xcptnl

Just thought I would add - Bill O'Reilly on The View this Wednesday - I can only imagine how Elisabeth will act - I cannot wait to watch the a** kissing.

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RedCatWaves

Heh...too funny. She was a wee bit aggressive with that shoulder grabbing.

Are there a lot of tall people in Congress, or is Bush just really short?!?

Poodlehead

Wikipedia lists him as 5'11.

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RedCatWaves

He's lying.

CottonCandyCurls

As I said before it's problematic that blacks overwhelmingly vote Democratic but that is another topic. Barack was getting 95% during the primaries. In fact this is where the perception began that people were voting for him because he's black. I know he's biracial, so is Halle Berry, Tracee Ellis Ross, heck even Tiger Woods is caublinasian regardless they are seen as black. Many bi-racial people go so far to identify themselves as such. Whether that is right or wrong is another issue. It's still an electoral oddity.

KookyCurl

In regard to the surrogates and dirty campaigning one of our state senators is up for reelection (Maine, Susan Collins R) and she recently asked the McCain campaign to suspend the robocalls to Maine voters about Obama and Ayers. She said that Mainers are smarter than that and there is no place for campaigning like that.

Now Maine is 1 of 2 states that awards their electoral votes proportionately (2 go to whomever wins the state, 1 each to whomever wins each of our two districts). For the republican senator to ask the republican nominee publicly to change their campaign tactics is not a very good sign for those of her supporters as far as them sticking by McCain.

I'm not much of a Collins fan but I do respect this choice of hers and she doesn't run too many attack ads in her race either.

In a side note a lovely sign just down the road from my grandmothers is garnering some attention. It's 15ft tall and is supposed to incite debate according to the owner. Personally I think it's obvious where he stands though he doesn't seem to think it is. (I find it heinous.)
Here's the link and you can follow that to video to see the sign. http://www.wgme13.com/News/story_det...shtml?readmore

Myradella3

To get stats like "95% of black people vote Democratic", how do you know who votes for whom? I live in a racially integrated neighborhood and precint. How will the AP or McCain know for whom I voted to be able to say that 95% of black people voted for Obama?

hadtochangemyname

I don't think you can, because you don't know the total of all people because you can't track who didn't vote.

What you can do, however, is get data on who DID vote, who they voted for, and their race (and their gender, and their age, and their name and address...) At least in Texas you can. Its on the internet.

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To Cotton Candy...

Why would blacks overwhelmingly voting democratic be a problem? Maybe they see that as the party that best handles and recognizes their own needs? 4% of blacks are republicans and I'm sure they see their party as suiting their own needs. Perception is only reality to he who wants to perceive just that. In other words, IMO, the whole "blacks vote for Obama because he's black" thing is propaganda to undermine the intelligence of blacks... like we've got scratch and sniff ballots or something... (scratch here for vanilla and here for chocolate ).

Maybe you don't believe this... but just like perception, if you adamantly post about something, we can't help but believe that you're under this assumption as well.

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CottonCandyCurls

Census Bureau, State Registration Records, Various Polls (campaign, party, opinion research, exit).
And of course these number are for people actually registered to vote. It was pretty obvious where most of the black vote was swinging during the primaries.

CottonCandyCurls

I'm sure black people see the party as handling their needs. I don't think it actually does. I actually don't think most black people voted for Obama solely because he's black. And if they did I honestly wouldn't care. But I'm not the everyvoter. There should be more efforts from other parties to address the black community. They really are clueless at to what the black community finds important. On the other hand I think the Democratic Party knows they have African Americans in the bag and take them for granted. I can't remember that funny Al Sharpton quote from when he was running in 200. But I hope you know what I mean.

A_la_Nap-tural

Black people don't listen to Al Sharpton! That's funny... I don't think anyone does. I don't know one person who takes that man seriously. I would NEVER vote for Al, or Jesse, or Alan Keys... They are stocked up on CRAZY!

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Myradella3

So numbers like 95% are really just guesses unless there is a precint where every person is black or white?

CottonCandyCurls

I didn't say black people necessarily listen to him. He's his own brand of crazy but that doesn't mean everything he says is completely useless. I just couldn't remember what he said I'll find the quote.

CottonCandyCurls

No. Gore in 2000 got 9 out of 10 black votes. Would that require everyone to be black or white. Um no. These things are dissected with good reason. You can go back to the numbers in the primaries

xcptnl

O'Reilly is on The View and I think Elisabeth is about to have an orgasm. It's quite frightening to watch.

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One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim. ~George Carlin~

In regards to Vagazzling: They just want to get into the goods without worrying about getting scratched up by fake crystals. ~spring1onu~