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catherineD Donating Member (103 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-03 09:03 PM
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How many primaries will Dean have to lose before he drops out?
Turnabout is fair play. Why on earth would a candidate who has raised a considerable amount of money and has strong numbers across the country drop out? Do people in track and field look at hearsay about their opponents' times and then all decide it's not worth bothering with the race, they should just cede it to the guy they've heard has previously had the best time?

Dean is riding so high now that he may be in more danger of getting tagged with the line, "When will he drop out?" if Gephardt overtakes him in Iowa or he drops in the polls in New Hampshire. And once those two early races are out of the way, the media will be looking at races that are far more tightly contested, in states which still have very little information about any of the candidates but the current front-runner.

But there's no need for well-financed popular candidates to drop out before the winner is announced.
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-03 09:07 PM
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1. re: "Turnabout is fair play"
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/two-wrongs-make-a-right.html

You may now return to your regularly scheduled food fight.
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Upfront Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-03 09:09 PM
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2. Old Saying In Michigan
Wish in one hand and shit in the other, see which one gets full first. lol
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1. If you start a thread in the General Discussion forum, you must present your opinion in a manner that is not inflammatory, which respects differences in opinion, and which is likely to lead to respectful discussion rather than flaming. Some examples of things which should generally be avoided are: unnecessarily hot rhetoric, nicknames for prominent Democrats or their supporters, broad-brush statements about groups of people, single-sentence "drive-by" thread topics, etc.

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