genius . . . I would, however, suggest that he get Klintoon to appear more frequently for their candidates . . . espechially in the Midwest and deep South. Ya know? ;0)

[wai-ming]

Anyone know what the Republican/Democrat ratio for governors is?

With Schwazenegger in CA, it looks like we can add three more.

[Huck]

We NJ Freepers can only look around with envy. My Sussex County is proudly and reliably conservative, but the state is a Demoncrat wonderland. Look at the American South! It's GOP country! The Dems are in trouble.

[Impy]

Rats did well if PA (Philly, Allegeny Exec and suprisingly a Supreme Court race) and NJ (the only state with 0 statewide Repubs, poor NJ) but the big prizes of the night are ours. :-D

[Arkinsaw]

"The Republican Party has run this election with a fist full of dollars in one hand and a Confederate flag in the other,"

Keep diggin.

[Arkinsaw]

"The Republican Party has run this election with a fist full of dollars in one hand and a Confederate flag in the other,"

Keep diggin.

[Impy]

Provided we hold LA on the 15th it will be 29!! Likely to add a couple more in 04 too!

[Lancey Howard]

Democrats in Mississippi complained Tuesday of intimidation at black voting precincts

(yawn)

Chicken little. Nobody listens or cares anymore. Even most blacks know it's a joke.

[Lancey Howard]

Did Seamus McCaffrey win Superior Court in PA?
He was the judge with the courtroom in Veterans Stadium for the Eagles games. You should have heard his radio ads - - they proclaimed him as "The judge who brought law and order to the NFL!" I spit my Pepsi all over my windshield as I was driving up the Blue Route the other day. Hilarious ad.

[Valin]

Will the last sane person leaving the democrat party please turn off the light.





Thank you.

[qam1]

I would, however, suggest that he get Klintoon to appear more frequently for their candidates.

Yeah, Dam it. I wish they came to New Jersey

The Clinton's never came to New Jersey and the rats won!

[Impy]

Looks like the rats swept the 3 Superior Court positions.

Statewide
SUPERIOR COURT Pennsylvania
Candidate Votes Percent Winner
Jack Panella (D) 740,843 19%
John Driscoll (D) 729,798 19%
Seamus McCaffery (D) 758,318 19%
Grainger Bowman (R) 552,067 14%
Palmer Dolbin (R) 525,516 13%
Susan Gantman (R) 616,393 16%
Precincts Reporting - 67%

[Happy2BMe]

Can you say YES!!!

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Republicans Win in Kentucky, Mississippi
(2003-11-05)

By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans swept hard-fought governor's races in Kentucky and Mississippi on Tuesday, expanding their base in the South as Americans cast votes in state and local elections that could set the political tone for 2004.

Kentucky voters elected Rep. Ernie Fletcher as governor, putting a Republican in the office for the first time in more than three decades. In Mississippi, longtime Washington insider Haley Barbour charged into the governor's mansion, turning out incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove.

The double-barreled wins were good news for President Bush, who campaigned on behalf of both Republicans in races seen as possible bellwethers for 2004, when his re-election and control of Congress will be at stake.

Democrats held on to the mayor's office in Philadelphia as Mayor John Street won a bitter battle with Republican Sam Katz that turned on Street's claim he was the victim of a politically motivated FBI probe.

In Kentucky, Fletcher soundly beat Democratic state Attorney General Ben Chandler, grandson of former Kentucky governor, U.S. senator and baseball commissioner A.B. "Happy" Chandler, by a 10-point margin after a hard-nosed campaign that focused in part on Bush's economic policies.

"This really is a historic moment in this state," Fletcher said in becoming Kentucky's first Republican governor since 1971. "It really is a new era in Kentucky."

Chandler tried to tie Fletcher to mounting state job losses, repeatedly referring to the "Fletcher-Bush" economy. But Fletcher argued it was time for a change in the capital after a sex scandal engulfed Democratic Gov. Paul Patton, who admitted having an affair with a businesswoman he appointed to the state lottery board.

BARBOUR WINS MISSISSIPPI

In Mississippi, Musgrove lost the most expensive race in state history by an eight-point margin to Republican lobbyist and former national party chairman Haley Barbour, who blamed Musgrove for failing to attract new jobs or perk up a sour economy.

Barbour, who will be just the second Republican to govern Mississippi in the post-Civil War era, appeared to benefit from a heavy turnout among rural voters and the popularity of Bush in the southern state.

Strategists from both parties will pore over the results in Kentucky and Mississippi, both won by Bush in 2000, for possible trends heading into 2004. National Republicans were quick to point to the Kentucky results as a sign of Bush's strength.

"The Democrat strategy was negative attacks and tying Ernie Fletcher to President Bush and making this race a referendum on the president's economic policies," Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said. "The Democrats had their referendum and got their answer."

A third governor's race, in Louisiana, will be decided in a Nov. 15 runoff to choose a successor to retiring Republican Mike Foster.

Republicans already hold governor's offices in Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, building on what has been a reliably Republican electoral base in recent presidential elections.

In Philadelphia, Street easily won a re-election bid enlivened by the discovery of an FBI surveillance device during a routine sweep of the mayor's City Hall office.

Federal authorities said the device was part of a corruption probe of city government. Supporters of Street, a veteran black leader in a city where 80 percent of voters are Democrats, called the probe a Republican ploy to win the mayor's office and boost Bush's 2004 chances in Pennsylvania.

In other local elections, Republican Orlando Sanchez and Democratic former Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White headed for a runoff in Houston, the nation's fourth-largest city, after neither captured a majority of votes in a crowded field.

In San Francisco, Democratic city supervisor Gavin Newsom and Green Party candidate Matt Gonzalez will meet in a runoff in December to replace Mayor Willie Brown, forced to step down by term limits after a four-decade political career.

[Happy2BMe]

Republicans wins Kentucky and Mississippi governor race!

NOTE TO ALL DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: KEEP BASHING THE SOUTH!

(This is for you Dean: How many of them drive pickup trucks?)

Send it to the DNC for mass distribution.

More like foot in mouth (Bigfoot, that is!)

I asked to see what a METROSexual looked like and BAM!

Howard Dean

Howard Dean says he's running for President, and on paper he's quite a candidate. He's the longest-serving Democratic governor. He signed the first law in the country to allow gay unions. And, he's got the endorsement of America's favorite president-that-isn't: Martin Sheen.

Google Search for Metrosexual

HELP!

metrosexual (aka Male Democrat) (MET.roh.sek.shoo.ul) n. A dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle; a straight man who is in touch with his feminine side. —metrosexuality n. Example Citation: The only problem facing the metrosexual in an otherwise carefree existence is the inescapable effects of ageing. If 30 is 45 in gay years, then 26 is retirement age for the metrosexual — and no amount of biotechnological, rehydrating, whale sperm dermo-care can alter that. —Jonathan Trew, "I love me so much," The Scotsman, July 24, 2002

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[Area51]

I went and dun real good this time!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Will the last sane person leaving the democrat party please turn off the light.

Quote of the day! lol...I love it!

[MeekOneGOP]

Republican win for Mississippi Governor race too ! Happy Days !!

Congratulations to Kentucky and Mississippi !