The Last Last Election Thread II about the Last Election

[Donegeal]

Well, the Clintons removed all the W's from all the keyboards when they left.

People just need to be less sensitive.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Well, the Clintons removed all the W's from all the keyboards when they left.

People just need to be less sensitive.

It came out later in the week the story "broke" that the Bush White House made that up. That was about 8 years ago. Nice of you to keep up.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Well, the Clintons removed all the W's from all the keyboards when they left.

People just need to be less sensitive.

at the image of Bill and Hillary sneaking around the White House offices, personally removing the Ws.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles
It came out later in the week the story "broke" that the Bush White House made that up. That was about 8 years ago. Nice of you to keep up.

Shame on the Clinton's if it's not true. There should be a clever prank for every transition.

[Donegeal]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles


It came out later in the week the story "broke" that the Bush White House made that up. That was about 8 years ago. Nice of you to keep up.

I try; but you can't keep up with everything. I guess I let this one slide while raising a family. Oops.

[Lancer]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
It's kinda funny though (then again, I love tasteless jokes)

Tasteless jokes are only funny if they pick on the right.

[Arrian]

It's "kinda funny" in that "oh, man, that's awful, hehe" sort of way. In other words, crass, crude, kinda funny, and totally inappropriate.

In a word... Dubya.

-Arrian

[Blaupanzer]

Can't you just drive downtown to see Dubya cleaning trash off the lawn every few days? No??? Turns out the Prez doesn't personally keep up the white house grounds. So that cotton will end up being picked up by the same people responsible for protecting the Bush materials in storage. What do you think will happen to that stored stuff? I can see the headlines worldwide: Republican party commits political suicide to leave a bitter symbol of slavery on the white house lawn!!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Lancer
Gordon Smith up 7000ish.

Don't get your hopes up.

There are 150,000 ballots left to be counted in Multnomah County and 90,000 left to be counted in Lane county. Right now in Multnomah County, Merkley is garnering 66% of the vote while Smith is only garnering 29% of the vote. In Lane County, Merkley is garnering 58% of the vote to Smith's 38%. There aren't many votes remaining from Smith-heavy counties, which are much smaller anyway.

I'd say Merkley is on track to win by 50,000+ votes.

EDIT: Merkley has now taken the lead in the count. Smith is toast.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles

BTW, did anyone else know that as a child, she was friends with one of the four little girls who were blown up in that church in Birmingham?

I didn't know that.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Ecthy


Last 3 minutes

These are some classical crowd pleasing tricks.

You tell them a story, you make a connection, you make a catch phrase they repeat to feel good. You call for action.

He's a brilliant speaker. To a point it's even a bit painful to watch.

[Sirotnikov]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/167582/page/3

Obama studied himself and learned, just in time. The annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Des Moines on Nov. 10 was a crucial beauty pageant before the real contest, the caucuses on Jan. 3. Obama's Iowa organization made sure to pack the hall and drown out the supporters of all the other candidates. Because the candidates were not allowed to use teleprompters, Obama spent hours memorizing the words and perfecting his delivery. The speech was a good one, ripping George W. Bush and taking down Hillary (a little more subtly), and it built into a crescendo as Obama told the story of how, on a miserable morning when he faced a small, bored crowd in Greenwood, S.C., a single black woman in the audience had revived his flagging spirit by getting the crowd to chant, responsively, "Fired up!" "Ready to go!" Slipping from an easy, bemused tone to a near shout, Obama egged on the overflow crowd at the J-J dinner. "So I've got one thing to ask you. Are you FIRED UP? Are you READY TO GO? FIRED UP! READY TO GO!" The Washington Post's David Broder, the Yoda of political reporters, was watching and understood that Obama had found the Force. The speech became Obama's standard stump speech, and in the weeks ahead it never failed him. Broder described the effect of Obama's thumping windup: "And then, as the shouting became almost too loud to hear, he adds the five words that capsulize the whole message and sends the voters scrambling back into their winter coats and streaming out the door: 'Let's go change the world.' And he sounds as if he means it. In every audience I have seen," Broder reported on Dec. 23, a week and a half before the Iowa caucuses, "there is a jolt of pure electrical energy at those closing words. Tears stain some cheeks—and some people look a little thunderstruck."

[Boris Godunov]

The Oregonian declares Merkley the winner in the Senate race:

http://www.oregonlive.com/special/index.ssf/2008/11/senate.html

[Guynemer]

This is an interesting map.

Blue counties are counties where Obama outperformed Kerry; Red counties are counties where McCain outperformed Bush.

[KrazyHorse]

I like the fact that there's a smooth gradient from "more racist" to "less racist".