rpannier
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:28 AM
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This piece from Electoral Vote Predictor 2004 made me smile: |
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I have it on good authority that overseas voters are registering in huge numbers this time, maybe double or triple 2000. I was told that the number of people who showed up at the Democratic party caucus in England earlier this year was 10 times what it was in 2000, ditto in other countries. Americans overseas vote in the state they last lived in, even if that was decades ago. There are about 7 million overseas Americans and probably about 5 million are over 18.
I live in Korea. We are the uncounted. And the non-military outnumber the military by abou 8.5:1. Absentee does not guarantee a scrubbie vote.
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:30 AM
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1. Hope your votes count and are counted... |
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...I still wish this election wasn't so close.
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:33 AM
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They're counting "likely voters," which means the ones who said they voted in 2002, and we know what happened in 2002. My own election board told me they're getting 500-1000 new registrations a day, and this is NOT good news for the Bush campaign. I imagine it's happening elsewhere, registration boards getting swamped with new registrations because people want Bush OUT.
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:39 AM
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3. I hope you're right.... |
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...I suspect you are. I'm so disillusioned with mainstream media and the way they are in bed with Karl Rove. There is so much work to do even if Kerry wins.
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Mon Sep-13-04 09:12 AM
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6. Based on my personal experiences with the right |
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I'd say almost all Bushoids are already registered voters. The number of right-wing/conservative/fundie/Freeper voters out there not on the polling lists already would be vanishingly small.
You can be certain the vast majority of new registrants have a bone to pick with the party in power.
Rock on!
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:44 AM
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4. My ballot's coming to me in the mail |
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I await it with baited breath...
Imagine how many of us there are up here in Canada! Let's get out the vote, folks!
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Mon Sep-13-04 08:50 AM
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5. Great news...Keep us posted on this! |
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And make sure to email your addresses to your local Democratic party so they can mail everyone an absentee ballot in a timly fashion.
Now's your chance to fight back. Make America the shining city on the hill again... not the shabby tavern in the valley we've become.
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