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13741 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Blackmail wrote: > Arizona declares English its "official" language? Yeah, but at the same time the Minuteman candidate lost in the district on the Mexican border. Split the difference, man; it's all about the center! The problem with the SD abortion law was that it was too extreme; more moderate restrictions probably would have passed.

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 07:06:04 PST 2006

13742 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

Ron Brownstein, Mr Conventional Wisdom, explains what it all means: <http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na- assess8nov08,0,366908.story?coll=la-home-headlines> > GOP ceded the center and paid the price That's all you need to know; no point in reading the article. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 07:01:19 PST 2006

13743 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 12:55 AM, chuck at mutualaid.org wrote: > Yes, the Democrats are more like Republicans than ever, but the > agenda of > the religious and neo-con right is now being disrupted. The > challenge now > is to organize our side and figure out ways to push against the > Democrats. Sorry to repeat myself, but disappointment in Dems can be a radicalizing force. All those people who've been jonesing for Speaker Pelosi! will now find out that it doesn't make all that ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 05:22:47 PST 2006

13744 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 00:55, chuck at mutualaid.org wrote: >> The Democrats will be pushed by their supporters to launch >> investigations of the Bush regime and that will totally block the >> ability >> of the Bushites to continue their crazy imperial policies. > > Interested in a small wager? I bet this doesn't happen. Compromise: small symbolic investigations that focus-group well but don't rock th ...

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13745 [lbo-talk] What the results tell us... -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:07 PM, ravi wrote: > Where is everybody? Watching TV!

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 21:03:30 PST 2006

13746 [lbo-talk] GOP: beware of exit polls! -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 10:37 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > But I love the way he makes it clear that that's the only reason: > by giving as his only argument Reasons That Remain Unclear. Maybe that's what killed him. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 21:01:43 PST 2006

13747 [lbo-talk] What me worry? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > But ,Doug, I _have_ to tease you, because this is not the Doug H. I > know who > always stands up for the pollster-and-stat. intellecutuals' > integrity. This > is comparable to changing a category in the bureau of labor > statistics under > political pressure, isn't it ? Or is that too strong ? There's no evidence the BLS has done that, and I spend a lot of time following them. The pollsters' folding was pretty obvious. D ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 15:03:29 PST 2006

13748 [lbo-talk] In God's country -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Chuck wrote: > Look at which events leftists will flock to. They don't flock to > meetings. But, damn, leftists can hardly hold a book party without turning it into a panel discussion. Why can't people just get together and chat. I'm sure Yoshie remembers the Brecht Forum's holiday party a couple of years ago, at which the people who wanted to talk were shushed so the wankers in the audience could hear the awful folksingers and "comics." Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 14:57:26 PST 2006

13749 [lbo-talk] GOP: beware of exit polls! -- rank: 1000

<http://gop.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=6718> Tuesday, November 07, 2006 BEWARE OF EXIT POLLS Biased And Inaccurate Predictions Have Led To Poor GOP Exit Poll Showings In Past Three National Elections _______________________________________ FAST FACTS ON EXIT POLLING Election Experts Believe Exit Polls Give An Edge And Sway Towards Democrat Candidates. National Exit Polls Will Skew In Favor Of Democrats This Year, Due To Large Numbers Of Uncontested Democrat Seats In The House Of Representati ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 14:26:03 PST 2006

13750 [lbo-talk] What me worry? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote: > So, is the LBO moderator going to make an early call of the > election a la 2004? Hell no. The Fox anchors were reflecting the exit polls at the time, which were showing a Kerry victory. Mysteriously, the exit polls were later revised to match the vote count. Can't remember if I mentioned this here, but the AAPOR list was all in mourning a few months ago on the death of the inventor of the exit poll (and random-digit dialing), Wa ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 14:20:46 PST 2006

13751 [lbo-talk] What me worry? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 3:59 PM, ravi wrote: > The sound of tightening: > > ============== > > Fox News :: Nov 7, 2006 :: Dems Top GOP by 13 Points Tightening? The spreads were narrowing to 5-6 points over the weekend. The exit pollsters are in lockup until 5 PM eastern. Tune into Fox at 5:01 and note the expressions on the anchors' faces. I can't - no TV in the office.

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 13:20:18 PST 2006

13752 [lbo-talk] In God's country -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > In this context, a religious man in Afghanistan is probably a sage, > whereas > a religious man in the US is probably an illiberal philistine. You're forgetting the sensitive blowhard type, like Michael Lerner.

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 11:19:13 PST 2006

13753 [lbo-talk] 2,000 Moscow Ultranationalists in Banned Rally -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 12:35 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Crap, sorry. Is this some kind of new thing? I've been > posting like this for six years now (have I been on > this list that long? damn), and never gotten > complaints before. I never noticed it when I was using Eudora, because it didn't use the thread index to sort by thread. Apple Mail does, and it sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. It's no big deal, obviously, but it makes my life as listmom easier to have things sort ri ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 09:59:37 PST 2006

13754 [lbo-talk] 2,000 Moscow Ultranationalists in Banned Rally -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Chris Doss wrote: A new topic by changing an old subject heading, thereby screwing up my thread index. If you're changing the subject, start with a fresh email, not by replying to an old one!

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 09:17:00 PST 2006

13755 [lbo-talk] Borat: tendentious editing -- rank: 1000

[someone writes to another list - if this is true, well...] I think more people are in on the joke than Ali G and Borat let on. The controversial clip with Borat in the country bar singing "Throw the Jew Down the Well" happened in Tucson, AZ. When an investigator for the Jewish Defamation League [sic - DH] called the bar to talk to the owner about the incident, he ended up speaking with the bar manager who was working that night. The bar manager is Jewish and basically said, &quo ...

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