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Posted on 02/05/2008 6:10:39 AM PST by SE Mom
Here we go...
The Democrat nominee needs 2,025 to win.
The Republican nominee needs 1,191 to win.
No. I’m behind enemy territory in the north shore of Long Island NY, within 30 miles of NYC. It used to be a republican stronghold about 15 years ago until graft became widespread.
“Good grief. Romney is the most conservative candidate out there. For the life I failt to udnerstand support for Huckabee but to each his own.”
I could help explain part of it: (a) gun rights; and (b) right to life. Huck has been consistent on both issues.
Yes, I know all about Huck’s faults. Don’t blame me-—I wanted Hunter. If the race is close in March, I am leaning towards a Mitt vote to stop the McAmnesty train.
Cause it's so much fun to say "Huck - AAHH -BEEEEEEEE!
I live in Northern California and just voted for Mitt. My 19 year old son is voting for Mitt as I write (smart kid) and hubby will vote for him after work.
Hope our 3 votes help.
Defeat McCain!!!!!!!
Me too here in CA, and yes it felt great! I gave very serious thought to voting for Mitt to stop Queeg but I just could not do it. I do not like Mitt at all, he is only slightly better than Queeg, not enough difference to toss principles into the garbage in a political panic.
Thanks for your 3 CA votes for Mitt. Add those to 2 votes for Mitt down here in Ventura County. 2 Million absentee ballots means it’s going to be a long night for CA.
I’ve been taking Dayquil all day because of sickness. Several people I know called in sick Monday. I voted for Romney because of his immigration record.
Why? I thought paper ballots were better than electronic. Of course dems can cheat using any system.
My wife and I submitted our CA absentee votes for Mitt 2 weeks ago.
“I’ll take the values couple.”
Yes. Mitt against Barack is the right choice for the country. Let’s pray McCain can be stopped.
“Good grief. Romney is the most conservative candidate out there. For the life I failt to udnerstand support for Huckabee but to each his own.”
I hate to admit this, but I believe the kernel of dedicated support for Huck is made to a large extent of those religiously bigoted people who loath Mormonism. I’ve tried to largely ignore this faction of “our side” and I do believe their total numbers are small, but just monitoring feedback on this site, Townhall, and a few others, leads me to believe that they do exist.
Those people, will never vote for Mitt Rommey. That is something we’ll have to deal with. There are also people that will not vote for Obama, or Hillary because of bigotry. We’ll just have to see how this plays out.
No, 7:00 is when the MSM calls New York for McCain despite the fact the polls don’t close for two hours.
They do it every year— the moment the polls close, or before, they “project” the winner without reading a single vote tally.
“I love New York” my arse...
McCain will lose bad to Obama. That’s why the GOP should nominate Romney for President. He is the only one who can beat Obama.
Good question, 7.
I guess my first question back to you would be: How do you reconcile the following October 2007 headlines posted on Freepublic:
Oct. 21, 2007: The Las Vegas newspaper ran an article…headline in FReep thread? (Nevada) Not so Wild about Harry Reid. [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914425/posts ]
Oct. 10, 2007: The LDS church owned Deseret News in Utah ran an article…headline in FReep thread: Reid gets WARM reception at BYU [See: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909140/posts ]
So, ya wanna ‘xplain how it is that Reid is apparently more popular @ BYU—rated by the Princeton folks as being the third most conservative campus in the country—than he is in a state beholden to the gambling mecca, legalized prostitution?
How “warm” was the BYU response to Reid’s message by 4,000 of BYU faculty and students?
At the end of his speech, Reid earned a standing ovation from a small percentage of the crowd and applause from the rest. "I was impressed with him," said Stacie Borneman, a 22-year-old political science major from Farmington who said she is a Republican. "I thought he did a good job expressing his feelings and our responsibility to serve in our communities. It's good to hear differing opinions and to be respectful, even if you don't agree politically, and he gave both sides of the issues he raised."
I also found interesting this comment from the D.N. article: The Nevada senator attacked President Bush and evangelical Christians...Reid first spent 40 minutes delivering a well-received and sometimes tender BYU forum speech in the Marriott Center to 4,091 students, faculty, staff and visitors...Reid also told reporters the Republican Party has been driven by evangelical Christians for 20 years. "They are the most anti-Christian people I can imagine, the people from the Christian far right."
Ah, so one of the real reasons BYU gave Reid such a platform was just the latest flame that LDS leaders could toss out to publicly ridicule and attack Evangelical Christians, a tradition started by Joseph Smith, and now enshrined in LDS “scripture” in the Pearl of Great Price, Joseph Smith – History, vv. 18-20 (where ALL our creeds, along with all of Protestantism and all of Catholicism, are called an “abomination” and we are labeled as “corrupt” believers).
Reid also told the BYU crowd: "I am a Democrat because I am a Mormon, not in spite of it," he said.
I guess that says it all, eh?
Voter-outreach groups criticized the ballot in Los Angeles County, saying it could disenfranchise independent voters.
The Democratic and American Independent party ballots given to independent voters who request them include an extra bubble specifying that the ballot is for that party’s primary. The bubble appears before the list of presidential candidates.
If voters fail to mark that spot, the county’s scanning machines will not read the selection for president.
Lawyers for the Los Angeles-based Courage Campaign said that violates California election law. The group sent a letter to Los Angeles County officials threatening legal action if the issue isn’t addressed before Tuesday’s election.
“We did talk to the county, and they admit it’s a problem,” Courage Campaign chairman Rick Jacobs said. “They just don’t seem to know what to do about it.”
Other groups, including the California League of Women Voters, said they had fielded numerous calls from independent voters asking how they could get a party ballot.
“These voters are getting ballots that are blank, because they’re not in a party, and it did not seem clear to most of the decline-to-state voters that they could request a party ballot,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth Leslie.
Independents account for nearly 20 percent of California’s registered voters. The GOP does not allow them to vote in the Republican primary, but Democrats and some other parties do.
Los Angeles County’s top election official said he did not think most voters would skip the required ballot entry. Primary elections in 2004 and 2006 had the same requirement.
“It would almost be counterintuitive for someone to miss,” said Dean Logan, the acting county registrar. “We have put this information in voter education materials, and we’ve provided real clear instructions.”
Gun rights are extremely important to me too, but I wouldn't flush every other right AND the entire economy down the toilet to maintain the Second Amendment.
Among the factors expected to slow California’s tally:
— Late-arriving absentee ballots will be tallied only after the precinct ballots are counted, and then only after a painstaking verification process. The sheer number of late-arriving ballots could leave registrars unable to call races until Wednesday, or later.
— A switch back to paper ballots has forced four of California’s most populous counties—Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Santa Clara—to count ballots centrally, often with too few high-speed scanning machines to tally the votes rapidly. Los Angeles and Sacramento also will haul their ballots back to a single location.
— A lack of optical scanning machines at individual polling places means precinct workers will not be able to catch errors made by voters and have them correct their ballots. Any ballots that are incorrectly filled out will have to be reviewed, and in some cases hand-copied, at central counting locations.
“We’re working as late as we can to get them all counted,” Kathi Payne, the registrar in San Bernardino County, said Monday.
A shortage of high-speed scanners has left that county—with 723,661 registered voters—predicting the preliminary counting will go into Wednesday morning.
The return to paper ballots in 21 counties came after last year’s security review of electronic voting machines by the secretary of state’s office. The review found many of the machines could be hacked.
In Riverside County, a printing error scored as many as 60,000 absentee ballots so deeply that they fell apart when voters removed them from envelopes. That problem was slowing a team of 16 election workers, who were painstakingly hand-copying the last of roughly 35,000 ballots onto intact ballot cards Monday night.
“We’ve been able to streamline the duplication process so it should all be solved by tomorrow,” Registrar Barbara Dunsmore said.
About 6,000 voters requested replacements.
Sacramento County officials also were dealing with an unexpected software glitch that caused their precinct scanning machines to reject some versions of the ballot, prompting the registrar to abandon them entirely and mandate central counting. That will stretch tallying into Wednesday morning, assistant registrar Alice Jarboe said Monday.
Understand. It depends which issues are most important to you. I don't own a gun. Guns and abortion are important but just down my list so to speak. My top issues are WoT, immigration and taxes. As you say they are all flawed and its a lesser of evils as each person sees it.
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