Posted on 05/29/2004 4:48:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Ping!
You might find this thread interesting. The posters are more interested in talking about your home town than about Ohio.
Ya, the County to the south of Davidson (where Nashville is). The place (in particular, the county seat Franklin) was written up in some national magazine as a classic Red Bush zone versus some Gore zone in New Jersey or someplace (secular versus religious and all). Williamson just loved the Dems, until it voted for Wallace. It voted for Carter in 1976, although less emphatically than its neighbors. That is the last time it voted Dem, or ever will.
Williamson, not Williamston, and yes, it is immediately to the south of Nashville (whose borders coincide with Davidson County). The old county seat town of Franklin is now becoming a quite desirable place to live, from what I understand (I attended college in Nashville years ago, and there wasn't much to Franklin back then).
Sounds like a lot of areas in the southeast (at least regarding voting history).
Yeah, that has happened to me also and I had the same experience as you. Once you tell them tough I only have a cell phone and you will be more than happy to close the account and cut the card, they back track big time.
For instance, Union County, NC (people on this Ohio thread are probably tiring of this, but the example could be used in many other places) is growing explosively, and shifting rapidly to the Republican party in terms of registration and voting.
But wait! Isn't much of this growth due to folks moving in from NY, NJ and PA? Shouldn't that cause a Democrat trend? The answer, of course, is that the newcomers from NY, NJ and PA don't represent a cross-section of those states' populations. To put it a bit crassly, those who can leave New Jersey do.
The flip side of that, of course, is that those left behind in the rust belt will increasingly tip those states to the Dems. Which is why Ohio, which has historically leaned a bit to the GOP, is a real concern. But at least their electoral clout is declining.
Good news bump!
350????? It was 318 just earlier this week! He's a liar!
350????? It was 318 just earlier this week! He's a liar!
BTTT
Bush was losing every single swing state but Tennessee, in which Bush was leading by 3%. That means he was dropping Nevada, Arizona (I think), New Hampshire, Florda, Ohio, West Virginia (I think). It was a total wipe out. I saw it on Fox News. FWIW. Which isn't much.
Michigan went to Clinton twice and Gore once. The last republican who won here was George Bush Sr. If Michigan goes Bush Jr., we're talking a 45 state electoral landslide.
You do know that this is an INTERACTIVE POLL, don't you?
I agree with just a slight correction Its lying agenda driven bad news !
The prisoner abuse scandal quickly became a non-issue. Polls have been showing for some time that people are tired of seeing the photos and tired of hearing about it. The guards acted wrongly, and now they are being punished. In spite of the chatter from the media, people are happy with the resolution of the issue and aren't letting that particular incident color their thoughts about Iraq.
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