Call It A Comeback
Huge, huge turnout. Perhaps a record. High everywhere so hard to say if it’s a distinct advantage for Dems which is the usual expectation.
Long waits and huge turnouts. I’m trying to get a sense of what the campaigns are thinking, but not hearing so far–feel free to send tips to archpundit@yahoo.com (even if you have other addresses send it to archpundit@yahoo.com).
Here in DC there is a general sense of cautious optimism amongst Dems, but no hard numbers.
Rod McCulloch’s Illinois Poll reports a 10 point lead for Kerry.
The October Illinois Poll of 1200 likely Illinois voters, was conducted October 28-31, 2004. The Illinois Poll is a monthly statewide poll conducted by McCulloch Research & Polling, a Chicago-based firm. ?It appears that there will be no surprises in Presidential politics in Illinois tomorrow,? pollster Rod McCulloch said. ?Senator Kerry should win by about the same margin that Al Gore did in 2000.?
According to the poll, Senator Kerry holds a ten-point lead in Illinois, a state considered to be a ?Blue? or Kerry state from the beginning of the campaign. Former Vice President Al Gore won Illinois by a full 12% in 2000 (54-42%).
The Democratic stronghold of Chicago fronts Senator Kerry to a huge lead (76-21.8%). Suburban Cook County, formerly a reliable Republican region, also would vote for Kerry, by a margin of 58.5-38.4%, according to the poll. President Bush does hold a lead in three of the other four regions of the state, including the still solidly Republican Collar Counties (55-41), Northwest Illinois (50-44), and Central Illinois (51-44). The poll shows Senator Kerry holding a slight lead in Southern Illinois (48.5-47.0%).
McCulloch is a Republican, but is also working to become the goto guy on Illinois polling so he has incentives on both ends. That said, I’m not one who likes to argue over affiliation. McCulloch’s work is good from what I’ve seen, though all polls have limitations.
Keyes, who earlier told GOP leaders of his intention to make provocative campaign statements to get attention, ratcheted up the rhetoric further as he declared that there was no difference between Catholics who support Obama and Germans who voted for the Nazi Party.
He’s in the wrong state, the HarshBishop in Saint Louis however would be a good match
“Any Roman Catholics who vote for Barack Obama are committing, in the opinion of the pope and the Holy See [Vatican City], a mortal sin,” Keyes told reporters after a Crusaders Ministries service on the South Side. “He stands for the destruction of innocent life. He stands against the respect for the male-female family. On embryonic stem-cell research, on all the key issues of conscience, he stands for the position that has been identified by the Catholic Church as objectively evil.
“Catholics who vote for him make themselves part of that evil, just as the folks in Germany who voted for the party that eventually led to the Holocaust.”
Trib has the problem of figuring out whether voters are dead or not for the election.
I will be posting from the road and from DCCC HQ in DC on election night so keep checking in though during the day tomorrow I’ll be flying until later afternoon. This will be at the top all day as a guide to the next couple days.
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This guy defines what democracy is about. Wow.
TAHOKA, Texas – In the 10 days after Welch Flippin decided to stop dialysis and began succumbing to kidney failure, the 85-year-old Texas farmer and World War II veteran had something on his mind. Something, he told his son, he just had to do. He wanted to vote.
So when early voting started last week, his son went down the road to the Lynn County clerk’s office in Tahoka, a one-stoplight town of nearly 2,000 people 30 miles south of Lubbock, and asked if he could take a ballot home to his ailing father.
The clerk offered instead to make a house call.
“In a small town, we’re able to do that,” County Clerk Susan Tipton said Thursday. “But I’ve never had one that was under hospice care, so it was harder emotionally.”
The next morning, she went to the house and saw Welch Flippin, a man she had known for years from his work with veterans. When he smiled and greeted her by name, she knew he was alert enough to vote. She told him he could sign with an X. But he signed his name clearly.
When she left the room to give him and his son privacy, Perry Flippin held the ballot and started asking his father, a staunch Democrat, for whom he wanted to vote.
“You like Kerry and Edwards?” Perry Flippin, retired editor of the San Angelo Standard-Times, recalled in a column in the newspaper.
“Naw,” he replied wearily.
“Bush and Cheney?”
“Naw.”
The elder Flippin answered, “Yeah” when asked whether he liked 13-term Democratic Rep. Charlie Stenholm. His son marked an X for Stenholm.
He dozed off after that and did not talk to his son or wife again. The next day, Oct. 20, he passed away. His last conscious act was casting his vote.
Under state law, the vote will count.
“I think he knew exactly what he was doing, and I was privileged to cast that last ballot,” his son said Thursday. “I’m surprised that he would be thinking about that on his death bed, but he thought his vote was important.”
Powerful member of House Ways and Means is rumored to be doing a stunt delivering pizzas to constitutuents. Ummm…after 35 years, that’s a bit much.
Especially after Flippy died because someone rented the costume out for Halloween.
Like hell you are staying in my state. (go to the video for the full effect)While I may currently live in Missouri, Illinois will always be my home and you have defiled it you freak. The entire comparison to Abraham Lincoln has pissed me off more than you could possibly understand. You are an ignorant ass who would have been put in his place by Abe in a sly, dry witted manner.
You ranted about Illinois without knowing a damn thing about. Your rant on automatic weapons was laughable. Your divisive bullshit about a culture war has no place in my moderate state. You turned a race into a three ring circus with your ego occupying all three rings.
You have bizarrely attacked one of the most decent and charismatic candidates in Illinois during my lifetime eclipsing even the cool charisma Thompson had, but few now remember.
You are now lying that abortion will cause a decline in the black population which is nothing short of a lie. Why? Because you think the ends justify the ends. You were funny for a while, but now you are just a giant horse’s ass.
Finally, you have claimed you were attacked with pipe bombs which was bullshit. You fucking lied about it and tried to use it to get money. You and your campaign staff are sick bastards who need to take your asses to some state where your kind of bullshit flies. You and your staff are so bizarrely out of touch you thought that receiving shit bombs would bring you more support.
In short–what the fuck is your major malfunction asshole? And why do you think anyone in Illinois wants to put up with you beyond Tuesday?
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