2008 Primaries Thread 3: The Rejecting and Denouncening

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html

lol?

LOL, there's a fake Mark Penn in the comments on TPM

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/obama_camp_declares_victory_in.php

Do you have any idea what the population of Texas is? Twenty-four million. Twenty-four million!

That is so absurdly macrotrendic as to need no additional commentary.

Thank you, Euler. So much of this thread is just white noize by now that it's nice to hear someone making sound observations, based in local reality, not on the media gabfest.

Went to the opening volunteer thing for the Obama Portland HQ yesterday. They rented out an empty Wild Oats supermarket, and the place was jammed, with about 500 folks showing. Good vibe in the crowd.

It looked like this

They rented out an empty Wild Oats supermarket

lol

http://media.gallup.com/poll/graphs/033008DailyUpdateGraph1_ponm_bf730lslmnvp2.gif

KEEP ON CHOOGLIN, BARACK OBAMA

and over a weekend! maybe all the under-55s were in front of the tv.

anyway, i think it's pretty much over. dude's gonna win NC. if he doesn't lose IN, she's out. no pressure on Evan Bayh or anything. maybe O can pay a nice visit to Dick Lugar.

obama and lugar sponsored legislation together at some point.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.larson.html

but i'd be surprised if lugar comes out and publicly supports obama or anything.

(lugar: one of like four republicans I like)

He can't, really, but good for Beltway shite I suppose.

My friend Leonard wrote this, and a Sadlyno! commentator put the gif together. I love it like greasy junk food.

<img src=http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3411/dialogcf9.gif>;

YARG

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3411/dialogcf9.gif

does it get funny though?

If you aren't laughing at "Why can't you people get your own dialog? Why are you always trying to take what belongs to us?" I don't know what I can do to help you.

http://manolomen.com/images/barack-obama-in-bowling-shoes.jpg

This aggression will not stand, man!

the map is blue in large part due to the variety of christian denominations - catholicism may not be that large a plurality.

Yes, I think that map is kind of misleading. The Catholic church may be the largest single church in lots of counties, but it's still probably outnumbered by Protestants, if you added up all the different varieties of Protestants.

that map looks almost identical to the pop/soda/coke map!

No Jews?

And gawddam is my state Baptist.

There's a pop/soda/coke map? Awesome.

http://popvssoda.com:2998/countystats/total-county.gif

I wonder what they call it up there in Lake of the Woods County. Some Indian name, I suppose.

my relatives on boston's north shore call it 'tonic'? they are also catholic.

Eazy, I have no idea, my Baudette-born grandfather said POP like every other Minnesotan.

Back to the topic at hand: Obama sure sucks at bowling.

No Jews?

the only place that would come close is Rockland County, NY, and the map says it's Catholic-majority.

this might not always have been true

Didn't Nixon have a bowling lane in the White House? I wonder if it's still there.

it's in the John Ehrlichman Memorial Wing.

Here's another map that shows the largest variation of each state from the national average in terms of religious affiliation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Religions_by_State.PNG

might be different if LA County weren't so hueg too

(Off-topic, but I've always wanted to see a Duck Duck Gray Duck map by county.)

Eazy, where in MN are you from?

I just find it hard to believe there isn't one county in the United States that doesn't have a Jewish majority.

lol, minority

in Manhattan, Jews+unaffiliateds almost tie Catholics, but I don't know what the unaffiliateds are

Burnsville as a kid and St. Paul as a teenager. My aunt teaches kindergarten in Moorhead, and they played gray-duck up there too.

in Queens, Jews+unaffiliateds beat Catholics, but there are fewer Jews

The top 50 - the BosWash corridor, South Florida, Atlanta, Denver-Boulder, Detroit, SF, LA, Philly, Vegas, Cleveland, STL, Aspen and a miniscule county near Lake Tahoe

let's wrap this shit up folks

It is taking place also in private entreaties by e-mail or phone — the modern equivalent of smoke-filed rooms

orly

the internet is a series of smoke-filled tubes

http://slog.thestranger.com/files/old/050228910-bong.jpg

let's wrap this shit up folks

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, March 31, 2008 11:49 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

if folks shut it down too early it ends up hurting more than it helps

how so? do you really think all those Hillary voters are gonna go for McCain in Nov?

i think that if hillary voters feel like the decision was made prematurely then they will be pretty mad yeah

yeah but being mad now /= being mad enough in November to vote for Popeye's Pappy

we need more rappers' opinions on this race a la DMX and now 50:

During a recent interview with MTV at his Connecticut mansion, 50 Cent told reporters that he has switched from supporting Hillary Clinton for president to backing Barack Obama after hearing his speech on race.

"I heard Obama speak," said the rapper. "He hit me with that he-just-got-done-watching-'Malcolm X,' and I swear to God, I'm like, 'Yo, Obama!' "He threw his fist in the air. "I'm Obama to the end now, baby!"

But hold on, 50 also admitted that he's become bored with the overall race for the White House.

"To be honest, I haven't been following that anymore. I lost my interest," he said.