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True, truehawk, I read that from Bev. But, then I read the articles saying that the suit was one day late, et al. I can see that Bev is pissed to the max with the voting situation AND with the dems who are not supporting her. But, I guess what I want to know, is all for nought? I guess I am asking for the impossible - with things as they stand right now, who would know the outcome??????? I just know that the dem party here that registered so many is going down the tubes because these people feel they were cheated and that the dems are doing nothing about it. See here what we are getting in VA:
November 22, 2004
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lessons From Mark Warner A Virginia Democrat's Retrospective On The 2004 Campaign And What We Learned
By Mike Signer
I decided to write this piece for the Washington Post after I heard many of my close Virginia Democrat friends refuse to accept that John Kerry had simply been beaten on his message. Instead, these folks -- all fine, hard-working, and passionate Democrats -- were blaming malfunctioning voting machines, or conspiracies in Ohio or Florida, or Fox TV, for our loss.
But the problem had a different, more national, genesis. Here in Virginia, we all know that Susan Swecker, Larry Framme, Lindsey Reynolds, John Winston, Eric Payne, Joe Easton, Jay Myerson, and many others assembled a fantastic campaign. Virginia Victory '04's momentum and its many material accomplishments (thousands of new voter ID's, robust fundraising lists, committed new volunteers) will carry us through Tim Kaine's victory next year.
The problem, I believe, rested instead with the national campaign's failure seriously to fight for the trust of red America.
The point of the article was to try to highlight for the Post's national audience the fact that while many Democrats seem right now to be flailing about for a new direction, Virginia Democrats, under the leadership of Governor Warner, have already figured out how to reach out to red America, and win. In this difficult time -- because no matter how you slice it, November 2 was painful for all of us -- Virginia Democrats should take intense pride in what we've accomplished in the Old Dominion. We're at the forefront of a coming evolution for the party. I truly believe that while November 2 was certainly an end in some ways, it can be a beginning, too.
As my old boss Creigh Deeds has been saying for years, there are more of us than there are of them. We've got better values, better policies, and better leaders. We just need to get red Americans to listen. If we do that, we'll win, and we'll be the majority party again.
Click here to read Mike Signer's op-ed in Sunday's Washington Post.
*******Now, IMO, this is bullshit - and I am NOT the only person to say this.
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