Political discussion thread

This thread seems to have died down again And I wasn't sure where it was going either (was it Iraq/Afghanistan or the US presidential election? Or both?)

Anyone know of any good political blogs focused on truth and that sort of thing?

My favorites are bartcop.com and thismodernworld.com

stonebeard wrote: Anyone know of any good political blogs focused on truth and that sort of thing?

 I find this site particularly interesting. It has a tendency to be anti-Bush, though, depending on your views, it may not be the truth.

http://juancole.com/

Damnit, America. Vote for Obama.

1800iareyay wrote: Gamemako wrote: Damnit, America. Vote for Obama. Seriously. This is why I should listen to the news until the next day. I started getting my hopes up, seemingly for nothing. Please lord let him take California.

If you believe CNN exit polls, he didn't. He won the black vote and the white vote, but Hillary beat him with Latinos and Asians.

So it looks like he won the same number of states as Hillary, but he's going to be behind on delegates -- and possibly more than 100 behind. He may even actually get 12 states if he wins the Alaska caucus.

So it looks like he won more states than Hillary, but he might be behind on delegates. He appears to have 13 states to Hillary's 9 today. Might even manage 14 to Hillary's 8. In fact, Hillary appears to be winning only the states which never go red.

//EDIT: It gives me great pleasure to edit my post to say that Obama may have won more states than expected.


Edited by Gamemako - February 06 2008 at 00:28

I thought my state (Pennsylvania) was so silly for having their primary relatively late in the calendar (April 22), but now it looks like we will be absolutely bombarded with ads (particularly from the Dems) come April.  It along with Texas and Ohio are among the big prizes still to be awarded.

Slartibartfast wrote: I voted Obama since I thought he was going to be the underdog.  He wound up kicking severe butt here in Georgia.  He remains a close second to Hillary in delegates so far.  Looks like McCain may have the nomination pretty much locked up.  My favorite Edwards, still has more delegates than Paul, even though he dropped out.

For once in all its history, Georgia has done the right thing.

Now the state just needs to rid itself of Sonny Perdue and (ugh) Kathy Cox.

Gamemako wrote: Slartibartfast wrote: I voted Obama since I thought he was going to be the underdog.  He wound up kicking severe butt here in Georgia.  He remains a close second to Hillary in delegates so far.  Looks like McCain may have the nomination pretty much locked up.  My favorite Edwards, still has more delegates than Paul, even though he dropped out.  For once in all its history, Georgia has done the right thing. Now the state just needs to rid itself of Sonny Perdue and (ugh) Kathy Cox.

Yeah, I could do without Scummy Perdue, we also have a Lieutenant Gov. named Cagle (another chicken company in the SE US).  You may mixing up your [K,C]athy Coxes.  Cathy Cox is no longer the Secretary of State but Kathy Cox is still State Superinetendent of the Georgia Department of Education.  I am using great restraint not to make any cox jokes.   I will not tack on any uckers.


Edited by Slartibartfast - February 06 2008 at 20:55