02-10-2008, 12:22 AM | #361 | |
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02-11-2008, 10:46 AM | #362 | |
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02-11-2008, 11:22 AM | #363 |
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Hard to keep up with the Lord's dress code. From Burkas to that mixed fibers thing in Levitcus, he's worse than "What not to wear".
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02-11-2008, 02:51 PM | #364 | |
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02-11-2008, 03:01 PM | #365 |
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Am I being blinded by my dislike of Huckabee or what?
He took a good bag of delegates over the weekend. The anti-McCain train didn't stop when Romney dropped out...and Huck is benefitting greatly. It has to be admitted though, that Huck --nor Romney-- was or is really a 'favorite'. It's just that McCain inspires so much backlash. But McCain will be the nominee, no doubt about it. The real question is: if Mac loses this November, who is 2012's heir apparent, Huck or Mitt? I predicted to my younger brother this morning that Mitt will probably drive up to Michigan, become a resident, and run for governor. Dean Barnett at The Weekly Standard (who has known Romney since 1994) wonders if Romney will even bother with politics ever again, thinking he might just prefer the world of pure business.
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02-11-2008, 04:34 PM | #366 | |
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That's basically McCain's platform and, if Romney had run on it, he would be winning big now. His problem is that he switched at such a late point in his political career. Huck is charismatic, but the combination of his somewhat liberal economic past and his somewhat extreme views (i.e. legislating the bible), simply won't hold up in a general election. Possibly, if he became McCain's VP, he'd have the time and name to make a run at it when McCain is done, but I don't see him as a VP choice for McCain. If it ends up being eight years of democrat, it may very well be someone completely out of the picture that takes over the republican party.
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02-12-2008, 03:12 AM | #367 |
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Though I voted for McCain, I do feel happy for Mike Huckabee . He's doing a very good job at campaigning, and I sympathize with him, though I still would prefer McCain's leadership.
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Funny stuff happening in the Washington State Republican caucus. The state chairman announced that McCain had won, even though only 87% of the votes had been counted and McCain was only 2% ahead. The chair said that he had "calculated" that Huckabee couldn't possibly win, even though it's been shown that he could have had no idea where those uncounted votes were coming in from.
Huckabee has sent in the lawyers and demanded a recount, which the chairman agreed to, but refused to allow any observers in to watch. Other problems as well: Quote:
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And it turns out that Chairman Esser is a protege of McCain's State Campaign Chairman, writing in his resignation letter to his former boss "… Rest assured that I will always be available if I can ever be helpful to you.” http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall Payback time?
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02-12-2008, 09:43 AM | #369 |
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Caucuses are a weird way to run a railroad. Ours are tomorrow, I can't wait.
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02-12-2008, 11:35 AM | #370 |
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I remember reading an article way back talking about how the US election system would never meet the same standards we require of other countries when we monitor for free and fair elections.
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02-12-2008, 11:52 AM | #371 | |
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Something's gotta be done...but on the other hand, I kinda like this unpredictability. It throws the candidates off balance and makes them work harder.
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02-12-2008, 12:05 PM | #372 |
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02-12-2008, 02:01 PM | #373 |
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Voting fraud involving republicans, well, well...
Why is it actually that all those caucuses are days apart? Wouldn't it make more sense to do it all on the same day? Somehow it doesn't strike me as fair that people can vote sooner or later than others, and candidates can drop out before some people can even vote. Or is that just not physically possible with so many states and large populations?
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02-12-2008, 03:16 PM | #374 |
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Why not? The member states of EU didn't go to the ballots on the same day when they voted on the new constitution. I guess there are some benefits of not having caucuses at the same time, at least in the smaller states.
I think there's a law in Iowa that strictly reads that Iowa should vote first, before all the other states. That means the candidates have time to let the relatively small populace get to know them quite well. If every state had voted on the same day, the people of Iowa wouldn't have been able to "socialise" with the candidates that way at all.
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I'd rather see everyone vote at once so people would be forced to make their own decisions, as opposed to following trends. We spend much too much time on the election process as it is, as opposed to governing.
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02-12-2008, 03:29 PM | #376 | |
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Obama's trip here was big partly because NO candidates ever visit before the primaries, and darn few before the general election. The caucuses tomorrow are the first step in deciding who goes to the state convention in April, where we winnow it down further to pick the delegates for the national. Our district will send a few, each other district will send a few. They'll be proportional to the vote in the district. Prospective delegates have to declare before the voting. The voting business is also with the national committees of each party. That's why no Dems ran in Florida...because they had no permission to move their primary up, and no one really knows if their delegates will be seated at the convention. No Candidate wants to risk PO ing the national committee. I think it's hard for most people (in the US and out of it) to appreciate how important Federalism is, here. Everything looks like "The USA" from a distance, but state and regional identity is still VERY strong.
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02-12-2008, 03:43 PM | #378 |
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Do you think the EU will eventually result in the same issue, abroad.
Okay, many US citizens just have "here there be dragons" outside their city limits, but that's true everywhere. But do you think there will be a more Pan-European identity, in the future? I know I have NO idea where the currency adoption issue is, for example. I'd have a pocket full of play money in every port, as it stands now. Oh, I wanted to add. A few years ago, I was chatting with some folks on-line and one woman asked if we'd decided if we would vote for Hillary, or not. I said, "Don't you live in, like, Arizona? Hillary is running for the Senate in New York. Only people who live in New York have her on the ballot." Then I searched her out her OWN ballot. Sometimes even people here are confused.
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02-12-2008, 03:48 PM | #379 |
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You can't force people to make their own decisions.
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I'm sure there are benefits to the current system (after all, why have it otherwise? ) but I don't know which, that's why I'm asking.
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