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But I'm talking about the here and now. I never mentioned the past, in which I'm sure there are quite a few instances of Democrats thinking that certain people shouldn't be allowed to vote. If I'd said "you never ever heard" instead of "you never hear," or "people had the right" instead of "people have the right," then you might have a case.
As it is, on the one hand you're criticising people for putting this election in the context of the last one, while simultaneously criticising the way I discuss this election by referencing the last election yourself.
quote:Originally posted by Omega: Well, actually, another point would be that an election is hardly comparable to 3,500 civilian deaths in a single attack.
Right, more people outside the US actually care about the election.
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I'm not criticizing people for putting this election in the context of the previous one. I'm criticizing their interpretation of that context.
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One of the other ones (SurveyUSA, I believe) doesn't weight their polls at all. Which also gives an advantage (albeit less of one) to the Republicans.
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Now I hear that around 60000 voting bills which should've been administered to voters in Florida has vanished. Funny enough, the bills were for districts where the democrats had won last time.
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I'm skeptical, personally. There are always a million and one scare stories that go around at times like this, very few of which are true.
(which, incidently, makes the ones that are true more likely not to be noticed. Crazy mad boo.)
As for more people caring about the election than the 3,500 deaths, one of the reasons is because of how the previously elected government reacted to those 3,500 deaths. So it's all, y'know, related.
And I don't think Lee was saying that people should forget about 9/11. Rather, it should be (respectively) "toned down", such as it were. Remember the dead, but not use it as a continual call to arms/excuse for everything ever.
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The way I understand the results of the post 2000 Florida Fiasco was that an survey done by independent newspapers found that had Gore been able to proceed with the plan he put forward to only count certain counties, he would have lost.
Whereas Mr. Bush would have lost an entire state recount.
And as to the rest, a new baby and being forced to use dial-up will make you be brief too.
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Really.....even with the dozens of bozos standing outside holding "Bish/Cheney" posters outside in front of traffic.
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He's a fish-man alternate reality version of Bush: he's very diffrent: he's honest and really smart...
Gotta love Bin Laden's timing: Bush can spin this to his "fear factor" campaign but Kerry can (should) point out that Bin Laden was always the real threat nad he could vow to eliminate him... Something Bush could'nt pull off.
Bin Laden's looking pretty frisky there: definitely not the "hunted man" he's been portrayed as in the recent media. I wonder which Saudi prince's palace he's chillin' at this week?
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I saw something very interesting in the news earlier. They showed a real possibility where the electoral votes result in a tie between Bush and Kerry. In which case, the House decides who is President, and the Senate decides who is Vice-President. Bush/Edwards, anyone?
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I saw that on CNN as well: if that happened, the VP job would become a "stuffed shirt" position like it was back in the 1930's.
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