Re: Well Reg...
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Well, I think the big states are more important and should come after some of the small ones because it is the people in the big states I'd like to see think about their vote more. I like the fact Iowa picked Obama and Huckabee over Clinton, Romney or whatever (I wish they had picked Edwards because that was how he needed to start) and New York had they voted first would have probably went Clinton and Giuliani and I still would have been sitting home looking at the screen going "Are you kidding me?"As far as I can tell, and maybe David has an opinion, California is a Clinton state and she is going to destroy Obama there. Had they voted first that certainly would have been the case...so are you saying you'd feel better having shitty choices if more people made them?
I don't think who votes first is the problem. I think the fact that Hillary had a full year of advertising through the media and the Republicans refering to her as the Democrat they would be running against is the problem. From early in 2007 everybody went on and on like she was the one. So a good majority of this country (and the majority of this country just does not pay attention to politics like the people on this board) have turned on their tv or looked at a newspaper and all they have seen is HILLARY CLINTON. Many of them probably don't even know there are other Democrats running and most of them probably have never even heard the name Dennis Kucinich. Either because they don't care or because their lives don't allow them the time or they only read the headlines. Hell, even if you read the articles in the papers about the early debates often the only candidates mentioned were Clinton and Obama...Edwards would get in there somewhere near the end and maybe in the last line or two they would mention the "others who participated in the debate." It's like playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl but spotting them 50 points before the game even starts...you kickoff and you are already way behind. That's how all the other Democrats started. This was a bad year to be a Democrat running for president because you had to go up against HILLARY...or BILLARY...or whatever you'd prefer to call them. When we vote does not matter and the funny thing is Edwards quit just when he was starting to rise in the polls again...or I guess that's the sad thing. Now give me hug, Ed, I need one...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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Well, I think the big states are more important and should come after some of the small ones because it is the people in the big states I'd like to see think about their vote more. I like the fact Iowa picked Obama and Huckabee over Clinton, Romney or whatever (I wish they had picked Edwards because that was how he needed to start) and New York had they voted first would have probably went Clinton and Giuliani and I still would have been sitting home looking at the screen going "Are you kidding me?"As far as I can tell, and maybe David has an opinion, California is a Clinton state and she is going to destroy Obama there. Had they voted first that certainly would have been the case...so are you saying you'd feel better having shitty choices if more people made them?
I don't think who votes first is the problem. I think the fact that Hillary had a full year of advertising through the media and the Republicans refering to her as the Democrat they would be running against is the problem. From early in 2007 everybody went on and on like she was the one. So a good majority of this country (and the majority of this country just does not pay attention to politics like the people on this board) have turned on their tv or looked at a newspaper and all they have seen is HILLARY CLINTON. Many of them probably don't even know there are other Democrats running and most of them probably have never even heard the name Dennis Kucinich. Either because they don't care or because their lives don't allow them the time or they only read the headlines. Hell, even if you read the articles in the papers about the early debates often the only candidates mentioned were Clinton and Obama...Edwards would get in there somewhere near the end and maybe in the last line or two they would mention the "others who participated in the debate." It's like playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl but spotting them 50 points before the game even starts...you kickoff and you are already way behind. That's how all the other Democrats started. This was a bad year to be a Democrat running for president because you had to go up against HILLARY...or BILLARY...or whatever you'd prefer to call them. When we vote does not matter and the funny thing is Edwards quit just when he was starting to rise in the polls again...or I guess that's the sad thing. Now give me hug, Ed, I need one...
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
