NBC Nightly News in Minnesota

[CatholicEdHead]

NBC Nightly News was reporting from the Fitzgerald Theatre today.

The keys of the broadcast talked about the changing political atmosphere and and interview with Garrison Keillor.

The piece they ran before the Keillor interview was slanted towards the right, in that Minnesota will eventually turn red (Republican) no matter what in a matter of time. They showed some Bushites from Anoka to make this point. The Keillor interview was not enough to dismiss the previous story's assumpsions.

[aquart]

1. Buying Diebold? Sequoia? Any BBV?

Nice of them to tell you what your vote count will look like in advance of not only the next elections, but the campaigns.

[CatholicEdHead]

2. No Electronic Voting in MN

it is a state law that all votes have to have a paper record. I don't see that changing anytime soon.

[riverwalker]

3. Anoka County vote results

this is where I focused phone banking and door knocking. I thought Kerry would do much better.

http://www.co.anoka.mn.us/results/RaceResultsSummary.asp

PRESIDENT & VICE-PRESIDENT
Totals for 121 out of 121 precincts reporting as of 11:07:30 PM
This race includes precincts outside of Anoka County.
COBB & LAMARCHE 232
BUSH & CHENEY 91853
KERRY & EDWARDS 80226
VAN AUKEN & LAWRENCE 22
CALERO & HAWKINS 17
HARENS & RYAN 123
NADER & CAMEJO 978
PEROUTKA & BALDWIN 197
BADNARIK & CAMPAGNA 272
WRITE-IN 146

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Still not as big

as the story was spun to be. It inferred that the outer suburbs are a deep sea of red. A little over 10K difference makes the area a good shade of purple.

[dflprincess]

5. They didn't mention the gains the DFL made in the state house?

If Minnesota turns red it will be because of all the yuppie scum that moved here during the technical boom, choosing Minnesota not just for jobs but for its "quality of life". A quality they don't want to pay to maintain. I wish they'd all go back to the states they came from.

[CatholicEdHead]

6. No they did not

it was a story of a former "blue state" now a "battleground state" clearly on its way to becoming a "red state" with Bush loving exurbites leading the way.

[trotsky]

7. How did they accomplish that spin?

Kerry beat * here by a much larger margin than Gore did in 2000. The whole crap about Minnesota turning "battleground" or maybe even "red" is due solely to two things:

1) Pawlenty "winning" the governorship because the Democratic vote was split between a liberal Democrat and a conservative one.

2) Repukes successfully turning the senate election of 2002 into a referendum on the "appropriateness" of the Wellstone memorial, which they also had hammered into everyone was bad, bad, bad.

[hermetic]

8. I saw that last night

and was thinking, wtf? Did this guy not investigate our election results? I found it rather alarming, the message being sent to the rest of the nation. :wtf:

GK was good though.

[CatholicEdHead]

9. 2 nights in a row

If anyone caught NBC at Pittsburgh tonight, they did the same thing. Kerry blue state is really a "tossup" state but a clearly trending red state.

Here is the sister thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=175x3265

[cynthia]

10. Clearly proof

that the mainstream media is on Rove's payroll. I appreciate those of you who watch this stuff, because I don't have the stomach for it. It turn on the tube and am repulsed in less than 60 seconds. Can't miss Jon Stewart though.