Posted on 11/05/2002 3:25:35 PM PST by Howlin
Please post as much election information as you can on this thread, so we won't have a million separate threads running at one time.
And, please, NO GRAPHICS -- just links!
Still not over.
Besides, they have inadvertently provided us with free entertainment all night and so there's no need to disturb them when they're on a roll.
Maybe a pop-up apology is in order for violating their private property rights... although when they rip off OUR private property rights they are never apologetic about it.
Also, when posting clips from their site, please use symbols like asterisks in place of their profanity, even if it ends up looking like this:
**&*%^%** freepers **&^&*% we need to become even more leftist, like *&@!&^#* Stalins, to save the Democratic *@#$* party from itself, by goddess. Otherwise, the *&^%* sheeple will let #$%^%*&%^ Ashcroft put a #$&%$*$ ban on killing our own *&^% kids (and those of minorities). He might even ban gerbil sales and violate our $#&$#*^% sssssscivil liberties and we'll never get sing praises to Fidel #$&* Castro by lifting the #^%$*^$ embargo.
For a very short period (2 yrs?) in the early '50s. Other than that, you have to go all the way back to the Hoover Administration.
They do seem to be just a bit upset over there ... HAHAHAHAHA
Ain't life grand ? :-)
I think they are priming the media for a DemonRat handjob Stalin Count fiasco. Go figure!
From the Albuquerque Journal:
District 1 House Race Too Close To CallBy Richard Benke, The Associated Press
U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson claimed victory in her re-election bid and Democratic challenger Richard Romero predicted victory, saying he would wait for the final vote tally early Wednesday. Romero was the unofficial leader in returns late Tuesday. With 98 percent of precincts counted, Romero had 51 percent to Wilson's 49 percent with absentee ballots still waiting to be included.Romero sought to apply the brakes to any notion that Wilson had won. "This race isn't over. We are not conceding," Romero said. "I really don't care what Pete Domenici says. We're going to win this one. . . . The votes aren't final, and we're going to win. We're just going to wait to the wee hours. We're going to win it."
The Bernalillo County clerk's office says it hoped to release results from 45,000 machine-counted absentee ballots by 2:30 or 3 a.m. Wednesday. Several thousand more Republican absentee ballots than Democrats' were sent in, according to county election data. County election officials also hoped to release by 4:30 a.m. results of some 5,000 hand-counted absentee ballots — those which the vote-counting machinery rejected because of damage or because of voters using the wrong type of pencil, marking outside the square, using Whiteout correction fluid and other miscues. In addition, the county clerk's office reported that voting cartridges for two Bernalillo County precincts were damaged and should be counted sometime Wednesday.
Wilson claimed victory after several thousand votes were incorrectly added to her tally, but her spokesman, Enrique Knell, said that had nothing to do with her victory speech. "Our internal projections have shown Congresswoman Wilson victorious tonight, and that is what we are celebrating," Knell said. The mixup in the vote reporting occurred when 98 percent of precincts were in. Initially, vote figures showed Wilson with an early lead, then Romero taking the lead with 58 percent of precincts reporting. Romero remained in the lead with 62 percent counted. But with 98 percent of precincts tallied, a jump of more than 6,000 votes showed up for Wilson. That was more votes than were possible from from the Santa Fe County precincts.
The advertising campaigns of both congressional candidates, infused with national party funds, amounted to all-out attacks designed to change the balance of power in the House. Democrats needed at least six more seats to regain a majority and avoid having both U.S. legislative houses and the presidency held by Republicans.
We're certainly better than *this* maggot at DU:
I'd love to see things get absolutely desperate here economically. Other than Saddam releasing WMD on our troops during the invasion, this is one of our best hopes.
-- "tedoll78", in the DU thread "How bad does it have to get?"
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