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The entire political and media establishment decided this race--Jay Wolfe vs Jay Rockefeller--could not be won before it ever started.

That conventional wisdom has prevailed throughout the election cycle. I have heard pundit after pundit pontificate (when they remember the race actually is going on) that this is a cakewalk for Rockefeller. However, they are making a BASELESS assumption. They have NO ONE on the ground in WV. They have NO sources to tell them the facts of what is actually occurring. Scores of West Virginians have tried to tell the GOP leadership that it was a race...to no avail. Heck, County Dem leaders have reportedly tried to tell THEIR leadership that they were getting whipped in the precincts, but THEY aren't listening to THEM either...LOL.

Frankly, the only one who has gotten it, at least to some extent, is the President of the United States. He leaned over to Jay the other night exhorted Jay to, "GO FOR THE UPSET!" I was there...I saw it and heard it.

We have had control of the initiative in this race for weeks...it has become a referendum on guns, partial-birth abortions, taxes, spending and national defense...exactly as we set out to make it. We are fighting on our ground, and are whipping them soundly.

There have been over a half million pieces of VERY effective literature distributed now. We won the sign war, convincingly. The Jay vs Jay Poll has been printed in half to full-page ads in most all of the newspapers in the state. Our grassroots have called virtually ALL of the Republicans in the state to turn them out to vote. In the last 72 hours we have gone up with over 1500 very powerful radio ads that are blanketing the state...including one 60 second spot from the WV president of the NRA that decimates Rockefeller's entire ad campaign that was pandering to veterans. All of this advertising will run heavy heavy heavy right up until 6 pm on Tuesday.

I had someone search one County today---Taylor County---and they could not find a SINGLE Rockefeller sign. Not one. (And it's not because we stole them---we're not Democrats ;-).

In Harrison County, which runs about 3 to 1 Dem in registrations, local prominent Dems are admitting privately that Rockefeller is going to lose the County badly.

There is more, alot more, but everyone here on this thread, and on FR, has fair warning. Believe me, or don't believe me---but we are in a dead heat at least here in the Mountain State.

EV