Rumor of * pullouts...

[benburch]

In the bartcop IRC chat, people are saying that * has pulled out of OH, PA, and possibly WV. Does anybody have any actual data?

[olddem43]

1. Bush's father should have pulled out about 57 years ago..

[Touchdown]

5. You stole my line.

LMAO!

:hi:

[gordianot]

10. You know that creates a mental picture.

:puke:

It happened. Spontaneous generation is not real.

[bush equals idiot]

12. 41 fertilized his egg. What a waste of sperm.

[FloridaPat]

13. This is a quote to remember! Great!

[pacalo]

20. That is simply the best line I've heard -- excellent!

[ever_green]

22. LOL!!!

[calimary]

23. Let me just add -- I'm ROTFLMAO!! What a great line!

Probably will go down in DU lore as one of the all-time GREATS!

CONGRATULATIONS!!! I'm in awe.

[shrub chipper]

26. Actually, that line was common on Vietnam era protest signs

which often said :

"Nixon, Pull Out Like Your Father Should Have!!

meaning pull out of Vietnam

[cyr330]

32. Great Line!

I've been laughing my ass off for at least 5 minutes! The picture of bug eyed Barbara in the missionary position (I'm SURE that's the ONLY way they ever did it) with Poppy on top of her trying to pull out, "Oops, too late!" is hilarious.

[Ms.Victory]

41. I just about fell out my chair!

I think that is too funny!

[DemBones DemBones]

45. More like 59 years ago -- Dubya is 58 now. nt

[Bucky]

53. An understandable mistake, since Dubya looks like a preemie

New Constitutional Amendment: motard monkeys can't be president

[lanparty]

58. I think Barbara was on top ...

Would anyone have willingly screwed with that buffalo!!!!

[Roland99]

2. Oy vey

[whistle]

3. ???pulled out, you mean no more campaigning there by * through....

...the election? Has shrub conceded those states to Kerry?

[benburch]

6. Yes, that was the implication.

That he knows he has lost those.

[Fluffdaddy]

4. * is pulling out of W V because Bush has that in the bag.

The other two you may be right.

No way Kerry takes W V.

[blackcat77]

Spread is three points and trending Kerry

I don't think Kerry will pull it off, but I wouldn't fall over in a faint if he did. It's just as close as Nevada or Minnesota, and they are both considered tossups.

[LSK]

33. Minnesota is a "tossup" only because the media lies.....

[blackcat77]

9. Spread is three points and trending Kerry

I don't think Kerry will pull it off, but I wouldn't fall over in a faint if he did. It's just as close as Nevada or Minnesota, and they are both considered tossups.

[vpigrad]

16. What about WV?

> pulling out of W V because Bush has that in the bag.

I don't think so. I just got back from two weeks there, and I must have seen 20 Kerry signs and bumper stickers for every Bushie one. If Kerry doesn't win that state by a huge margin, we'll know fraud occurred. Some people might make fun of WV, but polictically they're pretty savy. They're not mostly mindless idiots like where I live now in GA.

[mdguss]

18. Kerry's behind in WV and will probably lose there:

The Republicans have pulled every dirty trick in the book. They've told people they can vote by phone (traced back to Republican headquarters; got a well deserved blasting from the local elections administrator). They're also making other robo calls. I won't repeat the assertions they're making in them, but I will say they're being effective among the religious.

The southern part of West Virginia is the problem. Sadly, many people are believing the lies in the robo calls on behalf of W.

[onecitizen]

39. yes they are........

(just kidding) but I think you're wrong. As bad as I hate to say it. I live here (in WV) and I can tell you very few people I talk to are voting for Kerry. I talked to a Kerry campaign worker last night and she said the same thing (she's been calling and canvasing). It's the gun issue again. You can talk and talk and talk and people STILL think the Dems have a secret agenda to take their stupid guns. Then there's the gay thing....and the God thing......and the SBVT thing. Put it all together and ya come out with a red state. Much to my dismay.

[DemBones DemBones]

46. Hey, not everybody in Georgia is a mindless idiot! And let me say that

the RWers I had to deal with the other day were originally from, respectively, New York City and Iowa. Two of my most pro-Kerry friends are from Georgia and Maryland (I'm sort of from everywhere but more Southern than anything else and have been in Georgia many years now.)

[eriffle]

50. WV closer than thought

We've out registered Repubs over 2:1 The state committee has a number formula of how many votes we need and so far it looks like we're still in play. I'm working with teh campaign and what we were told when Kerry pulled out last week is that they were confident in the volunteers left to GOTV. Plus a good portion of the state's population (Wheeling, Morgantown, Fairmont, Clarksburg, Bridgeport) gets Pittsburgh news and the Charleston TV station broadcasts into Ohio and Kentucky and there were Kerry ads on there as of Friday morning. The problem with WV appears is that the deep south which used to be heavily coal miners are no longer voting straight Democratic. The evangelicals have their clutches on the Beckley region in particular and I think Rahall is safe this election, eventually they'll find someone to give him a run. I happened to drive through Byrd's home town a few weeks ago and there wasn't a Kerry sign to be seen. If WV goes blue it will be the northern panhandle and north central areas that carry it. We've seen a lot of good paying jobs leave. There were several tech support and customer service call centers in the area and they're now gone, probably to India.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

54. Yes. Kerry has enormous (HUGE) backing from Coal

mainly the unions- and... why do you think he shot those geese last week?
WV is close.

[Taylor Mason Powell]

36. Don't be so sure about that!

Check out this very interesting discussion on Kos:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/23/16148/433

in which a commenter says:

"I here predict that WV will be blue

Mason Dixon and Zogby both had Our Guy down by two-three points. I know the party's internals show Our Guy down by one-half point, and our GOTV effort is soooooo much superior than theirs in this state that has 61% Democratic registration.
Moreover, in the blue counties in the coal country, there has been massive early voting.

Since Nixon, the only times that West Virginia has been Republican were in 1984 and 2000. Come on, guy, ya' gotta' believe."

(this post is here: http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/10/23/16148/433/27?mode=alone;showrate=1#27)

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I'm with the Kos commenter - "ya gotta believe!"

[AlCzervik]

7. Gropenfuher will be stumping for monkey in OH

this coming week and there is no way they will give up on PA. i treat all that stuff with a grain of salt, Bush wont give up that easy, or Cheney won't.

[AntiFascist]

11. I heard he was only stumping for him total of one day nt

[spanone]

19. 'Gropenfuher' LOL!!!

[AlCzervik]

21. sometimes when i'm talking to my 86 year old grandmother

i forget and i call him that. Bless her, she laughs her ass off.

[sandnsea]

8. Oregon for sure

The focus is now NV, CO, IA, WI, NM, and FL; that's what I think I read somewhere. The pullout of WV probably means they think it's wrapped for Bush.



"Richardson said the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee had been spending as much as $500,000 a week on television advertising in Oregon, but cut it in the past week to about $170,000. She said the Kerry campaign also scaled back after seeing the Bush reductions."

http://www.oregonlive.com/campaigncentral/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1098533092109380.xml

[billyoc]

14. WV goes blue, guaranteed

* hung WV soldiers out to dry for implementing his *official* policies in Abu Ghraib, no way Kerry doesn't carry WV. South Carolina, same thing, SC soldiers were in *mutiny* at Fort Dix over their deployment to Iraq. People take an extremely dim view of that sort of thing.

[swag]

15. Praise the vengeful Baby Jesus

I won't miss the daily barrage from the Chimpster, I assure you.

[Carla in Ca]

29. Don't forget Hawaii

They are feeling a little ignored and the gap is less than a month ago. Kerry must go there. Take no chances!

[AmerDem]

17. watched a news spot yesterday stating shrub will visit Ohio

8 times towards the end of next week.

[Miami Liberal]

24. Anyone else think Bush doesn't want to be re-elected?

I mean look at the mess he's made here and in Iraq. Maybe he wants to hand it over to someone else so he won't have to deal with it anymore. I get the feeling he's getting ready for a nice long nap at the ranch and he doesn't really care if he gets re-elected.

:dem:

[robmc88]

27. I agree

As much as I want to see JK win I feel sorry for anyone who has to take over this clusterf**k.

The good news is that if Shrub wins he'll for sure go down as one of the WORST PRESIDENTS EVER...I just hope America is around to see it.


Rob

[Arugula Latte]

42. Welcome to DU, robmc88!

Glad to have ya! :toast: :hi:

[newyawker99]

47. Hi robmc88!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[robmc88]

48. Thanks

Wow! I*m honored. By the way,, just an FYI Im putting up awhole bunch of road side signs tonight in the heart of Orange County , CA. Just in time for the Monday morning commute... ;)

[LSK]

34. I was thinking that after debate #1

[Free2BMe]

38. I really believe he will be greatly relieved..embarrassed but relieved.

[Lady President]

25. As of today still in Ohio

I haven't heard anything about pulling out in Ohio. I know it hasn't happened yet. My "Republican for Kerry" father received a call from the Ohio for Bush today. He's 70, has never voted for a Democrat and loves to get Bushies calls so he can give them a piece of his mind.

Also, there was a Bush Booth at the Circleville Pumpkin Fest yesterday.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

28. Half dozen Bush ads on the local news tonight...

If he's pulling out, it's news to the Bush Campaign.

[DuaneBidoux]

40. I envy you...as your father approaches his last years a

good reason to grow closer. I completely broke it off with my father after he told my son that "Jesus is a Republican."

My father is almost 70 and I'm not sure we'll ever speak again.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

52. I dont see any evidence of an Ohio pullout, either...

...I think Bush is still fighting hard for this state....

[allalone]

30. stole my line too

didn't pull out quite fast enough

[rocktivity]

31. Careful--this could be a weapon of mass demoralization

:headbang:
rocknation

[billie_]

57. This woman rocks!

she is my new desktop pic!

[PermanentRevolution]

35. News from Broward Co. (FL)

I know a guy who's leading canvassing teams in Broward. He actually quit his job in New Jersey and moved to Florida to help with the campaign. Anyway, here's his posts, from a different forum:

"Maybe somebody should tell the guys who do those sites that Bush has all but pulled out of FLorida---We have teams at every polling station---14 teams in Broward--they have none--they have showed up to harrass @ 4 locations---over 7 days---

Why is it when my volunteers set up each day there is no opposition card table with literature and bumper stickers?

Where are their poll watchers?

Where are their minivans?

And then think about the lack of presence in other states--------

Can you spell loser?"

Granted, Broward is almost certain to go Kerry, but still, no sign of opposition at any of the early-polling locations is a good sign.

More:

"Flew in last friday--I've been workin like 7am to midnite--I'm staying with a family--big time Kerry people--I've been giving a minivan and 2 cell phones--I'm recruiting volunteers for Poll watching-- Phone banking etc---In my area of Broward county its Kerry all the way.

I canvassed for Mcgovern in 72---this is the time of my life--we are goin to kick some major butt--- the Bush presence here is almost nill--mostly complaints about Kerry signs--which are all the legal distance from the door to the polling place--

Air Kerry---- non-stop service to WAshingtom DC"

" Early voting started here on monday--14 locales in Broward.--- alll being spyed on --Lawyers on call @ each Locale---"Voting rights Attorneys".

Yeah they learned sumtin ahhright---big time.

Bush is toast--dude"

I'm envious. Wish my job gave me more time to get involved. Not in a position to up and quit like he did. Anyway, Broward's sounding pretty good.

[Miami Liberal]

37. That's great news!

:bounce:

[Arugula Latte]

43. Welcome to DU, Cubana!

:hi: :toast:

You've joined a great group!

[Miami Liberal]

49. Thanks!

:)

[JCMach1]

44. to focus on FL!!!

bank on it...

No combination gives Bush victory without FL...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

51. I thought the Chimp was immaculately conceived

a strange evil-looking little hunchback monkey-creature appeared before Barbara Bush 56 years to ago to announce the tidings of its Master:

"...Behold you shall conceive in your womb and shall bring forth a son: and you shall call his name Dubya. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most Dark. And the Master shall give unto him the throne of George his father: and he shall reign in the house of Bush for ever. And of his warmongering there shall be no end..."

[gauguin57]

55. Chimp definitely HASN'T pulled out of PA

Dumbya had a rally in Hershey on Friday, and will have a rally at the Lancaster, PA, Airport Monday morning.

Ugh. He's still campaigning in the conservative Pennsylvania "T" (across the top and down the middle -- everywhere but the P-burgh and Philly Demo. zones).

Oh ... and that damned wolf ad has been on a lot in Lancaster area.

[lanparty]

59. His #1 cheerleader can't win a Big Ten game !!!!

I think Joe Pa is rubbing off on Dubya!!!!

[fujiyama]

56. Yeah right

There are no pull outs. You expect them to give up easilly? These people will fight to the bitter end.

[elperromagico]

60. I've heard Bush's numbers suffer whenever he visits OH,

and - if you ask me - his 40-or-so trips to PA reek of desperation...