After all this .... What if the GOP keeps control of the House and Senate?

[Kablooie]

Until the election is over and out of the courts, it's still a possibility.

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1. I keep feeling we're being played.

I feel its happened before and is happening again.

Can't help it.

Its just a feeling I can't shake.

[Xeric]

2. we're always being played

by the rich and powerful.
Some of us figure it out. Most never do.
All we can do is keep shouting it from the rooftops.
Every couple of generations or so it gets bad enough that people stop taking it and do something about it.

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3. hopes have been raised so many times since 2000, 2002. 2004

I don't want to sound like I don't want all this to be true, I do, and I suspect there is more bad news for bush and the repukes. I think we're in a pre-planned assualt on the bush regime. And yes, we should give it to them as hard as we can. And I hope we're successful. It should be apparent to anyone ready to vote in November that this country needs a change. How could anyone still be considering voting for a republikan? How???

*sigh* but I thought the same things in 2002, and especially 2004. How much more do people need to see?

But then again, I was wrong in 2002, and 2004. I was surprised. I believe 2004, 2002, and 2000 were stolen. I believe we were taken on a bullshit trip by the media.

Shit, you know what I mean. Everybody here knows what I mean. I can't type it out anymore.

[samsingh]

8. we won 2000.

diebold stole a small percentage of votes in 2002. we gave the election away in 2004.

this is the first time since 1992 that we are really fighting back hard.

[LaPera]

12. Doesn't mean the republican owned Diebolds will have any more mercy on us

because we are trying harder in 2006...The republicans just keep getting better at stealing it with each election...The republican cheats are all sworn in by the time we figure it out completely & start screaming about it and the media finally pays attention...Too late by then...Hmmm.... How good will they be in 2008?

[samsingh]

19. since we believe we can win, diebold cheating will cause

substantial uproar.

the gop has lost any moral standing they felt they had.

with condi knowing about the warning, their statements about protecting the country and disgusting and laughable (not strong enough of a word)

[KingFlorez]

4. When did it happen before?

The Republicans have never been in this much trouble before and the Democrats haven't had chances like this in years. This is it, were going to win.

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5. all polls, I think, showed Kerry winning in 2004. Something happened in OH

but to your question, the media forced w on us. They asked him simple, stupid questions while questioning Gore about how strongly he sighed. Same thing they did to Dean about the "scream."

Polls show Dems winning up until the election, and now the races are "tight."

I can't explain it, I guess. But I see it. The media has led us astray for quite a while. Under-reporting protests, or not covering them at all until nudge by the blogosphere. The media manipulation of the people of the US, at least those that turn to those channels for "news."

That's all I got at this point. Sorry.

[Zynx]

11. Most national polls showed the race tied or Kerry slightly behind.

[Awsi Dooger]

14. That's correct

The poll average was virtually identical to what Kerry lost by 2.5 or 3 points. We expected the undecideds to break heavily to Kerry as the challenger but that did not happen. IMO he simply wasn't charismatic or likable enough. I wrote that here in early 2003, that Kerry "is just good enough to get you beat." But by election day my hatred of Bush was trying to convince me Kerry had a chance even though my instinct throughout the race was Kerry simply wasn't special enough to evict an incumbent. A longwinded and blase issues-oriented candidate like that fits much better in an open race, not against an incumbent.

[cali]

15. Wrong.

Why do people just blithely make stuff like this up? All national polls showed bush with a consistent, albeit small lead over Kerry, in the weeks leading up to the election.

[samsingh]

9. i totally agree

woodward may have been a hero long ago, but from what i've seen in the last 6 years, he's quite the media player and scoundrel. For him to attack bush and the gop is a strong indicator that many powerful players have also turned.

woody would never leave himself exposed if that wasn't so.

[samsingh]

7. we're not being played. the gop is under attack - however =

they are going to launch their attack dogs, which don't wait for truth or real situations. they just make them up.

we need to keep aggressive and keep fighting - countering their lies at every turn.

the gop are slime and they fight like little, spoiled assholes, with the same garbage they show House Pages.

[leftofthedial]

6. you know those murky powerful people

who actually control the bush cabal?

whoever they want to win will win. It's Democrats just often enough for us to think we live in a Democracy.

If repukes win the midterms, 99% of all Murkans will do exactly what they always do. They'll watch football and reality shows on TV.

[Greyhound]

13. Two wings of the Corporate Party. n/t

[Vidar]

18. Unfortunately correct.

[bklyncowgirl]

17. They may be preparing to cut their losses

Time to let the pendulum swing back the other way a bit. People are getting outraged and it's time to let off a little steam.

[FrenchieCat]

10. That's why we must keep hitting them......

can't take the tack of sitting back and watchin'them self destruct!

Can't take any chances, cause yo never know!

I've got a foot up their ass, and I ain't taking it out....EVER!

[Vinca]

16. Let's be optimistic for a couple of days.

I'm an atheist, but if by chance there is a God, he's definitely pissed at the born again 'pukes. It's as if the world has turned upside down. I think we've got a real chance to get both houses and I'm becoming less worried about Diebold because it's been in the MSM more and more. If they steal it, we will know.