The South is not so solid for Bush

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

Yesterday's Arkansas Gazette, not a liberal paper, had an article about ads being played in the Little Rock area. Seems that since Shrub has been in power, we've lost nearly 15,000 jobs here. The AFL-CIO is sponsoring the ads, which are reminding folks that a 'recovery' doesn't mean anything if you don't have work.

This and the disgraceful way Shrub has treated the military will play big in the South, I think.

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1. Ah, this is good news.

And logical -

[smaug]

2. Beware of the Arkansas "Rethuglican-"Gazette

Interesting, but this paper has a long history of juxtapositioning stories like this with favorable Rethuglican themes, and then following up in later days with an avalanche of positive Rethuglican slanted stories. The publisher is a bastard, and he is pushing the elimination of rural Arkansas with a hare-brained school consolidation scheme in order to "equalize funding" mandated by the state Supreme Court by Jan 1st, 2004. Seems the state spends more money per student in some areas (NW Arkansas, where a large number of Rethugs are) than in others (poor rural areas). Isn't this a Bushevik priority also?

The opinion page of this paper is somewhat to the right of the Moonie Times. I read it every once in a while, when my blood pressure is getting too low :D. Since it is the only statewide paper, it reaches out to a large part of Arkansas.

So, good story, but the local situation doesn't seem to matter. My area (official population: 5,700) has lost over 800 jobs in the last two years, but our "official" unemployment is less than 6%, as reported in the Arkansas "Rethuglican-" Gazette. GO figure.

[schultzee]

3. Hope so. What does Arkansas think about Clark?