Category: 2004 Election

According to McLehrer, Republicans are spinning that the high turnout today isn’t necessarily bad for them. Meanwhile, George and Laura Bush were making a statement and W. seemed to have a bit of a resigned air, like a man who’d taken his best shot and was about ready to retire. Ray Suarez quotes the Republican…

I dragged my wheezy lungs up to the school on the hill to cast my ballot. I’ve never missed an election and I always think it’s important to vote, but even in this decidedly non-swing state (California) I felt like my vote counted more than ever this time. The poll workers told me they had…

I was listening to Air America on the way to work and Al Franken and company were singing a lopsided song oompah song “bring a book, bring a book, when you go to vote” and it was so sweet and I thought “this is what it sounds like to win.” At our east bay (CA)…

Fafblog! (the whole world’s only source for Fafblog) says Giblets will win, unless he is sandbagged by the media bias: But if – as some scurrilous rumors and half-mad acid-eating anti-Giblets propagandists have suggested – Giblets loses the election to John Kerry, it will be clear why. It will be because of the bias of…

An all-new, all-free mp3 political-shtick awaits you over on ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater today — John, Paul, George, and Ringo. In which John Kerry and GWB attempt to join the world’s greatest rock band, with decidedly mixed results.

I’m about ready to take up fingernail biting to alleviate the anxiety of the next 24 hours but meanwhile decided to check out the election eve activities around my neighborhood conveniently provided in an e-mail from MoveON. There were over 40 phone parties listed within ten miles of my house and in the brief invitation…

Need for Draft Is Dismissed by Officials at Pentagon, NYT Rumors of a secret plan to reinstate the draft are churning across the Internet, worrying some in Congress and even coloring the presidential campaign…Officials note that Congressional proposals for…30,000 to 40,000 more troops, would hardly require a new draft … DKo: A few points for…

It’s that rotgut, queasy stomach, sweat it out, expect the worst time again … a liberal waiting for November 2 to be over. I’ve been through this eight times already and mostly it’s been a bummer. But none quite so bad as this year. And that’s from somebody who had to live through Reagan as…

In late October 2000, the polls consistently showed Bush over Gore by anywhere from 5 points to 13 points. I remember going into election day convinced by the confident, well-dressed people on my TV that Gore didn’t have a chance. I remember being stunned that night to see that it was even close. The unions…

[Cecil, if you don’t smile over this, please report to an ER.] Thursday evening, homeward commute time; corner of Treat Bl. and Clayton Rd. in Concord, California (medium-size intersection in a medium-size suburb): A dozen people scattered around all the sidewalks, waving Kerry/Edwards signs. Now, this is antithesis of a battleground state. And it’s in…

Looking for something to do? I got this message from Dan Robinson (lately working on Advokit) last week. He’s good people: For me this project is all about empowerment of the grassroots. That Dean thing – the real legacy of our work over the last year and a half. AdvoKit is designed to bring people…

Both sides in this election have an X factor — for the Democrats it’s arguably (as has been noted elsewhere on Edgewise) the young, their fear for their futures. In particular, its their fear of an impending draft. They’re voting for their lives. Polls consistently show this group of young voters as the Kerry’s strongest…

All this talk about the dwindling undecideds and their seeming inability to get with the polarization program has led me to think that maybe the sense of urgency that is driving both left and right activists this year is a form of common ground we can build on. Maybe I should try to get my…

Enjoy The Draft – Drunken FAQ: BUT BUSH SAYS HE WON’T INSTITUTE A DRAFT. WHY SHOULD WE THINK HE WILL? Because Bush says he won’t institute a draft. IS IT POSSIBLE HE JUST WON’T CALL IT A “DRAFT”? LIKE INSTEAD HE’LL GIVE IT SOME ORWELLIAN DOUBLESPEAK NAME? Beware the “No 18-to-25-Year-Old Left Behind Act.” SERIOUSLY?…

John Zogby thinks the race is still Kerry’s to lose. Simon disagrees but finds many of Zogby’s insights compelling. Here are a few that struck me: Red vs. Blue This election is a repeat of 2000 in many ways, and Florida and Ohio are the key states this time. The “Armageddon Election”: the US has…

If you’re still conscious and interested in reliving a few highlights from tonight’s debate, I made a wee rhythmic mash out of a few of the better moments — it’s a 1:45 mp3 with drums n keys. Pick it up at ye olde Monkey Vortex Radio Theater . OK. Enough of that. Off to sleep.…

From my cousin Sean: Philadelphia Daily News | 10/11/2004 | Voter registration up in Pa.: Biggest surge in urban areas and on college campuses With new registrations in the city running 9-1 Democratic, that could add somewhere close to 100,000 extra voters for the Kerry ticket. With statewide turnout likely to be in the vicinity…

OK, the whole “hunchback of nutter spin” / Bush-wired is either getting legs from the strangest of places or is being helped along by a diabolical Democratic ratfucking campaign. What interests me in some of the latest gossipy developments is the “everybody knows that” gambit that sometimes leaks out of the right when one of…

If you’re a mom and you’re pregnant and you get killed…. How big can that voting bloc be?

Watching SNL last night, it’s really looking like Bush is setting himself up to repeat the Gore hat trick, which goes roughly like this: Debate 1, surprise everyone by being exceptionally bad in an easy-to-imitate and easy-to-dislike sort of way. Debate 2, be not quite so bad, but change gears from Debate 1 so dramatically…

ToughEnough.org: Bush said what?: The truth of the matter is if you listen carefully Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States. And the world would be a lot better off. Whuzza now? This is like the mother of all malapropisms.