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2004-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve 2004-10-28 10:56:02 AM|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Charlie Gibson had a sick laugh... Heard it on Laura Ingraham coming to work.

Any body watching on TV see if Charlie was squirming as though he was deficating in his britches?

Can we get Kurt Schilling to campaign in NH and ME where we still have a chance and he may help?

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-28 11:23:47 AM|| 2004-10-28 11:23:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Word has it that President Bush called Schilling from Air Force One to thank him. It would be a great idea to do it, Maine is very close. Too many ex-Mass liberals living in NH to do any good, but it couldn't hurt.

Posted by Steve 2004-10-28 11:42:41 AM|| 2004-10-28 11:42:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 NH is in play?! You're kidding.

Posted by lex 2004-10-28 12:00:37 PM|| 2004-10-28 12:00:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Lex:
In 1936, the only states in the whole country the GOP won were Maine and Vermont. Now, NE has the most loyal Dem states. New Hampster has been the last holdout, but the margin has been dropping every time.
Probably by 2012, NH will be a solid Dem state. It's still in play this time and probably 2008.

Posted by jackal 2004-10-28 12:40:29 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-10-28 12:40:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I suppose it's basically now a bedroom community for Boston.

Posted by lex 2004-10-28 12:49:17 PM|| 2004-10-28 12:49:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 SCHILLING: "And make sure you tell everybody to vote, and vote Bush next week."

I'll bet that tweaked the noses of a few Hollyweird celebs.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-28 12:50:19 PM|| 2004-10-28 12:50:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 its not just that its a bedroom community of Boston. In the "old days" Boston commuters were pretty Republican too, since many had moved to NH to get away from high taxes. Certainly Nashua hard by the state line was no Dem stronghold IIRC, not compared to mill towns like Manchester. I think this has much to do with the current division being more over cultural and foreign policy issues than economics - its the flip side of Bush doing better with the black vote.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-10-28 12:56:56 PM|| 2004-10-28 12:56:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 That parallels in some ways the social migration dynamic affecting high-growth sunbelt states like Colorado, Nevada, perhaps also North Carolina and Georgia to a lesser extent. Socially liberal yuppies working in high-tech and other service professions move in and tilt the state toward social liberalism. But I don't see the new immigrants in the sunbelt as any less hostile to government intervention in the economy.

Whichever party can figure out how to win over these crucial voters-- and also the hispanics-- will have a lock on every one of the high-growth sunbelt states, from VA to Research Triangle and Atlanta and from Texas to California.

Posted by lex 2004-10-28 1:09:44 PM|| 2004-10-28 1:09:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 To these libertarian yuppies and hispanics add military (active and ex- ) and you've got a solid majority in TX FL CO NM AZ NE NC and maybe even California, Virginia and Georgia as well.

Posted by lex 2004-10-28 1:11:49 PM|| 2004-10-28 1:11:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Imagine a baseball broadcast from an alternate universe:

"Count is 0 and 2 on Kerry; Schilling winds up, delivers . . . called strike three! Kerry strikes out again."

"That was just perfect pitch selection by Schilling. Kerry is a very nuanced batter, and Schilling threw an eephus pitch down the middle, which is too simple and direct for a hitter like Kerry to handle."

Posted by Mike 2004-10-28 1:34:41 PM|| 2004-10-28 1:34:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Curt, this fellow member of Shadow Mountain High School class of '85 will follow your advice! ;)
Memo to the Yankees......never face off against Schilling in the big games (playoffs/Series).
Still wish he was a D-back.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-10-28 3:50:42 PM|| 2004-10-28 3:50:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 NRO : Corner : Kathryn Jean Lopez Sez...

He's be in NH with W tomorrow, as we caught whiff of earlier.

Posted by BigEd 2004-10-28 4:35:58 PM|| 2004-10-28 4:35:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Well that's one sure way to get uninvited to the victory party

Posted by Cheaderhead 2004-10-28 4:49:09 PM|| 2004-10-28 4:49:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Despite being a Yankee fan, I really dig Curt Schilling. Slightly OT, but I left this comment late last night on a Sox-related entry:

I can't wait to see Kerry's comments: "I am so proud that my beloved Red Sox swept all seven games of the World Championship of Baseball. They even won the clinching game by a score of 2-0, with Eric Lowe pitching a masterful game. Matt Damon led off the game with a donger, and Tricky Trot Nixon drove in a pair with a double hit. Somewhere, that beloved Red Sox immortal Willie Mays is smiling.

"P.S. - I served in Vietnam with Ted Williams, who taught me how to fly fighters."

Posted by Tibor 2004-10-28 6:48:24 PM|| 2004-10-28 6:48:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Too many ex-Mass liberals living in NH to do any good,

The NH Mass. infestation first started in the mid-80's, mostly scumbags from Lawrence (at least from my personal observations on the ~~existence~~ increase of Hispanic dealers in the general area of Union Street in Manch Vegas), but it's maybe 45 minutes to an hour to get 10-15 miles inside NH to many spots adjacent to I-495 and maybe further inland (I'm talking Burlington, lots of tech co's there) . I think that (Southern NH = Masshole North) coincides with the timeline of tech buildout.

Any state that would elect Jeanne Shaheen (my cousin met her, opines thusly - 'dumb as a box of rocks') has been compromised.

Posted by Raj 2004-10-28 10:09:08 PM|| 2004-10-28 10:09:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Oh, and three weeks an accounting buddy of mine (lives in Bedford) who's pretty astute politically swore up & down that there was no way in hell that NH was going Democratic. I'll see if that opinion changes.

Posted by Raj 2004-10-28 10:12:38 PM|| 2004-10-28 10:12:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Pedro Schilling is no longer one of my favorites. Taraaaaaaysa, if I lose, could you buy the team so I can have him fired?

Posted by John Fn Kerry 2004-10-28 10:19:34 PM|| 2004-10-28 10:19:34 PM|| Front Page Top