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Bush ahead 1 in Connecticut....
Polipundit ^

Posted on 10/24/2004 9:15:52 PM PDT by watsonfellow

I just read this on polipundit. 49% to 48%


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: gwb2004; polls; purplestates
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To: redstate38

We see, through a glass, darkly.

Or something profound about polls.


121 posted on 10/25/2004 9:02:21 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: wardaddy
Yes, Slimed RaceBannon also.
122 posted on 10/25/2004 9:20:16 AM PDT by Little Bill (John F'n Kerry is a self promoting scumbag!)
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To: NYC Republican

btw....I'm sorry NYC "left" you.

I know the place has been dear to your heart.

CT is bucolic and has lots more folks who will share your values.


123 posted on 10/25/2004 9:29:24 AM PDT by wardaddy (handmaidens for everyone!)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

Bush 41 won CT in 1988 as did Reagan in 1984 and 1980. Clinton won in 1992, but he won 42% to 36% for Bush and 21.5% for Perot, i.e., more than half the people voted against Clinton.


124 posted on 10/25/2004 9:38:36 AM PDT by kabar
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To: reformedliberal; Steven W.

I don't remember it how Steven W. does.

On the weekend before Election Day, the Mondale crowd ran a TV ad that predicated nuclear holocaust if Reagan were reelected. I remember the WSJ editorial page commented on how incredibly desperate an act the ad was. In defense of Steve W., the MSM may have still been pretending the race was close, but I recall "knowing" that a Reagan re-elect was a foregone conclusion.

Also, on Election Night, I vividly remember Dan Rather coming on and RIGHT AWAY saying that the only drama of the night would be whether Reagan would take all 50 states, or "just" 47-49. Old Dan was trying to set the bar so high that Reagan would "fail," which I guess he did in Dan's eyes when Mondale squeaked by in his home state of MN.

Geez, it's a relief in 2004 to not be limited to the MSM evening news for TV news info.


125 posted on 10/25/2004 2:24:57 PM PDT by litany_of_lies
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To: litany_of_lies
I was TV-free at that time and in my apolitical period. I was amazed. I had the impression from public radio, my only *news* source (& one I trusted), that Mondale would win.

I remember that immediately afterward, many people declared they were finished with politics. They were Democrats/leftists.

Reagan effectively banished them to their echo chamber for another 4 years.

Yes, thank God for FR and the Internet in general.
126 posted on 10/25/2004 3:56:58 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: NYC Republican
As I predicted in a column published last month:

In my home state of Connecticut, John Kerry leads by a similarly slim seven points in another case of a reliably blue state in danger of going code red.

It is easy enough to attribute these numbers to a post-9/11 mentality, seeing as the great majority of those murdered at the World Trade Center lived in these states--indeed, one of the saddest sights in the nights immediately following that awful day was that of abandoned cars dotting commuter parking lots, never to be reclaimed by their owners.

But it is more than security and revenge factors that may lead to the defection of these new Democrats. Here in the Northeast, we have a strange phenomenon where most of our elected officials represent the Democratic majority, but our governors (even in liberal bastion Massachusetts) are almost all Republicans, reflecting a quirky combination of fiscal conservativism and social liberalism.

Local elections aside, it seems that the many of my fellow Yankees--at least those of the Connecticut variety--are eschewing switch-hitting and considering planting their feet firmly in the right side of the batter’s box...

...Come November, these new Democrats may not carry the day for President Bush, but as the polls show, they will make many in their party sit up and take notice. But if they flip even one of these states into the red column, it will be a Nor’easter that will fell many in its wake.

127 posted on 10/25/2004 4:30:09 PM PDT by LisaFab
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To: LisaFab

Excellent- good foresight!


128 posted on 10/25/2004 7:19:49 PM PDT by NYC Republican (Skerry talks about building coalitions...He voted NO in the Gulf War, Yes this time...Flip-Flop Liar)
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To: wardaddy

The Hartford Courant, the Torrington Register-Citizen, New Haven and Bridgeport all came out with an endorsement for W on Sunday. I almost passed out in my cheerio's when I read the paper Sunday morning.

Wouldn't it be a hoot if W won Connecticut? it would turn those smug dems on their ear. They haven't even cammpaigned here because they are so confident that they've got us in the bag. It's going to be interesting, to say the least. In my corner of CT, you hardly see a Kerry sign at all, in Litchfield, people are paying 5 bucks a piece for them (that should keep them loyal). Everybody I know is voting for Bush (except for one guy, but there's still a week left).

Really, there's conservatives in Fairfield County? they sure don't have that reputation...


129 posted on 10/26/2004 5:22:24 AM PDT by SASsySIGster (An Armed Society is a Polite Society)
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To: watsonfellow

Interesting.


130 posted on 10/26/2004 5:23:19 AM PDT by jmstein7 (A Judge not bound by the original meaning of the Constitution interprets nothing but his own mind.)
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