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21286 [lbo-talk] Re: Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 1000

<hari.kumar at sympatico.ca> wrote: >True, but Venezuela produces almost 3 million barrels a day of oil, ..... > >QUESTION: >Doug: >Where are those figures from pelase? >Thanks, BP's annual energy review: <http://www.bp.com/subsection.do?categoryId=95&contentId=2006480>. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:53:08 PST 2004

21287 [lbo-talk] despondent man in bowtie -- rank: 1000

<http://direland.typepad.com/direland/> 5:47 PM On CNN, Tucker Carlson just all but conceded the election to Kerry--on the grounds that palpable intensity of the last week, confirmed by the sizable turnout today, is arguably anti-incumbent. He did not look like happy camper--he may well have seen the second cut of exit polls that inspired his glum outlook....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:40:32 PST 2004

21288 [lbo-talk] Bush at Yale -- rank: 1000

This is from the Belfast Telegraph. "Thompson" is Hunter S. Thompson. Anyone know the details? >"I have a friend who was with George W Bush at Yale," Thompson recalls. >"Bush branded him with a red-hot coat hanger." > >"Why?" > >"Some fraternity thing. He still has the scar. (The victim, a respected >television journalist, later confirms this story. "I couldn't swear >that George did the branding himself," he tells me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:16:06 PST 2004

21289 [lbo-talk] turnout, 4 PM numbers -- rank: 1000

via <http://race2004.net>: Slate magazine has 4pm exit polls for today. Again, these are VERY unreliable. But more reliable than the 2pm exit polls. State: Bush - Kerry Nevada: 50 - 48 Colorado: 53 - 46 North Carolina: 51 - 49 Pennsylvania: 45 - 54 Ohio: 49 - 50 Florida: 49 - 50 Michigan: 47 - 51 New Mexico: 48 - 50 Wisconsin: 46 - 51 Much tighter since the 2pm races, but Kerry still has the lead electorally. --- Here are some early turnout reports from CNN. Ohio - African American precinc ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 14:55:12 PST 2004

21290 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

paul childs wrote: > >Free ride for a W. nut. >> >>But I did make him take the bus home. > >And you couldn't get it to run him over? Half a job man, only half a >job done! No wonder the left is in trouble! Is our model now the dude who tried to run down Katherine Harris the other day?

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 14:23:29 PST 2004

21291 [lbo-talk] more... -- rank: 1000

From DIRELAND's rolling Election Day blog (at http://direland.typepad.com/direland/_ 4:56PM From a source at the Democratic National Committee, numbers that are two hours old (but that contradict in some respects the numbers earlier from Daily Kos and Drudge): Colorado - Kerry 48.7 - Bush 50.8 Florida - Kerry 51.7 - Bush 48.1 Iowa - Kerry 50 - Bush 50 Maine - Kerry 55 - Bush 44.4 Michigan - Kerry 51.5 - Bush 47.7 Minnesota - Kerry 58.5 - Bush 40.2 New Hampshire - Kerry 57.9 - Bush 41.4 New Mexic ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 14:22:11 PST 2004

21292 [lbo-talk] Likely Kerry win causes DJIA to plummet ... -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >So, buy today, right? too late for that - also, Fed's in a tightening mode, which is rarely a good time to buy - and the stock market is likely to suck for years, following two decades of bull markets...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 14:01:48 PST 2004

21293 [lbo-talk] more exit polls -- rank: 1000

From: Doug Ireland [mailto:direland at nyc.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 4:14 PM To: Doug Ireland Subject: Breaking News from DIRELAND: new numbers From my rolling election day blog, on DIRELAND (http://direland.typepad.com/direland/) 4:03 PM -- From a senior source in the Kerry campaign, exit poll numbers they seem fairly confident about: National : KERRY 50%, BUSH 49% Florida: KERRY 51.7 BUSH 48.1 Michigan: KERRY 51.1 BUSH 47.7 Ohio: KERRY 52.2 BUSH 47.3 Again, take these numbers wi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:32:03 PST 2004

21294 [lbo-talk] request -- rank: 1000

A listmember writes, correctly: >you may wish to ask list members to first catch up with [LBO] list mail >(in their inbox) before they post exit poll results, to minimize >duplicate messages (with the same results, that is). otoh, we have had >only two or three duplicates thus far...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:21:50 PST 2004

21295 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

Steven Gotzler wrote: >The DP was worried that so many volunteers were leaving the state to >work in swing states that there wouldn't be any people left for the >local election. > >They were wrong. So many volunteers turned out that they were >turning volunteers away. > >My own precinct, in Jersey City, hit a turn out record by noon. My New Press editor, Colin Robinson, has a brother who's a corresopndent for the Spanish paper La Vanguardia. He's up in Manchester NH. So ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:09:57 PST 2004

21296 [lbo-talk] Likely Kerry win causes DJIA to plummet ... -- rank: 1000

md wrote: >Yes, but also does so in a general welfare-enhancing way (imho). >Not good for gross accumulation of wealth and capital, right? details in the imminently forthcoming LBO - but growth, employment, stox better under Ds - bonds and disinflation better under Rs

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:08:44 PST 2004

21297 [lbo-talk] IEM -- rank: 1000

<http://128.255.244.60/quotes/66.html> latest Iowa Electronic Market, Kerry 52, Bush 48

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:06:58 PST 2004

21298 [lbo-talk] Likely Kerry win causes DJIA to plummet ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >U.S. stocks jarred by early call favoring Kerry stupid - the stock market does better under Dems than Reps

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 12:46:04 PST 2004

21299 [lbo-talk] Green defection -- rank: 1000

Hartford Courant - October 28, 2004 Horton Sheff Exits Green Party City Councilwoman Chooses Unaffiliated Status By OSHRAT CARMIEL Courant Staff Writer Elizabeth Horton Sheff, the city councilwoman who was the first African American Green Party member in the country to be elected to office on a municipal level, has resigned from the party. Though she made headlines in 1999 when she was first elected to the Hartford City Council on the Green Party line, Horton Sheff renounced her affiliation wi ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 12:45:17 PST 2004

21300 [lbo-talk] Police Intelligence -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Chronicling the amazing reach of the NLG's Mass Defence Committee Man, we gotta mobilize you guys against the NYPD. My research assistant got arrested along with a bunch of other people after the Critical Mass bike ride last Friday. Not at the ride - at the afterparty. The bikers were just hanging out in the Times Up space and the cops showed up. As people were leaving the party, cops started shoving them around, arresting them, throwing them down on the ground, arresting th ...

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