Bush: 'Some Kind of Night'...

[EMunster]

NEWSWEEK

The journalists were convinced Bush would lose. Backstage at rallies, reporters plugged the latest poll numbers into electoral math calculators on the Web. Kerry came out ahead every time.

(Snip)

Bush's top aides couldn't believe the numbers. Matthew Dowd, the campaign's generally cautious chief strategist, had been predicting on internal conference calls that Bush would win comfortably with 290 electoral votes.

(snip)

Later that night I called Tim Griffin, the Republican National Committee's top opposition research man. "Come on over," the sprightly Arkansan told me. When I got to RNC headquarters near Capitol Hill, Griffin was marveling at a bank of four TV screens. "We're gonna win big!" he exclaimed. I half figured he was spinning; the story I was reporting wouldn't be out until after the returns were in, but sometimes Bush spin doctors couldn't help themselves.

It was still too close to call, but Griffin's elation was genuine. The RNC emptied as the numbers tilted toward Bush...The numbers kept getting better. Griffin's face was aglow. "Isn't this some kind of night?" he cried.


Yea, some kind of weird, strange, mathematically impossible kind of nights.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6733223/site/newsweek/

[Straight Shooter]

1. Well, it sure wasn't "Oh Holy Night"

In fact, I would say it was more like Night of the Living Dead.

[shraby]

2. It wuz a friggin'

miracul!!!!

[RaulVB]

3. "Some kind of admission..."

"We are going to steal this on your face...How do you like that, morons?"

What a nightmare...

[IndyOp]

4. Wow...

See a little bravery in the MSM -- I believe that there are 1,000's who are just waiting for someone else to make a move so they aren't seen as lunatics and don't have their heads chopped off.

More OpEds! More letters to the Editor! More calls to the NYT!

:kick:

[tngledwebb]

5. How about a million person march on all MSM buildings in NYC

and/or the DC? For days and weeks.

If we were Ukrainian or Spanish it would have happened AT LEAST six weeks ago. If not in 2000.

But keep the LTTE's and Op-EdS coming... until they shut down whatever freedom of speech we have left.