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!
The clarity and wisdom comes from seeing how the polls have called these races correctly.
And how they (correctly) evaluate Dubya's and the GOPs approval as low.
The polls are all wrong crew don't get it - any one poll can be rigged or wrong but it's been denial over here for weeks: all the polls show Bush in an approval funk.
That many Freepers can't see that is astonishing.
I think Virginia is still red on a presidential level. Bush won by 9 percent and Hillary won't even campaign in Virginia.
Kaine used the CINO factor and was known from Richmond and had Warner's popularity.
Also the constant drumbeat of MSM hurts republicans in northern virginia. But someone like Hillary would lose badly in those richmond suburbs that Kaine won.
Statewide Virginia Races VIRGINIA GOVERNOR Candidate Votes Percent Winner Russell Potts ((I)) 15,403 2% Tim Kaine ((D)) 394,570 52% Jerry Kilgore ((R)) 346,182 45%
This is a local website and it's nice... the results don't look too though... but let's wait :)
True. Gubernatorial races have little if anything to do with national trends or political maps. Otherwise we wouldn't now have a Republican governor of Massachusetts and a Democratic governor of Wyoming.
The GOP will probably go down tonight, but I'm not taking it as a reason to be worried about next year.
-Dan
Well, maybe certain FReepers can beat up on Scooter Libby some more and help drive Bush's numbers down even more.
And they have a democrat governor who got elected in 01. Just because a state was red in 04 doesn't necessarily means it will go red in 05.
VA is a mix. Red for Bush, Democrat governor, state house republicans betrayed us and raised taxes in 2004, the only repubs who didn't vote for higher taxes are the ones in the race now...
is there a donate to Scooter's defense fund thread yet? I hear it is opening soon.
All those cool little restaurants in Queens to pick from and you're going to KFC? WTF?
The point is the polls are accurate.
They accurately had a grasp of these races, and they accurately poll the president and GOP at remarkable lows.
Va is like my homestate of North Carolina. Red in national elections, blue in state elections. It makes no sense whatsoever but it is what it is.
Alexandria is 100% in. Most Democratic city in the state. Culpeper County - very Republican - only 20% in. Kilgore leads there 59-38.
Live Election thread ping!
It's an indicator that the polls aren't all that off base, regardless of Freeper insistence otherwise.
Heed them.
:))
Even my Sheriff candidate lost tonight...ugh...
Re: NJ
Those are the lazy *sses that didn't go vote... would have made all the difference. They will reap it with the clone king... Corzine is bad news.
It doesn't mean anything for '06 if the dems win both. They were both democrat positions, so they gain nothing by keeping them. Status quo. If the Republicans win either, its' a gain. Plus the fact it's an off year election with low turn out. If one or both were Republican positions, and the democrats took one or both, THAT would be important for '06. But since they're both democrat positions already, if they stay democrat, all that means is they managed to finally stop the bleeding in a couple of instances in an off year election.
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