Posted on 10/17/2002 3:06:35 PM PDT by jmstein7
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
One of the most unpredictable and confusing midterm election seasons in recent history is coming down to the wire. Within the past week, four respected national polls -- Gallup, Ipsos-Reid, Fox/Opinion Dynamics, and Pew Research Center -- all indicated that the American people were nearly evenly divided in their congressional voting preference.
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Yes, it was most unexpected to discover how many illegal aliens in California (and elsewhere) actually voted.
Exactly. Never.
Don't listen to anyone on TV. Don't read anything in the liberal press. Just participate in this forum, and then go and VOTE THE WAY YOU KNOW IS CORRECT!
Ummm the "religious right" ARE the party regulars...
This is just one of many on the way. Now begins the effort to suppress the conservative vote. October surprise articles and smears...allegations...
This stuff always makes me think of the press-push in 1994 that warned us NOT to advance the contract with America...they wanted sooooo bad to save us from our impending doom if we foolishly kept it up.
hilarious.
Vote fraud is going to be the determining factor, how many ballot boxes the Demoncrats can stuff. To override the amount of fraud the Demoncrats engage in takes a larger than normal turn out of Republicans, and Conservative Independents, and there is the rub.
Go get 'em!
IF the premise of this article were true -- and I doubt it -- religious right organizations ought to do more to mobilize their base. But I think this article is more leftist BS, like bogus "polling data" designed to remove enthusiasm from conservative voters. REMEMBER WESTERN FLORIDA 2000!
If the mass media had it's way, the headlines for the next three weeks woud be: "Recent Polls Predict Landslide Dimo Turnout -- Republicans Need Not Bother to Vote"
I posted my reasons a while back, and was duly flamed and called a crybaby. That's okay. Here they are. I started voting Republican in the seventies. I voted Reagan, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush. I spent hours trying to convince religious conservatives to vote straight Republican. We delivered for the Republicans.
I have been precinct chairman and gone to state conventions. The Republican heirarchy has made it plain that they are embarassed to be associated with the Religious Right or any conservatives. At the McLennan County convention this year, the first speaker got up and stated that if we were idealistic purists that demanded that every candidate go our way, that we should find another party. He told us that the Republicans were a big tent party, and that they would embrace all perspectives. I don't insist that every candidate vote the way I want on every issue, but I am tired of working for a party that has been telling me to go away since 1994. Wow, Rick Perry and John Cornyn. How excited can I get?
I resigned from the party, and have ceased working for Republican candidates. Previously I had helped set up fund raisers, set up yard signs, etc. I sent an email to the state party stating my disappointment, and have received no response. I do still get fund raising letters from the Republicans.
Ever since we delivered in 94, the Republicans have been doing everything they can to give control back to the Rats. It does worry me, because elections are incredibly fraudulent now, and the next time the Dems get in power, they'll ensure that they never lose it again. However, ever since Reagan, the Republicans have been driving in the wrong direction at 30 miles per hour. If the Rats kick it up to sixty, what's the difference?
Ditto. Pat Robertson has been pushing politics all year, but is increasing the programming urging Christians to vote. I think this article is just plain hogwash.
Do you mean that their vote is to be taken for granted?
This is how OVERWHELMING majority of Republican Senators voted for anti-life Shumer amendement:
VOTING YEA:
Republicans:
(35 or 67%) Abraham Ashcroft Bennett Bond Campbell Chafee Cochran Collins Coverdell Craig Crapo Domenici Frist Gorton Grassley Gregg Hagel Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Jeffords Lott Mack McConnell Murkowski Roth Santorum Shelby Smith, Gordon Snowe Specter Stevens Thomas Thurmond Warner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/757419/posts#41
Some quotes about this odious amendment:
The Schumer amendment [patent’s note, to the bill described above] would prohibit the discharging of settlement agreements or of judgments, orders, consent orders, or decrees entered in Federal or State courts, if those debts were related to certain civil suits brought by abortion clinics against opponents of abortion. [...]
Under this amendment, though, a brand-new, higher standard would be created that would only apply to abortionists. As a matter of public policy, we do not think that it is advisable to say that abortionists should be given a higher standard of protection than all other Americans. They especially should not be given that standard with vague, sweeping language that seems to be more intent on suppressing legitimate free speech rights than with discouraging violence. The amendment would not just forbid erasing civil penalties for injuries against abortionists or their clinics. It would also forbid the erasure of penalties for a litany of other offenses, none of which it bothers to define. For instance, the Schumer amendment would deny bankruptcy protection to anyone assessed a civil fine for "allegedly" breaking a "common law" in an attempt "to deter" someone from obtaining an abortion. Would advising someone not to have an abortion be the same as trying to deter an abortion under a judge's interpretation of an unwritten common law? The Schumer amendment ignores that question, perhaps deliberately.
Final vote might be "wisely" postponed until after the elections.
A House-Senate compromise was reached in July, but House GOP leaders have been reluctant to bring it to a vote because of an abortion-related provision opposed by many conservative activists. The provision is designed to prevent people who attack or block access to abortion clinics from avoiding court-ordered fines by declaring bankruptcy.
The bill may pass during a lame-duck session, but Republican leadership aides say it will not be brought up before the elections.
( http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/134553403_cong12.html
Except those religious wackos and libertarian nuts, evidently.
Big tent - Weld/Cellucci party as opposed to straight-shooter Democrat Silber
In California, some votes count several times.
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