The Victory Opportunity Was Lost in Rural Florida.....

[deminflorida]

Two points from a resident here...i.e. me.

In 2000 I saw no visit to the Florida Panhandle by Gore...

also there were no Gore support websites, no grass-roots efforts by local democrats to support the Gore/Lieberman Ticket.

In 2004 there was an outstanding grass roots effort to support Kerry/Edwards.

www.panhandleforkerry.com for example.

There was a get out to vote effort, visits by Bob Graham, Wes Clark, and even Elizabeth Edwards.

But the Key issue was as I was standing at Pensacola Airport the night before the election the REAL DEAL ELECTION AIRPLANE pulled up and guess who got out....John Edwards.

I distinctly remember one of the Democratic Party Reps saying ya'll have worked so hard for this visit with John Edwards....

But where was John Kerry??? Had he only made the swing Bush did from Pensacola to Panama City and even Tallahasse...he would have gotten all the headlines in the local papers.

No instead two weeks before the election there was a damn Toby Keith concert at the Pensacola Civic Center, and after-wards there were all these young girls dancing at Seville Quarter with "Got Bush" T-shirts on. I asked one who provided them and she said I don't know I guess the Bush Campaign, they were handing them out at the concert.

Know where we got our Kerry-Edwards T-Shirts we paid for them out of our pockets...and they were printed with Panhandle For Kerry local donations. I heard from a friend who is in the Santa Rosa Democratic party that the only support they received was box of bumber stickers.

The Dixiecrats in the Panhandle would have maybe voted for you John if they could have only met you just once.

If Jeb/Karl really didn't steal this from us, we blew this BIG TIME using the without the south strategy.

Now the rest of us down here must suffer for four more years.