McCain's VP is...

[Elok]

Thanks for the clarifications, NYE and Asher. I'd have preferred that Asher's not call me crazy, but wanting Asher to be polite is like wishing you could crap solid gold.

Just to be clear, I still wuv him too and all that.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Elok
Thanks for the clarifications, NYE and Asher. I'd have preferred that Asher's not call me crazy, but wanting Asher to be polite is like wishing you could crap solid gold.

Just to be clear, I still wuv him too and all that.

I'm crazy, you're crazy, we're all crazy.

Just be glad I don't call you crazy stupid. That's another category.

[Heresson]

Oh, and why is that Romney guy so horrible?

[ramseya]

This whole youth are liberals thing was bull**** until recently:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/why-the-gop-l-1.html

In 1984 and 1988, first Ronald Reagan and then George H.W. Bush won first-time voters and under-29 voters by big margins: 20 points in 1984. The twentysomethings of the 1980s remain the most Republican cohort in the electorate to this day.

Demographic breakdown of 1984 and 1988 elections:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDB1F3CF933A25752C1A96E948260&scp=7&sq=EXIT+POLL+1984&st=nyt

18-29 years old
'84
Reagan: 59%
Mondale: 40%
'88
Bush: 52%
Dukakis: 47%

It is a factor now, of course, but traditionally, the youth vote has voted Republican.

[Asher]

Thanks for the history lesson. It was ****ing useless.

[ramseya]

Asher:

You forget that baby boomers are incredibly liberal (they were in their late teens and early 20's during the late '60's). Latter generations have become more conservative possibly as a response to our parents. Obama seems to be turning the tide on this, however, as he has a lot of appeal among young voters.

[Heresson]

ROMNEY who is he?

[ramseya]

Former governor of Massachusetts, son of the former governor of Michigan. He was the CEO of a management consulting firm and the co-founder of Bain Capital ($78 Billion in assets), a private equity firm. Also organized the 2002 Winter Olympics. The Romney family is a large and politically successful family. They are also Mormons.

He is politically a moderate Republican. He is (or was before his presidential campaign) pro-choice and had a history of raising taxes.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Asher

Go back to the grave you attention-seeking emo ****bag.

im not emo you **** eating flaming homosexual.

[faded glory]

Originally posted by Asher

Go back to the grave you attention-seeking emo ****bag.

im not emo you **** eating flaming homosexual.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Funny, I'd read a depressing article showing the exact opposite with actual statistics to prove it:

I fail to see how the study falls like a house of cards when that 80% figure wasn't even included in it. That was an unsupported assumption in DanS' completely unrelated post quoted & linked above, and in fact the study's explicit purpose was to test the validity of that assumption. Please retake reading comp and try again.

You quoted two things, the first your apparently calling an 'unrelated article' and the second the 'study'. It was the first quotes CONCLUSION that I was referring to as a house of cards as it mis-applies the statistic it uses. Perhapses I gave it too much credit by using the word 'study' but it should be clear my reference was to the first quotation as that is what I quoted from.

I actually find the 80% figure quite believable and the second 'study' convincing. My problem is that the conclusion of a "birth gap" (first quotation) dose not necessarily follow from the knowledge that A - Conservatives have more children, B - 80% of people retain their parents Ideology/ Party affiliation and I've already explained why.

Please work on your own reading comprehension.

[Asher]

Originally posted by faded glory


im not emo you **** eating flaming homosexual.

Yes, you are. It's why you double posted this for effect.

[chequita guevara]

Re: McCain's VP is...

. . . an idiot, apparently.

[Verto]

I find the whole "Palin faking a pregnancy to cover up for her daughter" to be quite entertaining to watch.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Asher


Scrub to ~2:55 in this video:



She asks "What's a VP do?"

And she's not joking.

That's not how it came across to me. Seemed like she was making a point about the limited role/power of VP, etc. She was basically giving a non-answer answer.