[elizabetty]

Indeed!

[anniegetyourgun]

Hey libs....feel the love.....

[Texas_Jarhead]

wow, I didn't realize Barone was openly a partisan

[Max Combined]

I watched Bush's last campaign stop, in Dallas at SMU, on CSPAN. I was really moved, even though he just gave his same old stump speech. You could really feel the love, not just of the people for Bush, but also the love Bush felt for his supporters. I went to sleep that night feeling that their was no way that the good Lord would let this man lose such an important election.

[fortheDeclaration]

Imagine the Democrats, who think they are the party of 'love' really being seen for what they are-haters.

They hate President Bush for his goodness.

[fuzzy122]

To my democrat brothers and sisters:
A message of love and of coming together...

Stay Strong,
Fuzzy122

[Senator Goldwater]

Barone did yeoman's work for Fox News on Election Night. He was articulate, lucid, measured and demonstrably right.

I've gained a lot of respect for him, and this column solidifies it.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[SolitaryMan]

I expect the margin of victory would have been much higher without the millions of dollars providing over 12 months of anti-Bush 527 ads. When I was in Florida last Winter, Moveon.org was advertising fast and furious.

[what's up]

Old media have headlined violence in Iraq and reported almost nothing about positive developments there;

Unfortunately, this includes FOX News.

When will they start reporting the good stuff about Iraq?

[GOPrincess]

What a powerful opening he has here, as we continue to listen to Dems sneer about how dumb we "red" voters are...

[RoseofTexas]

I just talked to my son who lives out of town, he was so thrilled that W won, but he made a comment that really took me by surprise because he is a VERY independent thinker. He said that the reason W won was because folk were TIRED of the viciousness in which the OMwhores attacked W! WHOA! Coming from my son, it spoke VOLUMES!...believe me!

[McGavin999]

I'd like to find out what the total 527 expenditure was for both the republicans and democrats as well as what was spent by the parties. Into that I would also like to see the dollar value of the MSM reporting biased toward the democrats.

The rediculous amounts of money that have been spent goes to prove that this country can not be bought. The Swifties ads were more effective than the millions and millions that were spent by Moveon.org. George Soros made a very BAD investment with his millions.

It's going to be interesting to see if these creeps will continue to pour their millions down the money hole, or if they have finally learned their lesson.

[Salvation]

**On election night, most observers were focusing on central cities to see how many votes the Democrats would roll up. Working for Fox News, I concentrated on smaller counties in Florida, Ohio, and other target states in which all or nearly all the precincts had reported results. I found a clear pattern in state after state. In small and medium-sized counties, turnout was up, by 10 percent, 20 percent, even 40 percent in fast-growing areas, and the Bush percentage was up as well, by 2, 4, or even 8 percentage points. Aggregate those increases, and you have more new Republican votes than new Democratic votes in Cuyahoga or Broward counties. That, repeated over and over again, is the story of this election. Karl Rove's strategy of concentrating on increasing Republican turnout worked.**

Barone was the first one to throw out the exit polls. He said they were totally wrong.

That's why Fox News Channel was calling all the races before the other networks. They threw out that factor and were able to see the real trends. Hats off to Michael Barone and Brit Hume!

[gridlock]

That is why the President was speaking before large enthusiastic crowds every day for the past month, while Kerry was speaking to half full houses that had to be filled with paid audiences, and you couldn't pay them enough to pretend to be enthusiastic.

You can't beat something with nothing. You can't beat love with hate. And in 2008, the Donks won't even have the object of their hate to run against.

[CAluvdubya]

Thanks for posting this. I was watching him closely on election night and he looked puzzled as he tried to figure out those stupid polls. I could see something wasn't meshing with him.

[GSlob]

One should look to the future: base support could and should be mobilized and increased. But as the base turnout increases, there will be diminishing returns (unless one resorts to multiple and dead voters).
It has been reported that Karl Rove spoke of 4 million Christian voters sitting out 2000 election. Say, 250000 of them died between 2000 and 2004. Say, that this time out of remaining 3.75 million it was possible to get 2.5-3 million voting. OK. But it would leave this particular new voter reservoir almost empty.
Assuming that these voters are kept mobilized (and one has to keep working on it) the question becomes where and how to find next 3-5 million voters, and maybe more, for 2006-2008 and beyond.

[angry elephant]

Some Freeper earlier mentioned the work of German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies, who writes about two aspects of human life, the Gemeinschaft which is based on family and community, and the Gesellschaft which is related to the cities and larger society or government.

I think that the community people tend to just look after their families and local community, which can include their churches, and often eschew politics. Often the Gemeinschaft will let the Gesellchaft, those interested in politics and government, mostly run things. I think, though, that with the threat of terrorism, threat to marriage, and talk of extending government out into a global test that the community people decided it was time to get out and look after things.

I also think that it was the Gemeinschaft who supported the American revolution. The Gesellschaft are only able to exist at the whim of the communities, and they can only push us so far. They are unaware of this fact, however, and refer to the community people as "rubes" and "religious fanatics."

[vpintheak]

I don't really remember hearing much about a divided nation when Klinton was in office. Wonder why?

[Paul Atreides]

Wouldn't we all like to know how many bottles Whoopi Goldberg has been through, since the election?