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To: D. Long who wrote (15929)	11/12/2003 4:26:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794367

Survey Data Help Explain GOP Victories By MIKE MOKRZYCKI Associated Press Writer Exit polls released Monday help explain Republican gubernatorial victories last week, finding that Haley Barbour overcame high black turnout with overwhelming support from whites in Mississippi while Ernie Fletcher capitalized on ill will toward the scandal-plagued Democratic incumbent in Kentucky........ ....In Mississippi, 33 percent of voters were black - 3 to 6 points higher than in VNS exit polls in the past three presidential elections - and 94 percent of them voted to re-elect Democratic Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. But 77 percent of whites backed Barbour, propelling the Washington lobbyist and former national Republican chairman to victory with 53 percent of the overall vote. Black turnout may have gotten a boost in Mississippi because Democratic nominees in two down-ballot races were black. Both lost, however, as just 8 percent of whites voted for Barbara Blackmon for lieutenant governor and only 22 percent of whites backed Gary Anderson for treasurer. Musgrove also lost some support from his first gubernatorial election in 1999. Among voters who said they backed Musgrove then, one in four voted for Barbour. And while Musgrove tried to paint his opponent's Washington ties as a negative for Mississippi, six in 10 voters said Barbour's experience would help the state. In Kentucky, 18 percent said one reason for their vote for governor was to express opposition to term-limited Gov. Paul Patton, and 84 percent of them voted for Fletcher. Patton admitted having an extramarital affair and his administration is the subject of numerous investigations. While 77 percent said Patton was not a factor in their vote, Democratic nominee Ben Chandler's 52-48 edge among that group wasn't enough to surmount the anti-Patton sentiment. Fletcher won with 55 percent of the vote. Fletcher, a congressman, won 24 percent of self-described Democrats in becoming the first Republican elected Kentucky governor in more than 30 years, while just 9 percent of Republicans backed Chandler, the state attorney general. Independents favored Fletcher 56-43. Looking ahead to 2004, pluralities of around 45 percent in both states said they definitely would vote for Bush if the presidential election were today while about 35 percent definitely would vote for someone else. Those who haven't firmly made up their minds comprised 20 percent of the gubernatorial electorate in Kentucky and 17 percent in Mississippi. REST AT customwire.ap.org

To: D. Long who wrote (15929)	11/12/2003 6:49:38 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794367

This article from "Tech Central Station," and the speech it describes, are right on the money, IMO. Check them both out. ____________________________________________________ The Rt. Honorable Blogger By Pejman Yousefzadeh Published 11/12/2003 On Wednesday, November 5th, blogger and American Rhodes Scholar, Josh Chafetz posted the following statement on his blog: WHAT ON EARTH HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO??? So, tomorrow night is the Oxford Union's debate on Iraq, with the resolution "This House believes we are losing the peace." Speaking in proposition are Tam Dalyell and Jeremy Corbyn, two fiercely anti-war MPs. And speaking in opposition is, gulp, me. I was asked to do this about an hour ago, which gives me just over 24 hours to prepare. Chafetz goes on to ask his readers for any useful information that he might not already have seen. Between that request, and his own superb skills at debate and advancing his ideas in intellectual combat, by the next night, when the debate occurred, Chafetz was able to heroically -- if slightly tipsily -- proclaim victory, having ensured that the resolution went down to defeat. So outstanding was Chafetz's performance that according to another blogger who witnessed the debate, Dalyell -- whose vehement antiwar stance has at times ventured into raving anti-Semitism -- proclaimed Chafetz's remarks the best prepared speech that he had heard given at the Oxford Debate Union in the seventeen times he has appeared there. You can take a look at the speech yourself, and you will likely find Dalyell's high opinion of it justified. And before you read the speech, notice Chafetz's remark that "Blogosphere regulars will recognize many parts of the speech as familiar." Indeed, Chafetz was very clever about how he went about researching for his speech -- by relying on material that has been widely distributed in the Blogosphere, and by using the Blogosphere as a research tool -- a tool with which Chafetz, as a blogger, is intimately familiar. techcentralstation.com