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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #540 on: October 02, 2008, 10:13:38 PM »
McCain is pulling out of MI.  The landslide to Obama is beginning.  By election day the phrase "swing state" won't apply. 
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #541 on: October 02, 2008, 11:30:28 PM »
Palin needs to stop being colloquial. It's incredibly grating.

Do people really not get that there is a whole other country out there where this legitimately means something to people? To change the politicians, you have to change that culture first.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #542 on: October 03, 2008, 08:33:11 AM »
McCain is pulling out of MI.  The landslide to Obama is beginning.  By election day the phrase "swing state" won't apply. 

I want to believe this but I think that vote caging and election day shenanigans made a critical difference in 2000 and 2004 and not nearly enough attention has been given to those tactics.  I really hate that people in this country have cynically undermined my faith in the process that much.  And I hate that those same people get away on a daily basis with accusing people like me of hating this country.  Nothing says "I hate my country" like gaming its democratic processes and institutions.

I'm not celebrating anything until I hear a McCain concession speech.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #543 on: October 03, 2008, 10:00:47 AM »

Why does Biden keep referring to himself in the third person?


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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #544 on: October 03, 2008, 10:43:43 AM »
Her whole section on the Middle East was repugnant.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #545 on: October 03, 2008, 01:12:05 PM »
If you buy aggregate poll numbers (which I don't, I just find them fun), Obama is over the electoral threshold and is roughly a 2 or 3 point shift from creating a landslide. McCain has 2 weeks, I'd say, if he really wants to turn this around. I assume pulling out of Michigan is to reallocate resources to Florida, Ohio, and PA, but they better find a new topic to lead with.
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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #546 on: October 03, 2008, 01:14:13 PM »
... but they better find a new topic to lead with.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #547 on: October 03, 2008, 01:31:53 PM »
If you buy aggregate poll numbers (which I don't, I just find them fun), Obama is over the electoral threshold and is roughly a 2 or 3 point shift from creating a landslide. McCain has 2 weeks, I'd say, if he really wants to turn this around. I assume pulling out of Michigan is to reallocate resources to Florida, Ohio, and PA, but they better find a new topic to lead with.

apparently he shifted some funds to Maine - its one of those weird states that gives out electoral voted via its 4 districts and not enmass.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #548 on: October 03, 2008, 07:37:55 PM »
McCain is in serious trouble- he seems to have to defend Florida and Missouri, which he absolutely must have. Pennsylvania is not looking too good.  He is looking like a loser in Iowa.  He has to keep everything else Bush won and stop Obama from taking Colorado and any other state out West that he seems to be leading in- unless he can grab New Hampshire, which would help him a little. Losing Virginia, Ohio or Florida would be the end.

I think you can make a legitimate argument that the race shouldn't be as close as it is, given the incumbent party and the state of the economy.

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Re: US Elections 2008 Edition
« Reply #549 on: October 03, 2008, 11:41:24 PM »
I think you can make a legitimate argument that the race shouldn't be as close as it is, given the incumbent party and the state of the economy.
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