Posted on 10/22/2004 1:40:53 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
Bush's Ohio Valley Why has he stopped campaigning here? By Chris Suellentrop Posted Thursday, Oct. 21, 2004, at 1:37 PM PT
Could he win without Ohio? Maybe.
COLUMBUS, OhioWhite House press secretary Scott McClellan wandered into the press cabin on Air Force One this week to let the media know where President Bush would be campaigning. On Thursday, Pennsylvania. On Friday, Pennsylvania and Florida. On Saturday, Florida. Those are two of the presidential campaign's "Big Three" states, which nearly everyone assumes will decide the election. The glaring omission: Ohio.
"Why aren't we going to Ohio? The president hasn't been there in several weeks," a reporter asked McClellan after the plane landed. Oops, the president will head to Canton on Friday, McClellan said. "I think I forgot to mention Ohio."
McClellan's lapse is understandable. Bush seems to have forgotten about Ohio, too. "The Bush campaign is confident it can win the state; as if to prove its comfort level, today marks 14 days since the Republican president last set foot in Ohio," Cleveland's Plain Dealer wrote this past Saturday. By the time Bush arrives in Canton tomorrow, he'll have gone 19 days without campaigning in the Buckeye State. His last stop here was in Cuyahoga Falls on Oct. 2.
Take it to the bank. I'm in the Republican Party and the President will win Ohio without question. Just to give you a hint the republicans have out registered the democrats in the last year by over 25,000 in this state. It's a done deal Bush will win. The breakdown further indicates that Kerry will not have a big enough lead coming out of Cleveland area while Hamilton County is very strong for the President in the southwestern part of the state. The Columbus area even looks good for Bush. You wonder why Kerry has spent a week in Ohio? He's trying to turn this state but then he's losing states that Gore won in 2000. This campaign is slipping away from the democrats and Kerry.
If the fraud is that extensive, the Bush campaign and election officials will take note.
Are you getting to come home?????
I know you will be soooo glad! God bless you!
They are coming back because Ohio is important. But, there are lots of states to focus on. That is why they have not been in Ohio lately....since before it was all Ohio all the time. They will go back for another all Ohio all the time swing.
I will be loving it believe me....
yes I am going to get home sometime around next Thursday....
I know you will be!
God Bless you and your family. I am sure they have great plans for your time with them!
Are you going to be able to vote while home? And will you be home for the "after the election" stuff that's been promised?
Or do you just ignore politics while home on leave?
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ABC's The Note drew up this scenario earlier in the week: Kerry wins Ohio and Pennsylvania, but Bush wins the presidency by carrying Florida, Wisconsin, and two out of three from Iowa, Nevada, and New Mexico. Maybe we should start calling Wisconsin, Iowa, Nevada, and New Mexico the "Little Four." Or maybe the Big Three should annex Iowa and Wisconsin and become the Big Five. The electoral scorecard from Slate's William Saletan estimates that if the election were held today, Bush would win the presidency while losing Ohio by picking up both Iowa and Wisconsin (and holding Nevada).
Lots of Democrats took heart when the blogger Mystery Pollster declared that Bush was losing Ohio. But Ohio isn't this year's Florida, the one state Bush can't do without. It looks like Florida still is.
Bush hasn't campaigned in France either. So what?
O..H..
I am an BUCKEYE alumnus ...
... I wept quietly.
So I redirected my abundant effervescent personality, and COMMITTED MYSELF TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN to re-elect my Congressman and President Bush!!
(and I live in Los Angeles County -- and I can defeat DEMON-RATS with my weak hand ...)
Tressel's gotta beat UM this year...
I would certainly like to believe this, and it has been my intuition all along. But the polls freak me out. Even with them all averaged together, Kerry still holds a slight lead in Ohio.
Even it's in the bag, what's up with the polls?
i gotcha... I...O!
This is a testimony indeed. Thank you.
yes.
There needs to be a discussion with the Coach. Perception is = he did quite well with Cooper players.
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