Cheney Predicts Bush Will Win 52-47%

Drudge Report ^ | October 24, 2004

[snugs]

**I am wondering why they would do this? its one thing to say "we will win", but to predict numerical victory, suppose some people just say "it in the bag" and don't vote? for my money, its better to say "it will be razor close, we need every vote".**

IMHO I think here you have is an attempt to reverse what happened in FL last time the media called it for Gore and people who had not voted did not bother because they thought there vote would not count. By forecasting decisive Bush win this does 2 things.

1) Encourages the faithful to vote to make the margin greater

2) Eases worry over re-counts, court action etc so that people are not caught up on this during the last few days but are actually be effective in campaigning and encouraging others to vote.

Also one has to be positive you cannot have the VP projecting possible defeat or even just scrapping through all way through his stump speeches he starts them with this looks like "Bush/Cheney country. He is being consistent with how he is on the road.

[GSlob]

Nice photo. Did some right-handed patriotic citizen socked him on the chin?

[cyncooper]

I am not referring to "hard core" supporters. I am referring to a vast number of average decent Americans who plan to vote for Bush this go-round and there is NOTHING that will stop them.

You are wrong if you think they don't see what has been going on not only with the dems but the media's dirty work on Kerry's behalf.

And I think they plan to have their say, these millions of Bush supporting patriots. And say it they will.

[mrsmith]

Maybe he said it just to make Matt Lauer and Katie cry.

But "whyever" he said it, it was right to say it. That's the kind of guy he is: right.

[Soul Seeker]

LOL!!

I do love Cheney.

Sometimes..even in an election year..we need to lighten up. :-D

1) This prediction gets under the Libs collar.

2) His confidence makes them question what he knows that they don't know. Some may even pack it in.

3) It serves to interfere with the MSM's mental games that the Bush campaign is on the ropes in the final stretch.

4) It makes Bush supporters freak out, so they'll overcompensate by working harder to ensure this prediction comes true.

5) Bandwagon voters are going to jump on the Bush/Cheney train, not so much because of what he said, but because they are calm. Which is body evidence of impending victory. Unlike another campaign screaming itself hoarse that looks increasingly desperate.

I don't know the future, neither does Cheney. It's not overconfidence, his pronouncement is strategy.

[Nov3]

X42 never got past 50

[sandalwood]

VIGILANTEMAN AND WIFE - YOU ROCK!

[zook]

There's no such thing as a margin of error in an actual election! A margin of error comes into play when you're dealing with estimates of a population parameter based on a sample statistic. The actual election gives you the actual parameters, not estimates.

[the Deejay]

Yeah, I know.

[Pukin Dog]

WHY is this being leaked? I don't think it's a good idea, however accurate it may be, to do such a thing. WHY?

Never read Sun Tzu, huh?

[dougherty]

I'd personally like to sign up for vote suppression duty. Where do I report?

I'll send you the secret code in private. We have to get busy soon, there's a lot of votes to suppress and voters to intimidate!

[snugs]

**Many of the Indeps and swing voters want to vote for the winner. They just can't decide on their own you know so they wait to see who they think will win. The media is going to hammer that JFK is leading in all the swing states yadayadayada for the next eight days. So Cheney is telling them Bush is going to win.**

Definitely Cheney is a whilly old fox has successfully won 5 congress elections and done numerous fund raiser events for other Republicans. He knows the game and is playing it to the maximum.

Seeing clips of him on TV this week he look energized happy and optimistic as well as healthy. He is in the mood for the final push to the poles. He wants this last 4 years of his political career and also a very important factor to him his wife wants it as well. Cheney is never happier than when Lynne is they are a great team, and it has been great of late to see glimpses of the old Lynne Cheney fire. The RATS fear her as much as him and some of the attacks recently on Cheney I am certain are aimed at her as much as him.

[small voice in the wilderness]

6.) Haliburton obviously owns stock in Depends. And prozac.

[lavrenti]

I expect Kerry's reaction to be as shrill as always.

Which is when he is at his most ineffectual.

[TheForceOfOne]

I think a few crack sniffing dogs could lower the fraudulent vote card count. I’m pretty sure my dog Fang is available that day!

[snugs]

**I don't know the future, neither does Cheney. It's not overconfidence, his pronouncement is strategy.**

Good thought Cheney is strategy and substance.

[ConservativeLawyer]

Many of the Indeps and swing voters want to vote for the winner. They just can't decide on their own you know so they wait to see who they think will win.

I think you hit the nail on the head as to why Cheney is leaking this now. Start being perceived as the winner and the votes will follow.

[bethtopaz]

I looked up Sun Tzu in Yahoo and found the original book, but would give me a brief description of it -- Sort of like Sun Tzu for Dummies? Thanks!

I think Cheney rules -- and he is sexier than the silky pony - smarter and HAS BETTER HAIR!!

[Pukin Dog]

Funny, isn't it? Those fools want to claim victory before the polls close, but when our side makes only a prediction, they lose their damn minds.

Kerry's concession speech is going to be one of the happiest moments of my life. I'll be standing in front of the TV doing my best Pete Weber Crotch Chop.

[bethtopaz]

Dick Morris wrote in an article that Bush was a chess player when he was in, I think, Yale or Harvard. Anyway, he described this campaign like this: Bush is playing chess -- he's moves down the road; Kerry is playing checkers -- getting up each day figuring out how he's going to react to the polls, events, Bush campaign. You do know that Bush's IQ is higher than Kerry's. And I'm pretty sure Cheney's is right up there hovering around the top, too.