Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 21:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
From PoliticalWire
Reports from the networks, however, are indicating we may be headed for another disputed election — or at least a very, very long night.
The exit polls were way off.
Or maybe the exit polls were right and the vote counting was way off… Stranger things have happened, y’know.
As always, in the words of Wobblie legend Joe Hill, “Don’t mourn, organize.”
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 14:26 - Category: Unfiled ;
Blue chips fell on Tuesday in a sharp reversal that trimmed gains in other indexes as Internet sites suggested exit polls had Sen. John Kerry ahead of President Bush in key states in the U.S. presidential election.
Lisa Hansen, head trader at Transamerica Investment Management, said, “Apparently the blogs are saying that Kerry is ahead in one or two of the swing states and that’s why the market dipped.”
Wow, blogs are influencing the stock market now!
Stock traders: You might want to dump your Fox News shares ASAP. A Kerry victory will be very bad news indeed for Fox.
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 13:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 11:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
From my pals at Crooks and Liars - on the scene reporting from Ground Zero in Florida. So far, it’s a six-part series, with more coming.
Republican’s are freaking out about the voter turnout in Florida. They are trying to close the vote down at 7:00PM. Sharp. No matter if you are on line or not. The unofficial word on the street is that out of the approximate 18% who have voted already, the edge is going to Kerry 2-1.
I hung out on line to get the vibe - even though I donned the button: “I voted Early for John Kerry” - As I walked back to the Kerry tent a battle erupted. A kerchiefed hippie kid held an 8-foot long plywood board in the air in front of the Bush tent. It read, “1200 Americans Killed in Iraq. The Bush people went nuts. They wrestled with the guy. Swat team went into high gear.
This is blogging at its best - and stuff you won’t find elsewhere.
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 08:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
From a Green listserv
With many states updating their voter registration totals with the most up-to-date pre-election numbers, national Green Party voter registration now stands at an all time high of
311,350 in 22 States
You probably thought there were substantially more registered Greens nationwide than that, right?
Nader polled 3% in 2004, way more than the number of registered Greens. This year, he is polling less than 1%.
It is doubtful Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb will get even as many votes as the number of registered Greens, a dismal, pathetic showing indeed. Among the collateral damage of the 2004 campaign will be Ralph Nader and the Green Party. The national leadership (if the term ”leadership” should even be used) of the Green Party has split into warring Cobb and Nader factions, with relations between the two currently somewhere between nonexistent and poisonous.
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 07:46 - Category: Unfiled ;
New Florida Policy: Beat the Crap Out of Journalists.
Palm Beach elections supervisor Theresa LaPore is a piece of work.
She has decided that there’s a new rule in Florida that says journalists cannot speak to or take photos of voters outside polling places. To emphasize the new rule, an officer in Palm Beach tackled, punched, and arrested a well-know journalist for a violation of this heretofore inconceivable “law.”
Bob Morris @ Nov 2nd 2004 00:02 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Big Business imprint on the electoral outcome is total and complete. Kerry is the richest U.S. Senator. He and his wife are “worth” more than $747 million. Bush is from an “old money” oil and banking family, although he reports only $18.9 million in assets. Dick and Lynn Cheney have assets of more than $111 million, while John Edwards discloses $44.6 million in personal wealth.
I’m guessing they don’t have our interests at heart - if they even know what those interests are, that is. I doubt any of them have been inside a grocery store going shopping in years.
The dictionary definition of plutocracy is: 1. Government by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy class that controls a government. 3. A government or state in which the wealthy rule.
It doesn’t have to be that way, y’know!
The hundreds of millions of dollars that the capitalist class poured into these elections was an investment-but not an investment in one or another candidate. It was an investment in social peace, channeling discontent into the safe corridors of voting booths and away from the streets.
The Democratic Party plays the lead here, taking dissent from the street and funneling it into something tame and malleable. Oh, you may criticize certain things, but don’t criticize the system itself in any serious way.
The US is about to escalate the Iraq War dramatically in order to bludgeon the population into “voting for democracy” in January. it won’t work. Even Colin Powell has said the US is losing. And Kerry will be no different from Bush in Iraq.
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