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Today Is Our Day
By Dan McLaughlin Posted in 2006 — Comments (18) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Even here and now, on Election Day, you can still hear the grumbling of disaffected Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians who will tell you that our elected representatives in Washington, and their leaders, deserve to lose this election. Many of us have felt the same way at some point or another over the past two years.
But this is not their day. This is our day. You can hear that in the GOP's emphasis on GOTV - an acknowledgement that, in those states and districts where the politicians have failed to persuade the persuadable and swing the swingable, the job of saving our majorities at the end comes down not to the party's leaders but its voters. They vote all year long; we vote for representatives in Washington but once every other year. And we live with who we vote for.
The question you have to ask yourself, or ask of anyone you know who still feels that way, isn't what the politicians deserve. It's what we deserve. Why should we and our posterity be punished for their mistakes with the kind of folly that a Speaker Pelosi and a Majority Leader Reid would visit upon us?
Today is our day. Don't vote for the politicians on the ballot. Vote for yourself, your family, your country.
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I voted today
by pilgrim
I just got back from voting today. I voted straight Republican. There w larger line than usual, and I hope this will be good news for Republicans. I used the optical scanner method in this precinct. After I fed it through the scanner the total of votes successfully cast went from 429 to 430.
You’re a persistent cuss, pilgrim.
John Wayne to Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Woohoo! This is OUR day!
by Mayhem
"Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of Men fails, when we forsake our friends, and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
_In a world full of twists and turns, the ultimate twist...is a straight line._
Oh-Yea!
by Greiner
They play the games for a reason.
"It ain't over till it's over"
Yoggi Berra
Dear editors-
by BooBooKitty
Didn't we have a rather lengthy predictions post a few weeks back? Could we see this again at the end of the day?
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
You mean the big handicapping chart?
by Dan McLaughlin
That was July. I will round up the fallout from that one when I get the chance, but let's just say I was about the #1 pessimist in that bunch, and I was way too optimistic. @%!$^%! Foley.
In the meantime, you can see the Contributors' predictions in RedHot.
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Never mind- time to look forward. <nt.
by BooBooKitty
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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes
Heavy turnout
by Bob Frazier
I voted in West chester, Ohio and this morning was the heaviest turnout I've ever seen for a mid-term election. West Chester is a heavily Republican part of Southern Ohio.
I think there are millions of Republicans who can't wait to put it in nancy pelosi's and the liberal media's face.
Keep the faith. The base is going to bail out the wayward Republicans one more time.
You know,
by Greiner
If we win in places we are not supposed to, there will alot of out of work pundits.
"It ain't over till it's over"
Yoggi Berra
Nope. Just a lot of overworked D lawyers.
by mbecker908
There is no price paid when pundits are wrong. They just shrug their shoulders and move on.
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
Sadly, you are right.
by Greiner
"It ain't over till it's over"
Yoggi Berra
Hear, hear!
by LangdonAlger
I voted this morning here in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. George Allen's daughter gave me my sample ballot (she attends the same college I do). She looked and sounded pretty nervous. I imagine these campaigns are tougher on the families than they are on the candidates themselves.
Reality Bites
by Jack Pelosi
The tradesport.com basically comes down to this:
In the House the Dems are holding pocket kings and you kids are holding deuces. So you guys need a miracle deuce to come (which is about a four to one dog).
In the Senate the Dems went all in with A-K and you kids are holding a pair of kings. Dems are about a 2 to 1 dog rto catch an ace.
I like these odds.
Go Pelosi!!!
Interesting take.
by Moe Lane
Of course, the proper metaphor here is a WoW deathmatch - hope your guild's all logged on; ours is - but crawl before you walk, and all that. :)
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC.
Voted
by Republican Michigander
DeVos, Bouchard, and Rogers got my votes. I went absentee.
High turnout in Livingston County despite rain (good for us).
Steady rain in SE Michigan - including Ann Arbor and Detroit. Good for us.
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48 hours before the election showed Blanchard leading John Engler by 14 points.
Final:
Engler 51%
Blanchard 49%
It is a great day to be American
by Rightmom
I cannot express how great I feel today I have not been nervous about this election, there is a sense of calm in knowing the American Public will not bite off their noses to spite their faces. I remember being over the top with worry in 2004 however none of that doubt has crept in this time at all. I want to congratulate the American public for getting out to vote that is what this country is all about. VOTE VOTE VOTE:)
Peace through superior fire power:)
Straight Ticket Republican
by Raven
In Blair County, PA. Here's hoping...
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal comfort... has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
Straight Ticket Republican
by Greiner
In Mifflin County PA. We just might.
"It ain't over till it's over"
Yoggi Berra
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