People don't flock to register to vote in unheard of numbers and stand in

[mourningdove92]

line for early voting just to maintain the status quo. These are, in my opinion, strong indicators that it will be Kerry by a huge margin.

[kypp]

1. I agree. I think (hope) that the country will be shocked on

November 2nd, with Kerry winning by a much larger margin than any of the so-called "polls" indicate.

Fingers are crossed!

[michigandem2]

41. me too...I am waiting for the evening pundits and talking heads

to be stuttering and stammering for words...the way they see it...Bush has it all locked up and Kerry is desperate...

The polls are more than likely way off...at least I am hoping I have that insight...they can't count SO many people that have registered and those that only carry cell phones...tese are HUGE numbers..most of the polls I see are "likely voters" its a joke...the media is spinning hard but its not TRUE

[Zorra]

2. I agree. Bu$h absolutely is toast unless he steals the election.

Kerry in a landslide, same number of electoral votes as Clinton got in '92.

[sunnybrook]

37. "unless he steals the election" is the sorry part of the story

If I were not at all worried about dirty tricks it would be easy to be a little more relaxed about this....

[MsTryska]

3. There's gonna be a de-Bushification of our government....

just like in 1992.


why do we insist on giving these people even 1 term?

[Old and In the Way]

7. Job 1 when Kerry takes over.

I think he knows how dangerously close we are coming to lose the country we've known as America. I think he will be the Bush antidote. He will drive the neo-con Imperialists out of their ivory towers.

[MsTryska]

10. Yeah....I wholeheartedly agree.....

but something's gotta give, so that 12 years from now, we're not doing our damndest to get George P out too.

[Arugula Latte]

33. Somebody's got to chloroform George P.,

whisk him to an undisclosed location, do an emergency vasectomy, and return him home. That way he can't breed. I'm sick of generations of Bushes raping and plundering this country for their own gain and the gain of their evil cabal.

[tedoll78]

21. Job #1 must be stacking the courts.

If, for some sad reason, another idiot gets into office, we need to have courts at the ready to bat-down bad policy. Quite often, the courts are the final word.

[donco6]

4. I think you have a point

But there may be others who just want to cancel out the pro-Kerry votes. Don't want to be a wet blanket, but, well, anything can still happen.

I'm honestly concerned about another "tie" with courts and judges getting involved. I'm just afraid that if that happens again this time, there could actually be violence and rioting. This country is in real, real trouble with the division and propaganda and hatred and lies being spread so thick. It worries me constantly.

[Tropez]

5. I hope you are right.

I was talking to my WW2 vet godfather the other day and he was scared about Bush getting back in. Then as we talked further he seemed to have a bit more faith in us young folks. I really hope this year we rock the elections. Kerry in a landslide!

[blondeatlast]

26. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[Road Scholar]

6. I hope you're right but

let's don't stop pushing till Nov 3rd!!!! Then we can all talk about it. :toast:

[aden_nak]

8. Exactly.

Can you really imagine throngs of people lining up and saying, "Although I've never voted before, I am going to cast my ballot now, for the first time ever, to make sure that we have four more years of THIS!"

[TexasSissy]

9. Who's standing in line? Where?

[Weembo]

24. Houston

Huge early vote lines in near-town

[texasmom]

27. 1 1/2 hour waits

in San Antonio.

[TexasSissy]

34. S.A. AND Houston? That's remarkable!

[liberal N proud]

11. Are there any exit polls coming from the Early Voting?

Or will that be kept under wrapps until 11/02

[canuckybee]

12. They say Rove is counting on

the 4 million fundamentalists who did not vote in 2000 to hand it to Bush. I have to admit, that stat scared me when I first read it. But I still think we outnumber them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Did Rover pull that # out his ass?

[Doosh]

17. they don't exist

it's just a number they pulled out of there ass, the GOP base maxed out in 2000 and still only got 47%.

[4_Legs_Good]

18. He's full of shit. I think fundies are a solid voting bloc

or maybe I'm wrong, but all the fundies I know always vote and always vote conservative Republican.

They have this fantasy of a bunch of them not voting in the past, and they are a powerful group (witness Mel Gibson's success), but I think most of them who are coming out this time also came out last time.

david

[blondeatlast]

30. But will they be able to vote for CHENEY? Seriously, I think

they will truly have the creeps about voting for that part of the ticket, and it's too late for him to bow out now.

These people are irrational on a grand scale. We won't have their votes, but neither will the GROSS.

[fugop]

19. But where are they?

I just have to figure that a good deal of those alleged 4 million fundies are in already red states. Not all of them, perhaps, but I'd guess a good load. Maybe they're giving Bush the extra edge in the nationals but unable to help him in the battlegrounds?

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

29. Unfortunately a lot of them are in Ohio

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/18/gayohio/index.html

[blondeatlast]

31. And many will find themselves unable to vote for the Cheney side,

and there is no alternative for them.

[nickinSTL]

40. Sure, there's an alternative...

The Constitution Party

[Lerkfish]

20. Rove thinks the Dawn of the Brimstone Dead forgot to vote in 2000?

just made that term up.....I sooooo kill me.

;)

seriously, though, does he truly believe anyone so fanatical would have failed to march in lockstep to the polls last time?

[democrat in Tallahassee]

23. well, all the lesbian crap probably nixed that; they won't vote for cheny

for that reason. forget it.

[blondeatlast]

28. How can they vote for a lesbian-enabler?!

Many will stay home after that!

[Generator]

13. Unless they are counting on their chances of having a beer with

the Shrub in term 2. He is the most likeable man, ever, in case you haven't watched CNN & Hardball.

On the other hand, our side has nothing but pure rage of being lied to about war, about having an elction stolen, about our country being turned into a fascist propaganadist machine. (OH yeah, and 9/11-I blame them all for that too, Condeliar Rice, and Donald Scumsfeld not to mention Mr. Longest vacation in history)

Don't ever ever underestimate anger, hell it's kept me from killing myself for years.

Get it CNN? We are pissed as hell and we ain't gonna take it.

Say goodbye Chimpy.

[seabeyond]

14. ssshhhhhheeeeeeeet, before election day even

my firend in colorado went down to vote today. maybe news ought to get down to whereever and find out what this is all about.

[cthrumatrix]

16. big time Agree.... enter computer voting

[kaitykaity]

22. I wonder when Oregon will announce

how many mail-in ballots have been returned.

Mine is in already.

[blondeatlast]

25. I'm betting on an 8-10 percentage point lead for the good guys. nt

[Shopaholic]

32. I called today to get an absentee ballot

and I was put on hold for over 5 minutes. The woman on the phone told me that response had been phenomenal--and this is in South Carolina!

[leftofthedial]

35. man I hope so

[bleedingheart]

36. bingo!

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. I think so too. It is evident in the media's attempt to try and get us to

give up and stay home. Ex. MSNBC saying that Bush was "opening up a lead" on Kerry. With no basis for that of course. We really need to babysit our polls.... :hi:

[bigtree]

39. Greg Palast just said on c-span that republicans are actually getting

put on the rolls at a faster rate than Democrats. Please check out his interview/appearance when it appears in the c-span archives.

:scared:

[Misunderestimator]

42. My ex stood in line for 2 hours yesterday in early voting in FL

Had to wait 30 minutes while they rebooted the computers and stumbled around trying to make things work. VOTE EARLY!! It's great that the Kerry Campaign is encouraging this. They want to expose problems NOW so that they can have some recourse if things go haywire on Nov 2. I am planning to vote tomorrow. If the wait was 2 hours with just about 30 people in front of her, I don't wanna experience the wait on Nov 2.