DeMint Leads Tentenbaum

schotline.com ^ | 7/2/2004 | RepublicanWizard

[Badeye]

"Sorry, but this will only just make up for losing IL and CO, as well as probably AK.
To gain anything, we'll need to win at least two out of FL, SD, LA, NC. The maximum possible gain will be three."


I disagree, but no problem. Keep the faith.

[Badeye]

"They didin't *really* try to beat Portman, did they? That's one of the most heavily Republican districts in the nation, and Portman's a rock star. I'm still pissed that Portman didn't challenge Voinovich in the Senate primary---I'm tired of Voinovich's McCain-like voting record."

I would have loved to see Portman take out Voinovich, and would have supported the effort with time and money. I suspect Portman's future will include a Presidential run some day.

[SC MOOSE]

Well you can add three to five points to IT because of the Edwards pick today. This race just became much closer. Edwards got over 138,000 votes in the Demo primary back in Feb. At this point DeMint will have to run a perfect campaign to beat IT, I hope I am wrong.

[Cronos]

Yawn, that's more paki/blac propaganda -- according to www.cia.gov, the ethnic groups in India are

Indo-Aryan 72%, Dravidian 25%, Mongoloid and other 3% (2000)

[AuH2ORepublican]

"He got 45+% last time, and that was with the bad Florida call which suppressed R turunout. I think it would have been more like 47% without it."

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We lost around 10,000 net votes in the Panhandle because of the mistaken early call, which is less than 0.1% of the total Florida vote. The lost Panhandle votes would have made Bush's margin invulnerable to crooked manual recounts, bit it would have been insignificant in McCollum's percentages.

[zbigreddogz]

I know about the lost votes in the panhandle, but I wasn't speaking of McCollum, I was speaking of Bush in Washington State.

[MplsSteve]

I'm a little more concerned about North Carolina now that Edwards is on the ticket.

I'm not convinced that Edwards will have enough pull to put NC in the Dem column...but he may have enough pull to put Erskine Bowles in the Senate.

About the last thing I want to see is another Clintonista sitting in Congress!

[AuH2ORepublican]

"I wasn't speaking of McCollum, I was speaking of Bush in Washington State."

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Oops, sorry about that. And you're right, the Florida call probably cost Bush 1%-2% in Washington State (it also cost him carrying Oregon and New Mexico at the very least, and cost us Slade Gorton's Senate seat).

[JohnnyZ]

I'm not convinced that Edwards will have enough pull to put NC in the Dem column...but he may have enough pull to put Erskine Bowles in the Senate.

I'm not sure it works that way .... might energize NC Republican turnout .... significant lack of enthusiasm for guv/etc. races so far, so high profile Bush-Burr vs. Edwards-Bowles may very well help us.