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Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Jester
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:48AM
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. – Barack Obama came up a big winner in the presidential race in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location, N.H., where tradition of having the first Election Day ballots tallied lives on.
Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes.
Democrat Obama defeated Republican John McCain by a count of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, where a loud whoop accompanied the announcement in Tuesday's first minutes. The town of Hart's Location reported 17 votes for Obama, 10 for McCain and two for write-in Ron Paul. Independent Ralph Nader was on both towns' ballots but got no votes.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
TJ2008
()
Date: November 04, 2008 12:09PM
what did you expect? that is dem country. too bad it ain't legal to hunt them.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Reston
()
Date: November 04, 2008 12:53PM
November 5, 2008
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 01:19PM
The two biggest wastes of TV time are the NFL draft and election day coverage before the polls close. CNN spent 10 minutes interviewing "The Naked Cowboy" about his endorsement of John McCain...LIVE! If Bernard Shaw were dead, he'd be spinning in his grave...
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Registered Voter
()
Date: November 04, 2008 01:44PM
Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes interviewing Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of Obama....
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
MrMephisto
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:15PM
I want to hear more about writer/philosopher/country music sensation Joe the Plumber's endorsement. He's very dynamic and complicated.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Lopter
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:22PM
Joe the Plubmer, another McCain blunder, HIS NAME ISN'T JOE!
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
TheMeeper
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:25PM
He's changing his name to "Joe The Object of Scorn and Ridicule".
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
tj2008
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:25PM
Why the dem's just DON'T GET IT!
You take a simple random sample of 1000 balls from an urn containing 120,000,000 red and blue balls, and your sample shows 450 red balls and 550 blue balls. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of blue balls in the urn."
…Works pretty well if you're interested in hypothetical colored balls in hypothetical giant urns, or survival rates of plants in a controlled experiment, or defects in a batch of factory products. It may even work well if you're interested in blind cola taste tests. But what if the thing you are studying doesn't quite fit the balls & urns template?
• What if 40% of the balls have personally chosen to live in an urn that you legally can't stick your hand into?
• What if 50% of the balls who live in the legal urn explicitly refuse to let you select them?
• What if the balls inside the urn are constantly interacting and talking and arguing with each other, and can decide to change their color on a whim?
• What if you have to rely on the balls to report their own color, and some unknown number are probably lying to you?
• What if you've been hired to count balls by a company who has endorsed blue as their favorite color?
• What if you have outsourced the urn-ball counting to part-time temp balls, most of whom happen to be blue?
• What if the balls inside the urn are listening to you counting out there, and it affects whether they want to be counted, and/or which color they want to be?
(And what, I wonder, if all around you, every day, you are told by all of the coolest, hippest, prettiest balls that your color is mean, irrelevant, unpopular, un-cool, evil, old, incompetent and probably racist? Would you stick to your guns in the face of that, or keep your mouth shut and show ‘em when the curtain closes?)
If one or more of the above statements are true, then the formula for margin of error simplifies to
Margin of Error = Who the hell knows?
The moral of this for all would-be pollsters: if you are really interested in how many of us red and blue balls there are in this great big urn, sit back and relax, and let us show our true colors.
It may very well be that an army of glum, dispirited and pessimistic conservatives will reluctantly trudge to the polls, each one imagining they are the only remaining person in the entire country voting for McCain, and lo and behold -- they'll turn out to be a silent majority after all.
You take a simple random sample of 1000 balls from an urn containing 120,000,000 red and blue balls, and your sample shows 450 red balls and 550 blue balls. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true proportion of blue balls in the urn."
…Works pretty well if you're interested in hypothetical colored balls in hypothetical giant urns, or survival rates of plants in a controlled experiment, or defects in a batch of factory products. It may even work well if you're interested in blind cola taste tests. But what if the thing you are studying doesn't quite fit the balls & urns template?
• What if 40% of the balls have personally chosen to live in an urn that you legally can't stick your hand into?
• What if 50% of the balls who live in the legal urn explicitly refuse to let you select them?
• What if the balls inside the urn are constantly interacting and talking and arguing with each other, and can decide to change their color on a whim?
• What if you have to rely on the balls to report their own color, and some unknown number are probably lying to you?
• What if you've been hired to count balls by a company who has endorsed blue as their favorite color?
• What if you have outsourced the urn-ball counting to part-time temp balls, most of whom happen to be blue?
• What if the balls inside the urn are listening to you counting out there, and it affects whether they want to be counted, and/or which color they want to be?
(And what, I wonder, if all around you, every day, you are told by all of the coolest, hippest, prettiest balls that your color is mean, irrelevant, unpopular, un-cool, evil, old, incompetent and probably racist? Would you stick to your guns in the face of that, or keep your mouth shut and show ‘em when the curtain closes?)
If one or more of the above statements are true, then the formula for margin of error simplifies to
Margin of Error = Who the hell knows?
The moral of this for all would-be pollsters: if you are really interested in how many of us red and blue balls there are in this great big urn, sit back and relax, and let us show our true colors.
It may very well be that an army of glum, dispirited and pessimistic conservatives will reluctantly trudge to the polls, each one imagining they are the only remaining person in the entire country voting for McCain, and lo and behold -- they'll turn out to be a silent majority after all.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Lopter
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:29PM
Why don't REPUB'S get it! People don't read more than the first paragraph of a post.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 02:34PM
Here is the naked cowboy interview.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/04/roth.naked.cowboy.cnn
For background, this is what CNN correspondent Richard Roth used to do for a living...
"Roth is a CNN "original" — one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980. He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, from the Beijing student uprising in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War."
Those days are long gone, Richie!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 02:35PM by WashingToneLocian.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/11/04/roth.naked.cowboy.cnn
For background, this is what CNN correspondent Richard Roth used to do for a living...
"Roth is a CNN "original" — one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980. He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, from the Beijing student uprising in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War."
Those days are long gone, Richie!
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 02:35PM by WashingToneLocian.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
MrMephisto
()
Date: November 04, 2008 03:02PM
TheMeeper Wrote:
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> He's changing his name to "Joe The Object of Scorn
> and Ridicule".
I'm glad all of this happened, though. I've always wanted an archenemy.
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> He's changing his name to "Joe The Object of Scorn
> and Ridicule".
I'm glad all of this happened, though. I've always wanted an archenemy.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 03:35PM
Joe the Plumber says, "Thank God! After today, I can go back to having my feet, hands, fingers and face covered in other people's shit. It's the American way!"
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
tj2008
()
Date: November 04, 2008 03:48PM
for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep this short:
If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it so close?
think about that...follow the money.
and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it so close?
think about that...follow the money.
and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
The Common Obamanator
()
Date: November 04, 2008 04:03PM
I'm sorry, but I don't speak toothless redneck.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Lopter
()
Date: November 04, 2008 05:13PM
tj2008 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Looks like the Internet link to the Appalachians is back up
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Looks like the Internet link to the Appalachians is back up
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
correction
()
Date: November 04, 2008 05:41PM
Lopter Wrote:
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> Why don't REPUB'S get it! People don't read more
> than the first paragraph of a post.
Sheeple don't. People do.
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> Why don't REPUB'S get it! People don't read more
> than the first paragraph of a post.
Sheeple don't. People do.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
tj2008
()
Date: November 04, 2008 07:29PM
Beautiful Loptor and Obamantor..you can't refute the facts, so you attack the messinger.
the truth hurts...but the truth can set you free.
the truth hurts...but the truth can set you free.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Local Yokel
()
Date: November 04, 2008 08:30PM
Looks like McCain is going to own the Virginia vote.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Vince(1)
()
Date: November 04, 2008 09:05PM
tj2008 Wrote:
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
listen idiot...I dont think you could find a 1 to 1 relationship between dollars spent and votes in any race at any time. its a ridiculous comparison...but if it makes you feel good in defeat...have at it.
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
listen idiot...I dont think you could find a 1 to 1 relationship between dollars spent and votes in any race at any time. its a ridiculous comparison...but if it makes you feel good in defeat...have at it.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 04, 2008 09:30PM
Local Yokel Wrote:
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> Looks like McCain is going to own the Virginia
> vote.
Maybe, maybe not. It has been passing back and forth as different precincts report in.
As far as Fairfax County, Obama is winning 56% to McCain's 43%. I missed whether SE VA has fully reported in yet, but that could, but not definitely, turn the tide towards Obama.
It just went from 15,000 votes ahead to 12,000 ahead for McCain, so that last 30% reporting in from VA could change the outcome.
We'll see.
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> Looks like McCain is going to own the Virginia
> vote.
Maybe, maybe not. It has been passing back and forth as different precincts report in.
As far as Fairfax County, Obama is winning 56% to McCain's 43%. I missed whether SE VA has fully reported in yet, but that could, but not definitely, turn the tide towards Obama.
It just went from 15,000 votes ahead to 12,000 ahead for McCain, so that last 30% reporting in from VA could change the outcome.
We'll see.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 04, 2008 09:39PM
tj2008 Wrote:
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Well, maybe spending 7 times as his opponent would equate to 7 times the votes if Obama had also played the last month of the campaign running attacks ads making ridiculous accusations and smearing McCain, and got most of his votes from the low-education voter who would believe all the jingoism and fear mongering.
If Obama had been able to convince the low-education voter that McCain was a secret sleeper-cell muslim terrorist socialist, and backed with all that money, flooded the airwaves with those divisive messages, McCain wouldn't even get a single electoral vote.
Fortunately Obama only went on a few soft attacks, and left the mudslinging and divisive tactics to his desperate opponent.
Now, the real question is, was McCain's tactics prudent? Do you think any bill with his name on it will get signed into law in the next 4 to 8 years? He may have made himself an impotent senator, if Obama decides to hold a grudge.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 09:41PM by Bob.
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Well, maybe spending 7 times as his opponent would equate to 7 times the votes if Obama had also played the last month of the campaign running attacks ads making ridiculous accusations and smearing McCain, and got most of his votes from the low-education voter who would believe all the jingoism and fear mongering.
If Obama had been able to convince the low-education voter that McCain was a secret sleeper-cell muslim terrorist socialist, and backed with all that money, flooded the airwaves with those divisive messages, McCain wouldn't even get a single electoral vote.
Fortunately Obama only went on a few soft attacks, and left the mudslinging and divisive tactics to his desperate opponent.
Now, the real question is, was McCain's tactics prudent? Do you think any bill with his name on it will get signed into law in the next 4 to 8 years? He may have made himself an impotent senator, if Obama decides to hold a grudge.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 09:41PM by Bob.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:06PM
tj2008 Wrote:
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Nobody fucking cares. Obama won. STFU.
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> for the Dems and the others with ADD...I'll keep
> this short:
>
> If yer bro is SO good, and he out$pends the
> Republicans 7 TIMES OVER..how come he doesn't have
> 7 Times the support? or even 2 times? why is it
> so close?
>
> think about that...follow the money.
>
> and sleep well. This might be your last night to.
Nobody fucking cares. Obama won. STFU.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:08PM
Bob Wrote:
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> Local Yokel Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Looks like McCain is going to own the Virginia
> > vote.
>
>
> Maybe, maybe not. It has been passing back and
> forth as different precincts report in.
>
> As far as Fairfax County, Obama is winning 56% to
> McCain's 43%. I missed whether SE VA has fully
> reported in yet, but that could, but not
> definitely, turn the tide towards Obama.
>
> It just went from 15,000 votes ahead to 12,000
> ahead for McCain, so that last 30% reporting in
> from VA could change the outcome.
>
> We'll see.
I've been following the reporting. Most of RoVA has reported its votes. NoVA's is still trickling in. Expect Obama to win the Old Dominion and North Carolina. With any luck, we will elect Obama and send Meade to another state in one night.
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> Local Yokel Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Looks like McCain is going to own the Virginia
> > vote.
>
>
> Maybe, maybe not. It has been passing back and
> forth as different precincts report in.
>
> As far as Fairfax County, Obama is winning 56% to
> McCain's 43%. I missed whether SE VA has fully
> reported in yet, but that could, but not
> definitely, turn the tide towards Obama.
>
> It just went from 15,000 votes ahead to 12,000
> ahead for McCain, so that last 30% reporting in
> from VA could change the outcome.
>
> We'll see.
I've been following the reporting. Most of RoVA has reported its votes. NoVA's is still trickling in. Expect Obama to win the Old Dominion and North Carolina. With any luck, we will elect Obama and send Meade to another state in one night.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:39PM
I just saw, with 90% in, VA is 51% Obama, 49% McCain.
There's still a chance McCain could win VA, but it's doubtful.
There's still a chance McCain could win VA, but it's doubtful.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:44PM
Obama is going to win VA and NC. The outstanding VA votes are in NoVA.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:52PM
Registered Voter Wrote:
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> Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes interviewing
> Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of Obama....
I just imagined it.
I went to college. It didn't spark one bit of fear or resentment to imagine that, at all.
Why does it bother you so much? Not much education? Or is it your latent racism?
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> Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes interviewing
> Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of Obama....
I just imagined it.
I went to college. It didn't spark one bit of fear or resentment to imagine that, at all.
Why does it bother you so much? Not much education? Or is it your latent racism?
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Vince(1)
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:53PM
Thank you Bob..slam dunk on the biggest ass on FU!
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:54PM
Fox and NPR call Virginia for Obama.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 10:55PM by WashingToneLocian.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/04/2008 10:55PM by WashingToneLocian.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:56PM
tj2008 Wrote:
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> Beautiful Loptor and Obamantor..you can't refute
> the facts, so you attack the messinger.
>
> the truth hurts...but the truth can set you free.
Looks like you are wrong...again.
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> Beautiful Loptor and Obamantor..you can't refute
> the facts, so you attack the messinger.
>
> the truth hurts...but the truth can set you free.
Looks like you are wrong...again.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:56PM
Vince(1) Wrote:
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> Thank you Bob..slam dunk on the biggest ass on FU!
My ass isn't that big, Honest.
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> Thank you Bob..slam dunk on the biggest ass on FU!
My ass isn't that big, Honest.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Vince(1)
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:56PM
WashingToneLocian Wrote:
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> Fox and NPR call Virginia for Obama.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh! VA has entered the 21st century...by the skin of it's teeth.
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> Fox and NPR call Virginia for Obama.
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhh! VA has entered the 21st century...by the skin of it's teeth.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 10:57PM
Registered Voter Wrote:
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> Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes interviewing
> Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of Obama....
Imagine if you asked any Klansman who he voted for for President.
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> Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes interviewing
> Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of Obama....
Imagine if you asked any Klansman who he voted for for President.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: November 04, 2008 11:02PM
NBC calls the election for Obama!!!! Our long, national nightmare is over! No more Bushes or Rethuglicans in charge!
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Bob
()
Date: November 05, 2008 12:21AM
WashingToneLocian Wrote:
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> NBC calls the election for Obama!!!! Our long,
> national nightmare is over! No more Bushes or
> Rethuglicans in charge!
Elizabeth Dole's out, too.
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> NBC calls the election for Obama!!!! Our long,
> national nightmare is over! No more Bushes or
> Rethuglicans in charge!
Elizabeth Dole's out, too.
Re: Obama Wins Big in Earliest Poll Returns- Keep it up voting
Posted by:
Registered Voter
()
Date: November 06, 2008 03:23PM
Bob Wrote:
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> Registered Voter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes
> interviewing
> > Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of
> Obama....
>
>
> I just imagined it.
>
> I went to college. It didn't spark one bit of
> fear or resentment to imagine that, at all.
>
> Why does it bother you so much? Not much
> education? Or is it your latent racism?
You, and Vince, missed my point. What relevance did interviewing the Naked Cowboy have other than to inject a "look who is voting republican?" edge to it. So it is fine to put up interviews with folks that really shouldn't be on TV in the first place (and normally he isn't). My point with Farrakhan was to say that it would have had a similar effect for conservative voters.
It was just another clear instance of media bias, and another notch in why the fairness doctrine won't make a return. If it did they would have to apply it equally to MSM - which would probably be a benefit for them from a revenue standpoint - but not something they would want to be forced into doing.
There was no "slam dunk" Vince. Sorry.
As I said before, I actually like Obama so far as the face of him we have seen presented to us. I never really liked McCain, but felt he better represented most of my policy beliefs as far as smaller government and less spending goes. Now that Obama is in, I think it is a win for our country in the short term. We will just have to see how his long-term policies turn out. But please, continue to take the reasoned, generally well researched responses I put up here and twist them or put words in my mouth I never said.
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> Registered Voter Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Imagine if they had spent 10 minutes
> interviewing
> > Louis Farrakhan about his endorsement of
> Obama....
>
>
> I just imagined it.
>
> I went to college. It didn't spark one bit of
> fear or resentment to imagine that, at all.
>
> Why does it bother you so much? Not much
> education? Or is it your latent racism?
You, and Vince, missed my point. What relevance did interviewing the Naked Cowboy have other than to inject a "look who is voting republican?" edge to it. So it is fine to put up interviews with folks that really shouldn't be on TV in the first place (and normally he isn't). My point with Farrakhan was to say that it would have had a similar effect for conservative voters.
It was just another clear instance of media bias, and another notch in why the fairness doctrine won't make a return. If it did they would have to apply it equally to MSM - which would probably be a benefit for them from a revenue standpoint - but not something they would want to be forced into doing.
There was no "slam dunk" Vince. Sorry.
As I said before, I actually like Obama so far as the face of him we have seen presented to us. I never really liked McCain, but felt he better represented most of my policy beliefs as far as smaller government and less spending goes. Now that Obama is in, I think it is a win for our country in the short term. We will just have to see how his long-term policies turn out. But please, continue to take the reasoned, generally well researched responses I put up here and twist them or put words in my mouth I never said.