Posted on 11/07/2005 11:46:41 PM PST by BillyBoy
My Fellow FReepers,
As it now past midnight (well at least for those of us in Central Standard Time) and I did a general search and couldn't find a single thread dedicated to election 2005, I have taken the liberty of creating one.
THIS is the place to post all your updates and discussions on '05 races around the country. From the Boston Mayoral Race to the fight for Virginia Attorney General, keep the adrenaline flowing here.
Will the GOP make a midterm gubernatorial comeback after suffering through the 2001 "mistakes" of McGreeley and Mark Warner? Will Ahnuld, the CA Dummycrats, or independent minded conservatives emerge triumph in California's latest (but not greatest!) "special election"? Will the liberal incumbent crush his equally liberal challenger in New York? And do conservatives even care?
Let's get the discussion rolling folks. You heard it here first!
73, 74 and 75 passing! Everything else failing.
"hence the Richardson choice. our side needs to counter by winning back midwest state, I believe we were close in 2004 in Wisconsin?"
I think we legally/should have won WI, but w Dim shenanigans we lost by about 11k votes (IMO bogus ones). I was watching the polls (I know, bad word here ;-) ) and I think Pres Bush should've won that state. Just my .02 and it doesn't make a hill of beans difference now, unless, if there were illegal votes/discrepancies, the chances of those happening next time are lessened (preferably eliminated)).
Seems to be holding at 5.3% of voters.
Watching Kaine's speech you wonder how Kilgore could have ever lost to him. He seems like a nice fellow, but not a govenor.
I'm embarassed that a Freeper would make such a ridiculous comparison. FRANCE?!?!? C'mon. If France voted on Kerry v. Bush it would have been something like 92% Jean Francois and 8% GWB.
Losing these two races is a +0 gain for the 'Rats. You certainly have every right to do the Chicken Little act based on those results; just don't be surprised if sober Freepers LOL when you do.
There've been two updates in the last few minutes. The "Yes" margin keeps tightening. The early votes were primarily from Ventura and Kern county, fairly convservative counties.
This's going to be a squeaker for, at least, 74.
Tim Kaine is giving his "victory speech". What the heck were the sorry excuses for Virginians thinking when they voted for that POS? He is a disgrace. I am ashamed to be from Virginia tonight. I never thought I'd say this, but I'm glad I live in Maryland.
Yeah, nothing from SF, LA or Alameda yet. Gulp. At least there's nothing from OC yet.
As much as I love Free Republic and other members of the "New Media", I'm not so deluded that I believe we have more influence than the networks and the Liberal fishwraps.
My own views were YEA on 73-75 and NAY on the rest of 'em. Eeeeeexcellent! Bwahahaha. >;-)
Regardingly the earlier comments about me "buying into politician's rhetoric" about the redistricting proposal, that's far from the reason I oppose it. In fact, I've had to experience it firsthand. The Illinois General Assembly hopelessly deadlocks on redistricting so they flip a coin and choose "retired non-partisan judges" to draw the map for them. Our 2002 remap comission was run by former Illinois Supreme Court Justice Michael Bilandic, who "just happens" to have been RAT mayor of Chicago back in the 70s (during "non partisan" elections, of course)
The lovely state remap done by "retired non-partisan judges" was designed to give Chicago all the clout and force suburban areas to have Chicago politicians "represent" them. The state legislature went from an R House and D Senate to solid D hold over both houses. My state Senator prior to the remap was Patrick J. O'Malley (R-Palos Park). After the remap, it's Edward D. Maloney (D-Chicago). My state senate district remains 70% suburban BUT the 30% Chicago area mapped into the district was specifically targeted to be ultra-Dem neighborhoods that rack up 80-90% majories for the RATSs, so the 70% of the suburban district will be guranteed a Chicago RAT to "represent us" no matter HOW we vote. Aint' no way we can pull off the massive GOP votes in the burbs to outcome THOSE kind of numbers in the city.
Ain't having unaccountable, unelected, "retired judges" drawing maps a wonder?
Interestingly enough, though, Marin's getting its count done quickly. Some (slight) consolation.
I'm watching the San Diego results too. The absentees are in, with (D) Donny Frye losing badly in the mayor's race.
Agree. Unfortunately, you could probably add King County, WA to that, too ('course many of the residents are from San Fran or other liberal parts of CA).
For some bizarre reason, the SOS's site is reporting the statewide results for all the counties that have no returns in yet. How odd! I looked at LA county and said, "gee it's the same voting percentage as the statewide... oh... wait a minute... it IS the statewide."
Yeah, I was happy to see some of Marin already in. Still nothing from SF, LA, Alameda, or OC.
Interesting tidbit...
Sacbee has ALL of Arnold's Inits up in Sac County with 30% counted....
Orange coming in now... better than expected.
I'm embarassed that a Freeper would make such a ridiculous comparison. FRANCE?!?!? C'mon. If France voted on Kerry v. Bush it would have been something like 92% Jean Francois and 8% GWB.
The politicians of New Jersey are as bad as French politicians. I could cite for you French politicians who support Israel, who renounce Syria, who renounce Iran and who think that law and order should return to the slums of Clichy-sous-Bois. I don't recall too much support from our NJ's current senators on similar subjects. And now we get Corzine as the next governor of that corrupt state.
So tell me genius how that is anything short of embarrassing?
Yet the voters of NJ flock to the polls and vote these vermin in. How pathetic and your support of these voters, as a Freepers is pathetic.
Losing these two races is a +0 gain for the 'Rats. You certainly have every right to do the Chicken Little act based on those results; just don't be surprised if sober Freepers LOL when you do.
Take your chicken-little strawman and stick it elsewhere.
Those OC numbers look great, but we're going to need a huge margin to offset norcal and LA.
Not sure where they're getting their numbers. The County's reporting to the state with 29.7 percent has only 73 and 75 passing.
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