Word: gop
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Missouri's GOP Lament, 11:30 p.m. E.T. Missouri's foremost Republican statesman, former Senator John Danforth, sounded blue on the phone. "I am blue - I'm a blue guy who should be red." Missouri's vote was still out, but the national tide was clear. He squarely put the blame on the White House. "A very large part of it is that people are sick of Bush, and they just want to get rid of anything and anyone associated with...
...Palm Beach County GOP chairman Sid Dinerstein, who is Jewish, said it was the 65-year-old, more affluent Jews whom he believed would move toward McCain, particularly "a lot who haven't voted Republican before." "When you are the candidate of [Louis] Farrakhan...the Jews with an open mind get very, very nervous," Dinerstein said. The Clintons, he said, would never have made a comment like Obama's that Palestinians are among the world's most oppressed people, then gone after the Jewish vote. Dinerstein's optimistic prediction: Some 30% of Jewish voters across the country will vote...
...they came back on Election Day itself. This is a big event in North Carolina. Anxious supporters of both parties are there with signs to try to sway the undecided, showing that the outcome of the traditionally red state is still up in the air. One woman, a GOP activist, yells outs, "Straight tickets don't elect presidents, kids!" to a group of sleepy college students. On his way to work, Rob Holmes says he's not worried. "North Carolina is a state that's changing demographically, and a lot of North Carolinians are excited about a change," he said...
Obama looks to be in a statistical dead heat with McCain in the district (just as the Democratic challenger in the 25th, Joe Garcia, is neck-and-neck with the Cuban-American GOP incumbent, Mario Diaz-Balart). The key is how many Cuban-Americans Obama can poach from the GOP; and Obama volunteer Jose Realin thinks he can deliver them. Realin, 38, a bail bondsman and a lifelong registered Republican now on the Democrat's side, was heading out of the Obama campaign office in the 25th on Monday evening to knock on doors in Cuban neighborhoods. "They worry that...
Though it has aired no advertising in Arizona, the GOP is clearly nervous. A round of robocalls was launched last week, falsely calling Obama a terrorist and deceptively warning targeted seniors that, if elected, he'd halt their Medicare and Social Security payments. McCain, who is holding his victory rally in Phoenix, is expected to return home Monday and deliver a rally in none other than Prescott, speaking on the steps of the Yavapai County Courthouse, where Barry Goldwater launched his senatorial and presidential campaigns...