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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 05:18 AM) Am I the only Hoosier voter out here? Just curious. Anyways, this doesn't need to be pinned, but it might be an interesting area to discuss polls, campaign visits and the like here. There are some interesting races, starting at the top of the ticket and including governor, and the US House seat district two, which includes a guy who spoke at a socialist group honoring Hitler. Your comment has given me a legitimate excuse to write the phrase " tyrant king porn dragon". Your task is to use that in a sentence.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 07:29 PM) That's different - he's actually the president. But doesn't he have campaign funds too? I don't know the answer to that specific question though. Yes, the President certainly has to raise campaign funds for things like ads and such. But here's the question...John Kerry and George W. Bush both fly from California fundraisers to events in Pennsylvania. Bush takes Air Force 1. Kerry presumably takes a private jet. Who's paying for which jet? I don't know the answer to that question. Campaigns certainly have their own private jets they take out to shuttle around their candidates, but I'd actually be surprised and fairly happy if I learned that the feds were footing the bill for travel for both candidates.

QUOTE (AddisonStSox @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 04:46 PM) My memory...it ain't what it used to be. Please remind me, if you would be so kind: why is it that the White Sox broke camp with Ramirez on the roster? Because he had a dynamite spring training. But so far it hasn't carried over to the role he's been put in during the regular year...and thus it's time to consider changes.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 05:15 PM) I think that's illegal actually. Who pays when the President takes Air Force 1 to a campaign stop?

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 03:10 PM) McCain is the only Presidential candidate still standing that will have a guaranteed spot in the November General Election. In this term, Clinton has missed 30% of floor votes. Obama about 40%. McCain? 58%. Senator Tim Johnson missed the first year of this term with a massive brain hemmorage. He has now missed nine fewer votes this term than John McCain. You know what? We hear this stuff every presidential election, how the guy is keeping his seat and missing all sorts of votes, I'm sure you could have said the same thing about Kerry in 04, but I honestly don't feel that bothered by it. In all honesty, how many Senate votes are actually important? For a vote on whether or not companies should be allowed to discriminate based on genetics when you're applying for insurance, does it matter if the Senate votes 95-0 or 98-0 (I believe it was 95-0). Occasionally for close votes, every single one is important. Ditto things like filibusters, key cloture votes. There's no excuse, for example, for how McCain/Lieberman/Graham all took the same flight back to D.C. to vote on what I believe was the torture bill and cloture, and McCain chose not to vote and the vote wound up losing by 1. That stuff bothers me because it effects policy. It really doesn't bother me if candidates are drawing their salary but are campaigning for something else as long as they do their job on the very close votes, nor does it really bother me when they don't vote on things that will win anyway or things like naming something else after Reagan, etc. It also does bother me when on occasion a candidate will use federal resources to move himself/herself around for the campaign, where the federal government is paying for the travel or security or arrangements for one campaign but not the other, but I'm honestly not sure how common that is.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 01:34 PM) If he hits 20 more this season he'll have to average only 22 a season over the next 4 years. So yes, I'd say he has a damn good shot. Problem is...for him to pull that off, but not have other arguments not look as solid, he needs to keep up that HR production without losing production in other areas, i.e. what Frank has gone through since 2000 as the injuries have piled up. His power numbers have stayed solid but his legendary batting average and 1.000+ career OPS have been hurt by those last few years getting to 500+.

John McCain, speaking with Bloggers, this morning. No I don't know what was in the ..., but this is from a right wing source, so it's not some Dem trying to make him look bad.

Limbaugh gets caught seemingly wanting riots in Denver during the DNC.

Obama campaign now pledging to use their big fundraising pool to fund a massive, 50 state voter registration drive.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 10:27 AM) Indiana is shaping up to an interesting primary. But I don't know that it is as important as people think. I believe Obama needs somewhere in the range of 50 more superdelegate endorsements to mathematically eliminate Hillary, even if he underperforms in the remaining contests. Each win is going to cut in to that number of endorsements he needs to mathematically eliminate her. And perhaps more importantly, a big win in NC and a win in IN could well be the kind of message that these last freaking holdouts want to hear before they finally get in and tell HRC it's over.

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Apr 25, 2008 -> 07:47 AM) Yeah, he's been hitting out of his mind. I have him on my fantasy team and every night when I check the stats I can't believe the numbers he's been putting up. I was suprised to hear that some don't think he's a slam dunk HOFer. I think with the other 3bers in HOF he is definitely in. Chipper's problems are 2-fold. First, his numbers aren't the greatest when you compare them to the other people of his era...many of whom juiced, yes, but still. Second, he's been hurt too often to really pile up the numbers the last few years. A couple full, healthy seasons would really finish off the case.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 08:29 PM) I don't know where else to put this, so I'll put it here... I love how Jeremiah Wright gets interviewed by the king of the far left, radical nutjobs in George Soros. Um, by George Soros, do you mean, um, Bill Moyers? George Soros is an international financier and Billionaire, and I can't find anything about him and Jeremiah Wright online. Bill Moyers, however, is a member of the media and has in fact interviewed Wright in the last few days.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 07:55 PM) Swisher needs a break big time. But it's only been 2 weeks!

Good ol gameday...fouled up on every batter this inning.

CQ.

Link. Trailer for an HBO Movie called "Recount". Kevin Spacey, Hollywood Mega hunk Bob Balaban, Dennis Leary, etc.

Btw, Konerko is now above the Mendoza line.

Ok, now the lack of offense is starting to frustrate even me. With the exception of our 2nd base position, these guys should be performing significantly better than this.

QUOTE (BearSox @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 05:54 PM) the only similarity between McCain and Bush is that McCain thinks we should stay in Iraq... Pretty much, McCain is a democrat, in my eyes. And he favors a tax cut larger and more directed at the top income levels than Bush, and plays the same "oh we'll just eliminate waste" game that Bush does with how to pay for them. And he favors similar health care plans, where people have to pick up more of the cost of their own health care but get a tax deduction. And he supports Privatizing social security. And he's pretty strongly anti-choice. And he favors vouchers in the public education system. And he believes states should be able to decide whether or not to teach intelligent design in their classrooms.

The biggest problem with killing off the general election thread...I don't know where to put polling data. Research 2000, Indiana, April 23-24 (in field post PA), only 400 or so LV's so MOE is +5, trendlines in () from same poll, earlier in APR. Obama 48 (46) Clinton 47 (49)

QUOTE (Frankensteiner @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 06:32 PM) Won't this game still get played? How's the radar looking?

Larry Brown quits as 76ers Exec. VP, wants to coach again.

NOAA has their yearly summary of the average greenhouse gas contents of the atmosphere up. The less surprising, although still troublesome part, not only do CO2 contents keep going up, the rate of increase of CO2 contents keeps going up as well. You have to take like 3 derivatives before the problems go away. The more surprising, and probably more troublesome part...after nearly a decade of remaining roughly constant, there seems to have been a big spike in atmospheric methane concentration last year. Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, but thanks to mediation efforts and the fact that you can burn it as an energy source, it's been roughly constant for a few years now. Unless for some reason we started emitting more methane, which isn't terribly likely in the U.S. but could be true of developing countries, it's more likely that the source for this gas is extra reduced carbon being released from something that was frozen, i.e. old permafrost layers, which have a ton of the stuff ready to release if they melt. Too soon yet to tell whether or not the Methane spike is another trend picking up.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 24, 2008 -> 10:05 AM) It would be interesting to see what happens with Broadway when Cooper gets ahold of him. His big thing is to give guys a repeatable delivery to use, that way they can spot their pitches. I'd be curious to see how much his control improves and how much movement he loses in return, and to see what kind of pitcher it makes him. On the other hand, Broadway's not exactly a guy who'd be in a great position to give back a couple of mph on his fastball to gain more control is he?