Make mine an IV drip, please.
It was 49-47. CNN put all the undecideds in Kerry's column. Garbage poll!
From Joe Scarborough's website for today:
• October 31, 2004| 1:12 p.m. ET
Who is smelling victory today? (Joe Scarborough)
Just a couple of quick thoughts as the election streaks down the home stretch.
As mentioned yesterday, Republican insiders on the Bush campaign are smelling victory as internal polls in most of the swing states are inching their way. Now we read the same from an Associated Press article posted early this morning--except this time it is Kerry supporters who are sensing the tide may be breaking against them.
This from the AP:
"The men were campaigning Sunday in tightly contested battleground states. Both had appearances scheduled in Florida and Ohio; Kerry was also speaking in New Hampshire.
A new poll showed the president moving ahead of Kerry in the popular vote, and Democrats said their private surveys hinted at momentum for Bush."
Ohio polls also appear to be breaking Bush's way. A victory by the President in Florida and Ohio makes Tuesday an early evening.
On the other side of the equation, a Kerry victory in Florida dooms W's reelection chances. The only reason I bring up a Florida loss for Bush, which I have been dismissing for weeks now, is because the remarkable scenes at the Supervisor of Elections office in my hometown of Pensacola, Florida. Voters waited in line for up to five hours yesterday in a heavily Republican leaning area, and yet it was a decidedly Democratic crowd that was spending their Saturday waiting to vote for John Kerry.
Karl Rove and the Bush White House has known this election was going to be about voter turnout for four years now. We will see if they were prepared for the onslaught of early voters they are now facing.
One final thought. Taking a quick look at the front page of the New York Times this morning was telling. While Bush supporters were holding signs in praise of their candidate, the top Kerry photo showed a father, his young daughter and a baby doll with stickers emblazoned with a lined out "W."
When the election is more about who you hate than who you love, you are less likely to get out and vote. Just ask all those Clinton-haters in the 1990s, who despite seeing the Democratic president as evil personified, never got within striking distance of getting him out of office.
I suspect the hoard of Bush haters will wake up Wednesday morning learning the same bitter lesson.
I'll check back in from Flyover Space in the next few hours. Till then, don't give in to hate.
Peace out.
-Joe
Thoughts? E-mail me at JScarborough@msnbc.com
Shaken or stirred?
Great. Bush will win and I'll be dead from an overdose!!