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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:20 AM Original message |
Will SOMEBODY please explain how Obama is even with McCain in the polls, not winning? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not everyone wants a messiah. |
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Webster Green (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Enough with the messiah and cult bullshit already.. |
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Kittycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Get over it. |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:33 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Yes because supporters who don't know when their candidate lost are much more sane |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
23. repeat after me "McCain is the enemy, McCain is the enemy" |
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slinkerwink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
38. are you a Clinton supporter? |
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Cheap_Trick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
39. you must like pizza |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
43. Oh It's So Scary to See Admiration |
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EOTE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #1 |
46. This from someone who said a rubber duckie could win against McCain this year? |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
54. Bye you are on my ignore list |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:43 AM Response to Reply #1 |
67. You're loopy. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
2. I suspect blatent manipulation |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
17. Good call. Manipulation through disinformation. Tried and true method |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:44 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. It's sick how many people want to support the "winner" |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:57 PM Response to Reply #2 |
42. Media has a strong self-interest in portraying the race as a very |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #42 |
51. Everyone thought "landslide" in '04, too. (nt) |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 05:47 PM Response to Reply #42 |
58. What Bean Fidhleir said |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
68. Sadly, you are correct. And on just how correct that is rest the chance for Obama to win. |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
3. You're Kidding Right? |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:57 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. No, I've been watching the polls for months and it never seems to change. |
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otohara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:54 PM Response to Reply #26 |
40. The Kids |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 08:26 PM Response to Reply #40 |
59. I'm hoping! Of course, that's what I hoped in 04 about the cell phone thing. |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
4. They've been going head-to-head for only 2 days. |
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yourout (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
5. Closet racists. |
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bowens43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
6. It's going to be a tough fight. |
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rox63 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
8. Most people don't pay much attention to politics like we do |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:40 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. You nailed it |
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AndyA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
10. Do you really expect the media to be fair and balanced? |
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arcadian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
11. Simple, the Republicans are going to steal this election too |
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Johnyawl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. We're a nation of racists. |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #13 |
25. If we were overall a nation of racists, Obama would be shining shoes |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:29 PM Response to Reply #13 |
32. Those people you mentioned, the ones who will vote for |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. They probably had a problem with MLK being too "uppity" and think |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:09 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. They just grew up in a different time. It's not just |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
14. Across the country (with exceptions) the US has a slight racism problem |
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KSCFAN (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
15. My opinion. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 01:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
35. When they get to a point where they are in need of anything |
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JANdad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
62. Please tell me what exactly the Govt |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
16. Allow me to submit two other election years that should have been outright landslides for us |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Right on the years, wrong on the cause |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:47 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. If that was true, and there was so little difference... |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
24. So what do you think the issues are? And why do you think so? |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. I'm not going to list everything GWB did in the last 8 years that Al Gore would not have done |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 01:18 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. I'm talking about the future, not the past. |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 01:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. You mean, as opposed to John McCain and the Republicans? |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. You know, when you talk about "millions of mentally and emotionally defective voters" |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #37 |
56. "How it looks" to Republicans, conservatives, freepers? |
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2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #37 |
60. And I certainly didn't mean to offend mental and emotional defectives... |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:21 PM Response to Reply #16 |
31. Mentally and emotionally defective, true, but I think |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #31 |
45. Imagine how elitist that sounds, that people can't simply be wrong because they've been |
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LibDemAlways (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. We've all been systematically lied to, but the difference between |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
18. The Repiglickin' Media Has Been Cultivating the "Moderate Maverick" Myth For Years |
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book_worm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
27. We have been having a combative nominating process and half of Hill's supporters are pissed off |
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sybylla (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
28. Because corporations like pukes |
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4_Legs_Good (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
29. The polls still reflect a 3 person race |
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Timmy5835 (325 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
36. THE Reason |
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maui9002 (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #36 |
55. It's not about which candidate is better |
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coalition_unwilling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
41. Gallup (which tends to lean Repuke in recent years) has Obama |
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FloridaJudy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Yup, Every poll I've seen |
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Maureen1322 (392 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
47. I saw a poll today and Barack was ahead 6 points (+ or - 4 pts.). |
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Bleacher Creature (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
52. Obama's been getting tagged teamed for months now. |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
53. It really depends on their internals... |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
57. All sorts of factors, but primarily that America is a very right-wing nation. |
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SergeyDovlatov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-05-08 11:55 PM Response to Original message |
61. people are not paying attention? |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
63. maybe we should send out the McCain speech on Tuesday to every home |
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snowbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:06 AM Response to Original message |
64. MSNBC & CNN showed a poll all day today w.Obama IN THE LEAD |
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Mr. Blonde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:15 AM Response to Original message |
65. To most people McCain doesn't have the Republican brand |
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Clout (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-06-08 02:36 AM Response to Original message |
66. Ignorance? |
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