So NM is blue now AND

[Joylaughter]

We can't get any media to announce this?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Kerry won New Mexico?

[Joylaughter]

4. Final Tally came in today and Kerry WON NM

But no one seems to want to switch it from RED to BLUE. No in the news seems to mention it.

[jdj]

25. is there a link?

[ObaMania]

2. when did this come about?

news to me... and i still watch the news!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

3. and what is happening with Iowa?

[SleepingDragon]

20. Iowa is still counting 50,000 late absentee and provisional votes

According to the Quad-City times this morning:

Bush has a narrow 13,000 vote lead with 100% of precincts reporting.

Secretary of State Chet Culver, a Democrat says that there are still 30,000 to 50,000 absentee ballots that have not been returned in the mail. The deadline is Monday, November 8th.

There are in addition 15,000 provisional ballots to be evaluated as well. Some county canvasing boards started looking at them Thursday but many won't until Monday.

In other words - we're working on it.

In 2000 Gore won the state by 4000 votes, but only after the late absentee ballots were counted.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

21. thank you sleepingdragon...i remember Kent State - 4 dead

:cry:

[bigtree]

22. this is a reflection of efforts all over the country

It would be a serious mistake to shut our minds to the possibility that enough states could be flipped by electoral college time to strip Bush of his victory. At the least we can cut into the popular vote and deny him any further talk of a mandate.

[T Town Jake]

NM went blue? Link? Last I heard it was as red as Texas...(n/t)

[jono]

5. It's not blue now

It was briefly earlier, but has since flipped back to Bush**.

Results for: Statewide Results Number Of Voters: 737188
Results as of: 11/4/2004 8:57:59 PM Counties Reporting: 1

JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 355630 48.9%
GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 363103 49.9%

http://65.160.159.96/County0.htm

[Joylaughter]

6. HIT REFRESH

Its BLUE -- Kerry wins by a little over 1200 votes.

[jono]

8. No, still red (nt)

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Bush is still in the lead.

[T Town Jake]

10. I just hit "refresh," twice. It still shows a Bush lead. (n/t)

[librechik]

11. nope (sigh)

JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 355630 48.9%
GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 363103 49.9%

Results as of: 11/4/2004 8:57:59 PM

[Joylaughter]

13. Wait

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 355630 48.9%
GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 363103 49.9%

AT 8:12 PM Pacific.

[T Town Jake]

12. Aaaahhhh I get it now, I think. Look...

...I appreciate what (I suspect) you're trying to do, but enough. As much as it pains me to admit it, it looks like we lost fair & square at this point. Ohio is gone. New Mexico is gone. Iowa is, last I heard, all but gone. Let's move on and focus on 2006.

[gordianot]

16. We do need to move on.

None of us can dwell on it, however keep an open mind. There may be surprises and new stories in the coming weeks.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. "Fair and square" my arse!!!

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FIGHT! Take this country back one town and state at a time!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[DemCam]

27. We're till counting in NM

As of 4 pm yesterday we were 1000 down and still doing the audit. We're still dealing with provisional ballots. I go back today to watch the audit.

Our staff was confident that we would squeak through. They are working everyday until this is done. They said it would take at least 10 more days. The provisional ballots haven't been opened yet. Most of them had some mistake on them. They go to a committee that will decide to count them or not.

I have more appreciation for a very thankless job.

[SoCalDem]

29. Kerry is still behind by 3K and change

:) getting closer though

[bigtree]

30. kick

Thanks for your hard work. If there is anything we can do to help at this point . . .

[Cha]

7. Just like in 2000 when the media wouldn't

report that Al Gore had gotten the most votes.

I say Fuck The Media..We aRe the media NOW!

[gordianot]

14. Sneaky sneaky

Guess what other suprises may be on the way. There are some battles going on very very quietly.

[T Town Jake]

17. "Guess what other suprises may be on the way"...like what?

...There are some battles going on very very quietly

Again, like what? This cloak & dagger garbage doesn't cut it for those of us who are hurting right now. Either you know something or you don't. Post what you know or go away. Shit or get off the pot.

[gordianot]

18. The pot

Kerry won this election and we will not see a Kerry Presidency. Our hurting is not over, nor is the counting of votes. Nixon could have chosen to contest the Kennedy election and chose not to in order to preserve the Republic. Probably the only decent thing the man ever did. Kerry and Edwards showed some scruples and I hope they make an issue at the appropriate time come December and January. See links.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1318200

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=955296

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=15670

and one more

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php

:hurts:

[LittleWoman]

23. Nixon did not give up for the good of the country

It also is possible that the reason Nixon did not contest the Chicago votes was because he was told that to do that would also expose the Republican shennagians in downstate Illinois. The idea that Nixon did something for the good of the country is a myth!

[gordianot]

24. Sorry don't take this I begin to support Nixon.

Voter fraud has been going on for a long time. In the end it was decent even if accidental for him to roll over. Could you imagine Nixon handling the Cuban Missile crisis? The Bay of Pigs would probably have turned into WW-III with Nixon. In the end it was decent even if accidental that Nixon rolled over.

I heard on NPR that the Pentagon had war-gamed a war with Iran and have decided to "Can the idea" with current assets in Afghanistan and Iraq. I wonder why they released this story to a media outlet? Who knows what the current dog of war is planning.

[GinaMaria]

26. Thank you

This is exactly true. People in Illinois know this well. It seems like the rest of the country has never heard of it. Nixon was known for hiring college kids with a history of stuffing ballot boxes. He cheated massively down state. He did nothing for the good of the country. He was saving his cowardly butt.

[ObaMania]

15. Nawww...

.. if it went blue Bill Richardson would be all over the place right now, announcing a win, but alas, he is hiding like all of our "blue" politicians.

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. I SWEAR K/E instructed everyone to lay low but

was it "for the good of the country" or because they are working on exposing the fraud?

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FIGHT! Take this country back one town and state at a time!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

[gordianot]

32. Yes

And remember the stories about Michael Moore going around the country with his cameras. Maybe we will have part 2 in the works.

The silence is deafening. They all seem to be laying low.

[SleepingDragon]

31. New Mexico is still counting...Not Blue or Red yet

This is from the ABQjournal online:

http://www.abqjournal.com/elex/253381elex11-05-04.htm


Bush Leading State Tally; 19,500 Paper Ballots Still Out

The Associated Press tally with most absentee votes counted late Thursday had President Bush leading by 8,366 votes.
But there were at least 19,500 uncounted paper ballots— so-called provisional and in-lieu-of ballots— statewide, according to a survey Thursday of most of New Mexico's 33 county clerks by The Associated Press.
Provisional ballots, required by the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act, allow people to vote even if their name isn't listed at the polling place. In-lieu-of ballots are used by voters who said they didn't get the absentee ballot they requested.
The largest number of uncounted ballots were in the state's most populous county, Bernalillo, with about 11,200 provisional ballots and about 1,800 in-lieu of ballots.

[michigandem2]

33. aar did and iowa is red....gov is probably disappoineted

[SoCalDem]

34. Arrrrggggghhhh ...Now it's WORSE

Results for: Statewide Results Number Of Voters: 728984
Results as of: 11/5/2004 8:53:45 AM Counties Reporting: 4

Candidate or Issue Party Votes Percent

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 352786 49.0%
GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 358487 49.8%

http://65.160.159.96/County0.htm

[gordianot]

35. Are they taking votes from Kerry and Bush?

Results for: Statewide Results Number Of Voters: 728156
Results as of: 11/5/2004 9:22:32 AM Counties Reporting: 4

Candidate or Issue Party Votes Percent

PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
JOHN F. KERRY and JOHN EDWARDS Democratic 352398 49.0%
GEORGE W. BUSH and DICK CHENEY Republican 358028 49.8%

What gives?