Posted on 10/15/2004 4:25:00 PM PDT by pctech
I was listening to Fox News during Brit Hume's show (he wasn't there for some reason). They were talking about how there could be a 25% chance the election won't be decided for almost a month or even longer if the election is a real tight one and the lawsuits start flying because of "alleged" voter fraud.
All I got to say is that I don't want to be up night again like I was during the last presidential election. I assume you folks don't want to be either. I now find myself wanting to avoid the news just so I won't continually hear this kind of talk but yet it's something that is a real threat.
Besides a stiff bourbon (I don't drink alc-e-holic beverages) what are we going to do this year to make it through what could possibly be the worst election night in national history?
The long term effect of the Kerry campaign will make things a bit hot in congress for a while. I'm not quite sure why Bush didn't bring up the fact that he needs legislation on his desk to fix the woes Kerry drums up. Regan used to say "Get me a bill on my desk" all the time. His way of saying put up or shut up. Bush has failed miserably at that. He's been too busy defending himself when he should have just placed legislative issues where they belong and executive issues where they belong.
I sure you're right. I try to stay optomistic but I see so much in the way of alleged voter fraud that it makes me sick to my stomach. This is why I posted this thread. I want to hear everyone's take on all this and see if the heartbeat of John Q America is still beating.
I sure you're right. I try to stay optomistic but I see so much in the way of alleged voter fraud that it makes me sick to my stomach. This is why I posted this thread. I want to hear everyone's take on all this and see if the heartbeat of John Q America is still beating.
I think that the networks will call every state where lurch is within 3% as a win for the Dims, and will not give Bush/Cheney a single state until Bush gets over 60%.
Too close to call, you know.
The networks will call Utah, Texas and Wyoming for Bush at 7:00 Eastern, to balance the fake wins they give to lurch in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Yes, Bush should have taken some pages from Reagan's book. We'd be looking at a landslide. Maybe we'll still get one....
My preference: The rats will challenge this election until the rats are in shreds.
We will have to be ready to fight intimidation with tougher intimidation....and if necessary, action.
They better not be calling any state for anyone before midnight at least. So help me God if they do what they did last time in calling states too early I'm going to Washington DC and camping on the steps of the legislature and demanding reform.
I thought they were going to stop calling states early??
Present company excepted?
I hope you're right
Jimmy Carter discovers massive voter fraud on election day. He finds that tens of millions of votes for Kerry were fraudulent. What would he do? What would he say? What would he suggest as remedy?
I agree. I honestly feel Bush will win and beat Kerry so bad that there will be no reason for any recounts or challenges, IMO.
Well, I'm sure you're a nice person. Unfortunately, you don't set the tone of the national party. I suspect there are a good number of democrats out in the bonnies who are good Americans, misguided, but decent people. I just wish you were running the DNC and the Kerry campaign.
I think that too, the election will end up in the courts like in 2000.
For me to sleep on election night I'd have to have some pretty powerful medication. I don't sleep well when my nerves are shot.
Let me ask you: How do you "verify" a provisional ballot as being cast by a person that has definitively not cast a ballot elswhere in the county?
If there are a large volume of these, and I believe the Democrats will see to it that there are, the resulting cross-referencing/verification mess could take months and many court challenges to straighten out. If ever!
It is a tactic of the corrupt!
I live in Florida & our state better get more Bush votes by thousands instead of what happened in 2000. I don't look forward to this election either. Already heard of lawsuits already filed down here against laws that passed 2 years ago or so. Democrats will do anything & everything to win. Its a shame that it may come down to a national id card. It would prevent the criminals from voting along with people voting in 2 states, dead people voting etc.
Florida is going to be a battleground. In Jacksonville, Corrine Brown has been fussing about the elections supervisor for a while now and several black ministers are complaining they were treated rudely by the elections office and they're trying to get early voting offices open when there is neither the money or the time to open more offices before the election, we have one early voting place for the entire city.
A muslim guy threw a fit with Teresa LePore in Palm Beach about her not opening the door for him (after closing time) so he could drop off a bunch of voter registration forms.
Made comments referring to New York and imo intimidated her.
Our Sec of State said that voter registration forms not completely filled out, with a checkmark in the box to indicate you are a US citizen would not be accepted. Dade county has said they will allow folks who did not check the citizenship box to vote if their form is signed. Apparently signing indicates US citizenship.
Personally I think it's going to be a mess and we really need to be praying a lot, knocking on heavens door for a landslide for Pres Bush. Dems outnumber Pubs in registration here as well.
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