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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #520 on: October 01, 2008, 06:37:42 PM »
Has she ever left the country?
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #521 on: October 01, 2008, 08:21:54 PM »
McCain will still win the election somehow anyway.

No, McCain is screwed.  Have you seen the most recent polls?  Obama is pulling ahead in many of the swing states. This is after a lackluster debate showing by Obama (and McCain).  I see McCain's defeat as a function of his campaign managers.  What a group of poor advisors he's pulled together! Unfortunately, that speaks to McCain's decision-making ability, as does his sensational, though pathetic, VP choice. 

McCain cannot pull this out now. He's tried lots of things to turn the campaign to his advantage and ended up looking weak and vulnerable instead of Presidential.

Obama would have to flash the audience on live TV for McCain to win. 
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #522 on: October 01, 2008, 08:24:24 PM »
Obama would have to flash the audience on live TV for McCain to win. 

Bold statement. How do you figure that affects Ron Paul's chances?
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #523 on: October 01, 2008, 08:25:16 PM »
Let's not  speak too quickly. Somebody better knock on wood. After all Biden has a real knack for wedging his foot into his mouth.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #524 on: October 01, 2008, 08:27:53 PM »
Let's not  speak too quickly. Somebody better knock on wood. After all Biden has a real knack for wedging his foot into his mouth.

Biden could flash the audience on live TV, and Sarah Palin's lack of authority and knowledge would still dominant the post-debate talk.

Who's Ron Paul? ;)
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #525 on: October 01, 2008, 08:33:08 PM »
Obama would have to flash the audience on live TV for McCain to win. 

Bold statement. How do you figure that affects Ron Paul's chances?

They might go up slightly from 0%.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #526 on: October 01, 2008, 09:24:25 PM »
Let's not  speak too quickly. Somebody better knock on wood. After all Biden has a real knack for wedging his foot into his mouth.

Not likely possible considering the best ever debate zinger delivered, was during a VP debate by what ended up being the losing ticket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-7gpgXNWYI

It did destroy Quayle's career - but who really cared?
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #527 on: October 01, 2008, 10:09:59 PM »
Let's not  speak too quickly. Somebody better knock on wood. After all Biden has a real knack for wedging his foot into his mouth.

My friends and I like to make up drinking games for the presidential debates. So far the three times we've done this, our holy grail rule has been if any candidate utters a racial epithet, we drain the bottle. With Biden in the VP debate though, we're thinking of backing off that rule.

(Though granted, one of the ideas we tossed around was drinking every time Palin mention's she's from Alaska, so we'll probably run out pretty quickly anyway)
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #528 on: October 02, 2008, 02:10:26 AM »
i really think Biden will say something that will be taken as deeply offensive to CNN useless table of pundits and then we'll get a couple days of Palin sympathizing to deal with.

also - terry gross is fanfreakintastic.  loved today's interview on how the wall street we just saw implode came to be.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95241895

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #529 on: October 02, 2008, 02:12:13 AM »
I'm dreading the days and days of complaints about how Gwen Ifill showed her Obama bias by daring to ask Palin about the world and stuff.

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