Reply #105: yes

[Neecy]

Election day, I was in my car after doing GOTV around five o'clock and I switched the radio to Hannity - I knew for once that I'd enjoy it.

He was wetting his pants, pleading for his listeners who hadn't voted to get to the polls. He was in a state of panic and hysteria. Then he got Cheney on the horn, and Cheney coolly claimed that they'd win. Didn't beg for voters to go to the polls. Hmmmm, I thought. Odd given the exit poll numbers I was hearing at Democratic HQ that day.

That night I attended a victory party for Missouri Dems at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City. The place was packed, very upbeat, victory in the air, etc. As we watched the returns come in, I was struck by how quickly they were calling close states for Bush, and how long they were taking to call states that weren't as close - like PA - for Kerry. This went on for hours.

At one point, I turned to the others at my table and said, "They must be holding back calling Kerry states because they need to figure out what state Bush has to steal." All around the table were the sick and stunned looks that accompanied the last fiasco in 2000.

You know in your bones when something is wrong - and I'll always believe there was something wrong in 2004. The evangelical base just isn't large enough to overcome our new voter registration and our massive GOTV. We're expected to believe that a small percentage of fundamentalists flew completely under the radar and overwhelmed our efforts - the numbers just aren't there. It's bullshit.