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Election Day Problems: What To Watch For

Posted on October 27, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Election Day Problems: What To Watch For Voters Unite! Below, find ways you can help no matter where you live. SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT …   1) Electronic voting machines changing votes!! VOTERS — CHECK THE REVIEW SCREEN!! This means … Continue reading →

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New York City Musician Endorses Art Small With New Song

Posted on October 26, 2004 by bfialindathieman

New York City Musician Endorses Art Small With New Song by Michael Ander U.S. Senate candidate Art Small has been gaining some very prominent endorsements lately.  None too shabby is the one he has received from Nobel Prize-winning economist George … Continue reading →

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Connie Wilson: Bush Forces Look Worried in Davenport Appearance (10/25)

Posted on October 26, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Bush Forces Look Worried in Davenport Appearance (10/25)

By Connie Wilson

Connie Wilson files yet another classy report from the Bush rally in Davenport yesterday

Considering that one of the Republican bumper stickers bears the message “Flush the Johns,” I learned something surprising at the Bush rally at the Davenport, Iowa, River Center on Monday, October 25th. Republican women don’t flush. At least, not as much as they should. Three stalls on the left side of the rest room. Only one was flushed. [Please join me in a chorus of “Eeeuuuuwwww!”]

The crowd inside the River Center, which holds 4,000, was smaller than I had anticipated. At approximately 2/3 full, this would be 2,640 people. I later heard that only 3,000 tickets were distributed. The crowd was much smaller than that at the Edwards rally in Iowa City on Thursday, the 21st, and much smaller than that at the Waterloo airport for Kerry on Tuesday, October 19th.

I see numerous people I know on my way to the rally: my trust executive from the world’s fifth-largest bank; Andrea Zinga and husband (who, since she is a Republican candidate from Illinois, running against Lane Evans, was surprisingly absent from the stage full of people-props behind Bush); Mary Jane and Rocky Nelson of Hampton, who worked for and with me for years at the Sylvan Learning Center (and, before that, at United Township High School); Jane Robinson of Silvis, former Silvis School Board Member.

In other words, “the usual suspects,” wonderful people all. But growing smaller and smaller in numbers, it seems. And, (with the exception of the above-mentioned account executive and the always-youthful Andrea), older and older. Not a one of them under seventy.

Bush rallies are full of people who are primarily….well…. old. (Takes one to know one.) Bush rallies usually seem to have many present who are better-dressed than their Democratic counterparts. Bush rallyers are more predictable, in that certain “buzz words” are used to denigrate the opposition and set off a Pavlovian response from the assembled mini-masses…”flip-flop”, for example, during this campaign year.

Republican rallies have Country & Western music or really old recorded music…and not much of that. At one point, I thought I heard a Rolling Stones song, but then, listening again, I thought: “Naaaaah.” Republican rallies invoke God, over and over and over again. This makes me increasingly uneasy. (Whatever happened to “separation of church and state?”)
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Bush Makes Explosive Mistake in Iraq

Posted on October 26, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Bush Makes Explosive Mistake in Iraq American Progress The New York Times reported yesterday that “nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives” are missing from one of Iraq's “most sensitive former military installations.” The enormous cache of explosives is unaccounted … Continue reading →

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Ames Tribune Endorses Paul Johnson

Posted on October 25, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Ames Tribune Endorses Paul Johnson Ames Tribune Paul Johnson is the Democratic candidate running for Congress in District 4, Central and Northeast Iowa The Tribune's editorial board is impressed by [Paul] Johnson's character and vision. A former director of the … Continue reading →

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Levels of Mercury in Women Increase Dramatically During Bush’s Term in Office; Superfund in Super Trouble

Posted on October 25, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Levels of Mercury in Women Increase Dramatically During Bush's Term in Office; Superfund in Super Trouble American Progress: Under the Radar MERCURY RISING: A new national study conducted by the University of North Carolina shows a whopping 21 percent of … Continue reading →

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New Voters for Kerry; Bush’s Battleground Blues

Posted on October 25, 2004 by bfialindathieman

New Voters for Kerry by Ruy Teixeira, Emerging Democratic Majority A new Ipsos-AP analysis of their poll data shows new voters leaning very heavily toward Kerry. Among LVs (likely voters) who are new voters, Kerry is favored over Bush by … Continue reading →

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Iowa’s Best Campaign Blogs

Posted on October 24, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Iowa’s Best Campaign Blogs by Linda Thieman “The days of the static, boring political website are over.”—Andrew Smith The campaign blog is the wave of the future.  Unlike a static website which doesn’t move and rarely seems to change the … Continue reading →

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Des Moines Register Endorses Kerry

Posted on October 24, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Des Moines Register Endorses Kerry Des Moines Register About half of Americans have lost confidence in George W. Bush, yet many hang back from embracing the alternative. That's unfortunate, because Senator John F. Kerry is a wise and decent man … Continue reading →

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Culver Troubled by Voting SNAFU at Iowa State

Posted on October 24, 2004 by bfialindathieman

Culver 'Troubled' by Voting SNAFU at Iowa State Ames Tribune Iowa Republican Disenfranchises College Students AGAIN Story County Auditor Mary Mosiman says she didn't anticipate the number of Iowa State University students who wanted to vote at an early voting … Continue reading →

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