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Friday, December 17th, 2004How convenient it must be for Democrats that more ballots have magically appeared in recent days — from Seattle’s heavily Democratic King County.
With Washington state in the middle of a recount of its amazingly close governor’s race, election officials in Seattle’s King County entered a warehouse Friday and found a plastic tray containing 150 misplaced ballots.
The discovery brings the number of belatedly discovered ballots to 723 in the heavily Democratic county - potentially enough to swing the election to Democrat Christine Gregoire.
Republican Dino Rossi won the Nov. 2 election over Gregoire by 261 votes in the first count and by 42 after a machine recount of the 2.9 million ballots cast. On Thursday, with every county except King, Pierce and Spokane reporting, Rossi had pulled ahead by 74 votes.
Like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat, the Democrats are really trying hard to trick everyone. “We want to get some answers about these very suspicious ballots,” said Republican State Party Chairman Chris Vance.
Bush Votes
Friday, December 17th, 2004What Language Is This?
Thursday, December 16th, 2004It is beyond strange when I check my site’s traffic statistics and find that I’m getting hits from people who actually Google my name. What are people looking for about me? Anyway, clicking through this stalker-like Google query, I found a webpage in some language I cannot determine that cites a number of conservative blogs, including both my sites, Blogs For Bush and this one, and Scott Sala’s site Slant Point . The article was published the day after the election. I’ve tried a couple languages using Google’s webpage translator to determine the language. I suspected Portuguese — it didn’t work. It’s not Spanish, even though it looks similar to Spanish…
Any ideas?
Bush To Cut Domestic Spending
Thursday, December 16th, 2004I wouldn’t expect Democrats to be happy about this.
The White House is telling federal agencies to expect lean budgets next year, with congressional aides and lobbyists saying President Bush appears ready to propose freezing or even slightly cutting overall domestic spending.
Targeted would be all annually approved programs except for defense and domestic security. Excluding those two would leave a part of the budget the administration estimates will total $388 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Also excluded are automatically made payments like Social Security and interest on the federal debt.
Expect a fight from the Democrats, they’re going to want to raise our taxes.
Kerry Camp Underestimated Impact of The Swift Vets
Thursday, December 16th, 2004Last night I attended a forum at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where Kerry’s campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill, and Bush’s campaign manager Ken Mehlman were part of a panel of speakers discussing the 2004 Election.
The forum itself was very good. It wasn’t meant to be a partisan debate, and generally speaking it wasn’t. At one point, an audience member asked about the Swift Vets’ ads and the Kerry campaign’s reaction to them.
Cahill mentioned the initial ad buy of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth—it aired in only three states— and said the campaign thought that the ads would have “no reach.” Then she said the networks began running the ad over and over… Of course, she blamed Fox News in particular. She called it “the best $40,000 investment” ever made and then repeated a number of times that the allegations made by the Swift Vets were all disproved.
This is of course not true, as we saw a number of times during the campaign Kerry having to revise his stories in response to the Swift Vets. Perhaps it made Cahill feel better to suggest that the Swift Vets were all liars, but as you all know, just because you say something over and over doesn’t make it true.
But for the campaign to think that a small ad buy was going to limit the reach of the Swift Vets’ ads, then she clearly either is not that bright, or ignorant of past precedent. This was not the first campaign season where ads with small runs manage to get replayed (for free) by the media in several news cycles. The Kerry campaign themselves produced ads which never ran on paid TV spots but were played in the media or were released only on the web.
Ken Mehlman had his own response regarding the impact the ads. Kerry had based so much of his candidacy on his Vietnam service that those ads were bound to resonate. Mehlman said, that “because Senator Kerry was so focused on that part of his biography” that made it become an issue.
What was a mistake by the Bush campaign? Mehlman said that the Democrats were very effective in spreading the rumor that Bush would reinstate the draft. This was effective enough that Mehlman believes Bush would have done much better with 18-30 year olds in the election if the campaign had done more to address the issue. Regarding the strategy the Democrats used, Mehlman said it “was something that worked. It wasn’t true, but it worked.”
After the forum I went up to say hello to Ken Mehlman. We met briefly at the Republican National Convention, but I reintroduced myself, and he said “Blogs For Bush was a great effort” and he’s interested in seeing what the next step is. I told him things are in motion.
The Circus In Ohio
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004Democrats in denial about their loss in the presidential election are still spending a lot of time and effort in casting doubt in the results of the election with wild conspiracy theories. Ohio is the focus of all the insanity this year. Thankfully, today a federal judge ruled that voting rights were not denied to voters who use punch-card ballots.
The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the punch-card system is error-prone and ballots are more likely to go uncounted than votes cast in other ways. The group claimed Ohio violated the voting rights of blacks, who predominantly live in punch-card counties.
U.S. District Judge David D. Dowd Jr. disagreed.
“All voters in a county, regardless of race, use the same voting system to cast a ballot, and no one is denied the opportunity to cast a valid vote because of their race,” Dowd said in his ruling Tuesday.
Talk about ridiculous. Why can’t these people just accept the fact that Bush won? Sadly, I doubt they’ll ever concede Bush won. Therefore, the circus in Ohio will continue…
It’s Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, December 15th, 2004Content courtesy of Blogs For Bush
Democrats continue their assault on democracy by forcing through endless recounts. In Washington state, ultra-liberal King County has mysteriously “found” just enough new votes to possibly overturn the election results and make Democrat Christine Gregoire the governor.
We don’t have to play along with this blatant attempt to steal an election. You can help stop it. Donate to the Washington state GOP. Or, if you live in WA, volunteer as a recount observer at info@dinorossi.com.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, hundreds of bloggers ask their readers to donate to an important Republican campaign.
If you’re a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays by e-mailing me at wictory@blogsforbush.com. I’ll add you to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll. I’ll also send you a reminder e-mail every Wednesday, explaining which candidate to support that day.
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Republican USA
Tuesday, December 14th, 2004The Bush Mandate is just underway, but the Bush Legacy is being felt today…
Even as a new Gallup poll shows that the public values “values” less than November exit polls suggested, another survey from the same outfit released today showed a historic surge in Republican party affiliation.
In Gallup’s latest poll this month, those identifying themselves as Republicans jumped to 37% of the public, with Democrats now clearly trailing with 32%.
Democrats have long held more party members than Republicans. During the Clinton years, the bulge was about 5% to 6%. As recently as late-October of this year the Democratic edge was 37% to 34%.
Gallup noted today: “Post-election shifts in partisanship after presidential elections or midterm congressional elections are not routine, but are also not uncommon.”
God Bless America!
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