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Sun Jan-06-08 02:42 PM
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edwards as a republican choice |
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I can't post a poll since i dont have a star.
but here is a question
do you think that edwards is more electable in the general election because he is a caucasion male? I'm not sexist, I'm not racist but traditionally we have had rich white male presidents and I think that alot of republicans are taking this into account when looking at the democratic nominess. Do you think because of edwards race and sex he has an automatic leg up with the republicans.
if this question strikes you please feel free to make a poll.
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:43 PM
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1. In the South, that is the case. n/t. |
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:44 PM
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2. I'll put up the poll if you'd like. |
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:45 PM
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6. Seems me that the GOP is very nervous about Edwards becoming the nominee. |
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:48 PM
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7. I'm not sure if they are or not. |
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I think the religious wingnuts have their candidate in Huckabee, and the corporate GOPers aren't going to flock to JE.
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Sun Jan-06-08 03:05 PM
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14. I am going on what I perceive a concerted attempt to minimize Edwards' 2nd place finish in Iowa. |
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Sun Jan-06-08 03:06 PM
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15. you may have a point. |
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I haven't been paying enough attention to the talking heads to have noticed that.
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:44 PM
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3. No--they don't respect him. Do the words "Silky Pony" and |
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"Breck Girl" ring a bell? Obama has more of a chance to win GOpers over, despite his race, than Edwards does. GOPers do not like perceived "girlie-men", and that's how he'll be painted in the general. Mean, but true.
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:56 PM
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10. Exactly, I think that he really believes that.. |
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he will be able to fight them on a lot of issues but they are planting road blocks. I believe they really are afraid of Hillary and that's why they always talk about her and have for years. I have never understood how some women hate her because she did not divorce Bill and most of these women are the so called family values people. Hannity and the other right wingers have been spending half of their shows on her for years. Some of their people call cspan and other talk shows and tell us how they hate her and use the same talking points that the rightwing nuts have been using for years. Some people only hate her because it has been pounded in their heads for years about how to look at her. They also know that there are a lot new voters who don't really pay attention to politics and they believe what they are told if they are told it long enough
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:44 PM
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4. I imagine that there is a group of people who vote that way. |
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but a vote would be interesting. the reason why clinton won was because people in the south viewed him as a neighbor. it would be short sighted to think that the dems wouldnt take this into consideration.
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:49 PM
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8. Actually, I think that America has progressed to where |
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your analysis is no longer true.
Obama appealed to a lot of white voters in Iowa.
He also has the potential to help bring minority voters to the polls, and I think that this is true not only of blacks, but to some extent of other minorities as well, and that because of this he may well be more electable than other Democratic candidates.
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:52 PM
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ask some hillbilly from georgia if u think he will vote obama or clinton
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:58 PM
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"i don't want no n****** president" has been uttered many a times over that past year or whenever he announced."
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Sun Jan-06-08 02:59 PM
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to think we have evolved is idealistic. Maybe in new york or chicago, but not the deep south.
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Sun Jan-06-08 05:14 PM
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19. Can you explain Iowa? How about NH? n/t |
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Sun Jan-06-08 05:11 PM
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I think you would admit that I do too.
Which point is stronger is a good question.
I think mine is.
You probably think yours is.
Ultimately, in some way shape or form the electorate will decide that question.
I do not, of course mean to minimize the way the media manipulates the issues and presents the questions, although my statement could be so read.
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Sun Jan-06-08 03:00 PM
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13. Obama won the support of 40% of those attending the Democratic |
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Caucus in Iowan. 60% of the Democrats voted for the other candidates.
I doubt if he would have done very well in the Republican Caucus, which was won by Huckabee.
Off the subject: What is being done to fight the caging being done by the Republicans across the country? All our people ought to be reading the riot act about this. I haven't even heard Obama speak out against what is going on. Make no mistake: the Republicans are gearing up to steal their third presidential election in a row.
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Sun Jan-06-08 05:13 PM
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Its also true that more than twice as many people attended the Democratic caucuses than the Republican caucuses.
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Sun Jan-06-08 03:45 PM
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16. No. They would vote for Colin Powell if he ran. Bobby Jindal son of Punjabi |
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India immigrants won governorship of Louisiana over southern ancestry candidates.
Obama' christianity will help him in the South, just as did Jindal's teenaged conversion to Catholicism helped him in Louisiana.
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