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Kerry Whistleblower Suffers for Truth

It's hard to believe these types of things still happen.

Gardner losses everything for speaking out against Kerry

Red state, blue state, me state, you state

Great article on Red vs. Blue state

Early '06 and '08 election predictions

I'm going to predict the Democrats will lose again in '06 and '08 unless their party makes big changes. 

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Example 2

The Redneck vote

Believe it or not, it wasn't just rednecks that voted for Bush

The big question after Tuesday was: will it just be more of the same in George W Bush's second term, or will there be a change of tone? And apparently it's the latter. The great European thinkers have decided that instead of doing another four years of lame Bush-is-a-moron cracks they're going to do four years of lame Americans-are-morons cracks. Inaugurating the new second-term outreach was Brian Reade in the Daily Mirror, who attributed the President's victory to: "The self-righteous, gun-totin', military-lovin', sister-marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport-ownin' rednecks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land 'free and strong'."

Well, that's certainly why I supported Bush, but I'm not sure it entirely accounts for the other 59,459,765. Forty five per cent of Hispanics voted for the President, as did 25 per cent of Jews, and 23 per cent of gays. And this coalition of common-or-garden rednecks, Hispanic rednecks, sinister Zionist rednecks, and lesbian rednecks who enjoy hitting on their gay-loathin' sisters expanded its share of the vote across the entire country - not just in the Bush states but in the Kerry states, too.

In all but six states, the Republican vote went up: the urinating rednecks have increased their number not just in Texas and Mississippi but in Massachusetts and California, both of which have Republican governors. You can drive from coast to coast across the middle of the country and never pass through a single county that voted for John Kerry: it's one continuous cascade of self-righteous urine from sea to shining sea. States that were swing states in 2000 - West Virginia, Arkansas - are now solidly Republican, and once solidly Democrat states - Iowa, Wisconsin - are now swingers. The redneck states push hard up against the Canadian border, where if your neck's red it's frostbite. Bush's incontinent rednecks are everywhere: they're so numerous they're running out of sisters to bunk up with.

Values/Morals voting myth

David Brooks - NYT

I agree with Brooks. I felt safer with Bush in office, so I voted for him.  Brooks also points out my earlier post about homosexual marriage.  There is a very large amount of middle ground on the issue, but it's easier to say the crazy homophobes hate gays.  *sigh*

My Pledge

I'm seconding Ken Wheaton's pledge:

I pledge to do my best to unseat any U.S. politician, regardless of party, who sings the praises of Yasser Arafat upon the death of said terrorist, thug and henchman, a scourge to Israelis, oppressor and thief to his own people, and murderer of both.

Blame the bloggers!!!!!

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The news media is trying to blame bloggers for releasing early poll numbers. SSSHHH....don't mention that people from the news media leaked these results to bloggers, or that the results were horribly wrong. BLAME THE BLOGGERS!!!!!!!!!!

Response to Seth B. on homosexual marriage

Seth's comments on U.S. bigots

What I'm most depressed by is the passage of all 11 of the anti-gay marriage ammendments. The idea that 11 states of the country of my birth would ammend their Constitutions with this type of bigotry in the year 2004 makes me ill. Does anyone really think that 40 or 50 years from now, we won't be looking back on this era with the same type of disgust and incredulity with which we now view Jim Crow laws? The trend of history is pretty clear on these matters, human rights eventually prevail, and those that stood in the way forever have their good names tarnished by the bigotry and hate they spouted in return for some cheap political capital.

That said, if anyone in a nice rational country (where they don't decide the election based on the "word" of an Invisible Man Who Lives In The Sky) needs to hire a techie, I'm all ears.

Marriage is a religious institution. The constitution of the U.S. provides for the separation of church and state. Why do lefties like Seth now want the Government involved in religion? They don't like what the church teaches on religion, so gosh darnit, let's FORCE them to change! That seems pretty bigoted to me. Let's say homosexual marriage passes in Iowa. The church I belong to disagrees with the idea, but a homosexual couple in Cedar Falls sues my church for not performing a ceremony their "rights" entitle them too. Gee, constitutional problem anyone? Now the Government can tell churches what to think? What happened to separation?

I just don't agree that religious bible-thumpers are bigots either. Here is a quote from another website that people like Seth should take to heart:

Cheer Up, Andrew (referring to Andrew Sullivan)

Exit poll data are here, and you can drill down for specifics by state or regions.

As I mentioned earlier in the post about Lupe Valdez's election, the results aren't as bleak for supporters of gay rights as you'd think from listening to triumphant social conservatives or despairing gays.

Nationally, gay marriage is a loser, but civil unions are a big winner, with 35 percent support (and 32 percent in the South). Assume that the 25 percent who back marriage rights (17 percent in the South), and you've got a clear majority (and a slim lead even in the South, where Bush won 32 percent of gay voters). The public is squeamish about "gay marriage," but not about giving gay couples public recognition and legal rights.

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Personally, I'm against homosexual marriage. It is an idea created by religion and the Government should leave it alone. I don't think that makes me a bigot. I'm 100% in favor of Civil Unions, which would be an institution created by the government and not religion, and from the exit poll data, it looks like an awful lot of people agree with me.

U.S.A, a divided country?

Breakdown of Bush vs. Kerry 2004, county by county

The U.S. doesn't look very divided to me.

Bush Victory 2004

The popular vote totals is the really intersting fact in this election. Bush has won the popular vote and is now just waiting for the Electoral Votes to move to his column. It looks like Ohio is a definate Bush win. I don't understand why Kerry is draging this out. Kerry would have to win 95% of the provisional ballots to beat Bush in Ohio, that's not very likely. Nixon conceded Ohio with a margin of only 8,000 votes Mr. Kerry, do yourself and the country a favor and concede. You cannot overcome 120,000 vote margin.

What's the deal with Iowa???? Are we always the last to declare? We were slow in the 2000 election and now we are slow again in this election.

Where was the young vote? All of those younger voters that were supposed to sway this election???? This whole younger voter myth should just die already. Younger voters do NOT vote.

Good day for the Republicans all around. They pick up seats in the Senate and House and SCOTUS didn't get involved in this election. :-)