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andym Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:06 PM
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Poll question: Does the candidate's campaign = the candidate?
Edited on Mon Mar-10-08 01:58 PM by andym
A lot of people appear to feel that the candidate's campaign is essentially the candidate. Let's see how widely this belief is held.
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Exilednight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:09 PM
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1. Yes, it says a lot about a candidates management style and ability to control the staff and get ....
things done.
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:13 PM
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2. The candidate has to rely on others to step up, when called upon
They are by any means responsible for the tone and direction, but not responsible for every nuance and when the campaign staff fails so goes the candidates campaign.

Case in point I am a supporter of Mr Obama and happen to believe his direction and his team have been preforming well, but in the case of Ms Clinton I believe she is a better candidate than her campaign staff has served her, some of that is due to direction but most is due to the staff failing her.

She deserved a much better campaign then she has received.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:14 PM
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3. The buck stops where?
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:17 PM
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4. No. Obama's running a tight campaign. He, on the other hand, is a chucklehead.
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:23 PM
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6. Thats such a fun word........
Edited on Mon Mar-10-08 01:25 PM by ThatBozGuy
If your a racist, do you have any idea the pedigree of that word or are you too illiterate to know what you use as speech.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:27 PM
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8. I know what bozo means too.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chucklehead

So keep your own racist shit out of this.
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:42 PM
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9. The Internet is not your friend open a book someday........
"Well, I 'uz gwyne to spen' it, but I had a dream, en de dream tole me to give it to a nigger name' Balum -- Balum's Ass dey call him for short; he's one er dem chucklehead, you know." Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Just because someone is too ignorant to know a word like spic, kike or nigger are derogatory hate speech doesn't mean they should continue to use it and I would hope people would educate themselves enough to know better than to perpetuate a lack of such knowledge when presented.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:45 PM
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11. Nice. You got four racist terms in one post.
Tell me the racist connotations of asshole.
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:55 PM
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13. Think you have that one handled quite well already......
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:58 PM
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16. .
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ThatBozGuy Donating Member (642 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 02:14 PM
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17. So you do know how to use google.......
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JBoris Donating Member (675 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:22 PM
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5. In what sense are you asking?
Are you asking if the candidate is responsible for everything that his/her staff says and does? Are you asking if the public and professional style of a campaign indicates how a candidate would govern? Or are you asking if a campaign is a test of leadership?

I don't think that any of those questions could be answered with a simple yes or no.
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Johnny__Motown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:25 PM
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7. The wording is kinda strong but I still voted yes. It is theirs, no doubt about it.
If a candidate can't take responsibility for the people who are helping them get elected how can they take responsibility for the people in their administration?
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:44 PM
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10. No. Otherwise I would believe Gore and Kerry would have been lousy presidents
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:52 PM
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12. Yes, the candidate is responsible for their campaign
Occasional mishaps will occur because that's just life, but over the long run, the way the campaign operates definitely reflects the candidate. I don't see how anybody can say otherwise.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:56 PM
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14. In theory, yes. In practice, no. n/t
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mculator Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 01:57 PM
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15. Yeah, If BO says 16 months and his CAMPAIGN says otherwise
Resignation IS in order. I hope her (Powers) career is over.
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-10-08 02:15 PM
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18. Billary
:smoke:
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