i am not a political expert/analyst, i just pray Bush will win. my husband is career military, and when clinton was our commander in chief the military was neglected sooooooooooo much. training aids, ammo, flight training for ALL flight guys were NOTHING!(like you all don't already know this!) and my favorite gift of clinton- the 1.4% pay raise for the military members...it may have been 2.8% one year, but if i remember correctly, for the majority of clinton's reign of terror our pay raises were a hearty 1.4%...thanks for nothing bill...i named my third son William becuz it's my granfather's name, but sometimes I wonder if I should have...haha. Anyway, does it make anyone else burn with impotent rage that the electoral map is a sea of lovely, vibrant red, while the blue is an isolated cluster concentrating on urban welfare states, and every election it's "too close to call" becuz of those big numbers blue gets with those few states?? I have no beef w the electoral college, but damn, the whole country is ruled by a few key lib states! I was a democrat in college, wised up in the real world after I saw the world serving in the military and traveled to europe, saudi arabia, other countries in the middle east, and saw for myself how damn lucky and good it is to be an American. Please someone with more experience and smarts tell me Kerry is doomed...i think he is, but PA, Fla, and CA nerve me.
A friend in California pointed out to me that in 2000, had California's votes been counted similarly to the Electoral College (by counties for example), Bush would've been a BIG victor. Just like in Arnold's win, the only places electing Dems are LA, SF, SD. The important, value-driven rural people, the backbone and guts of this nation, are securely Bushies.