Win or Lose..Hackett Fires First Shot in the Revolution of 05

[RagAss]

No doubt about it. A showing like this and the publicity that will accompany the recount for days to come is a Victory any way you cut it.

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[FrenchieCat]

1. You've got it....

2006 is gonna be war....far as I'm concerned.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. I agree...win or lose, I think he starts a revolution

[Son of California]

3. Most definately

We've already won today.

[AX10]

4. Right On. We are at WAR with the Republican Party....

just as America was at war with the oppressors of freedom some 60 years ago!

[meganmonkey]

5. Hell yeah!

We won. Whether or not Hackett gets more votes than whats-er-name..

:patriot:

:D

[Beetwasher]

6. Big Win For The Good Guys

REAL straight talkers get far...People are starved for REAL straightalkers, even in Republand.

[DaveinMD]

that is the key point

getting anywhere near 50 percent in this district is freaking amazing. This is a very Republican district.

[AX10]

11. Bush got 67% of the vote just last November and..

now we have a liberal Democrat taking half the vote. It's wonderful!

:cheers:

[Sir Jeffrey]

7. I still can't believe the percentage change from last year...

Hackett's up almost thirty points on Kerry's percentage in some areas. That's insane :)

[DaveinMD]

9. the lesson

you campaign in every area of a target state. You can't run up big enough margins in the cities to avoid entire areas.

[Mz Pip]

8. Only if we win

If we lose it will matter not. It will get some press on liberal sites, bit in the grand scheme of things it is still a loss.I am no longer interested in the "Close but not cigar." We need to win.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Old and In the Way]

13. You're missing the big picture.

What changes tomorrow if Hackett wins? Nothing. But what does matter is that a 30 year solid R district just went from 70/30 to 50/50. Now, multiple that delta in ever district in the country.....

We may not win the election tonight....but the Republicans have already lost. Visualize a Democratic Congressional majority greeting W on 11/6/6......

[Mz Pip]

14. Big picture

will only be reinforced with a win.

Maybe I'm too old to be at a point where I conside lose a win.

This is one Congressional District, just one. If we win, we can add it to our column. If we lose, we can't. Numbers matter.


Mz Pip
:dem:

[Mojambo]

17. I'd caution against treating this as a precursor to 2006.

The dynamic is going to change. The Republicans are going to pull out of Iraq right before the 06 mid-terms in an attempt to prevent this exact thing from happening.

Will it work? I don't know, I guess it depends on how well the Democrats can make Iraq stick to GOP incumbents, but I do think that the situation at the time will probably be different.

[Justyce]

18. your last sentence

gave me chills! yes!! :toast:

[Voltaire]

16. I'm with you

after all these years of enduring stolen elections, close is nice but I would prefer the win. Because as we know, they other side is far from humble when they win and pretend as if there were a landslide. And I am fucking sick of it.

[wli]

10. there needs to be a very thorough and very public recount

With FBI organized crime investigators, GAO election fraud investigators, and the whole nine yards.

A recount of this kind is the best possible result, as we would find massive fraud instantly. I'm betting it was a Hackett landslide with massive rethug fraud.

[Justitia]

12. I see torches and pitchforks in the future! -eom

[RagAss]

15. Maybe so......but tonight...I'll Drink to this Showing...

:beer: :beer: :beer: