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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:46 PM
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Blackwell to "fool" the polls and win the election..
http://www.kentontimes.com/kentontimes/index.html



Republican candidate for governor Ken Blackwell greets LouAnn Harrold and other Monday afternoon during a rally in Kenton. Blackwell said he expects to fool the pollsters and be elected next week.

.snip

Uh, Ken, what you are going to do to win is called "fixing" the election, something you are quite familiar with

..snip

Don't count Ken Blackwell out yet.
Despite polls showing him trailing in the governor's race by 25 percent or more to Democratic candidate Ted Strickland, Blackwell told a group of about 20 local Republicans he expects to be Ohio's next governor.
"We can make a difference so substantial we will watch the pundits and the pollsters scratching their heads and ask, ‘What happened?'" predicted Blackwell.
The Republican candidate for governor bounced off his personal bus parked in front of the GOP headquarters in Kenton Monday afternoon, wearing a leather National Rifle Association jacket. He said he was touching bases with all 88 county organizations in the final days of his campaign to encourage his "grass roots" supporters to turn the numbers around. It has been done before, said Blackwell.

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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:47 PM
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1. Fool = CHEAT, STEAL...
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:48 PM
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2. I found that a curious phrase that he uttered,
given his reputation from '04.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:49 PM
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He's behind by 25 pts. Don't you think that might look a wee bit
suspicious?
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:53 PM
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5. They don't give a crap.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:55 PM
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7. Well, they don't want to be caught do they?
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:03 PM
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11. They don't care about that either. Surely they won't lose in court.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:04 PM
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12. Well I guess we're all just doomed then
:shrug:
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 04:07 PM
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19. Who's to catch them? Are they going to investigate themselves?
Are they going to bring charges against themselves? And the way * has been packing the federal courts, would they ever see trial, or be convicted if somehow it even got that far?

You seem to be using pre-9/11 thinking there.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:55 PM
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6. They switched some ballot initiatives in OH by more than that last year.
And the Lapdog media uttered not a peep.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:56 PM
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8. Evidence?
That's a pretty broad charge.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:04 PM
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13. You don't need evidence ...
just deal with it that we're gonna lose Ohio and every state for that matter.

Don't question it.
Don't vote.
Just accept it.

We're doomed. Doomed as doomed can be.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:09 PM
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14. As Frank Herbert put it - Fear is the mindkiller
:)
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:14 PM
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16. Indeed ...
I think we need a Whining Fucktard forum.

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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 04:12 PM
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20. Oh, by all means, vote.
Just don't expect any miracles.

I believe that the coup is firmly in place, and they are not to be shaken out by any mere election. It will come to violence in the streets, and that is why Haliburton built those camps. That is why * signed legislation undercutting habeas corpus and posse comitatus.

I wish I could believe I was wrong.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 07:41 AM
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24. I'm only joking ...
just sick of these naysayers; if they're gonna whine that it's rigged and the opponent is going to win, then why vote.

I wish they'd shut up.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 07:48 AM
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28. Yep, I'm ready to panic
I'm sure Vermont will accept a win by Richie "Rich" Tarrent, even though Bernie is 20+ points in the lead.
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 08:05 AM
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29. yup , voting reform measures
Edited on Wed Nov-01-06 08:46 AM by slaveplanet
to clean up the 2004 messes among them, some swung 35% on election day, unexplainable losses IMO.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&adx9356dress=172

But, ignorance is bliss or so they say...It so much easier to call you a whining fucktard...It brings the planets in alignment and makes sense of the universe :sarcasm:
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INdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 06:43 PM
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22. Only 20 supporters there to greet him should have told him something
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greeneyedboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:49 PM
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3. they are circling the drain, and just trying to keep up morale
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:53 PM
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4. If he's down by 25 points and still "wins" the election
I think there just might be a civil war. My dad years ago predicted that we will see another civil war in this country and he felt that I will see it in my lifetime.

If the Democrats don't gain at least one branch of Congress, I don't think many of us are going to sit idly by. Look at the amount of people who showed up in Washington to protest the war. Re-visit how many showed up in NYC this year. I was at the march this year in New York and words can't begin to describe the amount of people I saw and I was marching in the front. They see these numbers and they got to know something's brewing.
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kimmerspixelated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:14 PM
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15. JB, I think you are right!
It could happen, a huge upheaval!!
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maseman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:22 PM
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17. I hope he does steal it
No way Rove will let him. The key to cheating is not getting caught. Do you really think the either Rove or Diebold want to so blatantly steal the Ohio Gov. election? No one gives a shit about Ohio (trust me I live here.) It is about the federal elections, Congress and the Senate. That is where the real power is. Rove will work the close races. The guy is an asshole, but not a dumbass.

A little over the top freaks on here today.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:54 PM
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18. Why do you hope he steals it?
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maseman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 06:07 PM
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21. It would clearly show that
voter fraud is alive and well. If a dem is up by 2% in the polls and the repuke wins by 1% nothing will be said. If Crackwell is down by 30 points (which he is) and he wins by 2%, that will throw this whole election fraud deal into high gear in the MSM.

Of course I don't want him to be the Gov. But if he does steal it it will really not be good for the fraudulant peoples.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 10:10 PM
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23. my thoughts, too. eom
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libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 07:45 AM
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27. They did it in Ohio during the 2004 Pres Election. nt
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libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 07:44 AM
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26. We never stand up anymore. By "we" I mean "the people". Blackwell
helped bush* win in 2004. Did you see the long lines of people waiting to vote in Ohio that were saying they were standing there waiting to vote for Kerry?
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 02:56 PM
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9. Sure, both he an Katherine Harris will fool em
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-31-06 03:01 PM
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10. The voters of Ohio will react to a Blackwell victory this way . . .
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libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 07:42 AM
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25. Well, isn't that what he did to the 2004 election in Ohio?
He's the guy that gave the second rigged election to bush*.
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