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and that's exactly why I think Kerry is going to win. He's got the lead in Florida and Pennsylvania and can lose Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa and still win.

im flip-flopping and changing my vote to Jamie Navarro from Loaiza.

check that.. make Uribe the SS and get 2 top notch SP's

why not put Gload at RF next year? Left handed batter in the lineup, cheap and we can use the Maggs money for a SS and another SP. Lineup 1) Harris-2B (I'm not giving up yet) 2) Rowand-CF 3) Konerko-1B 4) Thomas-DH 5) Lee-LF 6) Gload-RF 7) FILL IN THE BLANK HERE-SS 8) Crede-3B 9) Davis-C Rotation 1) Garcia 2) Buehrle 3) FILL IN THE BLANK HERE 4) Contreras 5) FILL IN THE BLANK HERE

Esteban Loaiza gets my vote!

that's hilarious. This is what we need to see more of from John Kerry.. take no prisoners and show personality.

correction Iowa's population is 2.9 million. I meant to say New Hampshire's population is 1.2 million.

yeah at this point, you've got 10 companies polling these battleground states like Iowa (Population 1.2 million) a week, each with 1000+ respondents. That's 10,000 people a week getting blitzed with these calls!!!

keeping with the same idea, I wondered about polling college kids at all. These guys just moved into the dorms a few weeks ago.. are they being called at all? How would they know the number? Also do DO NOT CALL registries apply here too?

I saw this story on the bottom of electoral-vote.com.. interesting premise. thought you would enjoy the read. Making call on sham of political polling September 16, 2004 Anybody who believes these national political polls are giving you facts is a gullible fool. Any editors of newspapers or television news shows who use poll results as a story are beyond gullible. On behalf of the public they profess to serve, they are indolent salesmen of falsehoods. This is because these political polls are done by telephone. Land-line telephones, as your house phone is called. The telephone polls do not include cellular phones. There are almost 169 million cell phones being used in America today - 168,900,019 as of Sept. 15, according to the cell phone institute in Washington. There is no way to poll cell phone users, so it isn't done. Not one cell phone user has received a call on their cell phone asking them how they plan to vote as of today. Out of 168 million, anything can happen. Midway through election night, these stern-faced network announcers suddenly will be frozen white and they have to give a result: "It appears that the winner of the election tonight is ... Milford J. Schmitt of New Albany, Ind. He presently has 56 percent of the vote, placing him well ahead of John Kerry, George Bush and another newcomer, Gibson D. Mills of Corvallis, Ore. It appears the nation's voting habits have been changed unbeknownst to us. Mr. Schmitt was asked what party he is in. He answered, 'The winning party.'" Those who have both cell phones and land lines still might have been polled the old way - on their land lines by people making phone calls with scientifically weighted questions and to targeted areas for some big pollster. These results are announced by the pollsters: "CBS-New York Times poll shows George Bush and John Kerry in a statistical dead heat in the presidential race." Beautiful. There are 169 million phones that they didn't even try. This makes the poll nothing more than a fake and a fraud, a shill and a sham. The big pollster doesn't know what he has. The television and newspaper brilliants put it out like it is a baseball score. Except not one person involved can say that they truly know what they are talking about. "I don't use telephones anymore because there is no easy way to use them," John Zogby was saying yesterday. It was the 20th anniversary of the start of his polling company. He began with what he calls "blue highway polls," sheriffs' races in Onandaga and Jefferson counties in upstate New York. "The people who are using telephone surveys are in denial," Zogby was saying. "It is similar to the '30s, when they first started polling by telephones and there were people who laughed at that and said you couldn't trust them because not everybody had a home phone. Now they try not to mention cell phones. They don't look or listen. They go ahead with a method that is old and wrong." Zogby points out that you don't know in which area code the cell phone user lives. Nor do you know what they do. Beyond that, you miss younger people who live on cell phones. If you do a political poll on land-line phones, you miss those from 18 to 25, and there are figures all over the place that show there are 40 million between the ages of 18 and 29, one in five eligible voters. And the great page-one presidential polls don't come close to reflecting how these younger voters say they might vote. The majority of them use cell phones and nobody ever asks them anything. Common sense would say that the majority of the 18 to 25 who do vote would vote for the Democrat. The people who say they want to vote for Bush are generally in the older age brackets, and they don't have as much trouble with the lies told by Bush and his people. The older people also use cell phones much less because they can't hear on the things and when trying to dial a number on these midget instruments they stand there for an hour and get nothing done. The young people on cell phones appear not to be listening and they hear every syllable. They punch out a number without looking. They are quicker, and probably smarter at this time, and almost doubtlessly more in favor of Kerry than Bush. Older people complain about Kerry's performance as a candidate. Younger people don't want to get shot at in a war that most believe, and firmly, never should have started because it was started with a president lying. Zogby has no opinion because he is a professional figure man and he has no figures he trusts. "I am making a segue into Internet polling, which is going to be the future," he was saying yesterday. "You use screened e-mails of hundreds of thousands. Every household has some chance of being polled. How can you not do it that way? I have three children. The one in Washington uses only a cell phone. The ones at home use cell phones." If you want a poll on the Kerry-Bush race, sit down and make up your own. It is just as good as the monstrous frauds presented on television and the newspaper first pages.

I've been listening to all of these so-called political pundits over the past few days saying that if Kerry loses Wisconsin, Pennsylvania or New Jersey that the race is over. I decided to take a look for myself on an interactive electoral college program http://www.mockelection.org/electionmap/. The no-brainers have Kerry at 153 and Bush at 170 to start. Subtract Colorado because that is no longer a non-brainer for Bush. Kerry's going to win Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, Michigan, New Hampshire and Maine for sure. Bush has pretty much pulled out of these states. I'm going to safely assume that Bush wins Arizona, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisana as Kerry has done the same. Right now its Kerry 206 Bush 197 with 135 votes up for contention. Winner needs 64. Nevada (5) New Mexico (5) Colorado (9) Iowa (7) Wisconsin (10) Tennessee (11) Ohio (20) West Virgina (5) Pennsylvania (21) New Jersey (15) Florida (27) Kerry can certainly lose Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Wisconsin and still win the election.. simply by picking up a Florida which carries more electoral votes than any of the above. I simply don't quite follow the logic of these so-called experts?

Interesting Stuff Baseball owners batting for Bush More than a dozen current and former owners and family members are among the president’s top re-election fund-raisers, an Associated Press review found. Seven are Bush “Rangers,” each raising at least $200,000, and six are “Pioneers” who have brought in $100,000 or more. The Bush campaign has also received direct contributions from owners and executives of more than half of the sport’s 30 teams, the AP analysis of Federal Election Commission reports found. Those include $2,000 contributions from owners George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees, Fred Wilpon of the New York Mets, Carl Pohlad of the Minnesota Twins, Peter Magowan of the San Francisco Giants and Michael Ilitch of the Detroit Tigers. Democratic nominee John Kerry, by contrast, has taken in money from only a handful of baseball interests. Bush also has picked up contributions from players and coaches — including a manager he once fired. Bobby Valentine, axed by Bush as manager of the Texas Rangers in 1992, gave the president the maximum $4,000 this year. Valentine said he’s not surprised Bush has support from baseball owners. “People got to work with him side by side and saw his passion for the game and passion for his work,” Valentine said in an interview from Japan, where he is manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines. “They saw that he really cared about baseball when he was in it, and not just the Rangers as a business entity.” Baseball is part of the Bush legacy. His father, former President George H.W. Bush, played first base for the Yale baseball team, and the younger Bush took up the game as a Little Leaguer in Midland, Texas. He also organized a stickball league at Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass. Family ties With the benefit of family connections, Bush helped put together a group of investors to buy the Texas Rangers and then became its managing general partner from 1989 to 1994. There was talk back then that he might succeed Fay Vincent as commissioner, but the job went to Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig. Bush was a baseball traditionalist, opposing interleague play and the addition of a wild card playoff team. His investment of just $600,000 turned into $15 million when he sold his share of the team while preparing to run for governor of Texas. “The baseball platform was for him to springboard into politics,” said Bruce Buchanan, a longtime Bush watcher and University of Texas government professor. “He was the face of the Texas Rangers, as well as a substantial partner in the economic side for some years, and that enabled him to become acquainted with all of these figures.” Three of Bush’s former fellow investors in the Texas Rangers — Bill DeWitt, Marshall Payne and Craig Stapleton — are campaign Rangers. Stapleton’s wife, Debbie Stapleton, who is Bush’s cousin, is a Pioneer. “George Bush knows a lot of people in baseball,” said Craig Stapleton, a co-chairman of Bush’s re-election campaign in Connecticut. “So we’ve tried to talk to people that know George Bush well through baseball. He gets a lot of support from baseball people — not only executives and owners but baseball players.” Players give too For example, FEC reports show, Bush received $2,000 contributions from Orioles slugger Rafael Palmeiro, who played for the Rangers when Bush was an owner, and from New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, the highest-paid player in the game. Bush turned to another former Texas Rangers investor, Mercer Reynolds III, to be his campaign finance chairman. “Having experience in baseball, Mr. Reynolds was able to reach out to many people to encourage them to get involved with the campaign,” said Bush campaign spokesman Scott Stanzel. Reynolds was a Pioneer for Bush in 2000. Former partner DeWitt is now owner and chairman of the St. Louis Cardinals, whose owners and executives have been among the most generous to Bush’s re-election campaign. The team’s ownership group includes two Rangers (DeWitt and Kimmy Brauer, wife of owner Steve Brauer) and one Pioneer (Robert Castellini). A rare Democratic Cardinal is co-owner Michael E. Pulitzer, who gave $2,000 to Kerry. The Democratic nominee has also received $2,000 contributions from Boston Red Sox chairman Tom Werner and San Diego Padres owner John Moores. Several Cardinals owners have made individual contributions to the Bush campaign. DeWitt said he didn’t try to line up support for Bush among the Cardinals ownership. “It turns out that Cardinal partners have been supporters of the president independent of my support of the president,” he said. The team’s contributions to Bush extended to the front office and even to the bullpen: General Manager Walt Jocketty and pitcher Cal Eldred each gave $2,000 to Bush, FEC reports show. Bush threw out the first ball at the Cardinals’ home opener this year. The Cardinals’ previous owner, August Busch III, chairman of beer giant Anheuser-Busch, is also a Ranger fund-raiser. Drayton McLane, owner of the Houston Astros, is on board as a Bush Pioneer. McLane said he got to know Bush well through baseball. “When I considered buying the Houston Astros, I talked to him on several occasions and he was very encouraging,” recalled McLane, who bought the team in 1992. “He loves baseball. When I have the occasion to see him, boy, he’s ready to talk baseball.”

instead of spending the billions of dollars to develop the Arctic Refuge.. using the oil for let's say 10 years and finding ourselves in the same boat we are currently in.. why not work with or REQUIRE the major US automakers to produce cars with a minimum of 25 or 30 MPG. Hell if Honda and Toyota can do it (and both make trucks and SUV's) why can't Ford, GM, Crysler do the same? That way we work to solve the oil consumption problem, rather than just put a band-aid over it.

and keeping Olivo!!!

wouldnt a trade of Valentin to the Mariners for Freddy Garcia had followed this? So in effect we'd be loosing McCarthy, Valentin and Ordonez but getting Williamson, Garciaparra and Garcia?

As much as I hate former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough... here are his thoughts on the Bush Recession. "My fellow Republicans, Congress, the president, and national party bosses have conspired with Democratic politicians, lawyers, and bureaucrats to indulge in the most reckless federal spending spree in U.S. history. How reckless, you ask? Well, in just three years since George W. Bush was elected president, your Republican-run Congress took a $155 billion surplus and turned it into a staggering $455 billion deficit. These self-described conservatives did it in part by passing a staggering array of pork-barrel bills, billion-dollar farm subsidies, and trillion-dollar entitlement programs that America cannot afford."

so couldn't we just say that it is the Republican's in Congress (in which they control the House and Senate) that can't currently stop spending and can't follow Bill Clinton's plan of a balanced budget?

Next time put that post in GREEN He's bankrupted how many businesses? It's been reported that his only profitable arrangement was the Texas Rangers.

so who caused the first Bush's recession? Reagan?

longest substained economic growth in our nations history.. lifting millions upon millions of people out of poverty.. lowest unemployment levels in nearly 100 years... what am I missing here?

on a side note, how will the unemployment rate change when the hundreds of thousands of reservists come back to the US and back to their jobs which are protected by law. One of 2 things will happen... * The person that replaced them, (full or temp) will get fired. * The business will decide to absorb 2 people for that position or create a new one.

The thing I most respect about Edwards was that he's earned everything he has. He wasn't given a damn thing. Wasn't born into privledge, just busted his butt to get to where he is today. That's the American Dream.

didn't Clinton already beat a Texan?? Like father, like son.

this is too crazy to follow... as the site reports, Zogby had Bush and Kerry tied in Missouri as of yesterday, today Gallup reports a 14% lead for Bush??? Too many people, too may polls... which one to believe, if any?

if you keep Konerko and lose Lee... then we are again in the same situation when it comes to interleague. You've got to choose between Frank and Paulie in the lineup.