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A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....10-17-02
JohnHuang2 and Billie
Posted on 10/16/2002 10:52:25 PM PDT by daisyscarlett
A Few of FR's Finest..... ......Every Day
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A Few of FR's Finest November 11, 2001
So many people have written me since my original Veteran's Day Tribute, asking how they, or a loved one, could be included in that tribute. Since I can no longer add the photos to the body of the thread, I've been including them in additional posts as I received enough to make another collage.
Still that doesn't seem to be enough. I think there's never been a better nor more appropriate time to keep the faces of our own Veterans and Active Military in front of FReepers--every day! That's why I wanted to do yet another Daily Thread .....ABOUT FReepers .....and FOR FReepers. But not only about our Military FReepers; for all FReepers! Wouldn't it be nice to get to know a few of the other FReepers as well? That's why, in addition to seeing FR's Finest Military Personnel every day, I thought it might be fun to feature a different FReeper (or FReepers) each day. If you would like to be pictured, or know someone who would, please FReepmail me and we'll turn the spotlight - on YOU - for the day!
And do let me know if you'd like your picture added to the groups of Veterans/Active Military below. I will keep this page updated, and continue to add them to the comment section of the original Veteran's Day thread as well.
TOP: g'nad, AgThorn's son Justin, SLB, AgThorn's son Brett
MIDDLE: fish70, razorback-bert, CheneyChick,Leroy S Mort, Mark17
BOTTOM: Terry's Take, Taxman, DinkyDau
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TOP: ValerieUSA's son Grant, SK1Thurman, kd5cts, RangerVetNam,
dansangel and .45man's son-in-law Tony
BOTTOM: rangerX, Old China Hand, Trish, Howlin's dad, Mustang
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TOP: ohioWfan's son, MamaBear's father-in-law, MamaBear's dad, ladtx
MIDDLE: The Mayor's niece, M.Kehoe, Beach_Babe's son-in-law
BOTTOM: deadhead's dad, HiJinx, Severa's hubby, viligantcitizen's granddad.
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TOP: Q6-God, Scan59, Mama Bear and JKPhoto's son, ofMagog
MIDDLE: Big'ol_freeper, JustAmy's great uncle, Prodigal Son
BOTTOM: JustAmy's husband, JustAmy's brother-in-law, JustAmy's brother.
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TOP: dakine's wife, MeeknMing's dad, Auntbee's nephew, MilitiaMan7, AlasBabylon. BOTTOM: Joe Brower, Temple Owl, Temple Owl's wife, dutchess' dad, Aomagrat
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Campaign Odyssey in Baghdad
JohnHuang2
"Whew! We dodged a bullet," a senior aid to president Saddam Hussein confided to me last night, relieved as election returns, which began pouring in at sundown, showed the Iraqi leader had handily won another 7-year mandate.
He meant 'bullet' literally.
"Not that we expected a cliff-hanger," he quickly added. "Iraq is no Florida", he said, smiling ear-to-ear. "We knew he'd trounce that old tired goat." The aid was referring to Boublous al-Dole, nominee of the hapless opposition party. (A plane carrying all 10 members mysteriously disappeared tonight. No foul play is suspected, despite a hundred witnesses who swear seeing heat-seeking missiles flying towards the plane as it cruised over downtown Baghdad. Iraq Aviation Administrator, Fakih Frank Hull Hussein, dismisses the witnesses as Great Satan Conspirators.)
And what a campaign season it's been. "This one's for the history books," crowed a jubilant staffer, firing several shots in the air in celebration. He recounted the story of how, back in February, president Hussein ordered mortar fire and tank attacks on some fledgling all-news TV station in Basra. "I guess you can say it was the opening salvo of Campaign 2002," the aid fondly recalled.
But the assault wasn't just for fun, either. Hussein strongly suspected the outlet, founded by some right-winger named Abdul-Roger al-Ailes, was working for the opposition.
"Our President hated that station with a passion," one senior aid recalled. "He called it Faux News, mockingly. There was this host who would come on weeknights at 8, griping about all the charity money being siphoned off for nukes and presidential palaces. He really hated that guy." That's Bill al-Din O'Reilly, erstwhile host of what was the highest rated show on prime-time. As punishment for spreading infidel propaganda, he got 30 years in a re-education camp. As part of his sentence, al-Din O'Reilly was ordered to read First Lady Sajida!'s, 'It Takes an A-Bomb To Raze a Village', a runaway best-seller. Her book, in fact, has straddled atop the Anthrax Times best-seller list since its publication 15 years ago, easily outselling No. 2, "Between Smoking Dope And History," by Bill Clinton.
"To President Hussein, all cowards and traitors are beneath contempt," intoned a senior aid. "He has zero-tolerance for 'em. Except for Bill Clinton. Now that's a coward and a traitor our president can live with. Our dear leader has nothing but admiration for Clinton."
No qualms that Monica was Jewish?
Shrugging his shoulders, he sighed, "well, nobody's perfect."
As for the campaign, "there were bumps along the road," said one aid, "don't get me wrong. It wasn't all smooth sailing."
For campaign staffers, the biggest scare came on the closing night of the Baath Party National Convention in Baghdad. A major sex scandal had broke, involving Saddam's senior political strategist, Duqaq Dick Musa Morris. Hussein, forced to par his acceptance speech down to 12 hours, saw his approval ratings take a tumble, plunging down to 99.9%.
"Thanks to that moron, I never got my convention 'bounce!!'," yelled an angry Hussein that night.
"But we didn't flinch," said a staffer, "no-one hit the panic button, despite those tense days."
"Our dear leader, scrappy survivor that he is, stayed focused -- like a laser beam. As punishment, Saddam ordered a sex change for Duqaq Morris, his wayward advisor."
I asked him what Morris was doing for a living now.
"Well, after his sex change, he looked so much like Helen Thomas, he now subs for her in the White House press room."
So, where's Helen, then?
"I was told she went to Pakistan, to enroll in the Madrassas. She mumbled something about wanting to understand 'why they hate us so much', 'to feel the hate', or something like that," he said. "After graduation, then come the big plans."
Big plans?
"Yeah, she plans to marry Yasser Arafat. Rumor has it his marriage is on the rocks."
Scarey.
Oh, speaking of which, there were two other scarey moments.
Tonight, as official election returns rolled him, some exit polls in the south were showing lower-than-expected returns, some a disappointingly low 99.6%. Oh no, not another Florida. cliff-hanger.
Then, magically, the big board numbers roar back up to 100%.
"You'd be amazed at what a few bullets, parked in the right places, can do," remarked a senior official in the Republican Guard.
I poked my head out the window of my Baghdad hotel, and lo and behold, you could feel the jubilation, the festivity. The victory rallies were huge, the air filled with chants of, 'We love Saddam -- and Hitler, too! Down with the Jews! Up with the Waffen-SS!'
Close your eyes, and you swear you're in Berkley.
The difference here, of course, are all the Soviet tanks lovingly aimed at the "festive" crowd. The place was ringed with military -- everywhere.
"No big deal, just crowd control, that's all that is" one senior Iraqi official insisted. "Everyone here is free to speak his or her mind -- so long as Saddam approves."
Curious, I decided to work my way into the crowd, mixing things up a bit.
One reveler caught my attention. "I love Saddam! I love Saddam! Down with Bush! Up with Daschle and the Democrats!', she screamed.
hmmm...a typical Boston voter, I thought.
I asked her why she loves Saddam so much.
"I'm here because Bush is threatening my job, my livelihood!"
I asked what she did for a living.
"I do nuclear weapons research at a Baby Milk Factory," she told me proudly. "I used to do Anthrax, but Saddam promoted me to nukes. That's why I hate Bush -- he's threatening to diss our doomsday weapons! That means I'll be out of a job!"
Oh, I see.
The other scarey moment, you ask?
Earlier, as we were watching election returns at the presidential palace, suddenly vice president Ramadan bursts into the room, "I have a cheerful announcement: Saddam had just received a call from the U.S. president!", he shouted.
Huh?
"Yes! President Jimmy Carter called to congratulate Saddam for his victory!"
Figures.
Anyway, that's
My two cents...
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To: MeeknMing
As always, M&M, thank-you for the gift of chocolate!
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To: lodwick
I have a few of those glorious FL sunrises myself. I'll have to scan and post them.
4 years ago when I found out that we'd be leaving FL for GA, I bought a disposable camera and stopped every morning on my way in to work to capture the sun rising over the Indian River. I have some of them up in my office to give me hope that one day I'll return.
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To: Flyer
Go Glocktoberfest!!!
.45MAN "broke down" and bought a Glock a few weeks ago. He's a believer now! [lol]
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To: LadyX
What a wonderful tribute and a wonderful photo to go with it!
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To: dansangel; glock rocks; Eaker; humblegunner; COB1
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:30:37 AM PDT
by
lodwick
To: ladtx
1968 WO1 Ralph O. Daugherty Jr. -- A/377 ART 101 ABN, Age 21, Decatur, Georgia
1968 CPT Joseph L. Powell Jr. -- HMM-161, Age 25, Alexandria, Virginia
1968 1LT James N. Sweet -- HMM-161, Age 23, South Lima, New York
1970 CW2 John R. Bregler -- 254 MED DET, Age 21, Tampa, Florida
1970 CW2 Gary W. Engelhardt -- 254 MED DET, Age 22, Muncie, Indiana
1971 1LT Robert M. Webb Jr. -- A/101 AVN 101 ABN, Age 26, Columbus, Georgia
1971 WO1 Jack E. Searing -- A/101 AVN 101 ABN, Age 22, Sterling, Illinois
To: Diver Dave; everyone
Never Forget
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:40:09 AM PDT
by
lodwick
Siberian tiger baby Amudala sits on her father Turan's back, Tuesday Oct. 8, 2002, during the tiger family's first appearance in the open-air enclosure of the Berlin, Germany zoo. Amudala and her sister Sitara were born twelve weeks ago to Siberian tiger Sindaja.
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:47:19 AM PDT
by
lodwick
To: daisyscarlett; Mama_Bear; dutchess; dansangel; Aquamarine; Diver Dave; JustAmy; lodwick; Pippin; ...
Good morning! Thank you, daisy, for posting this early this morning. Bad news from JohnHuang about his computer though! He wrote last night that he was having more trouble with it, and wouldn't get to spend time here as we had hoped by getting it posted early. : (
Hope you're all enjoying this tongue-in-cheek essay today! He's good; the guy is good!
Thanks so much for coming today! Enjoy!
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:48:23 AM PDT
by
Billie
To: daisyscarlett
Everyday Finest...Bump !!
Let's Roll !!
The RATS are in disarray...eradicate the rodents !!
Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!
GWB Is The Man !!
Snuff Saddam, NOW !!
Death To all Tyrant's !!
The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:51:27 AM PDT
by
blackie
To: RJayneJ
Thanks, RJayne. Love his "My Two Cents" - we've had the link on our thread for a while, and were so thrilled when he agreed to write one for us to debut here as well as the "My Two Cents" page.
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:51:57 AM PDT
by
Billie
To: JohnHuang2; All
"Yes! President Jimmy Carter called to congratulate Saddam for his victory!"
Carter's Appease Prize
By Lowell Ponte
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 16, 2002
JIMMY CARTER on Friday won the Nobel Peace Prize that he had lobbied for relentlessly for more than 20 years. (This column has seen no reports that Mr. Carter, 78, hired the two Norwegian public relations firms paid by Americas only other living former Democratic President Bill Clinton to privately lobby committee members to give Clinton the $1 million Peace Prize.)
Mr. Carters prize and the statements by the Nobel Peace Prize committee chairman have caused widespread controversy and disgust, as we shall recount in this column. But a bigger issue has largely been ignored whether the supposedly-idealistic-if-incompetent Jimmy Carter should be regarded as a man of peace at all, or as a man responsible for mass murder and todays climate of terrorism.
If we judge a tree by its fruits, then we must judge Mr. Carters four years in the Oval Office by the toxic fruit it produced and seeds of violence it sowed that continue to poison our world.
Jimmy Carter has on his hands the blood of more than 600,000 people at least as many as died in Americas Civil War. Among recent consequences of Jimmy Carters arrogance and stupidity are the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, on the Pentagon and World Trade Center that murdered more than 3,000 Americans.
Lets map a few of the milestones on Jimmy Carters road to this hell, a road paved with his good intentions (which may or may not be as noble as he would have us believe).
Jimmy Carter, upon taking office in 1977, declared that advancing human rights was among his highest priorities. Because Americas ally the Shah of Iran was torturing approximately 3,000 prisoners (many of them agents for Irans bordering neighbor the Soviet Union), Mr. Carter ostentatiously withdrew U.S. support from the Shah.
Mr. Carter ordered the Central Intelligence Agency to stop paying $4 million per year in bribes to the religious Mullahs to tone down their rhetoric. Many of these Muslim leaders disliked the Shah not because he was dictatorial but because the Shah was secular, pro-Western, and expanding the rights and equality of women.
Because Mr. Carter withdrew U.S. support and unleashed Mullah fury, the Shah was toppled. Did this liberate the 3,000 political prisoners? No. The new theocratic dictatorship of the Ayatollah Khomeini put many of these godless Communists up against walls alongside more than 20,000 pro-Western Iranians and liquidated them all by firing squads. Women were sent back into servitude. Citizens were arrested merely for owning satellite dishes that could tune to Western programs. And, of course, American diplomats were taken hostage.
The Soviet Union, seeing President Carters indecisiveness and incompetence, took advantage of the chaos he had caused to invade Irans eastern neighbor Afghanistan, a power grab calculated to open the way for eventual Soviet takeovers in Iran and pro-Western Pakistan.Jimmy Carters manly response to this outrageous Soviet aggression was to withdraw our athletes from the 1980 Olympics so that, as in Afghanistan, the Soviets could win without our opposition.
The struggle against the Soviets in Afghanistan, and the defeat of this invading Superpower (by U.S. Stinger missiles supplied by Mr. Carters successor, the decisive Nobel Peace Prize-deserving President Ronald Reagan) radicalized and trained in the ways of sabotage many Muslim zealots, including Osama bin Laden.
Within a year of the Shahs ouster, Iran on its western flank was locked into the Iran-Iraq War. Just as the U.S. had sided with Stalin to defeat Hitler, in this war the U.S. sided with secular Iraq and its military dictator Saddam Hussein to quarantine Islamist fanaticisms contagious potential to infect a fifth of the worlds population.
The Iran-Iraq War would never have occurred had Jimmy Carter not toppled the Shah. This conflict cost the two nations more than 500,000 lives, including thousands of Iranians killed by Saddam Husseins use of chemical weapons.
This costly war encouraged Hussein to acquire an arsenal capable of stopping future human wave invasion by his much more populous neighbor Iran. It also laid the groundwork that in 1990 led to Husseins invasion of Kuwait and, months later, to Desert Storm. One reason that during that war the U.S. did not depose Saddam Hussein was concern that the resulting power vacuum would be filled by Irans Ayatollahs.
To summarize, we have Jimmy Carter to thank for more than 600,000 deaths, Irans rule by Ayatollahs, the Iran-Iraq War, Iraqs Invasion of Kuwait and Desert Storm, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the mass murder of Americans and destruction of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001.
Does this sound like the handiwork of someone who deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
But I hear you say Lowell, Jimmy Carter didnt mean for all these things to happen. He merely wanted to free 3,000 political prisoners and advance human rights. He may be inept, but he meant well.
If Jimmy Carter were consistently idealistic this might seem plausible. We could reduce the charge against him from murdering 600,000 people to the negligent manslaughter of 600,000 through his stupidity and incompetence.
But two things weigh against such exoneration. The first is that Jimmy Carter has never shown remorse, taken responsibility or even acknowledged that his shortsighted simple-minded policies led to these horrors which are human rights violations many magnitudes greater than anything the Shah of Iran ever came close to committing.
The second is that only months ago Jimmy Carter was in Havana kissing Marxist dictator Fidel Castro on the lips and giving propaganda aid and comfort to this mass murderer who had far, far more than 3,000 political prisoners at the time of Carters visit. (Fidel, of course, applauded his comrade Jimmys Peace Prize.)
In his world travels since his 1980 removal from office by American voters, editorialized even the liberal Washington Post, Jimmy Carters willingness to engage with any dictator, no matter how odious, has at times been discomfiting.
What the Post failed to mention is that Jimmy Carter embraces only Marxist, anti-Semitic and anti-American dictators, such as Venezuelas Marxist thug Hugo Chavez who uses brownshirt street gangs to murder citizens who dare to rally against him.
Too bad for the Shah of Iran that he was pro-American and, during Arab oil embargoes, the chief oil supplier to Israel. If the Shah had instead been a Marxist friend of the Soviet Union and renamed his nation the Peoples Socialist Republic of Iran, Jimmy Carter would instantly have ceased all criticism of the Shahs political prisoners and other human rights violations. Jimmy Carter has a very selective, pro-socialist definition of human rights.
Lets be frank. If President Jimmy Carter had been a secret Soviet agent he could scarcely have done more to harm America than he did as a Leftist idealist. His every effort since being thrown out by the American people has also been to harm our nations friends and give aid and comfort to Americas enemies.
During his first term Jimmy Carter destroyed half the life savings of every American in what should be remembered as the greatest act of theft in human history. When he took office every dollar in your life savings was worth one dollar. When Carter left office after helping cause the highest inflation since the Civil War, every dollar had lost more than half its value, its purchasing power.
At its recent political conventions even his own Democratic Party has kept its former President Carter and his pictures away from stage center, making him virtually a non-person so as not to remind Americans that this worst, smallest and most embarrassing President in our history is a Democrat.
Had Jimmy Carter won another four-year term in 1980, the American economy would probably have been destroyed. Economies run on confidence, and Jimmy Carters example of malaise, weakness, incompetence, fear and retreat were destroying confidence in America both at home and abroad.
Mr. Carter gutted Americas national defense and our terrorist-fighting intelligence community. He personally overthrew our and Israels strongest ally in the Persian Gulf. He schemed, as Toronto Sun columnist Peter Worthington wrote on October 12, to unilaterally withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea, stopping only when his plans came to light. His weakness encouraged the Soviet Union to run amok, from Afghanistan to Angola (with Cuban surrogate troops).
Had Jimmy Carter won another term as President in 1980, the Soviet Union would probably have won the Cold War
.because Mr. Carter would have thrown the game.
We must never forget that before he could defeat the Soviet Union and send it into the garbage disposal of history, Ronald Reagan had to defeat another major de facto threat to Americas health and survival, Jimmy Carter.
The Nobel Peace Prize committee, however, credited Mr. Carter with one major accomplishment brokering the 1978 Middle East Peace agreements between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Sadat and Begin shared the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize but Jimmy Carter, wrote Associated Press reporter Doug Mellgren, was left out due to a technicality he was not nominated in time.
But is this true, thereby making Carters 2002 Peace Prize the mere correction of a past oversight? Both Sadat and Begin were courageous statesmen who risked much to make this peace agreement. Begin angered his own political base by returning the battle-won Sinai to Egypt. Sadat, as he knew likely, would be assassinated for making peace with Israel. By comparison Jimmy Carter risked nothing and did almost nothing, except serve beverages and snacks to two great statesmen who had come to Camp David already determined to make peace.
Why should the Nobel committee have diluted and cheapened its 1978 Peace Prize by awarding a third of it to the guy who merely supplied the meeting place and little more? Should we honor as a great peacemaker the guy who lent his house at Appomattox for the surrender that ended the Civil War? Should Christians today include in their worship the person who lent Joseph and Mary the stable at Bethlehem? Jimmy Carter was not nominated for the 1978 Peace Prize for an obvious reason: nobody except Jimmy himself thought he deserved it.
And apparently the five members of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Committee scarcely thought Carter deserved it this year. Honoring Carter, said Committee chairman Gunnar Berge, should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current [Bush] administration has taken. Its a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States.
A kick in the leg, reported Reuters journalist Alister Doyle, is a Norwegian phrase meaning a slap in the face. So the prize was intended not to honor Jimmy Carter so much as to insult and slap in the face the current American President George W. Bush for not following Carters policies of weakness, vacillation, and appeasement towards Leftist and other anti-American forces in the world. It should not be called a peace prize, opined the Wall Street Journals James Taranto, but The Nobel Appeasement Prize.
Gunnar the Red Berge is a far-Left former Labour Party cabinet member whose party in Norways parliament had the largest voice in picking members of the Peace Prize Committee. His term ends this year, and Berge apparently decided to go out with a splash of self-publicity and anti-American ideology.
Fellow Prize committee member Gunnar Staalsett, the Leftist Lutheran Bishop of Oslo, loudly applauded Berge. Last spring Staalsett told reporters that he wished the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres could be withdrawn -- not the part awarded to Arafat but the portion given to Peres. Concerning the Carter Peace Prize and word that it was given to denigrate President George W. Bushs pro-Israel, anti-Iraq policies, editorialized the otherwise-liberal New York Daily News, Excuse us if we detect a whiff of anti-Semitism wafting from Oslo. It wouldnt be the first time, Norwegian Nazis having happily collaborated with Hitler.
Knowing that he was awarded the Peace Prize not out of merit so much as by way of making ideological war against his own nations elected President and a majority of the American people, Jimmy Carter has already proudly said he will accept it and the $1 million.
Jimmy Carter by refusing to refuse this tainted prize makes himself an accomplice to, and collaborator with, an act of ideological warfare against the American people and our elected government. This warfare is also aimed at both Republican and Democrat lawmakers who just voted to authorize the use of force against Iraq, a resolution Carter says he would have voted against. But Jimmy Carter has taken the enemys side many, many times before against America. No wonder the envious, America-hating Euro-Left loves him.
But if in this Orwellian double-speak world the Peace Prize (endowed by the war-profiteer creator of dynamite Alfred Nobel) is itself now used as a weapon of war, should this increasingly-surreal prize be scrapped?
Yes, argues Wall Street Journal writer Tunku Varadarajan, who proposes replacing it with a more honest and salutary Nobel Most Evil Award. Imagine the debate each year, he writes. Will [the winner] be Robert Mugabe or Kim Jong Il? This is the award Jimmy Carter deserves to win.
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posted on
10/17/2002 7:55:49 AM PDT
by
lodwick
To: lodwick
This will counter those filthy 'rats
To: lodwick; Billie; All
Here is the link to the latest Texas poll and the numbers for the Senate and Governor races. I'm a little perplexed at the numbers tightening up in both of these races....
http://www.nbc5i.com/politics/1721236/detail.html
NBC 5 Exclusive: Voter's Poll Part II
U.S. Senate
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who do you think you would vote for if the election were held today?"
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E. Texas |
S. Texas |
Central Texas |
W. Texas |
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(D)Ron Kirk |
36% |
40% |
34% |
36% |
40% |
26% |
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(R)John Cornyn |
46% |
47% |
46% |
43% |
42% |
60% |
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Undecided |
16% |
11% |
19% |
21% |
15% |
13% |
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Female |
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Hispanic |
Afri-Amer. |
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(D) Ron Kirk |
36% |
33% |
39% |
25% |
46% |
73% |
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(R) John Cornyn |
46% |
51% |
43% |
60% |
33% |
6% |
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Undecided |
16% |
14% |
17% |
14% |
18% |
19% |
Although the margin has narrowed slightly, Rick Perry continues to enjoy a comfortable lead in his race against Tony Sanchez, Jr., according to our poll of 600 likely voters throughout Texas.
Also, nearly half of those polled said they think both campaigns are using "unfair" campaign ads.
The poll was conducted from October 8 through October 13 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percent.
Governor
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who do you think you would vote for if the election were held today?"
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North Texas |
East Texas |
South Texas |
Central Texas |
West Texas |
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Democrat Tony Sanchez, Jr. |
34% |
36% |
33% |
39% |
28% |
21% |
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Republican Rick Perry |
48% |
46% |
51% |
41% |
50% |
64% |
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Undecided |
17% |
17% |
16% |
20% |
20% |
13% |
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Hisp |
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Democrat Tony Sanchez, Jr. |
34% |
32% |
35% |
21% |
52% |
64% |
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Republican Rick Perry |
48% |
52% |
45% |
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25% |
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17% |
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To: ladtx
Awe...seven today...and so young....what a sad day for their families and friends. ladtx, thanks for keeping their memories alive....MAY WE NEVER FORGET....
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posted on
10/17/2002 8:30:35 AM PDT
by
dutchess
To: daisyscarlett; Billie; lodwick; dansangel; JustAmy; All
Goodmorning everyone. What a beautiful sunrise and breakfast lodwick.
Loved the essay...John is one talented writer...EXCEPT....I just about lost my breakfast when I scrolled down to #42's picture....and then you had to go and post a picture of HELEN....just got the keyboard cleaned up!!!!
My secretary is being a taskdriver at work today...I'm scheduling some errands for her so I'll try to check in later.
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posted on
10/17/2002 8:35:21 AM PDT
by
dutchess
To: WVNan
Know you're gone - have a great weekend - you'll still be the prettiest one there, betcha anything!
Happy Anniversary!
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posted on
10/17/2002 8:38:10 AM PDT
by
Billie
To: Mixer
Have a great time!
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posted on
10/17/2002 8:45:46 AM PDT
by
Billie
To: Billie; daisyscarlett
Thanks for wising me a great time. I will talk to you when I get back. Keep an eye on the calendar for me :-)
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posted on
10/17/2002 8:47:40 AM PDT
by
Mixer
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