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  • Jon Kelly
  • 8 Oct 08, 01:24 AM GMT

Jennifer has been out and about sampling Nashville's delights. At the Douglas Corner Cafe she found customers enjoying music with a Republican flavour:

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  • 1. At 05:31am on 08 Oct 2008, eddienix wrote:

    Jesus, Rebublicans and country music -- all in one perky Sarah Palinized package -- oh my. For an evening's worth of good entertainment I hear the Nashville punk scene isn't bad either. And remember, Democrat demi-god Al Gore is from Tennessee as well. Perhaps he could put on a live global warming, country music show, cross-country, circus tent style with cowboys, Indians, magicians and pretty girls. Southerners love stuff that looks and sounds like them. Though he he does a fantastic job not sounding like it, George W. Bush was also Ivy League educated, and McCain went to West Point, which is not exactly Tennessee State. But it's how you sound and who you look like, not what you say and where you're really from.

    I saw earlier that the BBC bus was heading to Pennsylvania. Now that Virginia, and maybe even North Carolina, look more like potential swing states than Pennsyvlania, perhaps the BBC bus should swing through Asheville, Charlotte, Blacksburg, Charlottesville and Northern Virignia instead?

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  • 2. At 12:59pm on 09 Oct 2008, scorpiowilliams wrote:

    What has politics got to do with ethnicity? there is a serious problem at stake and people keep talking about this one from here and that one from there--all these won't solve the problem at hand. Let's call a spade a spade and vote for the right person who will solve the country's problem and desist from unnecessary arguments. mcCain Palin have nothing good to offer the people America since they are already well to do and Don't care about the poor.

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  • 3. At 09:38am on 10 Oct 2008, Peter_Sym wrote:

    "mcCain Palin have nothing good to offer the people America since they are already well to do and Don't care about the poor."

    And Obama / Biden are poor????

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  • 4. At 08:08am on 15 Oct 2008, ruckus83 wrote:

    Now that you have been to some of the most McCain supporting states in the country (TN-McCain 56%, Obama 37%) and (KY-McCain 56%, Obama 42%) now go to some of the most Obama supporting states. I hope the journalist for BBC are out to get the real story, not just to highlight the rednecks in TN and KY that are to racist and stupid to realize they are voting against their own economic and personal interest when they vote for McCain.

    I have a suggestion come to Florida! We made over 2500 phone calls from our local Obama office today, and there are almost 100 Obama campaign offices just like ours spread out across the state making phone calls, knocking on doors and getting voters to the polls everyday.

    Or you could go to Georgia, where because of early voting, 500,000 people have already cast ballots and 37% of them are black. That is an 11% increase from 2004 and if this number holds would mean an Obama upset in the deep south!!!

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