Joe Blowtowski wrote:

are the Liberals killing their chances with Abortion?
How many babies, how many potential Liberals do they kill each and
every year? hmm?

They are embryos and not babies so liberals like me don't worry about it.

P.S. Hold on a sec, let me get on my flame-retardant suit for the
upcoming griping onslaught.

Jul 24, 6:36 PM EDT

AP: Bush Leads Kerry in Electoral Votes

Jul 24, 6:36 PM EDT

AP: Bush Leads Kerry in Electoral Votes
By RON FOURNIER
AP Political Writer




BOSTON (AP) -- John Kerry narrowly trails President Bush in the battle for
the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House, as he makes his

at the Democratic National Convention this week to topple the Republican
incumbent.
With three months remaining in a volatile campaign, Kerry has 14 states

the District of Columbia in his column for 193 electoral votes. Bush has

states for 217 votes, according to an Associated Press analysis of state
polls as well as interviews with strategists across the country.
"It's a tough, tough map. I think it's going to be a close race," said
Democratic strategist Tad Devine, who helped plot Al Gore's state-by-state
strategy in 2000 and plays the same role for Kerry.
"But looking back four years, we're much stronger now. I think we're going
into this convention in great shape," he said.

Both candidates are short of the magic 270 electoral votes. The margin of
victory will come from:
-TOSSUPS - Bush and Kerry are running even in 11 states with a combined

electoral votes. Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
Wisconsin, Michigan and West Virginia are the toughest battlegrounds. Two
other tossups, Pennsylvania and Oregon, could soon move to Kerry's column.
-LEAN KERRY - Maine, Minnesota and Washington (a combined 25 electoral
votes) favor Kerry over Bush by a few percentage points. Gore carried them
in 2000.
-LEAN BUSH - North Carolina, Colorado, Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia,
Arkansas and Missouri (a combined 73 electoral votes) give Bush modest
leads. He won all seven in 2000.
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Kerry says there's a lot at stake in this year's election.
All total, 21 states are in play. Some will bounce between "lean" to
"tossup" throughout the campaign.
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Four years ago, Bush won 30 states and their 271 electoral votes - one

than needed. Gore, who won the popular vote, claimed 20 states plus the
District of Columbia for 267 electoral votes.
Since then, reapportionment added electoral votes to states with

gains and took them from states losing people. The result: Bush's states

now worth 278 electoral votes and Gore's are worth just 260.
Even if Kerry consolidates Gore's states, no easy task, the Democrat must
take 10 electoral votes from Bush's column to close the electoral vote

Kerry's best prospects may be in the five tossup states won by Bush in

Ohio, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and West Virginia.
Winning either Ohio's 20 electoral votes or Florida's 27 would do the

Bush easily won Ohio in 2000, but its lagging economy puts the state in
play. Kerry must still reduce Bush's advantages among conservative, rural
voters. Florida should favor Bush a bit more than in 2000, partly because

its relatively strong economy, but the war in Iraq has helped keep the

close.
Nevada and West Virginia have a combined 10 electoral votes, enough to

the gap. New Hampshire, which neighbors Kerry's home state of

has four.
West Virginia voted Democratic for decades until Bush made values an issue
in 2000; Kerry is stressing the theme this year. In Nevada, an influx of
Hispanics and the administration's push to use Yucca Mountain as a nuclear
waste site make the state tougher for Bush than in 2000.
Six of the 11 tossup states were won by Gore: Pennsylvania, Oregon,
Michigan, Iowa, New Mexico and Wisconsin. But the margin of victory was

a few thousand votes in Iowa, New Mexico and Wisconsin - meaning Kerry has
his work cut out to keep them.
Of the three, Bush likes his chances best in Wisconsin, where he is
targeting rural voters in a bid to widen the electoral gap by 10 votes.
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Flush with money and leading a united party, Kerry increased his odds by
expanding the playing field into a handful of GOP states that Bush easily
won in 2000, including Arkansas, Louisiana, Arizona, Virginia and

Results have been mixed.
After testing the waters, Kerry pulled his ads from Arkansas and

and downgraded his focus on Virginia and Arizona. Hispanic voters make
Colorado a prime target, but Democrats acknowledge it's a tough state to
win.
"The race is still fundamentally tied, and the Electoral College map
reflects that," said Bush strategist Matthew Dowd. "But there is beginning
to be a slight tilt toward us with Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri and

no longer being seriously contested."
Kerry added another Republican-leaning state to his target list when he
chose Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina as his running mate. Aides are
divided over whether North Carolina will remain a battleground through
November, but its 15 electoral votes are too tempting to ignore.
Missouri, a traditional battleground, recently moved to the Bush-leaning
category and is being written off by some Democrats. The Kerry campaign
reduced its ad campaign in the state after polls showed him consistently 4
to 6 percentage points behind Bush, with little room for improvement.
Republican advantages in rural Missouri and the fast-growing exurbs make

state tough for Democrats, but Kerry will likely keep it on the table
through November in case the political winds shift. Besides, abandoning a
traditional battleground would be embarrassing.
The four-term Massachusetts senator has begun to gather strength in
traditionally Democratic states such as Maine, Minnesota and Washington.

were tossups in the spring, but now lean toward Kerry. A good convention
could push Pennsylvania and Oregon into the lean-Kerry category.
Recent polls give Kerry an edge in both states, but strategists for Kerry
and Bush say the races are still tossup.
"There is an angry feeling toward the incumbent because of Iraq," said

Sweet, who managed Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's 2000 campaign. "I think
Kerry will win in the end, but that's partly based on an assumption of
things to come. It's close."
Of the states won by Gore, Pennsylvania is by far Bush's top target. The
president has spent millions of dollars in the state on commercials and

visited it more than any other contested state - 30 trips since his
inauguration.
For Kerry, losing Pennsylvania would create a virtually insurmountable
electoral vote gap.

Now, I see why there are still so many consevative extremist than normal
conservatives and liberals.
They reproduce like roaches and rats.

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are the Liberals killing their chances with Abortion?

How many babies, how many potential Liberals do they kill each
and every year? hmm?