Dick Morris sees a GOP massacre tomorrow... (2 Viewers)

[AlbertaSaintsFan]

Jim Jeffords (I - VT) is retiring and Bernie Sanders (I) is a shoe-in. He is a socialist, so guess who he'll be caucusing with!

What I don't understand is how hard it seems to be to vote in the United States. I worked our last election up here as a Deputy Returning Officer, and if you were not on the registered to vote list, you had to show picture ID and proof of residence, and voila, you are registered to vote. We do not have any controversy regarding voter fraud, and yet it seems we are far more liberal in regards to who can vote.

I am also curious, how many things are you going to have to vote on today? I know it depends state to state, but in Louisiana for example, who many votes are you going to have to make today (house, state house,..etc)?

 

[TPS]

>>The biggest indicators of party ID are SES, race and education. The majority of the people in the lower to lowest SES vote majority Democrat, Black people, hispanics (except Cubans) and other minorities vote majority democrat, people with less education vote majority Democrat. Does this Help?

It cuts both ways. the serious haves and most educated also do. I don't think it's easy to define. Your uneducated whites have become GOP voters. It's just not possible to quantify that much other than to say certain elements in certain parties don't want to make it easy to vote. Many believe that the Voting Rights Act was a mistake. The parties changed, but the element remained.

>>I am also curious, how many things are you going to have to vote on today? I know it depends state to state, but in Louisiana for example, who many votes are you going to have to make today (house, state house,..etc)?

Completely depends. The only things I had to vote on today were for U.S. House of Representatives and 8 state consitutional amendments. Many other areas of the states had different ballots with other issues. Everyone in the state had at least what I had (though like I said, other areas had additional local options such as levee taxes, fire taxes and the like).

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[TPS]

Btw, for anyone who is a follower of Rush Limbaugh, today he played you for an idiot. I listened to his morning update. He went after Armitage and that part was okay. But then he denied that any of the GOP's efforts have been motivated by fear. I'm like "you've got to be ******* kidding me Rush. Nobody is that stupid." He drug out the move ons and Michael Moore and such and denied that the Republicans played or employ the fear card. Well goll-ay gee Rush. I'm so dumb I can't remember this current election cycle, much less 2004 or 2002.

What a blowhard.

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[SaintsFan11]

What if they lie to you and tell you they won't nation build? What if they tell you they won't be world's policemen? What if they make a case that you can come around to agreeing with that later turns out to be bunk? Then what difference would it make if you could identify it, Uzbekistan, China or even Canada on the map?

Yeah, but then what if you re-elect them?

Politicians will be accountable when they are held accountable.

Since you were talking about Bush:

If you were in charge of a company and hired an incompetent liar, would you simply blame him for running the company into the ground, or would you fire him?

 

[Wombat]

No, Democrats don't think that the poor are incapable boobs, democrats are against having some sort of backdoor poll tax such as the requirement to have a form of identification that costs money. If the ID is free thats another matter, but you won't convince me that motor voter is bad because it helps expand voter registration at least, and at best improves turnout a little.

Here's the problem:

http://www.koat.com/news/10255016/detail.html

27,000 foreign nationals is a considerable number in a smaller state and could swing an election.

Poll tax? $15 to get an id used for more than just voting is not a hardship.

 

[Wombat]

Yeah, but then what if you re-elect them?

Politicians will be accountable when they are held accountable.

Since you were talking about Bush:

If you were in charge of a company and hired an incompetent liar, would you simply blame him for running the company into the ground, or would you fire him?

First off the Bush lied crowd has no credibility. Show me where he lied. If he had numerous intelligence agencies telling him of WMD including UN documents, should he just have ignored it? Your hero John Kerry saw the same info.

"The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation." -- John Kerry, October 9, 2002

And, as far as the country being run into the ground...you're either deluded or joking. Unemployment is 4.4%. The economy is doing well. I'm sure someone will say that there are some clouds on the horizon but that's a constant. There always are. No terrorist attacks in the U.S. in five years and they are more focused on actions in Iraq than here. That's a good thing. If this is what "running it into the ground" is like then I'd like more.

 

[TPS]

>>And, as far as the country being run into the ground...you're either deluded or joking. Unemployment is 4.4%. The economy is doing well. I'm sure someone will say that there are some clouds on the horizon but that's a constant. There always are. No terrorist attacks in the U.S. in five years and they are more focused on actions in Iraq than here. That's a good thing. If this is what "running it into the ground" is like then I'd like more.

Very trivial aspects to be calling out for more. I'll give you a few that sway me the other way:

Woefully inept Katrina Response
Political Appointees to governmental positions that don't even believe in government (reference Interior)
Mike Brown
$3.00 Gasoline Prices
$352,000,000,000 to fight a war in Iraq which they were looking for as early as 9/12/01 (ref. Woodward)
No serious energy policy to break dependence on the middle east
Skyrocketing costs of higher education with reduced grants
Ridiculous healthcare costs as a percentage of pay
Tax policies that don't help average Joe
Industry insiders being allowed to craft bills that regulate them (reference: Insurance, Energy, Pharmeceutical)

Had enough? I sure have. It's long overdue time for a change. I'd rather go back to desecration of the oval office if it means I'm better off personally.

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[Sandman]

Well, this morning I voted for Kinky and a whole bunch of Libertarians. None of them will win, but I feel better than I have in years after casting my votes.

I also voted for a bond issue for the local school district. More taxes, but it is for the schools.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

Well, this morning I voted for Kinky and a whole bunch of Libertarians. None of them will win, but I feel better than I have in years after casting my votes.

I also voted for a bond issue for the local school district. More taxes, but it is for the schools.

Yep, I'm going to vote for the KISD bond issue as well. I already pay an amazing amount of taxes for KISD but it's one of the best school districts in the country and I don't mind paying for results which I see in both of my kids and my neice who lives with us and is in High School.

 

[Sandman]

Yep, I'm going to vote for the KISD bond issue as well. I already pay an amazing amount of taxes for KISD but it's one of the best school districts in the country and I don't mind paying for results which I see in both of my kids and my neice who lives with us and is in High School.

I am up in the Conroe ISD, and we have been thrilled with it. It is a lot easier to pay taxes when you see the results. Much different than sending the money to the Abyss that is the federal government.

 

[NCSaint]

I scattered mine around abit between the Repubs and Dem's - hoping for gridlock...wrote myself in for School Board ;-)

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

I have no idea how bad the GOP loss will be (assuming that's what happens) but I had an interesting conversation with a family member that works on the Hill - he was saying the saving grace for the GOP may be the fact that their get out the vote effort is about 175x better than the Dems - the GOP has volunteers and staffers lined up with plane tickets and hotel rooms and target lists of voters which show exactly how many times each voter has been called/visited/mailed, etc., while the Dems are handing out bus tickets to their folks and hoping they can find a couch to crash on when they get to Dubuque or Boise or wherever.

Have no idea what impact it will have, if any, given some of the hot button issues, but it might be enough to swing a few close races.

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Also, Dick Morris is almost a perfect negative barometer of predicting what will happen.

He's like Peter King.

 

[Wombat]

>>
Woefully inept Katrina Response
Political Appointees to governmental positions that don't even believe in government (reference Interior)
Mike Brown
$3.00 Gasoline Prices
$352,000,000,000 to fight a war in Iraq which they were looking for as early as 9/12/01 (ref. Woodward)
No serious energy policy to break dependence on the middle east
Skyrocketing costs of higher education with reduced grants
Ridiculous healthcare costs as a percentage of pay
Tax policies that don't help average Joe
Industry insiders being allowed to craft bills that regulate them (reference: Insurance, Energy, Pharmeceutical)
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The economy and unemployment rate are trivial?

Katrina response- The Dems would have done no better. You cannot possibly say otherwise. Guess what, Mother Nature is still more powerful than us and her havoc will destroy even the best laid plans.

With numerous appointees, one can't always make the correct call. I don't see how this is particular to the Bush Admin.

$3.00/gal gas. Right, Bush can tell the oil co.'s to lower their prices he just didn't want to because he knew it would help him this year. He can also tell OPEC and the traders where the price should be set.

War- Woodward is not much of a source and has been discredited in the past.
I guess it'd be better if Saddam was still there. I'm sure he'd have ceased his involvement in terrorist activities in the region. And, Lord knows none of his money could have ever gone to support groups with terrorist plans directed against the U.S.

Higher ed. and healthcare costs increasing, even at "skyrocketing" rates is not new. People have always complained about it. But of course the Democrat plan for socialized medicine would have made it much better. Higher ed. tuitions such as LSU are dictated by the state, correct?

The tax policies have helped this "average joe" and every one of my "average joe" friends which include a mailman, an NOPD officer, high school teacher, physician, auditor, fast food restaurant manager, receptionist, windshield repairman, mechanic, and a few retirees. I think you've bought the mainsteam media propaganda on this one.

I agree with you on the industry insiders but that won't change with a change in parties. It'll just switch to trial lawyers, unions, etc.

So, no, what I pointed out was not trivial. In fact if a Democrat was in the Whitehouse there would not be one iota of negative reporting about the domestic front.
As far as Iraq instead of all negative all the time, we'd be getting human interest stories about little Ahmed who was rescued from Saddam's prison just one week before his death sentence was to be carried out and is now running a successful kite shop with his family in Baghdad.

 

[SoonerJim]

the Dems are handing out bus tickets to their folks and hoping they can find a couch to crash on when they get to Dubuque or Boise or wherever.

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A bus? A bus? What amateurs are running this operation? Food and alcohol are my weapons of choice. Bring in the camcorder and the attorneys at $400/hour. "I'm being oppressed!" Get that on tape and send it to the CNN link; volunteers are waiting. Spend the walking around money, and hold off until 7:30pm when you know how to calibrate the last minute push. Send in the hoards, and keep the polls open until you get the result you want. Ask any number of Louisiana pols. One polling place shut down because vaccinations were offered. That's more like it. Geez, get with it, people!

I still predict a Dem House and Senate, if for no other reason than to temper the anger emanating from my Socialist relatives. It's not healthy to sustain rage for six years based on 537 senescent Floridians who can't tell the difference between the Semitic Liebermann and the anti-Semitic Buchanan.

"I'm a uniter, not a divider"
-George W. Bush