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QUOTE (mr_genius @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 04:16 PM) a nice convention bounce for McCain. It absolutely is.

I could never hurt a Bea.

Dumb question: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are/were quasi private companies sort of along the lines of Amtrak and the Postal Service, correct? They enjoy a special relationship with the Federal Government but are entities that are supposed to operate independent of the government. If that's the case, why were they allowed to float stock out on the open market?

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 11:14 AM) Agreed. She'll self destruct all on her own. If they force it, then it will be "an attack". Ultimately, people don't pull the level for the VP on the ticket anyway.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_...e_giants_crisis

If I was on the Obama campaign right now, I'd be ignoring Sarah Palin.

Thanks! I spent my birthday indoors because of the nasty Tropical Storm that was passing through NYC. Did get a nice brunch with Mimosas though before hand, and then spent the evening trapping a mouse in my bedroom and releasing it outside.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 7, 2008 -> 12:46 AM) There's a trough coming down that might push it on west, or duck hook right back into Fla. But it's going to be another day or so before we really have an idea. The latest track is showing it move a lot closer to Galveston and Houston rather than New Orleans.

My father is the equivalent of a mayor in a small town.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 6, 2008 -> 09:17 PM) I reference Obama saying something, he responds back that posters, and his parents, here say similar stuff. I said well, they aren't part of the party. They may be dyed-in-the-wool Republicans, but they are not a member of the Party. (Or Do they attend meetings with the RNC? ) Obama himself is playing the race card, not Republicans (party members, etc.) You really don't have to look too far back. Look at what Lieberman was saying in May about Hamas and Obama.... The claim originated in January 08's Insight Magazine, a GOP leaning rag owned by the same people who publish the Washington Times. Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) at the RNC. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) while stumping for McCain on Aug 12. August 7, 2008 - Hannity and Colmes

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 6, 2008 -> 10:17 PM) I reference Obama saying something, he responds back that posters, and his parents, here say similar stuff. I said well, they aren't part of the party. They may be dyed-in-the-wool Republicans, but they are not a member of the Party. (Or Do they attend meetings with the RNC? ) Obama himself is playing the race card, not Republicans (party members, etc.) My father is a Republican elected official.

So the members of Heart are pissed that the Republicans are using "Barracuda" in campaign appearances. Sarah Palin's nickname is Barracuda. The McCain campaign pays a blanket royalty fee to use ASCAP/BMI licensed music. That gets filtered back to the artists. Members of Heart are now saying that the money received from the McCain usage of "Barracuda" will at least be partially donated to the Obama campaign. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080906/en_nm/...foyiKDjRq2s0NUE

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 08:24 PM) To borrow some words from other posters here, your Republican parents and the people here are not part of the McCain campaign, are they? Obama is accusing the McCain campaign of using the race card, and so far, they have not. Sounds like chicken little. Read your own quote again. Did he say McCain? Or did he say Republicans? My parents aren't involved with the campaign, but they are card-carrying Republicans, literally.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 07:53 PM) The faculty are or the University's atmosphere is? There's a big difference. Even Texas A&M (George H. W. Bush University) has overwhelmingly liberal faculty. The faculty is generally conservative. John Mearshimer is actually a fan of nuclear proliferation, following Reagan's argument that more nukes means less chance of them actually being used. Leo Strauss, who my dad partially studied under is among the basis for the neocon worldview that led us into Iraq. Universities aren't as liberal as you may think when it comes to the actual staff.

Not to add fuel to the fire... but I seem to recall a lot of media coverage over John Edwards' 400 dollar haircut. People brought it up all the time. Yet when do we hear about McCain's $550 shoes? Or Cindy McCain's $300,000 outfit for the McCain's acceptance speech. You heard a lot about his homes, but only because he couldn't answer how many he has. I think the media creates a narrative and they do everything they can to fit the candidate into that specific narrative. Gore was a liar. Kerry was a flip-flopper. Bush was a cowboy. McCain is a maverick and is old. Obama is a "celebrity," etc.

QUOTE (WCSox @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 07:39 PM) It's nice to hear that at least one Republican has broken through the glass ceiling of discrimination in academia. Hah. That's funny, the University of Chicago is notoriously conservative.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 04:56 PM) We keep hearing that the press wouldn't cover McCain because he was always saying the same thing. How many times has Obama used this in a speech somewhere? http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/20...-says-mcca.html That was today. How many times can he trhow that imaginary race card? Ok, I know Muslim isn't a race, but you get the point. He keeps saying that republicans are going to say X, when HE is the only one saying it. Yet I can point to several Republicans in this forum who says he hangs out with radicals. I guess that would mean that he isn't the only one saying it. And as far as the muslim thing? I heard it. From my Republican parents. One of whom is a Political Science professor. So again, he isn't the only one saying it.

QUOTE (bmags @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 02:46 PM) One interesting thing to note, is that Obama has resources in all 50 states. What this means to me is that even in states he loses, he will probably be closer than Kerry was in 04. What I'm getting at, is if Obama loses, I'm thinking it's likely that he still wins popular. And that would really be bad. The difference between campaigns: McCain/Palin - campaign is all about McCain/Palin Obama/Biden - using DNC field offices as a base in many states, its as much a downticket race in the field as it is a Presidential one. People may hate Howard Dean for one reason or another, but he's been very successful at building a party.

From what I understand, the bill allows a worker to sue if they discover that they are being paid unequally for equal work, beyond the 6 month statutory deadline currently in law. Lily Ledbetter worked for Goodyear for decades and discovered after early retirement, that she appeared to have been paid intentionally less for her factory work because she was a woman, rather than a man. She sued. It went to the Supreme Court. It was thrown out because Goodyear's decision was made (in Ledbetter's case) to emply pay discrimination in 1979, not 1997, when Ledbetter made inquiries and discoveries that indicated this policy. This act would, I believe, eliminate the statutory limit on these actions.

If I was McCain's campaign, I would focus my resources in Florida, Virginia and Ohio. All three states are in danger of flipping blue, and McCain needs every last one of them. With Iowa and New Mexico looking more and more like Obama country (convention bounces not withstanding), a loss of any of these states without an unexpected pickup means an Obama presidency. On a secondary resource level, I'm looking at Indiana, New Hampshire and Colorado. New Hampshire is the only blue state I really feel that has a chance of swinging Red. Indiana and Colorado are both in danger, and they shouldn't be. Good ground game in either state could make them safe.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 11:05 AM) Isn't the IN Governor endorsing Obama? Also I just don't buy into that poll crap...a few months ago I got randomly called and mostly answered pro Democrat. Since then I have been called from the same number like once a week. I don't know what service it was for but I just don't pick up anymore b/c I don’t want a 20 minute questioner. Given that My Man Mitch is a Republican, it probably will go to McCain. However, there's a great opportunity to make McCain spend a lot of resources in a state he wouldn't ordinarily focus on.

You're running Obama's campaign. There's just eight weeks to go! You need to get to 270 Electoral Votes to win this election, and most polls are telling you that 247 of the 251 Electoral Votes the Democrats won in 2004 are relatively secure. Only New Hampshire's four electoral votes could flip back to John McCain. In the mean time: the following states are within the statistical margin of error. New Hampshire (4 electoral votes and the only state that could flip Red) Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (3 electoral votes each) Nevada and Colorado (5 electoral votes each) Indiana (11 electoral votes) Virginia (13 electoral votes) North Carolina (15 electoral votes) Ohio (20 electoral votes) Florida (27 electoral votes) As Obama's campaign manager: where do you put your resources?

You're running McCain's campaign. There's just eight weeks to go! You need to get to 270 Electoral Votes to win this election, and most polls are telling you that 165 of the 287 Electoral Votes the Republicans won in 2004 are relatively secure. Lots of states are threatening to turn blue, and Iowa and New Mexico look like they officially will. In the mean time: the following states are within the statistical margin of error. New Hampshire (4 electoral votes and the only state that could flip Red) Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota (3 electoral votes each) Nevada and Colorado (5 electoral votes each) Indiana (11 electoral votes) Virginia (13 electoral votes) North Carolina (15 electoral votes) Ohio (20 electoral votes) Florida (27 electoral votes) As McCain's campaign manager: where do you put your resources?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 5, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) Well, once you are president, where can you really go after that? Not many higher positons left. But he isn't President yet, is he?

CNN had a pundit refer to her last night as the ideological heir to George Bush without the baggage of actually being tied to him. Palin's speech got me excited too. So excited that I did something I swore I wasn't going to do this campaign. I donated to Obama's election warchest.