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Louisana's First Republican Senator Since 1883 – Suzanne Haik Terrell
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dans l’article > Dear Troy: > Looks like you counted your chickens before they hatched. > A. J.
Troy is a Turkey man, after his own heart. Earl
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>18:46:38 -0500) >I guess the Republicans will use the old standby to suppress black >voting today. They get all the off duty police they can to go and >hang around the polls and pretend they are looking for someone. As >long as they have a uniform and a gun, this tends to cause emotional >distress to a group of Democrat voters. And they find business >elsewhere. For some reason or other. >Are you afraid of the police Gary? I am not. But I have never lived >close to the edge of the law either.
That isn’t the point, it was reported over here that there was an unusual police presence around the polling stations in the ‘black’ areas of the States. It can only be for one purpose – intimidation and discouragement from voting. It is a tactic which was used in S.Africa during the Aparteid days. Even in ‘Liberal’ Britain, the chances of being stopped and searched are about 6 times higher if you are young and black. — Gordon
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>>This election is VERY close. I just got back from LA and they say if it >rains hard in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or Shreveport Suzanne Terrell is >going to win it (I guess Democrats don’t vote in the rain?) >Or, perhaps the poor without automobiles or taxis, find getting to the >polling places difficult in the rain. >ward
I used to pick up old and poor folk to take them to vote, but hopefully most of them get postal voting forms. Some of the most disadvantaged people were virtually disenfranchised until this was made easier. Ten, twenty years ago there were always plenty of limos around taking the Conservatives to vote. It’s a slightly more even playing field now. — Gordon
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->>This election is VERY close. I just got back from LA and they say if it >>rains hard in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, or Shreveport Suzanne Terrell is >>going to win it (I guess Democrats don’t vote in the rain?) >Or, perhaps the poor without automobiles or taxis, find getting to the >polling places difficult in the rain. >ward > I used to pick up old and poor folk to take them to vote, but hopefully > most of them get postal voting forms. > Some of the most disadvantaged people were virtually disenfranchised > until this was made easier. > Ten, twenty years ago there were always plenty of limos around taking > the Conservatives to vote. It’s a slightly more even playing field now. > —
One would think that with the advent of the absentee ballot, anyone who wants to vote can vote.
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Dear Troy: Looks like you counted your chickens before they hatched. A. J. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > The Democrats lost control of the Senate in the Nov. 5 elections, > but have a LOT MORE to lose Saturday if Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu is > defeated by her Republican challenger, Suzanne Haik Terrell. A Terrell > victory would be fresh evidence that the Republicans are closer to > cementing their status as the dominant party in the South, making any > Democratic bid for the White House in 2004 impossible. > NO DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate has ever won the White House > without winning at least a few Southern states. > If Al Gore had gotten the electoral votes of just one Southern > state