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21181 [lbo-talk] RE: Slavoj rounds bend, celebrates Bush's victory -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Maybe I misread, but more than anything else, this is what irks me >most about Hardt/Negri. They've introduced Empire as distinct from >imperialism. It's hard enough getting one's head around contemporary >imperialism; don't need all this additional confusion of terms. Well, I think part of their point was that it looked like imperialism was getting more collegial and polycentric, with Davos man as its embodiment. But we're back to naked American domina ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 11:40:46 PST 2004

21182 [lbo-talk] Frank on election -- rank: 1000

Guest wrote: > > There's nothing comparable anywhere else in the >> first world. >> >> Doug >> > >Are you sure? People are always saying that Americans >are unusually credulous among first worlders, but >assuming that Taiwan I'm thinking of the polls that Pew has done, comparing religiosity in the U.S. to other countries. As I recall, the only European country that comes close to American (professed) belief in God is Poland. I don't think Taiwan was ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 10:03:08 PST 2004

21183 [lbo-talk] Exit Polls v.s Electronic vote -- rank: 1000

snit snat wrote: >http://www.therandirhodesshow.com/todays_show.html > > >The Randi Rhodes show's website has graphs of the difference between exit >polls and electronic vote tallies. I'm still looking for the source of >this original information (i.e., where the exit polls come from). Very interesting. The message of the graphic is that in states with paper ballots, the exit polls and final tallies matched closely; in states with electronic voting, Bush's final count was far ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 09:59:42 PST 2004

21184 [lbo-talk] exit poll guru speaks -- rank: 1000

Warren Mitofsky, often credited as the inventor of the exit poll, speaks about the early day Kerry lead etc.: <http://audio.pbs.org:8080/ramgen/newshour/expansion/2004/11/05/polls28.rm?altplay=polls28.rm>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 09:45:54 PST 2004

21185 [lbo-talk] No, actually, I don't believe it. -- rank: 1000

Lou Johnson wrote: >if turnout was mediocre, what was the deal with those >9-hour waits to vote? Not enough machines. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 09:38:02 PST 2004

21186 [lbo-talk] Jesus didn't exist.... -- rank: 1000

Mike Ferro wrote: >On the other hand in Catholic Italy, >abortion is available on demand (as is psychotherapy) in state-supported >clinics. No problem with the state/church separation there. There must be something to A. Cockburn's old argument that nothing encourages secularlism like an official religion. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 09:24:20 PST 2004

21187 [lbo-talk] RE: Slavoj rounds bend, celebrates Bush's victory -- rank: 1000

double bluff wrote: >Bush might not hasten the Revolution (but he surely have greater >chances than Kerry), but the point is that he is very likely to >accelerate a lot the decline of US world empire, and that should be >good for the rest of the world (after all the mess that will involve >in the short to medium term); thereafter we should find some real >multilateralism, policentric and based on some equilibrium of power >between large blocs, like in the good ol' cold war.. ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 09:16:57 PST 2004

21188 [lbo-talk] RE: Slavoj rounds bend, celebrates Bush's victory -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I interpret it to be a variation on the old "hastening the >contradictions" theme. I.e., the worse the better. Let's welcome being hated by three billion people, the privatization of Social Security, creationists on the bench, etc. It'll hasten the revolution! No it won't. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 6 08:47:37 PST 2004

21189 [lbo-talk] Slavoj rounds bend, celebrates Bush's victory -- rank: 1000

In These Times - November 5, 2004 The Liberal Waterloo (Or, finally some good news from Washington!) By Slavoj Zizek The first reaction of progressives to Bush's second victory was that of despair, even fear: The last four years were not just a bad dream. The nightmarish coalition of big business and fundamentalist populism will roll on, as Bush pursues his agenda with new gusto, nominating conservative judges to the Supreme Court, invading the next country after Iraq, and pushing liberalism in ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 15:23:31 PST 2004

21190 [lbo-talk] Frank on election -- rank: 1000

DSR wrote: >Question: Could some of this be attributed to the aging of the baby >boomers and a collective nervousness about aging and death? Sounds >like a lot of people are seeking "fire insurance"! I doubt it - these numbers are remarkably stable over the decades. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 15:12:35 PST 2004

21191 [lbo-talk] No Stolen Elections! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Are there any studies of what percentage of people think investigation >of whether a US election could be stolen is nuttery ? For what it's worth, Gallup reports today that 74% of Americans think Bush won "fair & square," compared with about half in 2000. Just 13% think he stole the election, and 10% think he won on a "technicality." Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 14:46:05 PST 2004

21192 [lbo-talk] Frank on election -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Don't you mean that you're tired of living in a country where, _of the >people who vote regularly_, more people believe in angels than >evolution? I'm afraid it's just as I said. Some snippets from Gallup (which has a funny definition of evolution in the first excerpt): >Most recently, in Gallup's February 19-21 poll, 45% of respondents >chose "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at >one time within the last 10,000 years or so,&q ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 14:36:43 PST 2004

21193 [lbo-talk] NES -- rank: 1000

Any ambitious person willing to have a go at the National Election Studies (not Survey), you can download data and codebooks at <http://www.umich.edu/~nes/>. Fame & fortune guaranteed by publication in LBO. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 14:14:49 PST 2004

21194 [lbo-talk] man date? -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - November 5, 2004 The 51% Mandate Some feel blue, others see red, as many in the press embrace the notion of a "resounding" victory for President Bush this week. No wonder he says he is eager to spend all this "capital." By Greg Mitchell (November 05, 2004) -- I have to admit that I am a little confused by all this talk of "man date" by Republican leaders in the days since the election. I thought they were opposed to same-sex fooling around. ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 5 14:04:46 PST 2004

21195 [lbo-talk] Ruy tries his best -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >Bush, they often say, makes them feel "safer." Another euphemism. Just like "moral values" means "queers make me sick," feeling "safer" means "I like the way he kills Arabs." Doug

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