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A superstar losing? (Bob Novak is right, W has to lend a hand to Schundler and Earley)
townhall ^ | October 29, 2001 | Robert Novak

Posted on 10/28/2001 11:23:43 PM PST by KQQL

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1 posted on 10/28/2001 11:23:44 PM PST by KQQL
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To: comebacknewt
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2 posted on 10/28/2001 11:24:09 PM PST by KQQL
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To: KQQL
While there are several good points raised in this article, I don't like the tone of Novak's whole premise. A candidate for statewide office runs a thoroughly mediocre campaign, and yet it's President Bush's fault that this candidate is running behind this late in the game.

You have to remember that it would be a miracle if Schundler won. New Jersey is a third world toilet, and the fact that this race is even close is an indication of just how bad a candidate McGreevey is.

The Bush team may be playing this smart, too. I get the same sense in this race that I got in the Giuliani-Dinkins mayoral race in New York City in 1989. Dinkins won that year, but four years later the place was such a mess that the voters had no choice but to turn to Giuliani as their savior.

3 posted on 10/28/2001 11:35:21 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: Alberta's Child
I think W can help Earley more than he can help Schundler at this point.
4 posted on 10/28/2001 11:38:16 PM PST by KQQL
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To: KQQL
I agree. I've noticed that Bush doesn't seem to give much of a sh!t for states that didn't vote for him in 2000. It took a catastrophe like September 11th to get him to even notice that New York City was part of the U.S.

Can't say I blame him.

5 posted on 10/28/2001 11:42:35 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: KQQL; republican; Angelique; rboatman; tame; Alamo-Girl; zappo; backhoe; goseminoles...
Current polling numbers in Virginia (10/28) are: Warner (D) 41%, Earley (R) 31%, Undecided 28%. Source: Washington Post (of course I'm not providing a link to those idiots). I have seldom seen so many undecideds this close to an election.

Most recent polling numbers in New Jersery (10/17) are: McGreevey (D) 49%, Schundler (R) 39%, Undecided 12%. Source: Quinnipiac University.

The good guys are ten points behind in both races, ten days before the election. Not good. Dubya needs to start stumping for Earley and Schundler.

6 posted on 10/29/2001 12:34:09 AM PST by Bryan
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To: Bryan; cogitator; Coop; mike2right
"Dubya needs to start stumping for Earley and Schundler."

Yep...but those numbers from the Washington Post are totally fabricated!! Every poll I've seen lately has Warner and Earley neck-and-neck.

FReegards...MUD

7 posted on 10/29/2001 12:37:25 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Alberta's Child
"The Bush team may be playing this smart, too."

Hogwash, IMHO!! There are only two races that really matter this November...NJ & VA!! And Dubyuh has refused to assist one iota in either campaign...he needs to get off his arse and help out!! Bi-Partisanship is fer LOSERS like Dubyuh's Daddy '92!!!

The folks fighting the War on Terrorism won't miss Dubyuh for a day or two while he jets to NJ and motorcades to VA fer a few hours each...and it'll dominate the news.

FReegards...MUD

8 posted on 10/29/2001 12:48:00 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
I think you missed the point of my post. New Jersey is a rat-hole right now, and is only going to get worse over the next four years no matter who the governor is. By the time 2005 rolls around the voters in that state will probably be so sick and tired of McGreevey and Democrats in general that they will support Adolph Hitler for governor. Go back and read about what happened to Jim Florio in 1993.
9 posted on 10/29/2001 12:58:57 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: Coop
FYI
10 posted on 10/29/2001 1:03:00 AM PST by Neets
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To: Mudboy Slim
"Dubya needs to start stumping for Earley and Schundler."

That's what I said a week ago, and everyone here told me to leave W alone.

11 posted on 10/29/2001 1:18:41 AM PST by KQQL
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To: Bryan
sounds like W is not going to help Earley or Schundler, because it might upset his new pal Dashole.
12 posted on 10/29/2001 1:20:46 AM PST by KQQL
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To: Bryan
All the poll info on VA, however I don't have the NJ polls.

Poll puts Warner lead at 10 points

LOS ANGELES TIMES/ WASHINGTON POST NEWS SERVICE Oct 28, 2001

Democrat Mark R. Warner holds a 10-percentage point lead over Republican Mark L. Earley in the governor's race, according to a new Washington Post poll.

Warner leads Earley 51 percent to 41 percent among all likely voters statewide. The margin widens to 24 percentage points in Warner's home base of Northern Virginia.

The Post poll interviewed 1,010 likely voters from Monday to Thursday. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Last week's poll's margin was little different from one the newspaper conducted in August, which showed Warner with an 11-percentage point lead statewide.

An independent poll taken a week earlier showed Warner and Earley in a statistical dead heat. The survey by Mason-Dixon Political/Media Research Inc. of Columbia, Md., showed Earley within 3 percentage points of Warner - within the poll's 4-point margin of error.

Mason-Dixon put Warner at 45 percent, Earley at 42 percent and Libertarian William Redpath at 1 percent, with 12 percent undecided.

A Mason-Dixon poll taken in mid-September showed Warner ahead of Earley by 6 percentage points. That poll also showed Warner with a hefty lead in Northern Virginia.

The Times-Dispatch/NBC12 Poll, also taken in mid-September, showed Warner leading Earley by 3 percentage points, 39 percent to 36 percent, within the poll's 5.1 percentage point variable for error. Sixteen percent were undecided, and 1 percent backed Redpath. Seven percent gave no answer.

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Also, Scott poll had : Warner 44% Earley 40% last week( Margin of error was 5%)
WJLA for the week of Oct 22 : Warner 49% Earley 46%( margin of error was 4%)

13 posted on 10/29/2001 1:31:15 AM PST by KQQL
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To: Alberta's Child
"I think you missed the point of my post."

Naww, just felt like arguin', my FRiend...plus, I'd prefer not to throw Virginny to the wolves just to make a point about Joisey.

FReegards...MUD

14 posted on 10/29/2001 1:50:56 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: KQQL
"...everyone here told me to leave W alone."

Not me...I've been hammerin' on Dubyuh regarding this fer awhile now...MUD

15 posted on 10/29/2001 1:52:22 AM PST by Mudboy Slim
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To: Mudboy Slim
:) , everyone but you.
16 posted on 10/29/2001 2:00:50 AM PST by KQQL
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To: KQQL
Schundler: Right Man, Right Time, Wrong State.

Earley: This is where W's help can win it. Virginia IS DOABLE!

17 posted on 10/29/2001 2:04:20 AM PST by bulldog905
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To: KQQL
[I think W can help Earley more than he can help Schundler]

Well, duhhh. Earley is such a weak candidate that he needs help. Schundler just needs the GOP idiots to get off his back. If Virginia had a candidate like Schundler, we would be turning out to support him. Thanks, VAGOP, for giving us an NAACP sob sister to vote for. That practically guarantees us a Marxist democrat carpetbagger for governor.

18 posted on 10/29/2001 2:07:43 AM PST by Twodees
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To: Twodees
Schundler just needs the GOP idiots to get off his back

Your right. Chrisite "Thinks She God" Whitman's endorsement of Schundler had all the sincerity of a born-again jail conversion.

Whitman et al sure must celebrate the Ides of March.

19 posted on 10/29/2001 2:19:17 AM PST by bulldog905
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To: bulldog905
That's why I said: ( I think W can help Earley more than he can help Schundler )
20 posted on 10/29/2001 2:43:45 AM PST by KQQL
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