Fellow Southern DUers ... How do Yall Feel now?

[Ripley]

While I have no fantasies about my state of Alabama going Blue...I most certainly feel confident that the South ain't gonna be a Big Old Chunk Of Red Meat tomorrow!!!!

North Carolina
Arkansas
West Virginia

gonna go blue.........

And what is this crap I keep hearing that Gee Bub will win the Popular Vote??? No freaking way! Turnouts are huge everywhere and that means it's toast and grits for breakfast! I'd like to say Nov. 3, but we all know the R armies of LAWYERS will drag this thing out.

[Eurobabe]

1. crossing fingers, toes, etc. for Virginny to go BLUE!!

Keep hearing conflicting things...

[Ripley]

6. Yeah, the conflicting info made me keep it to a minimum.

Let's be bold:

Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee. :bounce:

[jbane]

42. Nothing would be finer...but

It ain't gonna happen. However, in Richmond Doug Wilder will return to political life as Mayor of the Capial of the Confederacy.

[Thrill]

2. In NC I feel great

about Bowles, partly because of our Governor is going to pull him on his coatails.

[Pithlet]

3. Tennessee is supposed to go red, but

I saw an awful lot of Kerry signs in the rural areas surrounding Jackson, TN, which is typically heavily republican. I don't think it will be as deep a red as in the past.

[Ripley]

9. I hear you!!!!

Lots of Kerry support in places "they shouldn't be" in the south.

Woohee, is this fun or what?

[Tennessee Gal]

4. I just wish Tennessee would go blue

so the freeptards around here would have to shut the hell up!

[MsTryska]

5. I would really be floored....

in a good way if GA went blue, but one never can tell. turnout seems to be unlike anything anyone was prepared for.

[AnIndependentTexan]

7. TEXAS IS GOING BLUE

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. Really?

I just hope we can embarrass the chimp! But if we turn Texas blue that would be awesome!

[AnIndependentTexan]

16. someone made a post not to long ago giving evidence of it

[elehhhhna]

24. We are surely going purple...blue is a possibility!

[2bfree]

33. Might as well dream big..............

I hope you are right. Too bad Kerry didn't campaign here more.

[napi21]

8. I only have a wee glimmer of hope for Ga. REALLY SMALL!

But there is a glimmer! Lots of people have moved into Ga since 2000, and most were Yankees. There's also a lot of anger in the Dems that live here. I realize we will have to depend on BUG support from Atlanta, but I'm still hoping!

[TroglodyteScholar]

25. I see K/E supporters

But so many people here are either A) terribly uninformed (THANKS, 24-hour TV news!) or B) overzealously religious. Most white people I know talk as though it's a given that all whites should/will vote Bush. Makes me sick. But it's fun to stand up for my positions & make those people come as close to actually thinking as they ever will.

GA's going to Bush, but I bet it'll be closer than predicted. There are lots of people here who are against Bush, but aren't vocal about it b/c they don't want their homes and cars vandalized. :(

[napi21]

I agree on the "people just aren't saying" thing, but there are

still lots of people who just instantly say I'm for Bush without thinking. It seems like a me too attitude!

My hubby got a haircut this morning, and the barber started saying how shrub should win tomorrow. Hubby said why do you say that? Have you heard about the bushco connection to the Bin Laden family? You really ought to rent F911. You might be really surprised at what you find out! Barber didn't agree, just said he hadn't seen the move and changed the subject. (I of course asked hubby why he took such a chance when this guy had sharp scissors that close???)

When I rented F911, the jerk at the Blockbuster counter was giving me a hard time about actually renting that propaganda! I listened to him for a few minutes, and finally said, well, we all are free to watch what we want, and to disagree with you if that what we believe, huh? It just wasn'tworth my time to get in an argument with a $5.50/hr clerk who has already been brain washed.

[doni_georgia]

10. Wishing GA would go blue, but doesn't matter all that matters final

outcome and our guy is going to win. I feel completely confident.

[starbuck6446]

11. I feel fabulous... been reassuring my nervous sister all day...

Don't stop fighting until Wednesday's DECISIVE victory, but feel good until then!!! :)

[Triana]

12. NC will NOT go blue...

...it never will.

[Ripley]

19. What a defeatist attitude!

You say "...it never will." Honey, most of my extended family (including my parents) lives in NC and they have been severely hurt by this assholes economic and foreign policy blunders.

I know all about the "God" issue. Wallets trump God in the privacy of a polling booth.

:bounce:

[ncgrits]

23. Jeezus!?

NEVER?!

I don't know about this time . . . but NEVER?!!!?

NC is one of the more progressive Southern states. Give us a little credit! Please!

[Road Scholar]

36. Say that on Wed. night. A lot of changes that are behind the scene

going on here. I think NC will be blue.

[merh]

13. Mississippi is pink - and we are trying to go blue!

We will get out the vote & try our darnedest!

[steve2470]

15. florida is my home and we are going BLUE nt

[msgeri55]

17. southern vote florida pinkish red

slowley but surely:kick:

[Robeson]

18. No illusions about my state Tennessee, but...

...I hope our Arkansas cousins can put a Blue Dot right in the middle of this sea of red. Get out the vote Razorbacks. We've got a chance in your state!

[cmf]

20. Not Southern, but my dad is

Just called from Louisiana. He thinks that all of the repugs and the talking heads on teevee are going to be very surprised because turnout is going to be so high. He's feeling very good about Kerry's odds. People are feeling it all over.

[carolinayellowdog]

21. Still hopeful my VA vote will count this time

but have given up hope for NC, pretty much

[Ripley]

22. Why?

Have you given up hope? Damn, there are so many liberals who seem to be masochists!

Stop that.

NOW!! or I'll :spank:

[arewenotdemo]

44. great use of spank smilie.

now excuse me as I ponder the 0.0001% chance of a Shrub victory...

:hurts:

What a relief! Kerry on.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Giving a shout out for my southern pals

:hi:

No matter which way your states ultimately go..I know it will be much closer than in '00.

:loveya:

[mconvente]

27. People from Arkansas

Any reports on how the Big Dog's appearence had any affect on the voters there? If anything we could rally up the base even more and perhaps get some last minute undecideds who actually had jobs during Clinton's administration!

[avb7]

28. Sorry y'all but the south......

belongs to the repugs and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that any time soon. The South began its swing to the right after LBJ went out on a limb for civil rights and the transformation is pretty much complete. Dixie voted for Carter because he was one of its own. They voted for Clinton also because he was one of their own. I think they turned on Gore because scumbag was more like themselves than Gore was. Scumbag played the redneck and Gore didn't. They love the scumbag because he reminds them of the good old southern boy. Look at the map. The scumbag has 20 to 25 point leads in the heart of old dixie and that to me spells it out. If Kerry was a redneck he would win this election in a walk. The south lost the war, but they control American politics. Most of the vilest senators and congressmen come from red states. That is not a coincidence, that is a fact. A Democrat has to win without the south if he is not from the south and that is a sad statement about our country.

[stoptheinsanity]

29. Not so fast, sonny!

Some states will just show a lighter shade of red, but some states like Arkansas may turn blue - the numbers are close enough. Remember that our info primarily comes from the state polls that we already know are skewed towards the repugs. Even if a state stays some shade of red, it takes wind out of the repug sail and helps give our man a bigger mandate.

GOTV!

[avb7]

31. You picked out one state....

that just might go blue. What about Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Texas, The Carolinas, and all the rest of the redneck world. The voters in these places are the most provincial in the nation. Just listen to the scumbag when he blasts away at Massachusetts. He insults that state every chance he gets as a signal to the redneck that he is one of them and fuck all them damn Yankees.

[ncgrits]

34. Golly, durn!

I don't know WHY we might have bad attitudes about damn yankees!
Maybe it because they eternally treat us all like inbred retards!

There's good and bad, thoughtful and stupid, fair and bigotted everywhere--all over this great nation of ours.

Fed up and signing off from "Redneck World"--flame away cuz I'm outta here!

[avb7]

37. you said it better than ....

I could, Cracker!

[rhyfeddu]

38. Amen, brother...

...Yep, its too bad we can't leave the redneck-inbred insults out of the debate...Gives liberals a bad name...:thumbsdown:

-Corn Pone in Ohio

[Ripley]

40. Oooh I'm skeered of you LOSERS.

I grew up in Ohio where asshole rednecks abounded.

Get lost.

[rhyfeddu]

43. Losers rely on stereotypes to make them feel superior

Get lost? Nope, my country, too...

Love ya, mean it! :smoke:

[tnlefty]

30. Cautiously optimistic. Early voting turnout was heavy. Smirk*/Sneer have

bought more ad time on radio and local tv and I've heard more radio ads in the past 24 hrs. than I've heard in the past month or two. I'm HOPING that Kerry/Edwards win this thing, and I hope that heavy turnout will help to turn TN blue. Hoping and feeling very nervous!!

[Rebellious Republican]

32. If St. Pete is any indication of the rest of Florida, BLUE!

[JackDragna]

35. You're nuts, you're nuts..and you're nuts.

None of those states are even coming close to going for Kerry. The appeal to fear, racism and prejudice in those states is just too strong for Kerry to overcome. Kerry will not win a state between Missouri and California, nor will he win anything from Kentucky south and east of Texas, with the possible exception of Florida. I certainly hope the national party will learn from its mistakes in this election and pull most of its electoral appartus out of the south.

[Ripley]

41. Oh, great, one of these guys!!

Kerry will win some southern states and other midwestern states that you so easily dismissed. You DLC guys are so out of touch with what is going on, you scare me.

NC and Arkansas are going to be EXTREMELY FUCKING CLOSE.

[RockyO]

39. Working the pools 2morro first time, I note the repulisicans wear

Working the pools in NC 2morro first time, and I have noted the repulisicans wear "stars and stripes" or perhaps they would say patriotic garments.

I will bet and dollor and a krispy kreme If I wear a blue shirt they will cry foul!

Still and still, I think blue is my color...

smiles!