Who Lost Ohio?

New York Times Magazine ^ | November 21, 2004 | MATT BAI

[dufekin]

No one lost Ohio. Bush won Ohio, which was never Kerry's to lose.

[BenLurkin]

[steveyp]

Read the whole thing on the Times site. Enjoyable read.

The last paragraph was the best.

[FormerLib]

A quiet disbelief descended on the room. You could hear the creak of a folding chair, a ringing cellphone, the intermittent sob. "This is the end of the United States of America," I heard one man declare as he left the room.

LOL! What a bunch of LOSERS!

[JusPasenThru]

The rude awakening here is that I always thought there were more of us out there. And this time there were more of them.

"Hey Tonto, we're in deep doodoo. We're surrounded by Indians."

"Speak for yourself, white man."

[bikepacker67]

These folks are such freakin crybabies.

[68skylark]

For Democrats, this new phenomenon on Election Day felt like some kind of horror movie, with conservative voters rising up out of the hills and condo communities in numbers the Kerry forces never knew existed.

Seems like the author is trying to make us look like zombies. But nevertheless, I really like this line!

[joonbug]

At least Florida now has a break from being the cause of the Dems losing.

[MWS]

Who Lost Ohio?

I don't know, but maybe they should check under the couch cushions...

[JesseJane]

''The shortcoming in some ways is that the national Democratic Party has built this values wall between itself and a lot of voters out there, and the Republicans took advantage of it. The rude awakening here is that I always thought there were more of us out there. And this time there were more of them.''

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I don't think the REPUBLICANS TOOK ADVANTAGE... the Democrats pushed them OUT. Not only did the force them out, they ridiculed the faithful old mules that pull the cart the DNC fat boys ride around in. The DNC embraced the ACLU manifesto, which repulses the majority of this nation. = = = = =

Revealing FACTS on the ACLU from its own writings

"Stated Goals The ACLU's founder, Roger Baldwin, stated: "We are for SOCIALISM, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself... We seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the SOLE CONTROL of those who produce wealth. COMMUNISM is the goal." (Source: Trial and Error, by Geo. Grant)" Source: http://dianedew.com/aclu.htm

[jern]

great read, thanks for posting

[Common Tator]

'I can't think of a thing in Ohio that we could have done more to boost our vote,'' Steve Rosenthal told me three days after the election, as the trauma of the defeat began to subside

I posted it days before the election. Those 250,000 unioinized Ohio factory workers that had been layed off from 2000 to 2004 were Democratic voters. Their spouses were Democratic voters as well.

Do you know where those 500 thousand Ohio Democrats went? Did they show up at Kerry campaign events? Had there been 250 thousand out of work factory workers in ohio they would have been at Kerry campaign events. The national media would have interviewed them every night on National TV. Did you see any of them. You only heard they existed and could not wait to vote for Kerry.

Nearly all of those 250 thoudand permanent lay offs and their families moved south and west. They went to where the jobs were and they took their families with them. They were not in Ohio to vote for Kerry.

The huge Democratic efforts to add 250 thousand new Democratic voters in ohio only made up half the Democrat losses from 2000 to 2004. Adding new democratic votes did not add any net Democratic voters. The new Democratic registrations barely make up for the lost Democratic voters that moved away. Anyone who can read "House for Sale" signs could take a short drive and figure it out.

Meanwhile back at the Republican headquarters they too were adding new voters... some 85,000 of them. But the Republicans were not replacing voters that moved away. They were adding new voters. On top of that both parties did a much better job of getting out the vote.

What the Democrats failed to understand was the loss of 250 thousand Ohio Factory jobs cost the Democrats 500 thousand Ohio voters. They did worse than they did in 2000 because of that simple fact!!

[End Times Sentinel]

''This is the end of the United States of America,'' I heard one man declare as he left the room.

 

HAHAHAHA!!!  Well, it's the beginning of the end of what you THOUGHT America was- a Godless, Virtues, Valueless Wasteland.  Don't cry about it liberal, you can always move to europe or canada, it might make you feel good to give one last snub to America.

 

In the years to come, as Virtue regains dominance, you'll be relegated to the fringe with your failed ideas, right where you belong.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[airborne]

Who lost Ohio?

Nobody. It's west of PA, right where I left it!

[Congressman Billybob]

This is typical of the New York Times. The article leads with, spends most of its time on, the "good guys," the Democrats, the Kerry people. Only begrudgingly and late in the game does the Times bother to mention the Republicans, who did a better job at turnout, and who actually won the election.

Click below for more.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest, "The Mechanical Voices of the MSM"

[philomath]

stop that. you made me snog my laptop screen....

[WayneM]

I love a stroy with a sad ending... for a bunch of losers.

[blanknoone]

I am waiting for the equally biased 'Who saved Ohio" from the republican side. Of course, 'Who lost Ohio' is a reference to 'Who lost China' But of course that is exactly what didn't happen. Ohio did not fall into the communist camp.

[dsc]

They really thought they were in the majority.

They really thought that if they did a good job of turning out the vote, that and their habitual fraud would take the election.

I wonder if they were just simply wrong, or actually delusional.