I question the timing about your failure to question the timing and I question the timing of anyone questioning the timing of my questioning your timing of the nonquestioning of the timing.

Give or take a timing.

After Elric's post I need a time out.

James

James, stop questioning Elric's patriotism!

Whoa, KITTY freakin' KELLY??

Is she still alive?? Isn't she the same broad that wrote that Nancy Reagan and Frank Sinatra were passing joints to each other in the White House?

People. Are you kidding me. Please.

What year is this?

lauraw,

I live in 2004. John Kerry lives in 1968-1971. (He's unclear on the issue, as per usual.) President Bush is planning for the future. And Ace questions all the timing, or not.

That oughta get you back on track.
:)

I read an Economist artivle about MO and preisdential elections. In about 105 years, with only one or two exceptions, no man has won the White House without carrying MO. It's almost a law.

Maybe some MO bloggers could correct me if I'm off-base, but I've felt MO was strong for Bush ever since their vote on gay marriage. I was in KC and St Louis for a few days back in the spring and I got the general impression it was pretty firmly red. The other states I can't speak for, but that one seemed "sew'd-up", as they say.

Yeah, but you gotta remember that a lot of dead people vote in MO. And among dead people, Kerry is up over Bush 98-2 (with zero undecided) in recent polls. Clearly, the evil Bush campaign is neglecting to connect with this important segment of the voting population.

The Black Republican: Are you saying Elric shot himself? Are you saying he shot himself?

Pennsylvania is the big state, lets hope he gets a lead and keeps a lead there.

That was a large lead in Ohio, though.

Necro-Americans have been disenfranchised for too long! (With the notable exception of Chicago, of course.)

Hey, zetetic, we don't use the word 'Necro' anymore. 'People of Torpor' is out too.

I believe they now want to be called Expired-Americans.

Zetetic and LauraW are really onto something. GWB made a big deal at the convention about protecting those who can't protect themselves, but what has this administration ever done for that most helpless of groups - Expired-Americans.

I propose a multi-departmental approach to creating new programs aimed at preventing grave robbery, fighting media bias against the dead (I'm looking at the makers of "Dawn of the Dead," "Evil Dead," "Friday the Thirteenth," and so on), and getting post-mortem health benefits.

Grieving Wife: How's he doing?
Doctor: We ran an extensive battery of expensive tests, and we've concluded he's still dead.
Grieving Wife: (Sobs) It's been seven years! When will they find a cure?
Doctor: When the Bush administration starts funding stem cell research, ma'am.

Maybe some MO bloggers could correct me if I'm off-base, but I've felt MO was strong for Bush ever since their vote on gay marriage. I was in KC and St Louis for a few days back in the spring and I got the general impression it was pretty firmly red. The other states I can't speak for, but that one seemed "sew'd-up", as they say.

I'm not a blogger but I live in Missouri, in a small community 50 miles southwest of St. Louis. When I moved to that community around 10 years ago, I found that I was one of the few who would dare vote for a Republican candidate (I'm independent but trend Republican). Today, the situation is completely reversed; a few old-timers still vote Democratic out of habit but that's about it.

I found out about my original minority status and the new Republican ascendancy in my community through the indirect means of observation and close parsing of conversation with my neighbors; people around here don't talk politics much and while it is not considered impolite to do so, it just isn't done much. That may have something to do with the fact that our community is oriented around church and family, so politics gets relegated into the "geez, another election? Guess I gotta go vote" category.

So I have been absolutely floored the last few weeks when I've been told or e-mailed Kerry jokes and slams on him and the Democrats by what I would otherwise consider apolitical friends and relatives. I initially thought that maybe they were helping me have some fun but soon found out that this was not the case. I suspect many of these folks are some of the 4 million "fundamentalist Christians" who sat home on election day in 2000. And if what I am seeing and hearing in my community is any indicator, those folks are going to fighting and clawing at each other to be first through the polling station doors to vote for Bush.

That is why I wasn't particularly worried when early polling showed Bush and Kerry running neck-and-neck in Missouri; yeah, the City of St. Louis (as opposed to St. Louis County) and most of Kansas City will vote for Kerry out of habit. But I suspect that the political earthquakes of '98 and '00 in outstate Missouri which turned a Democratic monopoly over the state House and Senate into a Republican stranglehold has yet to finish its aftershocks. And keep in mind that Missouri Democrats tend to be to the *right* of Republicans in places like New York or New Jersey. I suspect that many of them will vote for their local Democratic candidates but will vote for Bush as well.

58-42 Bush in Missouri on election day. At minimum.

poker me up