Burnt Orange Report

Byron,

Don't forget the other good news, that our hard-fighting brave-hearted Lloyd Doggett won as well, though he's no longer my Congressman. In my newly gerrymandered district, as if in some pathetic parody of the Matrix, the evil Smith beat the other Smith. Kudos to Patrick Rose for apparently winning as well.

Tom Delay will survive to be brought to trial and ridicule among the wreckage he has made of our once bipartisan state.

I disagree -- I cannot blame those who gave their all only to see it fall short. May every Texan who wished for this outcome receive everything they so they richly deserve.

Not that results in Texas would be any different, but the reported early voting in the 13 most populated counties was 4.8 million. After long lines and heavy voting Tuesday, the total votes cast were 7.25 million. Perhaps I got the numbers wrong on Monday, but that is what I recall reading at the Secretary of State web site.

NEWSFLASH: You lost. The vast majority of Americans are in opposition to your agenda. After enduring four years of your whining about a guy who lost the popular vote by just over half-a-million votes, the American people responded by giving President Bush the first majority for a presidential candidate since 1988.

Your continued inability to support what is quite obviously a Bush win demonstrates clearly that you are more interested in personal glory than national unity. I wish you all the worst in life, you hypocrites.

First of all, you are simply wrong for wishing us "the worst in life." That is an objective fact. Peace be with you.

Second, if the vote tally shows Bush winning then I will accede to it. And I will give him what support he is due by virtue of his office.

That does not mean, however, that I will not protest what is, to me, an ideology and agenda that is wrong for America, that is twisting our nation's soul, wrecking our nation's finances, and destroying our nation's credibility.

Let's all be patriots today.

Hey chief, why don't you wish a little peace on your pals at this site before you worry about me. Here's a few choice quotes from your own site:

"the Wohlgemonster"
"Fuck John Thune."

Contrary to your own ideology, this site has been a place of hate (I thought it wasn't a family value) rationalized by your demonization of the opposition--it's ok to hate Bush and DeLay, because they're eeevvvil.

I, on the other hand, profess no ideology of peace or love. Therefore I feel comfortable wishing ill upon those who support Cahill and Kerry's continued efforts to impede the work of the country.

Not that it matters, but registered voter numbers, early voting numbers all are different from what was on the Secretary of State web site on Monday night.

Very very few of those provisional ballots will be counted. That's the nature of provisional ballots.

The interesting story will be to compare provisional voters with the registration scrub lists. Hopefully Greg Palast is on it.

Why did the exit polls differ so greatly from the election results? The media were saying that they need to look at how they perform exit polls in the future because in this election, the numbers didn't match. Has anyone examined perhaps the way the Diebold machines process votes, especially since they promised a victory to Bush?

you, sir, are no tom brokaw.

"I wish you all the worst in life, you hypocrites."

"Therefore I feel comfortable wishing ill upon those who support Cahill and Kerry's continued efforts to impede the work of the country."

oh yeah, that is definitely not hateful and completely in the spirit of unity. it's quite ironic that your name is kettle (i'll let you figure out that one on your own). anyways, your not fooling anyone with "i'm-an-indepent" facade. any reasonable person can see right through you. why are you so ashamed to be a republican/conservative, especially after last night?

"Why did the exit polls differ so greatly from the election results? The media were saying that they need to look at how they perform exit polls in the future because in this election, the numbers didn't match. Has anyone examined perhaps the way the Diebold machines process votes, especially since they promised a victory to Bush?"

It proves that exit polling are on the nail. I read that Polls were favoring towards Gore back in the 2000 race but that was the opposite. Where Gore was leading by a point or two.
One of the odd things about the exit poll coming out of flordia was that it had Kerry up by a point or two? Bush carried the state with a little over 300,000votes......small in size to the 527, i think it was, in 2000

correction : It proves that exit polling didn't get it on the nail.