White House apparently thinks election's almost in the bag

[lancdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54414-2004Sep1.html

Hmm... Didn't some Dems make the same assumption that Kerry had it sewn up after the DNC? Go ahead, be overconfident, Karl.

[librechik]

1. Diebold n/t

[Champion Jack]

2. YUP--BBV

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Please post four best paragraphs and summarize rest.

[Love Bug]

4. Hubris, hubris

May the weight of their hubris be so great they all collapse into a black hole!

[librechik]

5. it's the "inevitability strategy"

they must be really scared if they're breaking it out now. We need to counter this gambit at every opportunity.

[lancdem]

6. Yes, they did it in 2000, too

[sonicx]

7. some text

NEW YORK, Sept. 1 -- President Bush, sensing political momentum for the first time in more than a year, flew here Wednesday night prepared to accept his party's nomination and to offer an agenda for a second term and a strong defense of his war on terrorism.

His speech will range from plans for restructuring the nation's intelligence services, to new ways to help the uninsured obtain health coverage, to a call for Congress to change labor laws to give workers more flexibility in using overtime hours at their family's convenience. Democrats call the flextime plan a way for employers to avoid paying overtime.

Bush's agenda consists almost entirely of expanded or repackaged ideas he has promoted before -- partly because the deficit precludes major new programs. Outside economists said campaign strategists argued this week that the political terrain has shifted dramatically in the president's favor and that specific proposals are unnecessary.

"The strategists are saying, 'Everything is breaking our way. It's looks like it's almost over,' " said one close adviser who demanded anonymity. In this climate, the political strategists believe they have no reason to offer plans that would give opponents new targets to attack.

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[tom_paine]

8. Electronic "voting", manual & electronic disenfranchisement

A number of Cyber Jim Crow tactics and don't forget Bushevik Vacation Home Double-Voting, which I am guessing has tens of thousands of Sturmtrupprn lining up to do it.

So many more: Stacking the African American precincts with error-prone machines, soliciting Bushevik absentee votes with Public Funds, my God so many.

If it's close enough to steal, I think it's stolen...

[Joe Turner]

9. BushCo has a Big Surprise Coming Their Way

Most of the republican base is unenergized and demoralized. Conservatives (non-neocons) in particular are fed-up with him on a host of issues. No amount of scare tactics and Kerry bashing is going to stem a million plus republican votes that Smirk had in 2000 from going elsewhere in this election.

Smirk will be the last to realize he lost the election.

[AspenRose]

10. Go ahead and let them underestimate Kerry/Edwards....

and let them underestimate US.

I swear, if they steal another election, there will be mayhem in the streets.