Why did Rove and Bush go to Ohio on Election Day?

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D8676VMG0.html

Rove said he felt sick, then got mad when he started reading exit polls on Election Day as Air Force One returned from a final campaign swing. Surveys of voters just leaving polling places around the nation tilted toward Kerry early in the day and through much of the evening, causing early optimism for a Democratic recovery of the White House.

That faded through the night as exit polls were adjusted to reflect official vote tallies. But the exit poll was still tracking toward Kerry as the president's plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland after Bush's quick Election Day stop to thank supporters in crucial Ohio.

"I was on Air Force One, and we were literally on final approach into Andrews," Rove said on "Fox News Sunday." "The phone connection kept cutting out. I was holding a piece of paper on my knee, trying to scribble it down, holding the phone in the other hand. I got sick as I wrote them down, and then when I looked at them, I got angry, because they simply could not be true."

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Remember that campaign stop W made on his way from TX to the WH? Very odd for a president to do such a thing on election day.

Rove is just about admitting that because the numbers looked bad, that he put into action Plan B as soon as he got home.

From all accounts Kerry was heading for a landslide, that was until Rove got home.

However, I'd really like to know about that little pit stop Ohio? Anyone know who was there to great them. What politicians meet him there for the photo op. Was our buddy Blackwell there?

PS: I guess cell phones do work on passenger jets?

[Flammable Materials]

1. "They simply could not be true."

"We fixed the election, goddamn it! It couldn't be true!"

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Does anyone else think this might be a 'smoking gun'?

Funny how W likes to fly around on AF1 when things are going bad.

How long did it take them to fly from OH to DC? It sounds like it took all afternoon?

Then as soon as they get back to the WH, the tide starts to turn. Yeah, right.

[Jose Diablo]

3. Did AF1 drop anyone in Ohio, and who were they? n/t

[shelley806]

4. I wondered about it immediately; and why Cheney went to Hawaii..n/t