HuskyCaucasian

The grade school / Jr High I work for is holding a school wide presidential election today. I'll post the results when I find out. I remember doing this when I was in school here. Kinda cool.

29.9 Million Watch Obama's Infomercial

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:28 PM) They keep running him out there and when Obama calls him out as fraud he is being too negative. no no. McCain doesnt say Obama is being negative. He says how dare Obama attack this average citizen..... which is being used as a political prop by the McCain Campaign. Hypocracy if you ask me. "We'll exploit the hell out of him... name a campaign tour after him.. but dont investigate him. He's off limits".

23% of Texas think Obama is a Muslim

First Palin was the Diva, now Wurzelbacher. His ego is growing by the day. First there were rumors he was going to run for COngress in 2010, now he's hired an agent and may be going after a country music recording contract.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) Thats kinda crazy. At one point Wolf should punch the hologram. That I would watch. LMAO! THat would b awesome! On a side note: anyone see CNN's 3D "white board" experiment they did during the primaries. The commentator held a white piece of cardboard and a 3D graphic would move how he moved the board. It SUCKED!

Seriously, couldn't they spend their money on something more important? http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2008...ology-cnn_N.htm

first i've heard it

but... but... they'd never do it! (So i was told) "Too Radical"... Talk about racially tinged words.

How many were at the Bulls rallies?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 07:33 PM) Just the way this came off was really smooth. It could have come off as arrogant or ostentatious, but the way that they did it as a narrative of "normal" Americans made it come off really well (imo of course.) I agree. His goal was to connect with the average person. Win independents. Come off as calm, cool, and collected.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:37 PM) I'll be out tonight, I wish I had set the DVR to record it. I think it could be an interesting watch. Hopefully it will be available afterwards, somewhere. Here ya go:

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 07:07 PM) 15 minutes in, my opinion is Obama is killing it. and by killing it, you mean doing great? Sorry that is phrase that can go both ways. Could have meant he is not using his time wisely.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 06:57 PM) Especially after 2000, 2002 and 2004 were just a mess for the Dem party. The party leaders didn't care about party building at all, they just cared about whether or not they won their next election. That was a big driver for dem votes for the Iraq war, for example. They kept doing these votes to try to "Take national security off the table" when we were involved in 2 wars. They were scared of the south. They were scared of having Bush show up and campaign in their district. A few pollsters and the people around them seemed to be running almost everything. The Dean campaign in 03 literally started as a rejection of that, and that's why the money started pouring in for him in late 03 from the online donor system. Yea. Dean can be a little rough or crass, but he's done a great job.

People are freaking out about Blu-Ray, but i think it's a lot to do about nothing. Blu-Ray JUST hit the $300 or cheaper mark less than a few months ago. $300 is kind of a breaking point. People will think twice before spedning $301, but $299 is ok. It's psychological in may ways. I bought my first DVD player in 1997 for $300. Also, after about 7 years of DVDs being "mainstream" (around 2003), retailers started to FORCE DVD on people. Stopped selling VHS tapes, phased out stand alone players. Also, VHS to DVD was a huge quality and durability leap. DVD didnt degrade. DIdnt have to rewind DVDs. Menus. THere were a lot of perks to DVD over VHS. But Blu-Ray over DVD? HighDef... ooooooo. And HDTV penetration is not fully pentrtated yet, so people wont see a differance. Blu-Ray is the future of physical media, but it'll take time. Now if w want to have a debate of Blu-Ray vs Content Bought Online and downloaded to a hard drive... I'd like that debate.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:32 PM) Lots of people end up running. Considerably fewer have a real shot. But who knows what happens in 2012. I'd put Huck and Romney well ahead of Palin on the 2012 list. But a lot can change in 23 years. Even though I predicted in 2004 that Obama would run for president some day (damn I wish I had audio from my election day radio coverage), but I didnt think 2008. Maybe 2012, but not 2008. Once we hit 2006, I saw ther was a real chance he might run. n the end, he did... and won the primary and probably will the election.

So, with regards to the 30 min ad tonight, anyone remember Rose Perott in 92? Man.... I was 9 and I remember that. I remember thinking: "he has a lot of charts"

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 04:37 PM) I'll be out tonight, I wish I had set the DVR to record it. I think it could be an interesting watch. Hopefully it will be available afterwards, somewhere. I can almost guarantee it will be on his YouTube account within an hour of it airing.

QUOTE (chisoxt @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 05:09 PM) Wow, I am impressed by your photoshop skills thanks. I recently figured out how to do that animated GIF thing. Needed to learn it for my Sox Pride Blackout icon i used for a while. I'm gonna miss not having Photoshop if I ever leave my job.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:51 PM) I had CNN on last night for a minute and the report was McCain staffers one day after calling her a diva, were calling her a whack job. Her 15 minutes are about up. I think the name calling is basically trying to deflect blame from McCain onto a scape goat.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:37 PM) Whats the expected turn out/set up? unknown. They havent disclosed the amount of tickets they gave out. I have a hard time believing it'll be less than 500,000

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:25 PM) If Palin is the party's future, then the party is in a lot of trouble. Look at how the voting public reacted to her - everyone but the far right social conservatives started off liking her, then ran like hell the other way. She is a disaster, politcally. Look at how she reacted to McCain pulling out of Michigan. "awww shucks. come on. I'll fight in there. give me and Todd a shot. you betcha we can do something" (paraphrasing there). That's political ignorance. That's the type of politics that gets you toasted in a national election. Imagine her trying to fight in California for votes.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:29 PM) That looks nice in print. why?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:25 PM) For a number of years now, the GOP has been fracturing down the middle, splitting the small government types from the religious zealot types. This McCain/Palin ticket has only amplified our view into that divide. I said a few months back that I look forward to the Romney v Huckabee war

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Oct 29, 2008 -> 03:24 PM) I didn't realize some of those Midwest states had broken by that much. I'd color anything in single digits grey. RCP: Indiana : Obama +1.4 Iowa: Obama +11.1 Michigan: Obama +17 Minnesota: Obama +11.3 Missouri: Obama +0.6 Ohio: Obama +5.8 Pennsylvania: Obama +11 Wisconsin: Obama +10.6