Arkansas! Back on the table. -- Talk about your Election Day optimisim.

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Just when we thought that we had been given up as just another red splotch, the DNC makes a $250K media buy in the three principal Arkansas television markets. I just got back from the Dems headquarters, and boy, was it busy. I signed up for some Bill Clinton tickets (he's coming home on Sunday) and finally got a Kerry/Edwards yardsign.

It feels so good to be considered a real voter again. Hey! There's another DNC spot on my radio playing right now. Granted, no one who starred in the movie Predator has called me lately, but still.

Consider this the opposite of that "Bush is going to win again, isn't he?" thread. Tell me why you're feeling good about this election.

NEVER SURRENDER! BOO-YAA!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link

people are freaked the FUCK out about the war, and something's gunna happen.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Granted, no one who starred in the movie Predator has called me lately, but still.

Bill Duke will be after your vote soon enough -- just let him finish off that scorpion.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

My peeps in Blytheville will be voting Kerry, and they disliked Clinton.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link

D-N-C! We're dyn-o-mite!
D-N-C! And we'll win the fight!
D-N-C! We're a power load!
D-N-C! Watch us explode!

― Nemo (JND), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm so angry, I could VOTE!

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― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Kerry takes Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

My peeps in Blytheville will be voting Kerry, and they disliked Clinton

Bring it on, Mississippi County! Tell that bootheel to STEP OFF! Osceola, hollar if you hear me!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I got Wisconsin under control, don't worry about it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Cuz in Mountain Home had him a little felony problem, so won't be voting, but he's down with y'all.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm feeling okay about Iowa -- yard signage very Kerry, UAW will have the vote out strong in Black Hawk County.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link

If Ohio State University has a good voter turnout I'm pretty sure this election's in the bag for Kerry

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 29 October 2004 19:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Indiana always goes about 70 % GOP. I don't think they've ever elected a Democrat since the turn of the 20th century.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20041029/i/r3196612671.jpg

WOOT!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Is that a Lance Armstrong bracelet on Kerry's wrist?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

yes.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

And that's Dick Cheney's scalp across Kirsten's forearm.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.heritageantiquemaps.com/Gallery/Cram,%20George/Map%20Images/Cram,%20Uncolored,%20c1890,%20Virginia%20&%20West%20Virginia.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I still say you're nuts, gabbneb, but it's not as crazy as it once seemed.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

West or Old Dominion?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm leaving it vague

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I just got back from helping my 33-year-old brother register to vote for the first time. The line was an hour to get through. Everyone in it was in their early 30s or younger, and 50% of them had Kerry-Edwards stickers somewhere on themselves.

Granted, I live in a big lefty college town, but still. October surprise = new uncounted voters y'all.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

huzzah!

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I like looking at the polls from this date 4 years ago, all showing big Bush leads in the popular vote. Even though Bush has tiny leads in a lot of the polls now, I'm starting to think he's done.

― Sympatico (shmuel), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I sure hope you're right, gabbneb.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

*holds breath*

― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:38 (nineteen years ago) link

You're out of control, gabbneb! I WNNA PARTY WIT THIS GUY.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:42 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.fischerhemden-schachtschneider.de/flaggen/iowa.gif

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link

The President and First Lady of the Nation that will elect Kerry

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Kenan (kenan), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Aw, the hell with it. I'll drink the Kool-Aid!

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― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Oregon has been remarkably consistant in polls. Apparently, nothing has caused any of us to change our minds one bit since, like, May.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

believe in missouri!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

georgia's a maybe!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

lots of sail phones in Atlanta

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Now you're just talking crazy talk. MORE CRAZY TALK!!!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Sail phones?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

haha - i think that was gabbneb doing a very very accurate southern accent

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I should have figured as much.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

No sail phones in New Orleans, though. Everyone just hollas at each other.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

HOLLA!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Like that.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

man some friends of mine visited arkansas last week (they drove to the dawgs-razorbacks game: can you fucking believe it???), and they said it was gorgeous country

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, it is. Makes up for losing to Marc Richt at home.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

The Ozarks are my favorite weekend vacation destination and preety much all my relatives are in eastern Arkansas. None of them are voting for Kerry, unfortunately, but I really wish I could skip across the river and place my vote in West Memphis this year.

If Arkansas does go blue I'll be so proud. (There's NO HOPE for Tennessee however.)

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link

i haven't seen anything lately. tell me in one line how its looking at this late stage.

― dar.raghmac, Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Got my tickets tonight to see Bill tomorrow at the Convention Center. DON'T STOP THINKING 'BOUT TOMORROW!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 31 October 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

lemme join in w/ cinniblount (on another thread) and say ... NORTH CAROLINA!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 31 October 2004 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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Could Arkansas very much be 'on the table', to return to this thread's inception? And indeed Virginia, considering that an exit poll shows Bush only leading by 3% or so in North Carolina. Kerry has consistently and recently polled better in VA and AR than NC...

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, Kyle. Forgot to say x-post.

x-p

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

tom, where are you getting exit polls from

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

They are quoted in the main election thread on ILE. 400-odd posts etc. :) I am of course blissfully unaware of how accurate they may be, however. ;)

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

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Today in Broward County. Which one looks more happy and confident?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link

the dude on the left cos he's bigger and better able to carry signs, also he seems free from the crippling "look at me" insecurity of his republican counterpart.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link

He's also not going to put his own eye out with his sign.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

unfortunately just having eaten v large sloppy joes and corn fritters and what morrisons call "florida salad" (meg and i have started eating "appropriate" food on big events, we had a greek feast for the olympic opening ceremony) i am not optimistic about my ability to stay awake to any meaningful time...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

missouri is looking good! kerry's doing maybe five points better than expected, which means it's tied up!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

It's on like Donkey Kong!

― Leon in Exile (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Teeny, if Kerry wins Missouri, you can take full god damned credit. You've been working your ass off.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

mmm working teeny's ass mmm

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Zogby exit polls give it to kerry by 98 EV

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

cnn is totally saying kerry won between the lines. apparently everyone voted based on the economy and turnout is through the roof. but they never actually say (as they would have yesterday) that those signs indicate a solid Kerry victory.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, that means Kerry won

Zogby exit polls give it to kerry by 98 EV

phone polls, not exits

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

wow, i'm going with the dude who has kirsten dunst's endorsement (and the endorsement from the guy with the cool shades).

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

my new hero tucker carlson just spelled it out. i love america.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

also, he's not nearly as sad as he should be

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

i seriously think he secretly voted for kerry. when you can't carry your own apparatchiks, you're in some serious shit.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

tucker carlson's a republican but he's also a bush hater (at least away from gig's where he's paid to reiterate gop talking points)(ie away from crossfire). he didn't like dubya in 2000.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.army.mod.uk/img/rhf/cloth_regt_bow_ties.jpg

― Doobieindisguise, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I wore a bow tie yesterday and came close to snuffing the small weak light of life out of one of my co-workers for referring to wee 'Tuck'. Fuxor has the worst taste in them, IMVO.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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― Doobieindisguise, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

what does it say when tucker carlson is the only honest man on your network?

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ach - I've just realised that I'm totally assuming a Kerry victory now (I suddenly remembered that Bush could be re-elected and I was like "Shit - I forgot!"). Must not do this.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah. I remember last time, they proclaimed Bush the winner and showed the crowds in Austin going wild. I sat there resigned, like air was slowly getting leaked out of an old tire. The lights went out on the capitol, and they started showing some campaign video for a moment.

And then everything came back on, Don Evans walked out and said "We don't know what the FUCK is going on." and the rest is history.

Even though Bush still won, he never got his night like Clinton got in Little Rock. Hopefully, he never will.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

i wonder how many folks will be at the speech in boston tonight

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

3% of precincts in NH: 59-41 for Kerry and a rather embarrassingly small number of votes so far for Ralphie Nader.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I still think Badnarik will easily get more votes than Nader this year, and that it was stupid for all those polls to include Nader as a player.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Pleasant - I remember seeing that on tv.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 01:35 (nineteen years ago) link

yep, there it goes. no, wait.. here's something... nope, it's gone now. finished. kaput.

― m. (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, I've resigned to lose the battle that is the name of this thread (Good ol' confused Arkansas who voted for George Wallace in 1968), but I HAVE NOT GIVEN UP THE WAR.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay. I've given up the war now.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:04 (nineteen years ago) link

It's for the best.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm ready to fight a new kind of war. Thus far, we've been the dominant culture and they were the only side fighting. The lesson of November the 2nd is that the world has changed irrevocably and we may need to take pre-emptive action. Show who is the cultural boss.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

One day, in the future, when New York City is a radioactive nightmare and they've put me into a mandatory "fun zone" out in the sticks, I'll out look over a print out of this thread that I've hidden in a cave somewhere, and laugh long and hard into the bitterly cold night.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

What cultural issue could the Democrats use to rally their troops as much as gay marriage did for the Republicans? Medicinal marijuana? Please.

Next time I start a thread about Election Day optimisim, I'm going to write it from the back of my pet unicorn while a monkey flys out of its butt.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Next time I start a thread about Election Day optimisim, I'm going to write it from the back of my pet unicorn while a monkey flys out of its butt.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, November 3, 2004 12:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 3 November 2008 21:59 (fifteen years ago) link

a.k.a. I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT THIS WEIRD LITTLE DRAWING I MADE SO I'M GOING TO PUT IT HERE.

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― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 November 2008 03:46 (fifteen years ago) link

(Bellwether.)

― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 November 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link

Ha. Looks like I added another dimension to my biting commentary.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 November 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mccain.jpg

― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 November 2008 04:23 (fifteen years ago) link

wtf is that red splotch rash on the belly of America

― Tyrone Quattlebaum (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 November 2008 04:25 (fifteen years ago) link

That would be racism.

― Casuistry, Thursday, 6 November 2008 05:04 (fifteen years ago) link

The only explanation I can offer is that some of my neighbors really wanted Hillary to win.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 November 2008 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link

You say that Cas, but some of the deepest reds you see in east Arkansas are also some of the blackest areas of the state.

― ☑ (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 6 November 2008 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link

the one white splotch there is pulaski county, right?

― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link

wtf @ u louisiana

― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Thursday, 6 November 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Next time I start a thread about Election Day optimisim, I'm going to write it from the back of my pet unicorn while a monkey flys out of its butt.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, November 3, 2004 12:09 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― pplains, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link

Was outside blowing the leaves awhile ago, thinking about that time we had a second chance to get rid of a popular-vote loser with a been-around-the-block senator, only to see it completely blast the other way.

Nov. 9, 2016, was spell-blindingly awful, but Nov. 3, 2004, still sits in the pit of my stomach like a burning ember. The ol' "then shame on me" folksy saying come to life.

― pplains, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link

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