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QUOTE(Whitewashed in '05 @ Mar 12, 2008 -> 04:00 AM) Umm... what? Link saw this earlier, thinkin the exact same thing.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 11, 2008 -> 04:18 PM) Chicago is so pro-Obama it isn't even funny. Everyday there are articles in the papers, but the whole Chicago media is in love with the guy. You hardly hear anything for Hillary or McCain. Well, it was a bunch of Chicago reporters who grilled him on Rezko so hard he walked off stage a week or two ago.

Well. At least he took on the music industry while he was AG for a little bit. I bet they could've escaped some heat had they offered him to buy him women.

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Mar 9, 2008 -> 11:01 PM) Oberweis is just a lousy candidate. he needs to stop running for office. this is how I feel. I heard it was a great GOTV campaign and kudos to Obama for his help, but had the republicans ran out a legit candidate, woulda been a piece of cake. BUt Oberweis wins primaries because of money and name recognition his opponents can't match early on.

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Mar 7, 2008 -> 08:21 PM) And you can act like its common knowledge but most people do not realize that states generally vote by historical trends. No one has really brought up some names of states likely to flip, which is what this discussion should be about. Which states will the Democrats win that they lost before? I just dont really see that many states where its likely to flip, thus my belief. /shrugs I could have also said that whatever way Ohio goes the election will go as Ohio has only gone for the wrong candidate once (Nixon over Kennedy) well, yes. But there will still be swing states. Even bush didn't win the exact states he won in 04 as in 00 but it looked pretty much the same.

that's a strange hypothetical, though. Of course if the results remained the same as last election the republicans will win. They won last election, so if the results remained the same, they will win this election. I mean, yeah.

it's just tragically funny. States (from how I understood it) moved up their primaries to up their importance since recently primaries have been shored up Before or on super tuesday. They try to do that and the democratic party punishes them. In the year they do that, may be the first split convention since...er, I'm too young to know, and their states votes would be incredibly important in the campaign.

PA and trendy are often synonymous.

obama down 15 according to Rasmussen.

i love talkingpointsmemo

go crow

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Mar 6, 2008 -> 04:22 AM) Link. haha, that's my paper! Go Digmo.com!

well, it's like how Obama claims a victory in Missouri, even though they split delegates.

People are stupid: "Stay Scared! FEAR WILL SET YOU FREE! I can stop the terrorists!" All that B.S. People are dumb, especially people in Ohio, they've produced two terrible cities.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 4, 2008 -> 10:28 PM) I keep saying that this is New Hampshire all over again, but no one wants to believe me. The 3AM ad was effective. The sad thing is, I don't think I'm kidding. I thought he was rolling too much, but now, I think you are right. Sadly, I'm going to have to deal with Clinton in this race for months, continuing to dirty up someone in her own party.

this is so exciting! It's gonna make listening to the online broadcasts a good replacement while I'm still in missourah

I just have to wonder, with the recent semi-surge for HRC, who are these people that are actually convinced by negative ads?

It is difficult for me for a couple reasons: 1) For democracy to work, we need an educated citizenry, as far as even state congressional positions I feel we have that working. But for positions like States Attorney's (and added to the fact that assistant SA's we never see or hear about, they are even hard to find online, work these cases) and Judges, it is extremely difficult to have an educated public. 2) The reason they are up for election is accountability. As bad as flaunting your conviction record has shown the potential to be, so is the potential of these important positions being given to people as favors. I don't know what would work better. But I feel like #1 ain't workin too great so far.

I would also like to point out some problems in the criminal justice system. We've been fighting the supply of drugs with billions of dollars for 40+ years unsuccessfully. When do we start committing the same amount to the demand? More than that, from a distance, the things that make us angry are when a guilty person goes free(edit: obviously neither are ideal, but it was the amount of times this happens comparatively is so disturbing). But studying the criminal justice system, I'm so much more disgusted at the innocent ones going to jail due to prosecutorial misconduct, and the false confessions finally being brought to light with books like Grisham's "The Innocent Man". It is not once in a while this goes on. One of the problems is how we grade. The police dept's are graded on number of clearances, the prosecutors on convictions. But the job of a prosecutor is supposed to be to find justice, not convictions. I believed the SCOTUS ruled on that in the 30's? Then, with their job being an electable position, I think it has done the opposite of it's intentions. Rarely is prosecutorial misconduct reported on because journalists aren't as familiar with the legal system and they end up just covering the "box score" as opposed to the game. So what they take to us is "look how tough I am on crime", and that is measured through their conviction rate. So when the police are graded on how many cases they can get to the prosecutor, and the prosecutor on how many he can convict, how many times is good police work circumvented in way of career ambitions? just a thought...

Oh yay, more movies of uncomfortable band name drops. "Oh yeah, man the Ramones are awesome" "I was more of a sonic youth guy" "SOONIC YOUTH?"

no, man this pisses me off. School proposed our emergency alert system. Saying we'll have emergency texts just sign up. BUt the company doing this text alert thing would also be sending us advertisements. They basically just raped our #'s for "security". That company luckily didn't happen, now we just have a text service exclusive to the school.

I just think that Obama doesn't want to get into that war, I think he'd rather that sit. be forgotten. Because a radical black islam will always be more threatening than a protestant who hates catholics and thinks rapture will occur.

I heard they are cuttin down hard on it this year. It'll be the first one i've missed since junior year of high school

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Feb 28, 2008 -> 05:23 AM) The pitching was the key to the Sox winning it all. That, and a s***load of luck and everyone playing well. Yes, okay, right. But we DID have quite a bit of 'contact' pitchers, and so Crede's defense in '05 was an important part of that pitching, as was Rowand in Center and Uribe at SS. Why do we need to undercut Crede so severely? Yes, he was below avg. offensively in OBP for most of his years. But a lot of fans think he's great because he was ours during a championship run. Seeing the reality isn't that important. We had great pitching. We had great defense. And we had great power. Joe Crede helped in all three of those categories. He was ours then. He's about to be gone soon. People will miss him. So who cares, they'll soon learn to love Fields. No use breaking down memories. I'll choose to forget seeing crede weakly pop up to third on a looping swing, for him hitting the game winning home run in the 10th against cleveland. I'll miss him. He created a lot of memories for me.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Feb 28, 2008 -> 06:50 PM) You live in Missouri. Never associate the word perfect with that state again. Yeah... I do like KC but the St.L. ...