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posted by February 3 at 9:05 AM
onPoll Position: Statistical dead heat between Clinton and Obama. Either Dem would cream Romney but would tie with McCain.
California: Obama catches up.
Cum on Feel Illinois: They’re lovin’ Obama and McCain.
Cum on Fear Illinois: Suspect on the loose after murdering five women near Chicago yesterday.
Great White Neighbors: Canadians heard in lax immigration court.
Satterberg: Tries to block record requests.
Fat Lip: Food manufacturers, grocery-store managers, and restaurant operators to blame for obesity?
French First Couple: Hot.
South Seattle Schools: Not.
51 Seized Pups: Judge says sell ‘em.
Duopoly? Micrsoft bids for Yahoo! to give Google the finger.
Hanging Chad: Global aid in the balance as rebels charge troops.
Food for Thought: FDA “barely hanging on by its fingertips.”
For Life: Volvo recalls 82,000 cars that may stall at inopportune moments.
All Are Bored, America: Stuck in the mountains on Amtrak.
Happy Thuper-duper Bowl, pigskin lovers!
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Karl Rove is back, and promising lots of surprises: http://www.newsweek.com/id/107568
Wow, the Clinton campaign just never quits. Now some more sleaze emerges in California. One of those misleading fake polls. The campaign's apparently not ready to own up to it:
In the 1950's, the Union Pacific streamliner "City of Los Angeles" was stuck up in the Sierras for four days or so. That was before the days of retention tank toilets, so you can imagine how pleasant that must have been. Plus they ran out of food and one of the cooks went crazy.
You know that I live to provide you all with useless trivia. I hope I have not disappointed.
@3: In addition, when they got stuck, a doctor on the train ordered the staff to not serve any booze. Makes sense I guess, but I would have wanted a little brandy at least to survive.
I'm a little disappointed you could only find your way to explicitly posting the word "Obama" three times in your news summary. Kind of phoning it in at that rate, aren't you?
JTC, feeling a little cranky today, are we?
Obama.
I think it's really cute when the Stranger tries to do business news.
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That much of your comment, we agree on.
What is it that you think Clinton did? You use the term "push polling". If this was an actual poll designed to test campaign messages, most consultants agree that it's a legitimate poll. Given that the questioner spent twenty minutes with the one call recipient, it's hard to imagine that if this is a push poll operation that's it's a particularly effective one- push polls are almost always quick.
Note also that the caller didn't actually say anything that was patently untrue. This hardly seems to rise to the level of "sleaze."
@9:
Hey, Big Sven, I admire how you leap to the defense of HRC. I would, too, but I've come to a couple conclusions:
* The Stranger has endorsed Obama, so they will pepper the Slog with "Obama"-this, "Obama"-that, and the commenters will go hog wild in support of that. Facts won't matter as much as emotion and excitement that their candidate might win. It would be the same if they'd endorsed HRC, and Slog and the commenters have every right to do so.
* The Obama campaign, for me, is exactly like the campaigns I have supported in the past and now, for the first time, am not. You know, the type of campaign that is about not just issues, but also healthy doses of emotion, the chance to make history, and, I reckon, a pinch of white liberal guilt. HRC's campaign, for me, is a cold, calculating decision based on what I perceive to be her issues and her electability...very little emotion in my decision nor sense of history, although there's certainly that if we elect a woman POTUS.
So all that said, I'm going to stop making fun of how many times the Sloggers can say "Obama" in a post, etc., etc., and just wait to see the election unfold.
I'll be ready to work hard for the Dem who wins, and that, I think, is the bottom line to which all of us should adhere.
Um, the link to the Hanging Chad story is dead.
Thanks, Brandon J. It's been revived.
If you read the Satterberg article, it's clear that he has a good reason for trying to block these records requests.
I don't really agree with Satterberg's way of going about this - trying to stop the guy from being able to file any more records requests - but the guy is obviously a creepy, vindictive, and violent bastard who's trying to intimidate the people that put him in prison.
So yeah. Fuck this guy and his public records requests.
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