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EV_Ares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 07:57 AM
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Here Is What Cheney's Vist To MS Did For The Repuke Candidate:
The vice president’s visit was last Monday, the centerpiece of a get-out-the-vote rally in DeSoto County, a G.O.P. stronghold. “We’ll put our shoulders to the wheel for John McCain,” the vice president promised as he bestowed his benediction on Mr. Davis. Well, he got out the vote all right. In the election results the next day, the Childers total in DeSoto County increased 142 percent, while the Davis count went up only 47 percent.

The district as a whole is the second whitest in Mississippi. (Its black population is 27.2 percent.) It’s the sole district Mr. Obama lost to Mrs. Clinton in the state’s Democratic primary in March. Yet even in this unlikely political terrain the combination of a race-based Republican campaign and the personal intervention of Mr. Cheney energized enough white moderates and black voters to flip the district to the Democrats. Keep in mind, it’s the Deep South we’re talking about here. Imagine how the lethal combination of the Bush-Cheney brand and backlash-inducing G.O.P. race-baiting could whip up a torrential turnout by young voters, black voters and independents in true swing states farther north and west.

link to entire NY Times Opinion Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/opinion/18rich.html?hp

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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 07:59 AM
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1. This article by Rich is really good
I was just reading it. I love the image of McCain being pursued by Bush, Cheney & Rove.

"Hard as it is for Mr. McCain to run from the Bush policies he supports, it will be far harder to escape from Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney themselves. When Mr. McCain accepted Mr. Bush’s endorsement at the White House in March, he referred three times to the president’s “busy schedule,” as if wishing aloud that the lame-duck incumbent would have no time to appear at, say, get-out-the-vote rallies. Alas, Mr. Bush and company are not going gently into retirement."

Run like hell!

:rofl:
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FSogol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 08:31 AM
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2. I hope Cheney does a lot of campaigning this summer/fall for the GOP
Edited on Sun May-18-08 08:31 AM by FSogol
They really need his help. :rofl:
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tbyg52 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 09:03 AM
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3. He's coming soon to my neck of the woods -
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-18-08 09:19 AM
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4. Love the links inside the editorial.
Kappow. Bang. Smash. Boom.
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