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27 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

W’s Website Blocked Outside US

From the BBC: The international exclusion zone around georgewbush.com was spotted by net monitoring firm Netcraft which keeps an eye on traffic patterns across many different sites. Netcraft said that since the early hours of 25 October attempts to view the site through its monitoring stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney failed. By contrast Netcraft’s [...]

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23 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

Would Kerry Throw Us To The Wolves?

From factcheck.org’s new article about the already infamous ‘Wolves’ ad: A new Bush ad claims Kerry supported cuts in intelligence “so deep they would have weakened America ’s defenses” against terrorists, and shows a pack of hungry-looking wolves preparing to attack. Actually, the cut Kerry proposed in 1994 amounted to less than 4 percent, as [...]

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23 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

More Republicans for Kerry

Here’s a very clever and persuasive site that is nothing but Republicans who are voting for Kerry and why.  Former Minnesota Republican governer, Elmer L Anderson says: "Kerry has … far superior intellect and character than Bush. He speaks honestly to the American people, his ethics are unimpeachable and, clearly…he has far better credentials…"

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23 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

Another Clever Joke

A Joke I saw at Stephen Elliott’s site: Q: What’s the difference between the Iraq War and the Vietnam War? A: George W. Bush had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War.

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23 October 2004 ~ 0 Comments

How Skewed are the Polls?

Bush or Kerry – Are Pollsters Making the Connection? New CEA Survey Finds Consumer Shift to Cellular Phones, New Telephone Technologies Leave Millions out of Polling Process Perhaps I missed it because I never pay that much attention to polls anyway, but apparently polls rarely touch cell phone users.  I know that I rarely use [...]

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