This Speaks Volumes !!! - Bush heads to Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas

[WillyT]

Bush heads to Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas - CNN Political Ticker

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush heads to three states in his final push to bolster GOP candidates the weekend before the midterm elections.

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Link: http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/index.html

The fact that * is going to these particular states in the final hours before the election, says a lot!

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[SpiralHawk]

1. And what it says, is.....??????

Toss the clueless dog a bone, puh-lease....

[Roland99]

2. Rather red areas, eh?

And Cheney's in Wyoming.


While the Dems are all over!

[featherman]

3. Now THAT's funny. But he has no choice at this point

Desperately trying to shore up a couple of seats in one purple and two red states.

[grytpype]

4. Yep, he's on pure defense now.

All he can do is go to the reddest of the red districts and try to keep them from turning blue. NO offense at all.

[Vanje]

5. He just got back from Elko Nevada. Not Reno. Not Las Vegas.

Even in the reddest red states,Bush and Cheney steer clear of areas where people out-number livestock.
Cheney just had a visit to Idaho. He avoided the Boise area. He went to C'our d'Alene in far northern Idaho.
Recall that northern Idaho became famous a few years ago for it's organized "Christian Identity" nazis.

Earlier this fall, Cheney visited Boise to stump for congressional candidate Bill Sali. I-84 Traffic came to a 2 hour stand still during rush hour, so Cheney's motorcade could have the interstate all to itself for Cheney's return trip to the airport.
The event coincided with an immediate double-digit poll gain for Sali's Democratic opponant, Larry Grant.

[Strelnikov_]

7. Yep. Visit To Iowa Yesterday(?) Was Limited To NW Iowa

up to now a Reich stronghold.

[jmowreader]

8. Coeur d'Alene isn't exactly Bum Fuck Egypt

The Shrub went to CDA for two reasons: it's very beautiful there, and it's full of conservative celebrities who have a LOT of money. Plus, it's got good airfield capabilities.

I don't know if you know this, but the president doesn't just have his 747 at his disposal. The Air Force also maintains a DC-9 for use when the president needs to fly somewhere his 747 can't land. (That was one of the nice things about the 707-based Air Force One--it can work out of much smaller airports than the current plane can.) President Clinton used it when he spoke at Fort Drum in 1994 because the airfield at Fort Drum is too small to handle anything much larger than a C-130. The Big Dog flew into Syracuse or somewhere, transferred to the DC-9 and flew to Drum. Coeur d'Alene is close to Fairchild AFB, which was a B-52 base during the Cold War. They can fly Shrub into Fairchild (he can't land at GEG either--Spokane International Airport only has a 9000-foot main), put him on the DC-9 and land on CDA's 7500-foot main.

There's one other problem: Coeur d'Alene is the largest city in Idaho's 1st Congressional District. ID-1 is currently represented by Butch Otter, who's running for governor and he'll probably win. Otter's seat pits Larry Grant (D) against Bill Sali (R). One of the ballot initiatives in Idaho this cycle is Proposition 2, the campaign for which is being funded by most of the national Libertarian groups. What it does is simple: it amends Idaho's constitution to require the state government to pay private landowners any time a regulation is deemed "damaging" to the owners' property values. There are about three people in Idaho who like this proposition--and one of them is Bill Sali. EVERY other person in the Idaho Legislature, Democrat and Republican alike, is urging people to vote against Proposition 2. Bill Sali's probably going to get stomped this election. It gets worse for Shrub: Idaho only has two congressmen. The ID-2 race is between Democrat Jim Hansen (who's running on donations from individuals only, no more than $100 per donor) and Republican Michael Simpson, who's running on Jack Abramoff money. Hansen's also running on an "undo everything Shrub screwed up" platform. I am almost positive we'll get ID-1, but Abramoff's money might give us ID-2 as well.

Oh, better news: Idaho requires all electronic voting systems to produce a voter-verifiable paper trail. Better: most of Idaho is still on hand-counted paper. Check out http://www.idahovotes.gov/VoterGuide/vote.htm...

13 punch card counties (including Ada, where Boise is)
16 paper counties (including Idaho, the state's largest county and one of its least populated)
10 "oval optical scan" counties (Kootenai, where Shrub went, is one of these)
5 "arrow optical scan" counties (these are all extremely small, and one of 'em is in both the Frank Church Wilderness Area and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area...)

Note what's not there: DREs.

It would totally Fuck Shrub Up to see the Idaho House delegation go blue. Anyone who's got a spare C-note might want to send it to Jim Hansen quick.

[Vanje]

9. No no. Bush didnt recently visit N. Idaho. Cheney did

[jmowreader]

10. Either way the report holds

I think the Republican Party's chances of holding ID-1 are none and of holding ID-2 are thin.

Here's how to tell if the GOP is really dead: if ID-2 (everything east of Boise that's not in the Panhandle) goes Democratic, the Repukes are officially kaput. That area is approximately 99.44% Republican.

[DURHAM D]

6. The volumn it really speaks - They believe the Repugs will

retain the Senate without Bush help.

[WillyT]

11. Kicking To Make A Point !!!

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