What's this about the WH asking CNN not to show Kerry winning in Ohio?

[CatWoman]

I read that in Demdem's thread.

Anyone know anything about it? :shrug:

[Kukesa]

1. Tell me, tell me, too! I'm a Buckeye who needs to know. n/t

[goodboy]

4. fellow buckeye here....(dublin OH) nt

[Grillymom]

20. Hey Goodboy

Keep the faith. I'm in Delaware (Ohio). It's hard here in the middle of republican central. Don't let anyone tell you differently We're making progress.

[goodboy]

27. oh I know it...I'm seeing much more KE signs than * signs...NT

[meganmonkey]

30. Welcome to DU from an OWU grad!

class of 1996 - uh, go battling bishops!

hee hee

:toast:

[spanone]

2. I haven't seen any evidence of this in any version of the 'press'.

[mourningdove92]

3. I saw that last night. When I heard the guy say that, my jaw

dropped. Of course, they did what the WH asked. According to the electoral map they were showing, if Ohio had been in Kerry's column, Kerry would have shown to be beating smirk in electoral votes. Can't have that now, can we?

[janx]

5. What did you see?

Can you explain?

[mourningdove92]

7. OK, fuzzy memory here, was operating with very little sleep

(we did the Texas freeway blogger thing on Thursday and Friday night, will post more about that later)
Anyway, the show was about electoral votes and showing a map by candidate/electoral votes. The map had smirk leading by enough to win. It also had Ohio in the Bush category. The guy discussing the map indicated they had been asked to keep Ohio in the smirk column. If Ohio had been in Kerry's column, Kerry would have been shown to be ahead.
Sorry that is all I got.

[Kukesa]

8. Do you remember which show you watched? n/t

[janx]

9. Thanks! And I can't wait to read about your Texas highway

blogging experience!

[rndmprsn]

11. CNN's talking head...

on CNN's electoral map said that he was contacted by bush's campaign manager to NOT put OH in kerry's column...kerry's internals have him up 5- points in OH, anyhow...the repub logic was that kerry is pulling ads in WVA and WVA and OH are so similiar that kerry just HAS to be behind in OH...he never mentioned thier own internal poll numbers, so i took that as they too had kerry ahead.

now...i lived in OH for over 10 years and i'll tell you this...OH and WVA are NOT the same...especially northern OH, which has the bigger cities and industry...it sounds like desperate logic to me.

yeah i thought it was kind of funny that the bush campaign personally called and asked that it not be put in kerry's column...CNN's talking head all but said that they would have put OH in kerrys column had he not gotten the call from the bush ppl....media is getting prety bold, they are ADMITTING to following orders from the bush campaign...the talking head then said that if the polls in OH stayed the same then the next report would have it in kerrys column...unbelieveable.

[wakeup call]

14. Yeah, and it'll be funny

when they do that on election night too.

[59millionmorons]

15. Kerry's internals

How do you know kerry's internals has Kerry up 5? If this is true this race is over.

[spanone]

16. I find it hard to believe that CNN would ADMIT this

I don't find it hard to believe they would do it, but to admit it is something else.

[vickie]

32. CNN is a despicable, disgraceful shell of its former self!

[notadmblnd]

13. nope cant have that

that would make the election entirely too difficult to steal. I do think Ohio will be the Florida of the 2004 election.

[Bush was AWOL]

6. Buckeye here

who is predicting a Kerry 3-5 point win in Ohio. Never seen a democrat get this much support in National election, ever.

[jhain]

10. I like the sounds of that!

[buff2]

12. I am a Buckeye

There are an awful lot of repukes here.....my sister lives in Licking county and she sent me an e-mail where she saw on the local news just about all her county are supporting the idiot. They've aways got that idiot ahead in the polls here,too. Media whores,repuke pundits Whitehouse spin.. all favorable to chimpy. The only thing we can hope for is new voters taking a clean sweep for Kerry. I will never understand how someone as goofy acting,divisive,arrogant,and sooooo destructive to our nation can be so "popular". If chimpy had a D behind his name he would have been assassinated by now. :grr:

[chaska]

17. So, WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS?

Somebody give us specifics so we can bitchslap the parties in question. Time to make some phonecalls and send some emails.

[KayLaw]

18. Not surprising

Remember CNN saying that the " yawning boy " was photoshopped? When busted they said the White House made them do it, then said, no the White House said nothing at all...Fascist toadies act this way.

[shamrock]

19. transcript here

Here is a link to the transcript and an excerpt:

MERCURIO: The Bush campaign knows that they need Ohio. I mean, as we've all heard the statistic, historically no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio. So I talked to -- or we talked earlier today to Matthew Dowd, who's Bush's chief pollster, who urged us to leave Ohio in the Bush column. We decided not to do that. He made two points. He said, first, tracking polls that they've have shown that Bush has gained actually since the debate, which is hard to believe because most of the polls that I've seen for the three debates show that ...

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/pzn.01.html

About 3/4 of the way down the page

[Bush was AWOL]

21. The Kerry campaigns tracking polls

show them leading by 5 with Bush fading.

I can see why Dowd is concerned.

[lancdem]

22. How do you know Kerry's internals have him up 5

in Ohio? That's great news if it's true.

[Bush was AWOL]

25. I read it in the Washington Post the other day

They quoted someone from within the Kerry campaign saying that Kerry is up 5 in their tracking polls, and Bush is fading. The Bushie didn't deny it, but said he was confident about Ohio. I'll look for the article.

[lancdem]

28. Thanks!

If Kerry wins Ohio, he's in.

[Grillymom]

23. I read the transcript

and I sent them an email telling them that they were guilty of the same lack of journalistic responsibility and integrity that Jon Stewart referred to.:mad:

Maybe we all should.

[Longhorn]

29. I don't understand. The transcript says they decided not to do it.

MERCURIO: The Bush campaign knows that they need Ohio. I mean, as we've all heard the statistic, historically no Republican has ever won the White House without winning Ohio. So I talked to -- or we talked earlier today to Matthew Dowd, who's Bush's chief pollster, who urged us to leave Ohio in the Bush column. We decided not to do that. He made two points. He said, first, tracking polls that they've have shown that Bush has gained actually since the debate, which is hard to believe because most of the polls that I've seen for the three debates show that ...

Am I misinterpreting what happened?

[Rose Siding]

31. I'm reading it like you did. CNN did the RIGHT THING

but ROFL this train is hard to stop when it gets going good.

[Roland99]

24. That is just completely .... argh... I'm dumbfound I'm so pissed!!

Remember when the fuckers in Bush's White House tried to get Keith Olberman to contact them first before interviewing Joe Wilson??

:mad:

[BootinUp]

26. Paula Zahn: "So what the heck is going on in Ohio? "

Don't worry your little freeper head Paula. LOL.