The Rant

_______________________ by David Brooks NY Times Every election year, we in the commentariat come up with a story line to explain the result, and the story line has to have two features. First, it has to be completely wrong. Second, it has to reassure liberals that they are morally superior to the people who just defeated them. In past years, the story line has involved Angry White Males, or Willie Horton-bashing racists. ____________________________________________ This year, the official story is that throngs of homophobic, Red America values-voters surged to the polls to put George Bush over the top. ____________________________________________ This theory certainly flatters liberals, and it is certainly wrong. Here are the facts. As Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center points out, there was no disproportionate surge in the evangelical vote this year. Evangelicals made up the same share of the electorate this year as they did in 2000. There was no increase in ...

The rage and frustration of another Bush victory was more than many San Franciscans could take. As soon as Bush's re-election was confirmed in the middle of Wednesday, November 3, people started gathering at Powell and Market streets. By 5pm the crowd had swelled to several thousand. To see the photos, go to this site: http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_november_3_2004/ _________________________________

_______________ by Bob Clasen We want to help people who need help. But you want to create a system that does not encourage fraud, like the current tort system and Workers Compensation system. In the free market, the pricing of medical care is determined by the price that the supply is equal to the demand. If you drop the price below market value, the demand exceeds the supply and you have shortages. In England and Canada, I believes that there are many shortages in supply for surgeries and care (MRIs) we consider routine. If you make medical care free, the demand tends to go towards infinite. If an insurance company, or government program has to pay for my every medical whim, what motive do I have to control my whims? When you pay for your bills, your natural frugalness not to waste your money will control such inclinations. In the tort system, I see completely different behavior by people who are involved in a car accident, depending upon if they are making a cla...

Rush Limbaugh some months ago said he didn't have any health insurance and didn't see why tax payers should sign on to any universal health care proposal. Give me a break. So, who pays your health care costs. Probably for many working Americans, their employer pays all or a portion of their health insurance premiums. For many, they pay their own premiums. Finally there are two groups without insurance. The really poor and the working poor. The really poor probably qualify for government sponsored program known as Medical in this state. The working poor have nothing? They have to spend themselves down to very poor in order to qualify. They may find it makes sense to quit work to obtain medical care for themselves or their families. Is this type of rational behaviour harmful to society? Once they get to very poor, then we taxpayer's pick up the tab anyway. As a society, what is wrong with universal health care, with upgrades. Couldn't we ...

________________________________ (CNN) -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede the presidential election, a White House aide said. President Bush was to deliver a victory statement at 3 p.m. ET, Bush aides said. Kerry was expected to make a concession speech at 1 p.m. ET at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Kerry's phone call came a few hours after White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card announced that the Bush campaign was convinced the president had won re-election. "President Bush decided to give Sen. Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election," Card told GOP supporters. http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/11/03/election.main/index.html _______________________________________

________________________________ by Bob Clasen Kerry should not follow the bad example of Poor Sport Gore and delay conceding until the last possible moment. He would come across much more as a statesman if he would actually behave graciously. Are Democrats going to whine for the next four years as they did the last four years that Bush "stole" the election? I hope not. Why is every close state that Kerry won "called" for Kerry but many of the states that Bush is narrowly ahead in "too close to call" even with 99% of the vote counted? More media bias. Bush is ahead by 138,000 votes in Ohio, by 14,000 votes in the small state of Iowa, by 12,000 votes in New Mexico, etc. It's over. Get over it. I am sure that Osama Bin Laden, Kim Jung Il and the Ayotollah of Iran are disappointed that Bush won. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5653531/ _______________________________

_____________________ by Bob Clasen Bush has 269 electoral votes. He is ahead 52 to 47 in New Mexico with 82% of the vote counted. It's over. I am going to bed. Sorry, all you Democrats. Four more years. ____________________

-1 for demos in the Senate early on and Bush has early lead in predictable red states.

http://electionresults.ky.gov/KyElectWeb/kes?R=A03000000&AC=3&L=1999&N=U.S.%20SENATE&RV=0&DV=2794286&TP=3482&TC=120&RF=0&AR=0&S=3

Do you feel you grasp slipping away? Latest Exit Polls from Slate by Chris Bowers FL: 50/49 - KERRY OH: 52/47 - KERRY MI: 51/48 - KERRY PA: 58/42 - KERRY IA: 50/48 - KERRY WI: 53/47 - KERRY MN: 57/42 - KERRY NH: 58/41 - KERRY ME: 55/44 - KERRY NM: 49/49 - TIE NV: 48/49 - BUSH CO: 49/50 - BUSH AR: 45/54 - BUSH NC: 47/53 - BUSH

Keep in Mind Liberal bias Early turnout reports from CNN by Jerome Armstrong Here are some early reports on turnout: Ohio - African American precincts are performing at 106% what we expected, based on historical numbers. Hispanic precincts are at 144% what we expected. Precincts that went for Gore are turning out 8% higher then those that went Bush in 2000. Democratic base precincts are performing 15% higher than GOP base precincts. Florida - Dem base precincts are performing 14% better than Bush base precincts. In precincts that went for Gore, they are doing 6% better than those that went for Bush. African American precincts at 109%, Hispanic precincts at 106%. Pennsylvania - African American precincts at 102% of expectations, Hispanics at 136% of expectations. The Gore precincts are doing 4 percent better than bush precincts. Michigan- Democratic base precincts are 8% better than GOP base states. Gore precincts are 5% better than Bush. Early VNS exit polling ...

Real Clear Politics' battleground state poll averaging gives Bush a 300-238 electoral vote victory. http://www.vodkapundit.com/ ____________________________________

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Bob, is this 1 soldier and three photoshopped replicas?

Bob Responds: If the photos accurately reflect reality, are they the truth? ________________________________________________________ Troops in survey back Bush 4-to-1 over Kerry By Dave Moniz, USA TODAY An unscientific survey of U.S. military personnel shows they support President Bush for re-election by a 4-to-1 ratio. Two-thirds of those responding said John Kerry's anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam make them less likely to vote for him. President Bush greets troops aboard a flight headed to Iraq and Kuwait in Bangor Maine in September. Kevin Bennett, Bangor Daily News In the survey of more than 4,000 full-time and part-time troops, 73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; 18% said they would vote for Kerry. Of the respondents, 59% identified themselves as Republicans, 20% as independents and 13% as Democrats. The survey was conducted Sept. 15-28 by the Army Times Publishing Co., which distributes the weekly newspa...

...Predisposed to military service? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/27/22442/878 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/041029/480/nyet27010291345 It's really quite sad and disgusting Bob. I would expect this from some pol pot, hang a giant portrait of myself off a blimp, put a statue of myself at every street corner, weak little dictator. But..Bush plays the same fiddle too. Just remember Bob, when the day comes and you realize you were completely wrong, remember how easy it was for them to do it. To me this images explains the tax cuts, the war, the wmd, etc. Absolutely no integrity. Just deception through photoshop and a constituency of morons.

______________________ by William J. Stuntz (Professor at Harvard Law School) Bush and Kerry aside, the most important name on the ballot on Tuesday is Tom Daschle, the Senate Democratic leader from South Dakota who is locked in a tight race with John Thune. Daschle has led in most polls, though by no more than a couple of points. The conventional wisdom is that, come January, Thune will be looking for a Cabinet slot and Senate Democrats won't be looking for a new leader. I'm betting the conventional wisdom is wrong. History says Thune wins this race. Here's why. Daschle has won three Senate elections. Two have been in off-years, when no presidential candidates cluttered the ballot. Winning South Dakota isn't easy for a Democrat in any year, but Daschle has had very fortunate political timing. He first won his seat in 1986: the year when Democrats took back the Senate after six years of Reaganite Republican majorities. Six years later, Daschle ran for reelecti...