Bush Wins Iowa to Claim Last Three States (Iowa = 7 EVs)

Yahoo ^ | 11-5-04 | By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer

[Sea2ShiningSea]

Wow! U.P. Yah, smart ones up there! ;o)

[plushaye]

Yes, I'm curious about that Republican county in Maine that everyone said could net 1 EV but in the end was called for Kerry. Does anyone know what happened there?

[shield]

Early on the eve of Nov 2...Bush actually had 270 electoral numbers if Maine had been added in? Wonder if I'm adding this up right?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Yea, we need T shirts.

[Springfield45]

"Were giving them too much there. We should just confine them to their Blue counties, and then put electrified barbed wire fencing around them...."
Did you hear about the quote Rush had on his show about Dukakis' campaign manager, Bob Bechtal? He said something like, "We've already dealt with slavery, so that's not an issue with the South, so I can't see why they don't just go ahead and form their own country."
Hey, yeah pal, you'd really get far without Southern military bases.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

They were playing to win and to get a mandate. They got both.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

My understanding is that in the end Pres. Bush did not win the one EV up there. Wish he had.

[fortheDeclaration]

Any chance we can pick up WI with the absentee ballots?

[NCjim]

I don't think they've called Florida/2000 for Bush yet...

[goldstategop]

The last Republican presidential candidate to carry Iowa was... Ronald Reagan! First GOP win in the Hawkeye State in 20 years.

[joesnuffy]

Bush won Wi if you only count legally cast votes...VOTE FRAUD stole the WI election
We have got to get rid of Doyle and Lautenschlagger

[fastattacksailor]

NEWSFLASH!

DATELINE....2 NOVEMBER 2021

DAN RATHER AND CBS CALL G.W. BUSH VICTOR OF 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION XXXXX


ENDS

[Bush gal in LA]

Have the DU Dummies committed suicide yet. By the way does anybody know the final electoral vote count for Bush? Must be like 285 or something, right?

[Bush gal in LA]

Are you kidding? Kerry must have promised him Teresas billions or something!

[Bush gal in LA]

They still havent called Wisconsin? What is taking so long?

[Ciexyz]

I wish PA had gone red -- it would have except for the blue pockets of Philly, Pittsburgh and Erie. But the efforts of the volunteers helped motivate more Republicans to register, complete absentee ballots or actually go to the polls, and this upped the national popular vote. And Kerry was forced to spend more time and money in a state that should have been a Democratic given, which bled time and money from his organizations in OH and FL.

Every phone call, every personal contact helped. We can all be proud of every Bush volunteer across the country.

[yldstrk]

Whoa there easy on Kansas and Toto now, we've ALWAYS been RED!

[Ruth C]

Is there some way to find out about those ballots? I've tried the state websites but can't find out anything about provisional and absentee ballots. Perhaps I don't know what to look for on the sites....

[Ruth C]

I've tried to find the information, but am looking for a district map to match the counties. The way Maine works is there are 4 electoral votes, 1 for district 1 and 1 for district 2, and two at large. The person who wins district 1 gets 1, the person who wins district 2 gets 1 and the person who wins the overall state gets the other two. Unfortunately, I can't find a map which shows who won which district, only one for all the counties.

[JLS]

Check out my post, #13, and others on this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1271810/posts

Notice particularly that someone points out that there are no provisional votes in Wisconsin because you can register at the polls on election day. In my post I crunch some numbers that if my assumptions are reasonable, show Bush could win Wisconsin. As I say in the post, I don't know what are reasonable assumptions.