The Tide is turning even in Alabama...

[bamademo]

...and I'm not talking about the Crimson Tide. These are local cartoonists. And check out this poll. Don't write us off in the South.

http://www.al.com/news/

[Ripley]

1. Thanks for those!

As I read the front page of my Sunday Tuscaloosa News, I'm beginning to think these people might wake up. 5 year severe drop in manufactured home building/layoffs and 5 year skyrocketing of man. homes reposessions.

I don't have hope this state will go D by November, but if the people being hurt by this economy and are losing their loved ones in Iraq would at least bother to vote this time we should see the gap closing.

[liberalhistorian]

2. LOL!

I can't believe those came from Southern cartoonists, maybe the tide really IS turning this time! I think a lot of it has to do with the economy and economic issues, since the South is really getting hit hard and they're finally waking up to the fact that the Bushistas don't give a shit about them and what they have to deal with.

[bamademo]

3. I've converted 3 people

My conservative co-worker who is terrified our IT jobs will be out-sourced, my mother and a young soldier who recently became a citizen.
He would come in my office and want to talk politics. I told him I would when he registered to vote. He did and he's voting for Kerry.

[Claire Beth]

4. I got several people registered to vote....

They have not been registered before and they are now ready to vote for the democratic nominee in November. Almost everyone I know is angry with Dubya and his entire administration.

[Philosophy]

5. I'm noticing it too

The local TV and radio news I get from Dothan and Montgomery up until about a month ago would put totally obvious positive spin on every story about * and negative spin on every story about the Democratic candidates, but now since that has become almost impossible, and since they still can't bring themselves to say anything bad about * or good about Democrats they are trying very hard to be totally neutral and they have cut way down on reporting anything about national politics and the war (we have a big Army base in the area).

[Media_Lies_Daily]

6. More than three years ago I tried to warn people in the Huntsville area...

...about Junior. As you might have guessed, that was definitely a no-no in Alabama back then.

But the tide has turned just as you said...people are paying much closer attention to Junior's actions these days. They can see for themselves how Junior's policies have wrecked the economy and how the Middle Eastern wars have affected military families, particularly those of the National Guard.

Prior to 2000 I believed Huntsville to be recession-proof. By that I mean that there was such a good mix of commercial industries and government-based jobs that any bump in the economic road could be absorbed. Well, the 2.9% unemployment that we used to have is now pretty close to 5% and growing. Bankruptcies and foreclosures are up, just as they are all over America.

[bamademo]

8. When you're unemployed in Huntsville as an IT worker for 18 months...

...you know it's bad. Right after 9/11 the Kaffeeklatch Bar and Democratic Underground was my only refuge for the gut wrenching depression I went through because everyone in Huntsville (which has a military base) was so in love with the Lying Murder Monkey. Kaffeeklatch Bar has a sign on the ceiling over the bar that says "Bush + Dick = F*cked" which has been their before the election.
:evilgrin:

I know at least 5 people in the IT industry that have been unemployed for months in a Defense Industry town. They're outsourcing jobs here also. I finally got work on an army base but it's at a $15,000 salary cut and doing tech support instead of system administration like I used to. I count my blessings, however.

[underpants]

7. As Mike Price said "ROLL TIDE"

Okay he didn't say it he had a "friend" say it.

[bamademo]

9. It's rolling Baby, it's rolling!

My Auburn friends had fun with that. :-)

[underpants]

11. Ha!

Damn talk about dropping the ball! Seemed like a good idea at the time I guess.

[soup]

10. These are great!

Thank you.

[Granite]

12. Great pics!

and encouraging poll results. Before I voted I had to put in my zip code - I'm sure the folks at al.com are wondering why someone from New Hampshire is taking their poll!

I just hope that people (in the South and everywhere) can put aside the social-wedge issue stuff, and vote on the real issues that are impacting America - jobs, economy, US standing in the world, health care, education, environment, etc.

[Ripley]

13. 77% don't think he served all of his time in the Guard!

That's unbelievable. Well not really, the dummies who support him don't use the internet, they only read the Bible. Or so I've heard.

[bamademo]

14. I know a lot of Repug dummies on the Internet who support him.

We now have 'lectricity and 386's here in Bama. :evilgrin:

Seriously, I would imagine that internet access is available even in trailer parks because most cable companies in Alabama bundle phone, internet access and cable.

[Ripley]

15. Yeah I know.

But they probably spend their time online reading Free Republic or Forbes. In my area the paper's letters are still pretty pro-Smirk. And about 90% of it is based upon the Bible. "He is a man of God" blah blah blah. I think that is the most serious obstacle to overcome in Alabama. How can you convince these people to read the paper and accept the reality that Bush is the reason we are at war and have a lousy economy, when they go to church and hear cheerleading for him?

They can't seem to accept that no matter if he really is born-again he is the worst president EVER according to the facts at hand.

[Timefortruth]

16. Someone BEG Max Cleland to run for senate

I'll donate to his campaign. The pukes must be worried or Anthrax wouldn't still be spreading her venom about him. This year is different, please, Max, please.......