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Home Front: Politix
US election neck and neck after the ‘Sarah Palin bounce’
2008-09-06
Posted by:tipper

#24  @Barbara

Indeed. I guess we'll see not much change anyway. The red states will stay red, the blue states blue... mostly.

Obama is about as empty as Kerry was. I've seen him in Berlin.

Btw it's a shame nobody took the media to the woodshed.

Yes there were a lot of curious Germans, but most of the spectators doing the clapping and the "Yes we can" were Americans from the Obama campaign flown in.

Btw will ANYONE tell me just WHAT they can? Bind their shoe laces?
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-06 22:07  

#23  You could rename him,

"One who wastes bytes"
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-09-06 21:59  

#22  he'll be back, just like you can pinch a turd off at any point, you can abbreviate an Ar*s screen nym
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-06 21:50  

#21  Nice of him to change his name so we can shorten the message:

Aris Katsar.is Pooplisted.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-09-06 21:48  

#20  As will we all, EC. :-(
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-09-06 21:44  

#19  I'll be rather glad when these elections are over
Posted by: European Conservative   2008-09-06 21:01  

#18  [Aris Katsar.is has been pooplisted.]
Posted by: Aris Katsar.is   2008-09-06 20:43  

#17  At least he can't e-mail me anymore (I think), Sheth. I tried designating his first e-mail as "unsafe" since I thought that was just a different way of designating senders as junk, but that didn't work, so the next time I just checked junk directly - which AFAIK is supposed to keep that particular sender from landing in my inbox. Hopefully the e-mail filters are catching and deleting him now, if he's still trying to bother me.

Sad. He needs to get a life.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-09-06 20:28  

#16  Barbara, don't engage him. Just go to the "O Club" and leave the mods a message about which thread needs de-pooping.
Posted by: Sheth the Lesser2641   2008-09-06 20:16  

#15  not very, goodnight
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-06 19:59  

#14  Good grief, troll - it's just pathetic the way you hang around here. Ever think of putting all that spare time toward something useful?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-09-06 19:54  

#13  The extent of the convention bounce will not be apparent until tracking polls released Monday morning.

Some Republican pollsters believe that weekend polling poorly reflects actual voters. If they're correct it won't be until Thursday when the Mon/Tue/Wed tracking polls are released that we'll have our first real look at the race post-Palin.
Posted by: AzCat   2008-09-06 18:59  

#12  Scooter, I lies to them. Tell them that it's so. I'm off to look for 'gangsta cowboy picture..... John Wayne in Chicago suit with a Thompson mashin gun, charging 'Lo-the-Poor-Indian in the Monument Valley.
Posted by: .5MT   2008-09-06 18:42  

#11  Scooter, remember how our Gr**k friend always lectured us on America? "Y'all"?
Posted by: Frank G   2008-09-06 14:41  

#10  Comments at the link are funny/infuriating. I never realized Brits thought they knew so much about American politics. And it's purely conceit, they obviously know NOTHING about our political process or way of life.

I'm convinced than an entire generation of foreigners form their opinions of our nation from Hollywood TV/Movies/DVDs, and actually BELIEVE WHAT THEY SEE ON THE SCREEN IS WHAT OUR COUNTRY IS REALLY LIKE. (And honestly, who can blame them?)
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2008-09-06 14:32  

#9  My high school newspaper adviser would have kicked most of the current set of political commentators out of her class, for conduct unbecoming of ladies and gentlemen.
Posted by: mom    2008-09-06 13:46  

#8  sounds like you worked on a student newspaper

Anyone who has read my writings would know that I clearly lack the talent for such a position. Maybe if I work reeeal hard I could least aspire to the NYT or other failing rags.
Posted by: Betty Grating2215   2008-09-06 13:33  

#7  Betty, sounds like you worked on a student newspaper. Just think what the pros try to get through.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2008-09-06 13:16  

#6  Bulldog - true. But I have no doubt the pun was not lost on the editors. There are things you don't put into a headline just cause you don't. Like, "Obama campaign in the black". "Obama all ears at town hall meeting". "Biden plugs experience gap." I could go on if you'd like....
Posted by: Betty Grating2215   2008-09-06 13:13  

#5  At least "titz up" wasn't worked into this story.
Posted by: ed   2008-09-06 12:27  

#4  The massive movement of the conservatives, who are always under polled in elections, won't be reflected as shifting from unmotivated/fence sitters to committed.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-09-06 11:55  

#3  Um, Betty, 'bounce' just refers to an upwards change in the direction of the opinion polls, it's not a reference to Palin's physicality.
Posted by: Bulldog   2008-09-06 11:53  

#2  Yes, that is the actual Times Online headline. I can't believe the level of sexism that this campaign has been reduced to. Sarah Palin: bimbo, sex craving, naughty librarian, hypocritical sex starved Christianist, affair having, marriage wrecking, child popping, sex toy of McCain with no experience, zero brains but lots of "bounce". Oh, and her daughter is a slut and she is a bad mother.

I would not have thought we would be tolerating this in 2008. Amazing.
Posted by: Betty Grating2215   2008-09-06 11:30  

#1  The extent of the convention bounce will not be apparent until tracking polls released Monday morning. Sustainability will be apparent by midweek.
Posted by: regular joe   2008-09-06 10:19  

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