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If Dean goes down... it will probably be more due to his mistakes than dirty tricks... but I hope the standard Dean supporters won't be able to tell the difference if he doesn't get the nod 
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Keep on Civin'
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Yeah, there are a lot of Bush-haters, but not necessarily many statewide majorities, particularly if basic issues like the economy and national security favor Bush at the time of the general election. Dean would put up decent popular vote numbers regardless, but he may get skinned alive in the electoral vote.Originally posted by Ming
He would have to do better than McGovern... too many people hate Bush. They will vote for whoever the Dems put up... even if it was Mickey Mouse..When all else fails, blame brown people. | Hire a teen, while they still know it all. | Trump-Palin 2016. "You're fired." "I quit."Comment
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I wonder if that would be enough to get the EC abolished.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Yeah, right. Another Dukakis like result (decent popular vote, but pitiful electoral vote) won't be able to get rid of the EC.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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As long as the elected people are in charge of the electoral system, I don't see any change coming unless there is a huge popular pressure. And since all the voters of the winning side (who should be at least a comfortable minority) will explain how great the EC is, I doubt a real popular pressure will ever happen.Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I wonder if that would be enough to get the EC abolished."I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
"I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- DisComment
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not... yet... damnit... don't... self... destruct...
I think changing the EC would require a constitutional convention, and that is totally out of the hands of the federal government, its a state issue.Comment
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I think, in the end, I may withdraw my support of Dean.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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I think changing the EC would require a constitutional convention, and that is totally out of the hands of the federal government, its a state issue.
Not entirely. If they go the Amendment route, then the federal government is involved. And if it's a Constitutional Convention, I think someone (the SCOTUS) would have to decide if that's allowed
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I think, in the end, I may withdraw my support of Dean.
Good for you. Back Kerry.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Hey -- you're actually assuming I seriously consider your advice -- interesting.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Good for you. Back Kerry.
A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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No, I think repetition may help subliminally.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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I'm pretty sure the scotus doesn't have a say in that.Comment
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Yeah -- you do go on, and on, and on, and on . . . . .Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
No, I think repetition may help subliminally.
A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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I'm pretty sure the scotus doesn't have a say in that.
Who knows... it may. If the convention tries to go for ratification by only a majority of voters in half the states or something... the SCOTUS may step in and say even a constitutional convention has to follow the procedures of the Constitution for amendment.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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It is still unsure if Ben Laden had been the instigator of 9/11, or just had knowledge of the plan after it had begun. Al-Qaeda is a large organization, and they don't necessarily have a strong structure like the US secret services- for obvious stealth reasons.
He also said that he isn't going to prejudge OBL's guilt or innocence before any potential verdict, regardless of the fact that OBL has repeatedly taken credit (on tape, nonetheless) for the attacks. Of course, he has issued a release "clarifying" his position.
This guys remarks makes Dan Quayle seem an elder statesman.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/...ean.bin.laden/
In any way, someone admitting his guilt has never been a sufficient proof in a trial. So Dean? What he said was bold and courageous, but certainly foolish given the current state of the public opinion.In Soviet Russia, Fake borises YOU.Comment
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boris, seriously, take a day off :/"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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