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!
Only til the next election. Then he'll have to run on his own. Is it too much to hope the Republicans can come up with someone DECENT to run against him?
LOL, I live in Michigan. I'm well aware of what's going on with the Democrats.
Bush 41 was pretty impressive in 1988 with 411 electoral votes and 53.3% of the vote.
BTW what exactly was issue 1? I was familiar with the other 4 but not that one.
What happened in your domicile vis a vis children, abortion and parenting?
Exactly! I KNOW what's REALLY going on. And I'm not going to be misled by some media losers on TV. I'm sick of being lied to by the boob tube. I get news from radio and the net and first hand. THAT tells a FAR different story than the TV.
But he will be picking his own replacement. Nice, huh?
-Dan
Happy Joy!! ;O)
Then came '92 and the Dark Duo.
It's a bond issue that I was against. The GOP went 5 for 5 tonight as they were for 1 and against 2 - 5. As a conservative I was anti 1 thru 5
Ah yes, the daily "Bush is toast, Kerry is surging" threads we had to deal with on a daily basis where all the pessimists, trolls, and such would crawl out from the woodwork to try to destroy moral. It didn't work then and won't work now.
What surprises me is how well Leslie Byrne performed in her race.
Yes, she had great name ID from having previously held elected office - but when it comes down to it, she is a far-left liberal...and she performed strongly.
I consider that alarming.
If the Republican candidates for Lt. Gov. and AG win, the Dems will not maintain the status quo -- they will have lost the Lt. Gov. position.
I was working at a precinct in No. Va. today. It was the first time in about 14 years of working the polls that the Republicans had a poll watcher for all three of our poll books and they stayed until around 11 a.m. The Dem poll watchers always show up, but today they stayed later than usual -- until 3 p.m. They then proceeded to call and knock on the doors of those democrats who had not already voted. There was a surge of voters who showed up in the last two hours and most of them carried the democrat sample ballot into the voting booth with them. The Republicans seemed more organized today, but I'm not certain that they actually were.
There are two precincts in the school where I worked. In both, all three democrat candidates for the Gov., Lt. Gov. and AG positions won with close to the same numbers -- I think Byrne was being helped by Kaine's numbers.
Corzine doesn't care about making NJ a red state. Corzine just knows he has a better chance running for president as an anti-war, Dem Governor than as a Senator. That's how he "distinguishes" himself.
He ran against Mike Dukakis the ACLU card carrying liberal, that should explain that.
At least some good news out of NH:
The three-term Democratic mayor of Manchester, N.H. lost to a weak Republican challenger tonight, just three days after John Kerry made a stop in town expressly to campaign for the incumbent. The difference -- 536 votes. Mayor Bob Baines was a key Kerry supporter during last year's New Hampshire Primary, and Kerry returned the favor on Saturday, stumping for Baines at a well-publicized event. Joe Biden and Evan Bayh also campaigned for Baines in Manchester, a Democratic stronghold in New Hampshire. Baines lost to alderman Frank Guinta, a former staffer for U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley. Guinta ran almost entirely on a platform of cutting taxes. Baines has been cavalier about tax increases, and after six years apparently Manchester residents have had enough. The Guinta victory gives Manchester a Republican mayor for the first time in six years and is another indicator that southern New Hampshire, where all those Massachusetts ex-pats live, is trending more solidly Republican and anti-tax.
Well, maybe after the continuation of the corrupt democrat status quo more rational people in NJ will get their fill. I wonder what gay lover friend Corzine will appoint to a high place in the Governor's mansion. 8)
This is correct. But would he want to risk a promosing career by getting involved with gangsters?
Randy Kelly is an old East Side Democrat. Very pro-union.
He has said many times that the Dems have been his party his whole life and he won't change.
the one positive prediction I will make - Corzine will never be President.
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