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McCain: "We've Got Them Just Where We Want Them"
Fivethirtyeight.com gives McCain a 6.2% chance of winning.
Pollster.com shows Obama as having 320 EV's with just lean/solid Democratic states, 270 EV needed to win.
Even the conservative-run realclearpolitics.com shows Obama with 277 EV's, not counting toss-up states -- and their map matches my gut feeling about what states are in play at this point.
Obama people can't afford to be complacent, but McCain has a huge hill to climb if he expects this to even be close.
Right where he wants us, indeed.
McCain Declines to Condemn Obama-Osama Comparison
"Obama Is An Arab"-Says McCain Volunteer In Letters
Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama
Complaining about rigged elections is just plain ol' unhelpful WHINING. Plus it isn't funny, even for liberals.
I think you're misquoting the "honorable" Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Bush won. GET OVER IT.
MarineGunrock and NetRunner interviewed in 1992
McCain finally doing the right thing.
You then wonder why people downvote your comments?
Limbaugh would happily call you a feminazi, for daring to speak on his behalf.
Don't be offended by my saying that; it's Limbaugh's fault.
OPEN YOUR MIND -- and your eyes and ears too while you're at it.
$7.5 Trillion for a Transitional Fossil (Science Talk Post)
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dn14094-bacteria-make-major-evolutionary-shift-in-the-lab.html
They could use that money to do more research.
MSNBC: Palin Abused Powers: Troopergate
*long
Glenn Beck on the End Game: The New World Order
It was called the US dollar.
Now, it's crumbling, and people are wanting to dump their reserves in favor of another one.
Which one should they pick? The Euro is the most likely choice, but from what I read the EU is expecting the value of the Euro to drop now too.
Now is a good time to talk about whether or not we should establish a global currency, since a lot of countries want to change the makeup of the currency reserves they have.
I take it Glenn and deedub are opposed. Personally, I don't have any particular aversion to the idea, though I'd go through any proposed plans to ditch the dollar with a fine-toothed comb, as would every economist in the world.
Personally, I don't see how global free trade doesn't lead inevitably to global trade regulation, global courts, global banks, and eventually a global legislature and executive.
I think much is made about the use of the phrase "new world order", as if the three words are capitalized, and refer to a specific, secret plan that all nations' leaders are working towards.
To that I say hogwash.
Big businesses have big sway in this free-market world though. If they all agree it's a good idea, nothing you or I say will stop it.
John McCain's Keating Five Problem In 97 Seconds
It's also an early echo of our current economic crisis.
MarineGunrock and NetRunner interviewed in 1992
That unibrow still gets me all kinds of chicks. So does the sexy voice. Like moths to the flame, baby, moths to the flame.
Actually in '92 I was too young to vote. I did support Clinton, but all I knew about him was from watching the debates. He was the only one who was actually answering the questions, and giving specifics instead of generalities.
The pot smoking thing seemed kinda cool to me too.
Mostly I remember how little it mattered to me who the President was. Back then, with the Cold War seeming all but over, it just didn't seem to me that there were problems in the world that could compare with my need to a) get a car, and b) get laid.
I figured whoever it was, they probably wouldn't screw things up too bad.
Palin Abused Power but did Not Violate the Law
Abuse of power is unlawful according to Alaska state law.
*news
*lies
John McCain: Dazed and Confused *BONUS FOOTAGE*
McCain Supporter Calls Obama Hooligan; McCain Agrees
That's what makes my heads spin about the morons thinking Democrats are socialists.
If you were the Prime Minister Now.. Worst interview ever!
"If you were the Prime Minister today, what would you do differently?"
To which he responds "What time period are you asking about?" because he's focusing on the tense of the verb -- like you would in French -- and being confused by the past tense being used together with "today", because it implies a continuous period of time from an unknown point in the past through today (again, assuming French is your first language).
Still a huge gaffe, but it's a linguistic issue, not a truckload full of stupidity issue (like certain GOP VP candidates).