Premature Excitement by the Republicans
Louisiana and Mississippi have gone to Bush, again no surprises. For Missouri, Kansas City is going stronger for Kerry, a surprising result. Republicans are “feeling the momentum” and are excited, but it seems to be lost on them that they’re seeing lopsided numbers. Florida, for example, is mainly reporting from heavily Republican areas, and from reports, the Florida numbers do not include early voting numbers, which constitute 30% of eligible voters and probably a higher percentage of the total number of people who will go to the polls, and those numbers were strongly for Kerry.
Josh Marshall is reporting that the “let the people vote and not the lawyers” Republican party is sending out lawyers across the nation to try to shut down voting at the polls as early as possible and fighting every attempt to let people vote where problems have arisen.
By the way: Ralph who?
It’s still wait-and-see, folks. Can’t get excited for either side yet.