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QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 24, 2008 -> 10:15 AM) I'm fairly certain he was making a "Rush Limbaugh on Colin Powell" joke. I get it now.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 07:53 PM) I never realized he was black. McClellan or D.L. Hughley? McClellan is definitely not black. However, out of these conservatives coming out and endorsing Obama, the one that has to sting the most to McCain is the Goldwater family. Ouch.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 24, 2008 -> 10:44 AM) Which is what I've been trying to say. And it seems close enough in a few instances that it could tilt the election to McCain. I'm also expecting a late rally towards McCain as the undecided play it safe with an establishment candidate who has been around for decades. All Obama has to really do is win Ohio or FL and right now he is leading in both. The rest of those states are mostly just nails in the coffin that increase the odds of Obama winning. The late rally would have to be HUGE and span all across the country. A McCain victory isn't impossible by any means but at this point it appears really, really unlikely. All of the polling trends are breaking Obama right now and McCain is running out of time.

It's different when the dictator is pro-American. Make of that what you will though, because that's a whole other issue in itself.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Oct 24, 2008 -> 09:07 AM) I think it goes to explaining the "buzz" that is clearly Obama around electronic communications. We are all informal pollsters. We hear from friends and coworkers who they are voting for. We read comments on message boards. We read some of the professional polls, then make predictions.And that is what this thread is really all about. If not, just average all the polls and we all should have the exact same prediction. There's plenty of anti-Obama electronic buzz too. It depends where you go. If all you do is read left-slanting sites then all you'll see is pro-Obama buzz. My school has a lot of military people in it so it's mostly conservative, so on my school's message board I see plenty of anti-Obama posts in there, plenty of Palin love. And then you figure that most of us are from Chicago... what's Chicago, 80, 85% Dem? Me myself, I still live in a blue state so the "buzz" here is going to be obvious.

So maybe I'm off about the polls in 2004 - like I said, I wasn't tracking them every day. Maybe because it was a different poll I was looking at every time, and the media likes to play the whole "close race" game so they push the closest poll. The big gap in September is probably from the convention though.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 24, 2008 -> 08:51 AM) Electoral-vote.com (another poll-of-polls website) had Kerry winning it close, but that's because they got OH wrong. They nailed every other state. Damn, they have it 375-157 Obama.

QUOTE (knightni @ Oct 24, 2008 -> 02:11 AM) Everyone here thought that Kerry was going to win in '04 and was shocked that Bush repeated. Most people here are going to be shocked again when the silent, non internet-using Republican voters pop out of the woodwork on November 4th. I think that it will be a nail biter again, but that Obama will barely pull it out by taking a couple of Southern states away from McCain that Bush carried the last two elections. I was overseas at the time but I don't remember the '04 race ever being comfortably in Kerry's court before the inaccurate exit polling (probably the source of people remembering it this way), not once. Every time I looked at the polls that summer, which was about twice a week, they were a dead heat within the margin of error, usually Bush would be up 1 or 2%. And Kerry definitely didn't have this massive polling gap that Obama has right now. There's plenty of internet-using Republicans... you just don't see them here because this is a Chicago-centric board and there's like 17 Republicans in the entire city.

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 10:02 PM) gmafb No... see... McCain is the one who made it an issue... people tried to explain why it was such a dumb conclusion to draw, but now he should see.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 04:05 PM) There was a scene in that Keanu Reeves baseball movie where a little kid gets shot, very sad scene. I definitely lost it there That was a really predictable scene. In fact a few minutes before that scene I was thinking "one of these kids is gonna get shot in a random act of violence, it's about due to happen any minute now"

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 04:06 PM) It's been so long now that I forgot what happened in that movie. Who played Ricky? Cuba Gooding? Morris Chestnut (he was a nobody back then). Cuba Gooding was the main character.

Oh, the end of Meet Joe Black got me a little misty-eyed even though it was technically a "happy" ending.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 02:56 PM) Oh I have, but still doesnt make me sad. In and of itself seeing him get shot is no big deal, but it's the "RICKYYYYYY NOOOOO!" scream right after and all of that in the context of what was happening in the movie. Ricky had just qualified for his scholarship at USC and wasn't dirty like some of the other characters and up until that point it looked like he was going to succeed. If he was just another gang member it wouldn't have had the same effect. In fact the plot probably wouldn't have even worked.

Oh if he really wanted to piss everyone in the state off, he could appoint himself to Obama's position. That'd be awesome.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 02:39 PM) Boyz n the Hood when Ricky gets shot. I must be the only one on this board that's ever seen this movie.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 09:16 AM) After 15 minutes I was rooting for the Ocean. Come on, we already know how it ends! Bring the water!

To be honest I probably won't have any lasting animosity towards John McCain. Campaigning is like a game.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) Yeah I saw that, her defense is not really an apology - she blames Matthews and the internets for misinterpereting her. Yeah, I honestly can't think of any other way of interpreting what she said. He asked in so many words "do you think Barack Obama is anti-American?" Then she said "absolutely" and THEN went on to call for an investigation by the media of "anti-American" activity within Congress. Umm... yeah. How else is that supposed to be interpreted?

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) After Bachmann's comments, her opponent, Mr. Tinklenburg, got an absolute tidal wave of donations, totaling $1.3M since Friday, and still pouring in. They are getting so much money, they can't keep up. A race that looked like a GOP lock is suddenly in play for the Dems. She gave a half-assed apology. She sounded almost like she was more sorry that Matthews asked the question than the response she gave (which was pretty undeniable, there was absolutely no doubting what she meant when she said it).

I've said this before, but Congressional approval ratings are meaningless, the fact that it's a "rating" of a body of 535 people notwithstanding. When the Republicans were in charge the ratings were steadily declining. The Democrats took over 2 years ago and the trend continued. But it's a lot easier for right-wing blogs to use that as another reason to blast the Democrats (they deserve it, especially in the House, but that's beside the point).

People in Congress don't get security clearances, per se. They are authorized certain information by default, because it's part of their duties, but they don't have blanket access to whatever they want, only what they need. But that applies to everyone else too and that would definitely include Palin, to say that one type of official has more access than another is kind of absurd, because there is no way for anybody to know in the first place. I swear I think whoever wrote that e-mail pulled that "fact" straight out of their ass.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 23, 2008 -> 10:35 AM) The Almost Next Palin: Zamboni Palin Wow, secessionist Tod is the sane one. What the hell is wrong with this woman? So, since i am a huge baseball fan, I am thinking of naming my first born son FieldTarp. I figured it was obvious she was joking...?

If Obama wins, who's running for his vacant Senate seat?

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 22, 2008 -> 06:20 PM) The last scene in "Field of Dreams". Hands down. cry every time. If you dont cry at the end, you're lying or not human. lol I just went to Youtube to watch the end and see if I could watch it without feeling anything, and I get to the end like "haha, see, nothing!" Then I blink and it turns out one of my eyes was a little wet. lol.

You guys seem to have missed the part where they said there is tons of competition for the "worst" and you could've easily substituted a few names that didn't make it on the list.