trouble in florida- orange and osceola going bush????

[texas is the reason]

WTF! both went for gore in 2000, and are now going to bush. orange is falling big to bush. i live in the orlando area, and let me tell you- osceola is hugely black and hispanic, and quite poor (comparitively). if we cannot win there, we may be losing florida. they did get absolutely ravaged by three of the four hurricanes, so hopefully that is it. i am keeping my fingers crossed.

[lancdem]

1. I think Jeb is manipulating the numbers

[nytemare]

2. what is the source?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

3. Florida SOS has these numbers.

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_DET_PRE.html

[FM Arouet666]

4. The Fix is in

Florida must be looked at with suspicion. Chimp and brother of Chimp have too much control there. It will be a sad day for democracy if they get away with it.

[texas is the reason]

8. i agree. -ohio! we are counting on you!! (iowa and colorado,too)

[Lorien]

5. I live in Orange

Kerry signs far outnumber * signs here, plus voter turnout was huge. If they say it's going to * "big time", then somebody is lying.

[neoteric lefty]

6. Let's not forget that

Palm Beach and Broward aren't really reporting yet, so any gains by Bush in central Florida will probably at least be offset in the SE.

[Cocoa]

7. this is Jeb spin

ignore it, merely for the fact that it came from Jeb.

[texas is the reason]

9. unfortunately, these are the "official" state dept. of elections numbers..

http://enight.dos.state.fl.us/20041102_DET_PRE.html
i don't doubt that these may be manipulated as well, but these are the <fake> numbers that will award the electoral votes. right?

[Cocoa]

10. no

Jeb contacted the media with this bullshit. By definition, it is NOT to be listened to. The TV stations should not have reported this crap, and DU should of course ignore it.

(though there have been about a zillion threads started on this Jeb spin, for some odd reason...)

[texas is the reason]

11. did you click the link?

[camero]

12. I did

Those are stated at the top as UNOFFICIAL election results. Absentee and early voting has not been counted towards the total yet.

[texas is the reason]

16. very good point about the early voting!!!!!!

17% of registered voters voted early, and those went big for kerry. with that in mind, if today's results are even close, kerry should win with the early voting factored in. whew!

[cubsfan forever]

14. Yes, and it shows NO results from Miami-Dade,

as well as Kerry up by 150,000 in Broward

Professor 2

[byronm]

13. kerry is gaining

don't get your panties in a wad :)

[JPace]

15. paperless voting machines.....

we will never be able to prove anything.

[Blue_Roses]

17. Bush bought Florida after the hurricanes

is what I heard tonight at our Dem headquarters.

[Fla Dem]

18. Updated Florida Results

---------Report-Bush------Kerry
Orange----91.3%--127,935--123,975
Osceola---83.9%---32,812---30,295

Total Florida

Bush-----2,513796----52%
Kerry----2,304,316---47%

67% Reporting

[texas is the reason]

19. check out the newest ones! we've got orange!!!!

95.4% rep., b-139,975 k-144,023. must have just gotten the votes back from "tha hood". suburbs here are big time bush, but looks like the urban areas have pulled through. and this is without early voting results!!! i feel a dean scream coming on....YYYEEEEEARRGHHH!!!! damn this is looking good. we may sweep oh, pa, and fl.