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FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)
1. Politico is a piece of shit.....
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:24 AM
Sep 2012

And yes....they have infiltrated C-Span, which is not Publicly funded, but is funded by corporations
like Time-Warner, etc....

You are supposed to turn off the television after the speech.....
not listen to them attempting to propagandize the election...
which is all that Politico is good for!

FrenchieCat

(68,867 posts)
3. Yep....I wrote about them here at DU back in I think 2005 or 2006......
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:27 AM
Sep 2012

How they had simply magically "popped" up out of nowhere....
and to this day appear to only good at starting shit that doesn't count!

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
6. Let's be honest, it is bullshit. Robbedme is a garbage candidate. His campaign is based
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 12:48 AM
Sep 2012

on: Vote for me. He is black and I am white, Just trust me, you do not need to know where I stand on the issues or the raw numbers of my policies, and vote for me, because it is my turn dammit.

agentS

(1,325 posts)
9. Yahoo's ABC pundits were the same way. They were downplaying the speech during (live chat) and after
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 07:43 AM
Sep 2012

I only partially agree- the nitty gritty specifics won't come out in a campaign speech. It's more of a pamplet or website thing these days. You don't want to put your audience to sleep or say you want to do something X way but you won't know the Congressional makeup until the end of the election, so it doesn't make sense to give too many details.

The Yahoo voters were leaning Romney on the speech poll for most of the hour, until after the speech and the Obama votes overtook the Romney votes. I can't find the link to the poll on Yahoo anymore.

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