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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 09:41 AM
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LAT: Bush Giving Up on Washington State?
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-nwest8oct08,1,5116790.story?coll=la-news-a_section

Bush Campaign Apparently Backing Off Washington State
By Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — President Bush sharply curtailed television advertising in Washington state this week, a sign that national Republicans may be privately conceding the state's 11 electoral votes.

With California already being counted in the Democratic column, the apparent Bush pullback from Washington would leave Oregon as the last competitive state on the West Coast in the presidential race. It would also strengthen Democratic nominee John F. Kerry's presumed electoral base.

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Equally telling, neither Bush nor Vice President Dick Cheney has visited Washington since well before the Republican National Convention. Bush was last there to raise money in a Seattle suburb on Aug. 13.

Republicans acknowledge that the president faces a tough challenge in the Evergreen State, which Democrat Al Gore carried by 5 percentage points in 2000.

-MR
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 09:45 AM
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1. I'm not surprised
Most polls indicate that Kerry is doing much better in Washington state than Gore did in 2000. I think doofus will give up on Oregon soon too.
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candy331 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 09:48 AM
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2. I hope the Chimp is given up by all thinking people in all states
to the tune of kicking him out and getting the war crimes trials started.
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Homerr Donating Member (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 09:49 AM
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3. Yay! I have to look at chimpy less!
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Ernesto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 10:30 AM
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4. On a recent visit to Vancouver Washington
I had my eyes poping out of my head. And it was great! The K/E lawn signs had to be 10 to 1 over B/C. Same story with bumper stickers. Even made me think about moving there.
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RedEagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 10:33 AM
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5. Beware the black box
Washington's Secretary of State provisionally certified voting software that has never been federally tested or certified and does not meet state requirements, to be installed in 6 counties just before the primaries in September.

Of the six counties, three alone can carry the state:

King
Pierce
Snohomish

Back-up Kitsap county, and two other smaller counties in the eastern half of the state, which traditionally votes Repulican anyway.

This software was installed AFTER the candidates were known.

One of the smaller counties, that had agreed to audit the primaries after the last-minute software change, didn't, said they were told not to but didn't say who told them not to.

King county is trying to contend that they don't have to do any audits.

If you control the three counties mentioned, you can control the state.

If you live in Washington State, make very sure to exercise all options for recounts if necessary.

There is no Washington State election law that forbids auditing. What they try to do is limit any recounts to those contained in the state law. Here is where the party is going to have to be willing to fork over dollars to get recounts that don't fall in the .50% or .25% automatic recount. Keep in mind that the only manual recount is at a .25% difference. Also important to know is that the .50% recount by machine is done with the system reprogrammed to only count that race, let alone being a machine recount.

Be ready and able to pay for hand recounts.

The only counties in the state so far with touch screens are Snohomish and Yakima. But absentee voting in the state makes up at least 50% of the ballots, so even in those counties there will be recourse to count the absentee paper ballots.

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