Tim Grieve (Salon) STRIKE THREE !!!

[DinahMoeHum]

Three strikes and you're out, Bush!!

Link:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/13/final_debate/index.html
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AN IMPORTANT REMINDER - THE RACE IS NOT OVER YET!!

(snip)
With the debates over, both campaigns will now focus on the nuts-and-bolts work of the final days: getting out the vote, fighting -- or perpetrating -- voter fraud, and setting the stage for the legal fights that will surely come. Democrats are spilling over with stories of vote suppression, vote fraud and other electoral skullduggery from Florida to Ohio to Wisconsin to Minnesota. Republicans like Mehlman are warning about voters who have registered multiple times, and they're repeating the GOP mantra: "Our goal is to make sure that every eligible voter can vote." Both sides seemed to be setting the stage for arguments they will make later: the other guys are stealing the vote.

Both sides are also bracing themselves for last-minute developments that might sway the race as much as the first debate did. Developments in Iraq could move voters, as could the pre-election terrorist attack that the administration keeps predicting. And then there's the question of dirty tricks. Karl Rove and the Bush family have a history of playing dirty late in tough campaigns -- against Ann Richards in Texas, against John McCain in South Carolina, against any number of local candidates who have found their lives turned upside down after running against Karl Rove. Rove wasn't laying out his playbook Wednesday night, but the Democrats were getting ready nonetheless. "We're ready for anything," Kerry advisor Joe Lockhart told Salon Wednesday. "There is a Bush family tradition: When you get behind, when your back is behind the wall, you do anything to win and to hold onto power."

Bush's back might not be against the wall yet, but three debates have pushed him awfully close to it. There are 19 days left until Nov. 2.
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:kick::kick::kick:

[cybildisobedience]

1. at least Lockhart, et.al. seem to be hip to the Bush m.o.

That's some comfort -- at least this crew won't be blind-sided by Bush skullduggery.
It is a shame though, as Mark Moford says, that our biggest dissatisfaction with a candidate is that he might not be evil enough to go up against the Bush machine.

[andyhappy]

2. You're out!

Kerry won all three debates...I wish it was november 1st!

Who knows what the next couple of weeks will bring. I can all ready hear the grinding gears of the Karl Rove war machine spinning into action!