[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[dirtboy]

More systematically, the press believes that fluid narratives in coverage are better than static storylines;

Translation: We'll lie if we want to.

that new things are more interesting than old things;

Unless it's Bush's National Guard Service.

that close races are preferable to loose ones;

Because the Dems can't cheat if the election isn't close.

and that incumbents are destined for dethroning, somehow.

The end justifies the means.

I'm amazed that these pinheads were this open with their mendenacity.

[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with your analysis. And I have already sent the following letter to the group of authors of "The Note."

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am responding to The Note, published today, in slightly different terms than your request.

I didn't vote for Gore and now intend to vote for Bush. However, I DO have comments on the "vote attraction" qualities of Kerry, as different from Gore. I went to college with Kerry, and preceded him as an officer and debater in the Yale Political Union. He has changed very little -- more money and more wrinkles notwithstanding -- since then.

I wrote about that first, six months ago, most recently, this week. You can run me through Google News, if interested in seeing that. I also am ABD for a Ph.D. in political science. From that, and from the real world, I know that turnout depends, in part, on likability. While I have never met President Bush, from analyzing his public appearances, I feel certain that he is WYSIWYG, as they say in computer programming. ("What you see is what you get.")

The unstated assumption in your entire Note today is that Bush will be as voter attractive, no more no less, than he was in 2000. And that Kerry will be as voter attractive as Gore was. Both sides of that assumption are, in my judgment, false. And that changes the entire equation that you set out.

Sincerely,

John Armor, Esq. (address & phone)

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Says the Wuss: Ma, He's Touching Me"

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[sr4402]

Does anyone know if Senator Zell Miller voted for Al Gore in 2000?

[SunkenCiv]

Another Swing Vote: the Sufferers of Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome [Lileks]
Newhouse News Service ^ | August 11, 2004 | James Lileks
Posted on 08/11/2004 10:00:10 AM PDT by Constitution Day
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189517/posts

[Betaille]

Here is the email I just sent to the email address listed above:

I voted for Al Gore in 2000. I am voting for President Bush this year.
I get a little annoyed when I see article after article about people who have voted for Bush in 2000, but are now voting for Kerry, but no mention of the opposite side of that equation. Al Gore got alot of votes from Union Households and Southerners and I think that Kerry is going to lose many of these voters. I personally didn't switch to "Pro-Bush" until the run-up to the Iraq war, when I noticed that the democratic party started "Bush-Bashing" and playing politics with homeland security and Iraq shortly before the November 2002 elections.
That election was the first time I voted Republican. It was also the first time voting republican for many in the South(especially Georgia) and Union households(Especially in the Industrial Midwest).
Since then, the Bush-bashing has just gotten worse and worse, and I no longer see the Mainstream media(ABCnews included) as unbiased. I think that the Democratic Party has become more "Elitist" over the last few years, increasingly representing hollywood and left-wing urbanites, as opposed to working families. John Kerry is the perfect poster-child for the new "Elitist" Democratic Party that I no longer will vote for.

[concerned about politics]

My sister and her husband never voted, but are this time. They support Bush. Does that count?

[LibLieSlayer]

Dumb ass ABC shills!!!

I know two prominent dims that are voting for Bush, that voted for Gore in 2000. Mayor Ed Koch ex Mayor NY City, and Zell Miller retiring US Senator... and a third is the Mayor of St. Paul, Minn.!

Lying A$$ new organization!!!!!!!!!

LLS

[SunkenCiv]

Winner Take All: The Leader As We Head Towards The Back Nine and the Homestretch
'The Note' [ABC News] ^ | August 11, 2004 | Mark Halperin et al
Posted on 08/11/2004 8:42:20 AM PDT by quidnunc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189466/posts

Winner Take All (or this is now John Kerry's contest to lose)
The Note. ^ | Aug. 11, 2004 | Mark Halperin, Marc Ambinder, Lisa Todorovich, Karen Travers, David Chalian, Brooke Brower, Mary Hoo
Posted on 08/11/2004 10:02:05 AM PDT by COURAGE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189519/posts

Here's where their claim comes from:

RealClear Politics - Polls
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry.html

Considering they quote Rush on that "notebook", one would think they'd be more widely read:

Democrats for Bush
http://democratsforbush.blogspot.com/

The Kerry Spot on National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/waffles.asp

[KC_Conspirator]

Forget the fact that that we still can't find a single American who voted for Al Gore in 2000 who is planning to vote for George Bush in 2004.

Ed Koch.

That was easy and I am not even a member of the press. There is bound to be more.

[TBP]

El bumpo.

[TBP]

El bumpo.

[dinasour]

Forget the fact that that we still can't find a single American who voted for Al Gore in 2000 who is planning to vote for George Bush in 2004.

Maybe your looking in the wrong place. If you can't find any Bush supporters among your ex-hippie friends who spent the war in Canada, try asking a vet.

This is patently false. I have a number of Dem friends, some quite active in local politics that are vigorously opposed to Kerry, mostly because of his betrayal of the Vietnam vets.

I've never seen anything like this before. It wasn't like this in 2000, and this has led me to conclude that all of these polls showing a near 50/50 split are complete BS.

[OldFriend]

The real question is if they can find anyone who admitted to voting for Gore in 2000.

[wysiwyg]

Forget the fact that that we still can't find a single American who voted for Al Gore in 2000 who is planning to vote for George Bush in 2004.

A friend of mine who always votes Democrat told me that he's going to vote for Bush this year. I think the threat of a tax hike finally got his attention.

[rwfromkansas]

ABC News
47 W. 66 St., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-222-7777
General e-mail: netaudr@abc.com

Since the Note is datelined Washington, I believe these folks are in the DC bureau.

[anonymous_user]

we still can't find a single American who voted for Al Gore in 2000 who is planning to vote for George Bush in 2004

Uh...*Cough*9/11*cough. *Al*cough*Qaeda*cough*. 'Scuse me.

Gosh, no I can't think of anything to change their vote either.

[NYCVirago]

Forget the fact that that we still can't find a single American who voted for Al Gore in 2000 who is planning to vote for George Bush in 2004. (If you are that elusive figure, e-mail us and tell us who you are and why: politicalunit@abcnews.com.)

I can name two: Zell Miller and Ed Koch. Perhaps ABC may have heard of them.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I voted for Gore in 2000 and whined about it when Bush was "selected Resident of the United States". I was looking foreward to payback in '04. I've been a Democrat all my life. And then something happened, 9/11/01. While I watched with horror at the human tragedy of those events, I also got D*** mad. In the aftermath of 9/11 I saw George Bush rise to the challenge of the times as PRESIDENT of the United States and as Commander in Chief of our armed forces.

When I have some time I may do a vanity post on why I've chosen to call myself "ADemocratNoMore" on this forum. In a nutshell, my exposure to the independent media on the internet exposed the liberal - Rats for who and what they are. Armed with that knowledge I have no problem stating publically that I am voting for President Bush.