Bush cancels scheduled visit to MI ... headed for NM instead

[Iceburg]

according to Joe Trippi on MSNBC a few minutes ago

[Alpharetta]

1. Giving up on Michigan?

[kentuck]

6. Sounds like it.....

going to NM.....?? Hmmmm...

[Randi_Listener]

2. Just like he did on 9/11

Running like a fucking yellow chickenshit.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Useless actions of the desperate

[LilKim]

16. Florida's going to Kerry

I'm as certain of this as I am of an overall Kerry win. Just think of the disenfranchised black voters in 2000 and the line from CCR's 'Born on the Bayou': "My papa said son don't let the man do what he done to me." There's no fucking way they will be shut out this time.

[venus]

53. I hear ya LilKim; but how do we (you) explain

Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris being rewarded in 2002 with re-election as governor and promotion to Congresswoman. I just don't get it. Not trying to be argumentative, but where were these "disenfranchised black voters" then? I'm praying they show up for Kerry but I don't know ...

[Clark4Prez]

62. We got Freeped in 2002

The GOP spread a false message, if you vote for the Democrat he'll bring in income taxes. This was the kiss of death and the Dems didn't fight it like they should have.

We didn't fight at all like we should have in 2002, fool me once... won't get fooled again. I came from a GOTV event in Polk County today. I can tell you the Dems are fighting like hell in a county that has voted GOP for president for 20 years and I think we will win in Polk County this year. And if we win in Polk County Florida will go blue by a mile.

GOTV it is our weapon of mass constuction! WOOT.

[newsguyatl]

43. how did you save that image?

i want to save my scenario but can't figure out how to.

[slestak]

45. Screen capture

[Demfromct]

4. WOW

Michigan just been ceded. NM must be in trouble. They must be expecting to lose Ohio and they need Iowa and New Mexico to help pick it up.

[Jersey Devil]

13. I think he expects to lose Florida and must win

PA (where he has invested a huge amount of time) NM, WI & PA would give him enough (271) and is his last remaining winning scenario (assuming he pulls out Ohio). But that is just impossible imo. I also would have to include HI or it wouldn't work

[realcountrymusic]

37. I don't believe Hawaii goes R, no way

Totally amazing that the Bushies think it's worth counting on it. Kerry will win Hawaii by 8 points, at least.

Shrub can have NM. I think we win OH, PA, FL, MI, WI, IA, and maybe one of the southern close ones (my guess is Arkansas, but maybe WV). It's a wrap.

Incumbents don't make last minute schedule changes unless they are in deep doo doo. He should be doing his rose-garden day today. Katy bar the door!


RCM

[VolcanoJen]

38. I think it's OVER for Bush in Ohio.

Pathetic, dismal turnout at last night's Bush rally at Great American Ballpark (the Cincinnati Reds stadium).

The Bush people claimed 47,000 attendees, but the talk of Cincy today is that there is NO F'IN WAY. The stadium only holds 43,000 with standing room only... last night, they showed the speech live on Cincy TV and avoided panning the crowds, but when they did, NOBODY in the outfield stands, NOBODY in the bleachers, NOBODY on the Moon Deck. Only a few hundred were in the infield, so how they came up with 47,000 is beyond me... OH WAIT!! Maybe they lied?

}(

Just like Chimpy to ex-agg-errrr-ate.

[spooky3]

40. Ok, so they added a 0. They meant 4700. No big deal, right?

(sarcasm off now) :-)

[Bongo Prophet]

64. So, technically, (in Bushworld) that is not a lie.

See thay can say they added NOTHING to the total, since 0=nothing. You can't prove they lied. You're not saying zero equals SOMETHING are you? :crazy: :crazy:

[Jersey Devil]

44. Not disagreeing, just trying to understand the * "strategery"

It is rather baffling.

[kwolf68]

5. Yes

Michigan is a done deal. Going to New Mexico on his way to the PigFarm.

[xultar]

7. Figured Dirty Trick Gay Marriage Phone Calls would do the trick...effin

effer effin effer effer :grr:

[Connie_Corleone]

8. Michigan goes to Kerry!

[Confident]

9. Somehow I doubt we'd ask Karl Rove about Kerry's campaign schedule

so I'd take this with a grain of salt

[deadparrot]

10. Hopefully this is a concession, and not confidence.

[AspenRose]

11. NOOOOOOOOOO don't send him HERE.....!

Governor Richardson, where are you? Counter his visit!!!

[KittyWampus]

22. Wesley Clark Is Camping Out In New Mexico Til Polls Close, I Think

[amandabeech]

24. Wes Clark has been out there for days and will stay till it's over,

according to a New Mexico poster last night. Apparently, New Mexicans have received him well.

He also has been working to get out the vote among Native Americans, particularly Navajo, who constitute a much larger proportion of eligible voters in New Mexico than in most other states.

[drdon326]

26. DesertedRose....

no one else wants him.....he's yours.lol

[AspenRose]

31. Richardson wouldn't do that to us...

Send him to Baghdad! ;-)

[exliontamer]

12. Translation: MI aint in play (n/t)

[Proud2BAmurkin]

14. DESPERATE FLOP SWEAT CHANGE IN PLAN

:bounce:

[Rambis]

15. He wants to win the popular vote

that is the reasoning behind him going to certain states. "It is imortant for the president to win the popular vote this time" I was waiting for the word mandate but he never said it. Baldy mcfuckface presidential mouthpiece of schite, also known as anal flasher. I am a bitter man!

[aquart]

27. But he isn't popular.

Why don't they know that?

[Rambis]

30. I know but he insulate him to protect his fragile ego

He can't project his arrogance if he doesn't believe the people are with him so they fool him.

[nostamj]

39. * will NOT win the PV.

there are 10 MILLION newly registered voters. and the majority are ours and the majority will VOTE.

Kerry will win the popular by 2-3-4 times Gore's half million

[yellowcanine]

17. If he is fighting for New Mexico and Hawaii (Cheney is there) you know

he has given up on Ohio as well. The only way he can make up Ohio is to peel off some smaller Gore states. And that assumes he wins Florida - which is a lousy bet at this point. I think we are seeing an eighty yard Hail Mary pass from a quarterback who has never completed more than a twenty yard pass. And even if the receivor catches the ball he will be tackled short of the end zone and time will expire.

[AndyTiedye]

36. He's Counting on Jeb to Steal Florida for Him Again

He can't win without Florida. If they steal Florida again, but
can't steal Ohio, they have to take everything else that is in
play or even close.

If Repubs steal both Florida and Ohio, we can still win if we take
everything else that is in play.

[shawmut]

18. bad election eve press for Bush

or at least it should be.

[WI_DEM]

19. Good, disappoint his few supporters who were going to turn out for

him in Michigan. hahaha.

[kentuck]

20. Kerry should take a quick 2 hr trip to Texas.....

That would really fuck with his little head. :)

[Iceburg]

21. It wouldn't surprise me if Kerry banked his SwiftBoat in Texas for a few

hours later in the day

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. Bank his SwiftBoat in San Antonio!

:bounce: That would be awesome! I'm five minutes from the airport!

[helpisontheway]

28. Kentuck you have me laughing so hard...hahaha

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

51. People with the initials JFK should steer clear of Texas in hot contests

Sorry...call me superstitious but...

[Borgnine]

23. Congrats to Michigan DUers.

It looks like your state is now cemented blue.

And to the New Mexico DUers... get your garlic and wooden stakes ready. A great evil is descending on your state.

[Northern Experiment]

48. Wooohooooooo

We are out here in force in MI.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. If New Mexico rejected the chimp in 2000 why would they want him

fours years later? :shrug:

[AspenRose]

33. New Mexico went blue by only a few hundred votes last time

And there were "issues" with boxes of missing ballots....

Palast thinks NM will be stolen this year.

[SammyWinstonJack]

46. Yes, silly me!

So they will try to steal NM again! :argh:

[bobbieinok]

54. NM the nuclear dump state????? I'd think they't be furious at W

[AspenRose]

57. This is why NM is in trouble

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

"If the vote is stolen here, it will be stolen in Rio Arriba County," a New Mexico politician told me. That's a reasoned surmise: in 2000, one in 10 votes simply weren't counted—chucked out, erased, discarded. In the voting biz, the technical term for these vanishing votes is "spoilage." Citizens cast ballots, but the machines don't notice. In one Rio Arriba precinct in the last go-'round, not one single vote was cast for president—or, at least, none showed up on the machines.

Not everyone's vote spoils equally. Rio Arriba is 73 percent Hispanic. I asked nationally recognized vote statistician Dr. Philip Klinkner of Hamilton College to run a "regression" analysis of the Hispanic ballot spoilage in the Enchanted State. He calculated that a brown voter is 500 percent more likely to have their vote spoiled than a white voter. And It's worse for Native Americans. Vote spoilage is epidemic near Indian reservations.

Votes don't spoil because they're left out of the fridge. It comes down to the machines. Just as poor people get the crap schools and crap hospitals, they get the crap voting machines.

*******************************************************************

Last week Bernalillo County (ABQ) had problems with the touch voting machines. People who would vote for Kerry had their votes showing up for Bush, and vice versa.

[julialnyc]

32. campaign in Michigan has been left to dirty tricks

LANSING, Mich. - Some Michigan voters have received phone calls falsely claiming that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry would make gay marriage legal, Kerry's Michigan campaign said Monday.</nitf>

<nitf>Both Kerry and his running mate, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, oppose gay marriage and say marriage should be limited to a man and a woman. Kerry has said he supports civil unions.</nitf>

In a recording of a phone call played for The Associated Press, a young woman says: "When you vote this Tuesday remember to legalize gay marriage by supporting John Kerry. We need John Kerry in order to make gay marriage legal for our city. Gay marriage is a right we all want. It's a basic Democrat principle. It's time to move forward and be progressive. Without John Kerry, George Bush will stop gay marriage. That's why we need Kerry. So Tuesday, stand up for gay marriage by supporting John Kerry."</nitf>

<nitf>The calls began Sunday afternoon, according to Rodell Mollineau, spokesman for Kerry's Michigan campaign. The campaign said voters in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Flint and Pontiac received calls.'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16027-2004Nov1.html

[julialnyc]

34. read this on another blog

Just read this too from someone on another blog who lives in Michigan:

Just heard something strange from the postal carrier who serves our office building (in a college town, in Michigan).  He said that at a meeting first thing this morning all the postal workers at his facility got told that it's mandatory that they work from 6 AM to 6 PM tomorrow, Election Day - no reason given. He was upset that by the time he leaves work he will barely have time to make it to his hometown to vote. Is this happening across the USPS? Just in battleground states? Or is it just a very local thing? Work a 12 hour shift on Election Day, with less than 24 hours notice! What's going on here?

[Iris]

50. that sounds suspicious. Try to get him to call one of the voter problem

hotlines. I think there are some listed here. Let me know if you can't find a number he can call.

[slestak]

52. that's illegal

it varies depending from state to state, but if you work from 9 am to 5 pm, by law you can take 2 hours off from work to go vote. In some states, it's three hours. He really needs to do some investigation.

[Iris]

63. could it be possible everyone will be working 6-6 because there will

be 2-hour breaks for people to vote?

[Thrill]

35. Keep the other Blue states

and win NH and OH and NM is irrelevant

[archineas]

41. translation

michigan is blue. it's time to work the 2nd tier.

i bet they are banking the election on nabbing NM,WI,MI and IA.

now, if those of us in the great lakes could figure out how to get indiana to go blue...

j

[AngryHoosier]

61. I'm trying, but even here in Indiananpolis, that would be hard.

"now, if those of us in the great lakes could figure out how to get indiana to go blue..."

The thinkers in Indiana are Kerry, but the non-thinkers have us cornered and outnumbered!

[marew]

42. Did you hear Al Franken earlier?

A neighborhood in Tampa, Fl, College Hill, black and low income, had some of it's residents, including an 80 year old lady, stand in line for up to 5 hours to vote early. They WILL NOT do again what they did to my state 4 years ago!

[bush equals idiot]

47. William Jefferson Clinton

put gas pains in their plans. Even Albuquerqe is going to send Bush a nut kick.

[michigandem2]

49. Mi is going blue....they realized that stupid Detroit News poll was

WAY WRONG!

[Upfront]

55. Never A Doubt

In my mind. lol Cold air up here clears your mind.

[mcg]

56. He can run, but he can't hide.

[AspenRose]

58. Kick

[DURHAM D]

59. Why is Bush in Texas today.

Yesterday they announced a noon rally in Dallas. Today they have switched it to the evening. Still, why is he in Dallas?

[robbedvoter]

60. Last minute advice from cows on the "ranch"?