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QUOTE (Shadows @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 11:04 PM) swimming does wonders for the body I need to swim more.... a LOT more. lol

QUOTE (knightni @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 05:44 PM) She's very toned and fit but looks a bit...off in the face, I think. It's her eyes I think. THey just look odd. If she had brown eyes I think she'd be pretty hot.

This is sports related I guess, so i think it goes here. Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard bares all for PETA I wonder when Zach Zaidman last gave her a call?

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 10:49 AM) I f'n love TPM. They are so self-aware of their own coverage. They seem to be able to critically look at their coverage and they adjust very quickly. That, and they know they are speaking to a pretty politically literate audience, and will release entire documents to us and let us catch things they might have missed. They see incomplete stories and complete them. They are wonderful examples of how impactful blogs can be. From late last night: So basically, "I dont know this guy. Explain him to me". I love it. You are right on. It's interactive. I like how you call it a "politically literate audience". They are writing to me, not my sister.

Now THIS is different. Obama, maybe at a gas pump near you To be on the record: I HATE "Pump TV". I try to avoid ANY gas station that has TVs at their pumps.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 11:08 AM) Honestly though, it's sort of hard for either side to complain about "Loopholes". But there's a difference between using loopholes and what this smells of. TPM is going to push this hard. When there's smoke, there's a fire. I see a lot of smoke right now. Maybe it's just being overly critical during a campaign season, but this is fishy even by my standards.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 6, 2008 -> 10:48 AM) Well, I'll give the media credit...the angry crazy TPM bloggers who were responsible for basically breaking the entire DOJ scandal open thought something smelled fishy, and now more people are starting to get in on the game. Nothing definitive yet, but more and more of these names are smelling fishy. McCain–Feingold my ass. Strike McCain off that. I think I pointed out earlir (maybe in another tread) all the loop holes that the McCain campaign and the RNC are using to get around finance laws.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 09:44 PM) And my response to that is... who the hell gives a crap besides you? apparently McCain if they feel a need to roll out a press release.

wow. that zone is moving all over

Thornton is throwing darts.

The sad part, the McCain campaign actually issued a press release on the video: McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds emails: “It sounds like Paris Hilton supports John McCain’s ‘all of the above’ approach to America’s energy crisis - including both alternatives and drilling. Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan.” Obama Campaign with the right response... one word: Obama spokesman Bill Burton reacts: "Whatever."

Pay close attention to the Hess Corporation (an oil company), the Rocchio family, and the RNC / John McCain. Something is a bit fishy.

I am curious to see the SF Giants results. I think it'll be close between Willie Mays and Barry Bonds.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 02:34 PM) One thing I would note is that Obama for the last week or two was having some struggles on the energy issue, the race card, and the attack ads, and his polls dipped down only into a tie. But the polls never went much lower than that. Every candidate has their times in the peaks and in the valleys, and if that's as deep a valley Obama dips to (a tie), then McCain's got problems. IMO That's a really good analysis.

Obama: GOP Takes Pride in Being Ignorant

I thought this was rather interesting. When they say "unreleased" they mean it was an ad that was rolled out but no press release was sent out nor was it publicized.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 02:09 PM) Well unless one candidate is up by 10% or more in a national poll I'll continue to completely ignore them. Fair enough

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 02:04 PM) Why not just study electoral college polls? Isn't that what ultimately will matter? The problem is that states tend to roll in over time. Maybe you get one or two polls from a state a month. (Yes, this will heat up big time come Sept and Oct) So, you can use a national poll to gauge public opinion. Ideally, I'd love to see polls from all 50 states every day, but it's just not possible. So, national polls are as good as we can get. I want to make myself clear, I prefer sate by state over national. No doubt about it. That's why I include the state polls in my weekly recap and not the national stuff.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 01:58 PM) Sorry but part of the reason I posted that blog piece was to discredit national polls. What good are they for? Well, yes and no. I agree that in general national polls mean little, BUT they can be used for a few things. 1) You can see some trends. No doubt that after the McCain attacks that the poll numbers plummeted. Now that it is over, Obama rebounds. 2) They can be used to view the nation as a whole. Chuck Todd of MSNBC has this interesting analysis: While national polls largely mean nothing, they can be an electoral college indicator. A national poll lead of 2-3% translates to a tight electoral college race. But, a 5-7% lead is an electoral college landslide.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 01:01 PM) LINK To buttress that, it looks like while the "childish" McCain attacks might have worked in the short term, it didn't stick: Gallup: Obama +4 (Obama 47, McCain 43) AP-Ipsos Poll: Obama +6 (Obama 47, McCain 41) Note: the same Ipsos poll done in early June had a similar spread. So, not much shift.

The only "safe" way may be a Space Elevator, but that is a LONG way off. I pray that by the time a space elevator is feasible we are well beyond nuclear.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 5, 2008 -> 12:15 PM) Open-ended question: for spent nuclear fuel, what's preventing us from just putting this stuff on a rocket and sending it to the sun? The sun is basically a giant ball of nuclear fusion and whatever is sent there would burn up/disintegrate/whatever before it even gets there. I thought of this when I was 9, and it took 16 years to hear it from another person! lol It seems so simple, but what if that rocket blows up? Nuclear waste all over the place. Good idea.... no way to safely implement it.

Sadly, it could be 100% false, but it's 100% believable.

QUOTE (Chet Lemon @ Aug 4, 2008 -> 10:33 PM) Of course losing Bayh's seat in the Senate would not lose control of the Senate for the Dems, but they are making a huge push to get the highest number possible over 50. It varies from state to state, but often if a senator resigns or moves onto higher political office, a temporary replacement is named. i would assume it would be a democrat. Therefor, not loosing the seat number. There is already talk as to who would replace Obama's spot from IL. Tammy Duckworth and Jessie Jackson Jr near the top of the list.