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  1. 11-28-2008, 01:11 #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    Why?

    He's just as likely to be fabulously wrong as the next "oracle." Did he send mean notes to your sister or some such?
    I watch too much Fox News to consider the man to be sane... or human...
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    I watch too much Fox News to consider the man to be sane... or human...
    Why? Seriously?

    Anyways, what we need is some sort of meta-scoring site for pundits where there predictions are compared to reality and they get various scores.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit View Post
    Why? Seriously?
    I do it for the lols.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    I do it for the lols.
    And it has NOTHING to do with the Fox News "cuties" they parade on screen all the time...I'm sure.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
    And it has NOTHING to do with the Fox News "cuties" they parade on screen all the time...I'm sure.


    Yeah, that Greta van Susteren! HAWT!
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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
    I do it for the lols.
    Fair enough.

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    Given that Obama's vote in the primaries, apart from African-Americans, has generally come from affluent white suburbs and university towns, the Gallup figures presage a Democratic disaster among working-class white voters in November should Obama be the nominee," - Sean Wilentz, May 23, 2008, Huffington Post
    Fair is fair: I thought the same back in the spring.


    I didn't count on McCain's strategists forcing him to the right, leaving the centre for Obama.

    If I would've been McCain, I would've presented myself as a moderate Republican, moved/stayed in the centre myself, and make a big fuzz about Obama being a flip-flopper if he too moves into the centre position after his very leftwing presentation in the primaries.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
    If I would've been McCain, I would've presented myself as a moderate Republican, moved/stayed in the centre myself, and make a big fuzz about Obama being a flip-flopper if he too moves into the centre position after his very leftwing presentation in the primaries.
    And just like McCain in 2000 you wouldn´t have gotten the nomination.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ronin View Post
    And just like McCain in 2000 you wouldn´t have gotten the nomination.
    Except that McCain was nominated by running on a platform of not being the run-of-the-mill Republican. If McCain had have remained an honest-to-God Maverick after 2000 (Which he didn't) he could have won the nomination in 2008 as a Centrist and perhaps won the Presidency.
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