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Bad news for Bob Byrd
The Hill ^
| 6/8/05
| Dick Morris
Posted on 06/07/2005 8:10:55 PM PDT by Jean S
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To: JeanS
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posted on
06/07/2005 8:54:48 PM PDT
by
shiva
To: Dawgreg
There's her true pic in #21. I think she has an excellent chance!
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posted on
06/07/2005 8:56:15 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
To: Grim
I used to not believe Dick Morris' predictions...until Rick Lazio beat Hillary in the 2000 Senate race in New York.
To: JeanS; All
Byrd, who still boats a 62-28 favorable-unfavorable ratio, may have met his match and master in Capito, who has a statewide rating of 57-35.
Shelly
Moore Capito has a family name as strong as Byrd--follow the
bold and you'll get the point. Her father, Arch Moore, is incredibly popular in WV, even with his indictment, conviction and jail time served for vote buying. Problem is, she isn't Robert Byrd. She (or anyone else for that matter) will have to earn it. West Virginians will break toward that with which they feel comfortable. They felt comfortable with a Texan over an East Coast Liberal in 2004. Will they feel equally comfortable with an up-and-coming "young lady" over the stalwart force of the "dependable" Byrd? The jury is out on that.
One thing Shelley does well is humor. In most of her campaign appearances in 2004, she announced her late arrival thus: "I tried to get here on time, but because I try to avoid roads named after Robert Byrd, it took me a while to get here."
It was well stated and, as they say, "many a true word was spoken in jest."
Nevertheless, West Virginia went for President Bush by 56-43 in 2004 and 52-46 in 2000, and voters who back the GOP nationally are getting less and less forgiving of their Democratic representatives and senators in Congress. As party-line voting increases in Washington and the well-publicized partisan feuds animate the body, voters are getting the point that as long as the legislators vote a straight party line, so should they.
There is some truth to this, but remember, the Democrat Gubernatorial candidate in 2004--and current Governor, Joe Manchin won with 62% of the vote while Bush was getting his 56%. For those of you who have run political campaigns like myself, that is solid statistical proof that West Virginians still have a HUGE block of swing voters.
Change is coming to WV sometime in the future but with a recent meltdown in the State GOP (read
here and
here--registration required), Republicans are not in a very good position to support any candidate unless support comes from outside the state which will not be favorably looked upon by the general voting population.
To: JeanS
The Senate would realign 62-38 if every state elected senators from the same party as the presidential candidate they supported,...
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posted on
06/08/2005 3:45:22 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: JeanS
His defense of the filibuster was natural, since it was he who conducted a lonely 14-hour attempt to kill the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Byrd filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
Does his party know about this?
If he had been a Republican, he would have been castigated as racist, sexist, inhuman, etc., and the filibuster as a Senate procedure would have been discontinued right then and there.
To: Jess Kitting
Sheets gets a pass because he's an enlightened RAT, just like Algore, Sr. and William Fulbright....
To: onyx
I hope so. I firmly believe in some people getting their "comeuppance" in life and Byrd is one of 'em.
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posted on
06/08/2005 4:06:04 AM PDT
by
Dawgreg
(Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
Nice screen name. For 2008, you can change it to ABC (Anybody but Clinton--it's as simple as ABC!)
To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Shelley Moore Capito, R-WV, for US Senate...
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posted on
06/08/2005 4:16:35 AM PDT
by
pageonetoo
(You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
To: Jess Kitting
I keep it, because I still think Al will be back in 2008. He's trying to reinvent himself, ala Nixon in '68. And the thought of a bloodbath between him and the Witch in the RAT primaries (they hate each other) is too delicious...
To: pageonetoo
Thanks.
The irony of Byrd is that he is the epitomy of what the DEms caricature the Republicans as...white, eltist racists.
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posted on
06/08/2005 5:05:04 AM PDT
by
Recovering Ex-hippie
(Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
To: JeanS
Little dick can make sense here and there. The keagle will be beaten next year and it will be by 5 to 7 points. His dirty era will end with him being thrown out on his ash.
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posted on
06/08/2005 5:31:17 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
(Dealing with liberals? Remember: when you wrestle with a pig, you both get dirty and he loves it.)
To: JeanS
A bit of a formatting change for emphasis with election date included ... do what you like with this...
The Republicans in deep-blue states are Olympia Snowe (2006) and Susan Collins (2008) of Maine, which Kerry won by 54-45, and Lincoln Chaffee (2006) of Rhode Island, which Kerry won by 60-39.
The Democrats who represent bright-red states are Mark Pryor (2008) and Blanche Lincoln (2010) of Arkansas (Bush carried it by 54-45), Evan Bayh (2010) of Indiana (Bush 60-39), Mary Landrieu (2008) of Louisiana (Bush 57-42), Max Baucus (2008) of Montana (Bush 59-39), Ben Nelson (2006) of Nebraska (Bush 66-33), 2002s narrow escapee Tim Johnson (2008) of South Dakota (Bush 60-39), Kent Conrad (2006) and Byron Dorgan (2010) of North Dakota (Bush 60-36) and Jay Rockefeller (2008) and Byrd (2006) of West Virginia (Bush 56-43.)
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:44:54 AM PDT
by
AFPhys
((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
To: JeanS
Byrd, who still boats a 62-28 favorable-unfavorable ratio, may have met his match and master in Capito, who has a statewide rating of 57-35 More likely the voters in W. Va. have figured he has met his match in Father Time.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:53:20 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: AFPhys
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posted on
06/08/2005 8:30:31 AM PDT
by
onyx
(Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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