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My friends, here's to HOPE!

blue_beetle — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:44:32 -0800

Elections are fun!

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:49:54 -0800

Welcome to The Sacramento County Republican Party. The official website has removed content calling for Obama to be waterboarded. But it still contains fake quotes supposedly from Obama's memoir. In this political climate, 33% of voters do not identify Obama as Christian, and 8% believe he is Muslim. Yet, the polls predict a landslide, hinted at by early voting. McCain needs something spectacular, and he may be regretting his decision to invoke Bill Ayers in tonight's debate; and perhaps other things.

Bottoms up

nitsuj — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:16:37 -0800

Now that the presidential debate is back on, it's time to prepare by selecting the most appropriate drinking game for tonight's debate.

Radar's Ale to the Chief
Comedy Central's Presidential Debate Drinking Game
It’s like they’re…mmmagic 2008 Presidential Debate Drinking Game
From the Archives, Wonkett's 2004 Presidential Debate Drinking Game -- and, of course, one for this year.
The Huffington Post's debate drinking game.
University of Florida's Presidential Debate Drinking Game.
The Seminal's Obama-McCain Debate Drinking Game.
A Brief Foray Into The World Of Contemporary Affairs
And my favorite Presidential Debate Drinking Game

Presidential Betting Market Acting a Little Oddly

WCityMike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:37:37 -0800

Nate Silver, the proprietor of the fantastic electoral projection site FiveThirtyEight.com, notices that the presidential betting market on Intrade is behaving very oddly: "[S]ome individual trader or some small group of traders are shorting all the Obama contacts in bulk and resetting the entire market. The markets then organically climb back upward until the rogue trader strikes again six or eight hours later." "So?" you say. "Meh." But adding a little curiousity to this matter, "this [rogue] trader is not only selling Obama contracts and buying McCain contracts ... they also seem to be buying Hillary Clinton contracts. [...] So someone is betting on some sort of disqualifying event happening to Obama." Is this a zomgzomgzomgCONSPIRACY?! No. But it is a intriguing little side wrinkle. And I imagine you didn't know that "[b]etween the Obama and McCain contracts, there appears to be about $400,000 in contracts changing hands every day."¹ And, as Silver points out, "I don't think this is any cause for alarm ... if Joe Biden contracts were being bought up as part of this scheme, that might be more concerning, but they aren't. Still, if I were the FBI, I would probably want to know the identity of this trader." ¹"Contract" being analogous in this case to "bet."

Kerry McCain ticket

thedailygrowl — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:24:45 -0800

John McCain is open to running with Kerry. Is a Kerry and McCain a ticket combination that keeps President Bush up at night? McCain could help Kerry and the Democrats bring in a sizeable chunk of the important "Nascar Dad" vote that is key to this election. Expect big overtures from the Bush team towards McCain including the possibility of a Bush and McCain ticket. McCain's decision may rest on any lingering resentment over the 2000 Republican presidentialcampaign, particularly the dirty tricks the Bush campaign pulled in South Carolina. Stay tuned.