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Dancing_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-04 10:03 PM
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28. You're really missing something, dude.
Edited on Tue Nov-09-04 10:05 PM by Dancing_Dave
Quite a few of us in the red states did vote blue this time.

I think the cross-over could have been higher in some Libertarian-leaning Western red states if Kerry had made a real attempt to understand and reach out to the end of the Rebublican rank and file who are getting pretty sick of the corrupt anti-constitutional neo-con clique and their disasterous foreign adventures. Of course, Kerry had a bit of a handicap with these people from the get-go as a fellow Yale Skull and Bones club member with Dubya...but this probably wouldn't have been a serious problem had he made a realistic attempt to understand and reach out to the sort of Republicans who really are possible cross-overs now, and not waste his time on those who certainly are not (i.e., the shortsighted militarist "faith" themes at the Democratic National Convention, which could so easily be defeated with books of slander that were believed by those who wanted to believe them).

On the other hand, I wonder if we actually did better in some Western states than we know because fraud occured. If all the fraud and disenfranchizement which occured could be exposed, we might know that in the end, we actually DID win Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. How different those damn electoral vote maps would have looked then!
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