*** NEWS AND ANALYSIS:  ELECTION EVE SPECIAL***

PREDICTIONS

Here goes our bi-annual prediction of elections outcomes. First, the easy part. In Vermont, it will be Leahy, Sanders, Douglas, Dubie, Sorrell, Spaulding, Brock, Markowitz, Democrat senate 20 to 10, and a Democrat house, 76 to 69 GOP to 5 Progressives.

Why? McMullen did better than six years ago but he will not keep Leahy under 60. Nor will Parke keep Sanders under 65. Back benchers the two. Clavelle tried to tie Douglas to Bush but there is so little similarity as to be laughable. Bush is outpolling Clavelle!

Everybody likes Dubie. Not so Rivers. Hingtgen never got traction, even in his own party. Bernie endorsed Rivers, and Clavelle, the other big dog Progressive, is running with her.

Folks will find that not only is Ready not ready, Ready is seedy. Brock is actually an auditor.

Douglas will have to do “Dean.” Both houses will be in not just Democrat hands but in very liberal Democrat hands. The potential leadership in both houses consistently scores as the most liberal members in the legislative report cards put out by various special interests. Douglas will be the only person between Vermont and the abyss. Even with Douglas at the helm, Vermont dropped from 44th to 45th in business climate rankings.

THE MAIN EVENT

The national scene is too close to call. But being the brave and tireless scribe who has been locked in his writer’s garret until he completes his predictions, calls the election sadly and in abject misery for Kerry.

Bush floated on a double digit lead in September until he became the caricature from Saturday Night Live in the first debate; hunched over, leering, wearing his aquiline scowl, jabbing and jabbering. Kerry won by merely being tall and incoherent.

With that, the race leveled at 47. Usually the undecideds all break for change, whether it is for Berry, Carrie, Gerry, Kerry, Perry, or Terry. Wouldn’t matter. Too bad.

The Bushies mistook stubbornness for commitment, choir harmony for national support, and resoluteness for policy. They offered no change for failed policies of the past. Regrettably, we are on the wrong track and they could not get back on track without recognition, a willingness to change, and a new direction. They bought into their own inevitability, desperately clinging to a strategy of anybody but Kerry. They will vote for anybody but Bush.

THE DOUG WILDER EFFECT

We hoped that the Doug Wilder effect was in play, explaining why there was such variation in the polling data? One poll reported Bush up by 13, another had Kerry up by 1.

In the fall of 1989 Doug Wilder was a sho-in to be the first African American governor in the United States. The final Washington Post poll just before the election had Wilder winning by 11 points. On election day he won by 2 points.

The variance became known as the “Doug Wilder effect.” Many people who were polled just did not want to tell the pollster that they would not vote for that nice colored man. As a result the polling data for Wilder was inflated.

Potentially the Doug Wilder effect was in the polling data. The Bush haters are so vehement and possessed that it is hard in some places or groups to tell people that you are for Bush. The cultural icons are all wildly for Kerry, be they from Hollywood, academia, media, or European capitals. Even your local librarian is for Kerry 233 to 1. So when the pollster calls, a percentage of the sample who favors President Bush is afraid to speak frankly and therefore indicate their preferences falsely?

A PATTERN OF CONDUCT

Elizabeth Ready has been walking on the edge for what seems a lifetime. Personal and professional conduct has been tawdry, inappropriate, and untrustworthy; truth and personal responsibility was absent. When caught, she spun, she lied, she danced, she smiled, she worked even harder and she escaped. This wicket is stickier.

Before mortgaging the state’s trust, she failed to pay her property taxes. She ran up personal credit card debt. She showed up at her lover’s funeral and all but threw herself on his casket in front of the deceased wife and family. Well, misspent youth so to speak.

But similar behavior was exhibited at the Auditor’s office, an office which ought to be squeaky clean. Soon a query from the public found that she had a cell phone bill in the thousands in non-reimbursed private calls. She had what seemed to be excess travel costs and reimbursements. Yet she won reelection anyway.

WHERE IS ALEXANDER ACEBO WHEN WE NEED HIM

Her degree fabrications are reminiscent of online offerings. But by out-working everyone, campaign smarts, and a liberal forgiving electorate, Ready has succeeded, succeeded well beyond where her high school diploma might have suggested. To bring her education up to her station, she created a University of Vermont degree and a Masters from Norwich University. It seemed to fit and be credible. But the house of cards folded.

Even the Free Press’s editorial ladies questioned whether Ready might have gone too far in “A tangled web.” A little conditioner please? Though we would love to believe religion reached into their hearts, we recall the hassle Ready constantly gave Governor Dean and the loyalty of a Free Press editorial writer to Dean might well just be into payback time. Judgment is reserved, theirs and ours. Indecisive, they asked, “Will Vermonters forgive Ready?” not sharing with us their editorial position. The Times Argus opined “Fudge,” which of course it isn't. They suggest that so what; she fudged the books a little. Not so serious. Not so the St. Albans Messenger which called for her head. Not much doubt there.

As election time rolled around, all the papers including the Free Press and the Herald Times Argus endorsed her opponent Randy Brock. Only her hometown Addison Independent remained loyal.

THEN THE APOLOGY

Then came the Auditor’s apology: “I am sorry for the lapses in personal responsibility,” for her “past biographical information.”

I am so sorry for foolishly going to my lover’s funeral and all but throwing myself on his casket in front of his grieving wife and children but I was the victim of youth.

I am so sorry for failing to pay my property tax bills in my town but I was the victim of a divorce.

I am so sorry for failing to pay my credit cards when due but I was victim of single parenthood.

I am so sorry that I treated the State’s coffers, your money, as my personal piggy bank but I was a victim of overwork.

I am so sorry that I created an appropriate resume for my stature as your auditor but I was a victim of hubris.

I am so sorry for these personal lapses but I am now a victim of the Republican Party’s politics of personal destruction.

I am so sorry for my continuing trail of personal lapses. I will never lapse again until I am next victimized.

THE KETTLE SPEAKS

Dearly departed Waldo held the largest book signing ever at the Church Street Mall’s Borders Books. Whilst Dean was signing "You Have the Power" and wishing that he did, he pontificated, “Electing Kerry-Edwards saves us from a crackpot Supreme Court.” He is familiar with crackpot courts as he appointed the ones who tossed out the constitution to legislate from the bench.

THE THREE G’S

According to a report in the Vermont Standard, our congressman, Bernie, “accused the Bush Administration of using the three G’s, God, guns and gays, as wedge issues...”

Amazing, God a wedge issue. God is dividing Americans? Since when is God a wedge issue. Isn’t everybody on the same page here? Let’s see. On the penny, nickel, dime and quarter there is “In God we trust.” On the bills as well. But for Bernie God is a wedge issue. What side of God is Bernie on?

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY

Sure love those millionaires socialist Bernie and Peter Clavelle, richer than the poor governor. And Clavelle reported income in 2003 of $231,000 while the poor GOP fellow Douglas earned $100,000 less. What a wonderful life.

HOW DID WE GET THIS WAY

National Public Radio’s humorist Garrison Keillor is an icon of civility, manners, and grace on the Prairie Home Companion heard weekly Saturday evenings from 6-8, repeated Sundays from noon to 2. He graced the stage at the Shelburne Farms enthralling his audience.

But how does he really feel, unvarnished and all? Get a load of these excerpts from his recent book, Homegrown Democrat. Republicans are “hairy-backed swamp developers, corporate shills, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys...”

We pause for you to catch your breath. Keillor doesn't however. “...tax cheats, cat stranglers, grab-ass executives, gun fetishists, genteel pornographers, nihilists in golf pants...”

You get the gist. Republicans are “criminal...evil, deeply evil, out to destroy all we hold dear.” Democrats on the other hand are compassionate, good Samaritans, rushing to save people, and on and on.

We preferred that other Democrat humorist Will Rogers who famously said that he was not a member of any organized political party in that he was a Democrat.

CAMPAIGNS AND PROSTITUTION

What a campaign, forever and then some. Focused and targeted. Mean and unpleasant, full of sound and fury signifying what?

That Kerry fellow became so desperate that he was campaigning against ghosts: the draft to come, social security to end, the hidden bin Laden October surprise, how General Shinseki was ‘forced out’ which was immediately denied by the General, and General Tommy Franks complained about not enough troops immediately denied by the General.

Kerry then said under his leadership terrorism would become just another nuisance like prostitution and gambling. Prostitutes whatever you want to say about them rarely crash planes into skyscrapers or blow up elementary schools.

SUPERMAN

Charles Krauthammer railed at Vice Presidential nominee John Edwards in the Washington Post regarding his comment that if we elect John Kerry, “People like Christopher Reeve are going to walk again.”

Krauthammer, confined to a wheel chair since medical school and perhaps more of an expert on this matter than Senator Edwards, wrote, “In my twenty five years in Washington, I have never seen a more loathsome display of demagoguery. Deliberately, for personal gain, raising false hope in the catastrophically afflicted is despicable... George Bush is the first president to approve federal funding for stem cell research. There are 3,500 shipments of stem cells waiting for anybody who wants them.”

BRING ON THE HOMOPHOBES

The Johns stepped further into the sleaze to call Vice President Cheney’s daughter’s sexuality to our attention in an attempt to lower turnout among the Bush conservative religious supporters. “That this twice-delivered (by Edwards and then Kerry) low blow was deliberate is indisputable,” wrote William Safire in the New York Times.

HOW LOW CAN YOU GO

Not limbo, but WWW.KERRYHATERSFORKERRY.COM. Yup, folks who hate Kerry are for Kerry. Puts him the class of former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards who once said “I will be elected unless I am caught with a dead woman or a live boy.” In his race against Klan leader David Duke for governor, the supportive bumper sticker read, “Vote for the crook; it’s important.”

NOBODY LIKED ME

Dan Quayle pointed out that until John Kerry had won Iowa and New Hampshire, only one fellow senator other than Ted Kennedy had endorsed him. Guess he colleagues did not like him either.

THE OPEN SOCIETY

George Soros, Hungarian-American zillionaire, declared that he would give away all his zillions if it guaranteed that George W. Bush would be a one term president. He had heard all he wanted to of demagogues, anti rule of law people, and war mongers in the old country. He funded organizations in the swing states of the rust belt to register, persuade and turn out anti-Bush voters. It did not matter to him who the Democrat nominee was; anybody, even our own Howard Dean whom he supported in the primaries, was better than Bush.

But as with the feared Dean Campaign organizers in Iowa, will Soros’s money, about $400,000,000 from Soros and his friends, make a difference? In the Iowa debriefing of voters, folks complained about the pushy, not from here folks with their orange hats, who called fourteen times and offered coffee, donuts and a ride if only they might save America by supporting Dean. Didn’t work there, will it work in the mid-west?

A socialist leaning newspaper in London, UK, the Guardian, purchased a voting list of undecided voters in Ohio and offered them one at a time to their subscribers so that they could write the undecideds and offer their thoughts.

The Clark County director of Elections, Linda Bosicka said of the effort, “The American Revolution was fought for a reason.”

UN SAYS NUCLEAR MATERIALS VANISHED FROM IRAQ

How could that be? Thought that there were no weapons of mass destruction. But hold your horses. The International Atomic Energy Agency reported to the UN that “equipment and materials helpful in making bombs have disappeared; entire buildings once housing high precision equipment have been dismantled.”

THE FIFTH COLUMN

Folks in Iraq are discovering that young European Muslims are being found dead and alive in country. Might be just a bit worrying to their home countries. What might happen if the war is stopped? Will these young fighters return home to wreck havoc in France, Germany, and the Netherlands?

THEY GIVE US THANKS

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THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD

The proud tradition of the Rutland Herald Time Argus, a multi-generational family enterprise, rising to the challenge of a fiercely divided body politic in Vermont to describe in Pulitzer Prize fashion the tensions of the civil union days, is threatened.

Today the editorial pages of slipped from irrelevance to mean-spiritedness. Irrelevant as day after day, they pound George Bush and company in a state where the race for president was decided months if not years ago. As Julie Anderson of Stowe was reported to have said to the Free Press, “I would vote for my dog if I thought it would get Bush out of office.” Or you could register in four Vermont towns and vote for Bush. No amount of dog votes or ballot stuffing or Herald/Times Argus pleading is going to change the outcome.

Recently they took apart the swift Vets and their “quickie” book, Unfit for Command. Yet they produced a “quickie” on Howard Dean just last year. They compare Guantanamo Bay to My Lai where Lieutenant Calley led his forces into the village of My Lai to slaughter women and children. How many women and children have been slaughtered in Guantanamo? Almost each day brings another anti-Bush tirade.

This unsightly, erroneous, and demeaning ranting humiliates the once proud Herald/Times Argus tradition. Not only did the Herald’s editorial page not win the Pulitzer this year, they were not even an honorable mention in the Vermont Press Association Awards. Please stop. Restore your dignity. Spend your ink with integrity.

AMERICA’S PAPER OF WRECKAGE

America’s paper of record, the New York Times is at it again. In a headline which may live in schools of journalism for years if not decades, a headline in the September 15th issue goes, “Memos on Bush are fake, but accurate, typist says.” A contradiction in terms but maybe these rules do not apply when so much is a stake.

“Dan Rather and the elderly gentlemen at CBS’s “60 minutes” were all a-twitter because they had come into possession of some hitherto undiscovered memos relating to whether George W. Bush failed to show up for his physical in the War of 1812…Mr. Rather’s hairdresser sucks up so much of the budget there was nothing left for fact-checking…Their boy John Kerry had a crummy August not because he did not hammer Mr. Bush for being AWOL in the Spanish-American War but because the senator is AWOL in the present war,” wrote Mark Steyn.

BULLSH1T NEWS

A cartoonist captured the moment; he/she dropped the “C” from CBS news to create the new “BS News.” CBS complained that it was “misled.” Misled? Do they bother to check sources? They have been pounding the White House and the CIA rightly for relying on single source intelligence in Iraq. Did they have multiple sources? Nope.

The supplier of the memos, Mr. Burkett, is a single compromised source. Mr. Burkett asked CBS to introduce him at a high level to the Kerry Campaign. Quid pro quo. And they did, Dan Rather’s assistant calling Joe Lockhart, former Clinton White House press secretary, asking him to call Mr. Burkett, and he did.

Dan Rather went on the air to say “It was an error made in good faith carrying on the CBS tradition of investigative reporting without fear or favoritism.” What a crock! It was not made in “good faith.” They did not do any “investigative reporting.” It was not done “without favoritism.” And this Dan Rather called an “apology. Amazing. Is he still working there?

DO NEWSPAPERS MAKE GOOD NEWS LOOK BAD?

In the New York Times appeared an Op-Ed by that title. The writer, Eduardo Porter, reviewed a thirteen year study done by two economists at the American Enterprise Institute. They found that “economic reporters slanted the news unequivocally in favor of Democrats... Republicans received 20 to 30 percent fewer positive headlines...the Associated Press was even more skewed. ‘A desire to aid the political fortunes of Democrats could explain the patterns we see in the data.’”

CNN FOR OR AGAINST?

As CNN loses viewers by the billions, one might think they would glance at the mirror. The now venerable 24/7 worldwide news organization is just another satellite of the Kerry campaign. That James Carville and Paul Begala were now working for the Kerry campaign did not conflict with their being “experts” for CNN. Might they not exhibit a bias? Naw.

WHAT DOES THIS EQUAL

Let’s see. CNN, Associated Press, economic writers, CBS News, the New York Times, and more all lined up with the Kerry campaign. Reporters gave to Democrats 93 to 1. Bad news piled on bad news. When the economy gained 308,000 jobs in March, “the biggest monthly gain in four years”, the AP headline was, “Bond prices tumble on jobs data.”

THE GOOSE AND THE GANDER

For years interviewees would attempt to negotiate with television programs to only appear live and uncut. Too many people had learned the hard way that television news would take a reasonable sixty minute interview and turn it into a minute from hell, cutting and pasting until they pasted you as a patsy, chewed up and spit out to make their twisted point.

Now it is television that is complaining as their news programs go to the campaign media consultant who is doing the cutting and pasting. The offender in this case was the Kerry campaign. In an AP report, “NBC News asked the Kerry campaign to pull an ad including footage of Cheney on Meet the Press. ‘Interviews can be twisted and turned and edited inside and out.” Exactly, they should know, just as they have been doing for decades.

SHADOW BOXING

Not having found himself or George Bush, John Kerry is left swinging at shadows. If Bush wins reelection, he will institute the draft. “Kerry sees plan to call up new reserves after November 2” shouts a New York Times headline.

Back when you editor was teaching Campaigns & Elections, he warned campaign wannabe’s to be wary of the candidate who says “tell me what to say, and I will say it.” If a candidate does not have a core of beliefs or if the candidate cannot clearly express why he/she is running, look for a new candidate. This clearly is Kerry’s problem. He now has advisors advising advisors. He has DNC advisors, Clinton advisors, Kennedy advisors, Kerry advisors, Kennedy School of Government advisors, all wishing and a’hoping that Kerry will catch on they will have a pass to the show.

“There all consultants, flaks, spinners, strategists, Knights of the Palm lunch table. They come as one to figure out what John Kerry should believe...they realized what was missing; a theme... An immense army of Michelangelos are trying to sculpt the melted marshmallow of Kerry’s core...The sound of their hammers echoes limitlessly in the hallow within,” writes David Brooks in the New York Times.

THE MEDIA WAVE

Shockingly, the media are pro Kerry. Not just pro Kerry, but wildly so, by a factor of 93 to 1. Quoting to the Political Money Line, the New York Times reported that journalists have contributed to Kerry on a ratio of 93 to 1. Academics were only in favor of Kerry 11 to 1, actors 18 to 1, authors 36 to 1 and astonishingly librarians supported Kerry 223 to 1. How could so many smart people be so stupid?

NO MEDIA BIAS? DON'T EMBARASS YOURSELF!

New surveys have found that public perception of media credibility has fallen and that by two or three-to-one, more see major networks and newspapers as "biased to help Kerry" over Bush. ...

Apparent distrust of the media is consistent among other demographic groups, with one exception: those with lower levels of education and income are more likely to have confidence in the media's accuracy and fairness than those with more education and higher incomes. http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040927.asp#4

DAVID MACE REPLIES

A piece in the recent Dwinell Political Report regarding my employment contained several inaccuracies. I’d like to set the record straight.

My employer is the Vermont Electric Power Company, Inc., or VELCO. The Chief Executive Officer is Martin Miller. VELCO is owned by Vermont’s distribution utilities, both investor-owned and municipal or cooperative.

Our Lamoille County Project is the result of a request by the region’s utilities to address reliability issues in the area. With regard to the quotes attributed to me, here is what I actually wrote in response to Mr. Robert Murray’s suggestion that our project be routed through a state forest in Waterbury and Stowe:

“State environmental regulators have made clear they will oppose a route through the Mount Mansfield State Forest. We believe it would be irresponsible to spend Stowe ratepayers’ money to pursue an option that has virtually no chance of being permitted. With respect to burying the line VELCO’s position is clear: We don't believe it is necessary to meet the requirements of Vermont law. The cost will indeed be high but if someone is willing to pay or if the PSB (Public Service Board) orders it, we will build an underground line.”

“Similarly, VELCO as a corporation has little interest in whether the transmission line into Stowe is upgraded or not. However, as the company responsible for Vermont’s transmission infrastructure, we believe it is our duty to notify the responsible public authorities ­ the PSB ­ whenever system reliability is in danger of falling below what we understand public expectations to be.”

Finally, a little history of the Mount Mansfield State Forest is in order. According to officials at the Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation and local historians, Green Mountain Power had been buying out farmers who were abandoning the land prior to 1927 with an eye toward building a hydroelectric dam there.

Following the flood of 1927, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers entered the picture and continued the purchase of land, with the primary goal of constructing a flood control dam. In 1937, Green Mountain Power deeded the land to the State of Vermont while retaining its rights to maintain the dam and other infrastructure needed to generate electricity there.

Local historians generally agree that the farms in the area were dying, and that the small communities that had been created were fading away, a phenomenon that was occurring around the state at this time.

To suggest that “Green Mountain Power and the State conspired with the United States Corps of Engineers to flood these communities to build a power dam ... (and) Later the state annexed the surrounding land to the west and north for the exclusive affordable housing of those non tax-paying non septic-tank-using layabouts, forest creatures,” is at odds with the recorded history of the area.

VELCO is committed to providing reliable electric transmission service to Vermont’s utilities and ultimately its consumers, while maintaining our commitment to be a good steward of both the ratepayers’ money and Vermont’s environment.

David Mace
Manager of Public Affairs
Vermont Electric Power Company Inc.

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GOP PARTIES ON

“Annoy a liberal: work, succeed, and be happy.” “I voted for Kerry before I voted against him.” --Bumper Sticker Art

TUH-RAY-ZA

At Wendy’s “she resembles nothing so much as a debutante at a tractor pull... her efforts to play the political spouse are reminiscent of watching your mom try to relate to the kids at your fifth-grade slumber party: sweet, but painfully unconvincing.” --Michelle Cottle, Atlantic Monthly, October, 2004

MUZZLED

“The Kerry people look at these speeches pretty closely. They don't want any Bush-bashing in there. No Bush-bashing at the Democratic Convention!!” --Al Gore, New Yorker, September 13, 2004

THE SAGE OF BROOKFIELD SPEAKS

“The Dartmouth class of 2004 favors John Kerry by 16 to 1. Is that the results of the choices made by the admission’s office or the result of a Dartmouth education?” --Congressman Richard Mallary ‘49, Brookfield, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, September, 2004

REVENGE OF THE RED NECK

“The largest buyer of natural foods today is Wal-Mart.” --Doug Greene, founder of Natural Foods Merchandiser

IRONY: SAYING ONE THING AND MEANING ANOTHER

The Vermont license plate reads “FARCE”, the bumper sticker just below reads “Dean for America.”

SAY WHAT?

“A Freedom of Information Act request by the Washington Post for Kerry’s records produced six pages. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan said that he was not authorized to release the full file of at least 100 pages.” --Washington Post

THE SPOILER

“Rivers plays spoiler...” --Burlington Free Press, October 20, 2004

PATHETIC ON SO MANY LEVELS

"Michael Moore is not a big hit in Iran... Fahrenheit 9/11, which opened this week in Tehran, is failing to draw raves. One young man said of America, 'It sure is a great country, where someone like Moore trashes the president and gets away with it--and makes so much money!' And how pathetic are Iran's mad mullahs that they have to import anti-American propaganda from America?"

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