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On March 07 2012 13:16 ticklishmusic wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 13:13 Adreme wrote:On March 07 2012 13:12 ticklishmusic wrote:
Paul got 40% in VA. I'm kind of impressed. He got it because due to the stupid rules in VA only Paul and Romney were on ballot. More like the others were too incompetent to get on the ballot... seriously, if you're running a campaign for fucking president, you better be more organized than that. Still, I'm surprised people went out and voted for Paul instead of staying home. Shows that people either really don't like Romney, or Paul was the second choice for a lot of Santorum or Gingrich voters.
It wasnt organization the rules for that state were ridiculous compounded by the fact that every official in charge of certification had already endorsed Romney.
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On March 07 2012 13:16 ticklishmusic wrote:
Still, I'm surprised people went out and voted for Paul instead of staying home. Shows that people either really don't like Romney, or Paul was the second choice for a lot of Santorum or Gingrich voters.
My guess would be it's more anti-Romney than pro-Paul. Santorum/Gingrich are on one wing of the GOP with Paul on the opposite wing. Romney is somewhere in the middle.
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Romney now ahead of Santorum by 5k in Ohio? wtf?
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On March 07 2012 13:29 Mohdoo wrote:
Romney now ahead of Santorum by 5k in Ohio? wtf?
the parts of ohio that had not been counted yet were heavy romney districts
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WASHINGTON -- A former head of Israel's intelligence service, in an interview with The Huffington Post, slammed a recent op-ed by Mitt Romney as causing "serious issues" for the effort to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.
Efraim Halevy, who was the director of the Mossad in the early 2000s and later the head of Israel's National Security Council, told HuffPost that by forecasting his military intentions -- and claiming that Obama would not act in the same way -- Romney is effectively "telling the Iranians, 'You better be quick about it.'"
"If I'm sitting here in the month of March 2012 reading this, and I'm an Iranian leader, what do I understand? I have nine more months to run as fast as I can because this is going to be terrible if the other guys get in," Halevy said.
In the op-ed, published Tuesday in the Washington Post, Romney described Obama as "America’s most feckless president since Carter" and said his rhetoric on Iran "has not been matched by an effective policy."
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On March 07 2012 13:21 Adreme wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 13:16 ticklishmusic wrote:On March 07 2012 13:13 Adreme wrote:On March 07 2012 13:12 ticklishmusic wrote:
Paul got 40% in VA. I'm kind of impressed. He got it because due to the stupid rules in VA only Paul and Romney were on ballot. More like the others were too incompetent to get on the ballot... seriously, if you're running a campaign for fucking president, you better be more organized than that. Still, I'm surprised people went out and voted for Paul instead of staying home. Shows that people either really don't like Romney, or Paul was the second choice for a lot of Santorum or Gingrich voters. It wasnt organization the rules for that state were ridiculous compounded by the fact that every official in charge of certification had already endorsed Romney.
How are the rules different than 2008?
+ Show Spoiler [Hint] +They haven't changed since 1998.
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About 95% of the votes processed according to CNN and Romney is ahead by 11,000.
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Lol, just read that Santorum thinks higher education brainwashes students. What a joke.
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So rinse and repeat, Romney outspends his opponents 12 to 1 yet can't connect to the average voter.
Up next the Southern Primaries.
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In other news, Paul beat Gingrich? He has more votes than Gingrich in 6 states, while he has less in 4.
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Joe the "Plumber" won his primary... The GOP has officially gone off the cliff.
Also:
Mitt Romney got roughly 40,000 fewer voters in VA primary than Mike Huckabee got in 2008 when Huckabee lost by 9 points.
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On March 07 2012 15:09 ticklishmusic wrote:
In other news, Paul beat Gingrich? He has more votes than Gingrich in 6 states, while he has less in 4.
King nothing?
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who has enjoyed them cheating ron paul out of every caucus. he won every one
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On March 07 2012 14:51 TOloseGT wrote:
Lol, just read that Santorum thinks higher education brainwashes students. What a joke.
There's certainly some truth to that. Many of the teachers have a very deliberate bias, and use the classroom as a captive audience, I've experienced it first hand. I've even been in math classes where the teacher spent most days criticizing republicans instead of teaching math. Same thing with english and other classes, but math is the most inexcusable. Have you been to college, and have you not experienced this to some degree? Even some of the textbooks are blatantly biased.
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On March 07 2012 15:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So rinse and repeat, Romney outspends his opponents 12 to 1 yet can't connect to the average voter.
Up next the Southern Primaries.
lol, why should the American people trust this guy again with spending their tax payer money efficiently?  scnr...
(wanted to mention that after the bullshit comment of his wife when she said " I don´t feel rich, it can be gone tomorrow"... but that works as fine I guess.)
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On March 07 2012 15:49 Doublemint wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 15:04 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
So rinse and repeat, Romney outspends his opponents 12 to 1 yet can't connect to the average voter.
Up next the Southern Primaries. lol, why should the American people trust this guy again with spending their tax payer money efficiently? scnr... (wanted to mention that after the bullshit comment of his wife when she said " I don´t feel rich, it can be gone tomorrow"... but that works as fine I guess.)
I want to be not-rich as Ann Romney... :/
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On March 07 2012 15:43 liberal wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 14:51 TOloseGT wrote:
Lol, just read that Santorum thinks higher education brainwashes students. What a joke. There's certainly some truth to that. Many of the teachers have a very deliberate bias, and use the classroom as a captive audience, I've experienced it first hand. I've even been in math classes where the teacher spent most days criticizing republicans instead of teaching math. Same thing with english and other classes, but math is the most inexcusable. Have you been to college, and have you not experienced this to some degree? Even some of the textbooks are blatantly biased.
I think it's a credit to my class picking skills that I haven't had a teacher that went overly off-topic in regards to politics. Even with a liberal professor, while he may have quipped once or twice about the politics during that time, he made it a point to finish that day's teaching before going off on tangents. He taught Money and Banking, and he and this conservative student would spar every other class period for a few minutes after he wrote everything he needed to teach on the board, and during the time when he invited the class to talk about current events (not just politics).
This is different though, because I'm a fairly liberal individual, so I may not have perceived much bias from my professors during my stint at a very liberal campus, but since my campus is known for being liberal, I guess there must have been.
I've never personally experienced the captive audience taken to the extreme, as in a public forum for political rants. We were all impressionable young adults under the whim of an older and generally more educated professor, so sometimes the wiser person would pass on some of his/her thoughts, but it's really up to us as individuals to follow our own intellectual curiosity, and not just take everything to heart.
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On March 07 2012 15:43 liberal wrote:
There's certainly some truth to that. Many of the teachers have a very deliberate bias, and use the classroom as a captive audience, I've experienced it first hand. I've even been in math classes where the teacher spent most days criticizing republicans instead of teaching math. Same thing with english and other classes, but math is the most inexcusable. Have you been to college, and have you not experienced this to some degree? Even some of the textbooks are blatantly biased.
I remember in high school that this one girl claimed bias in Biology because the textbook spent an entire chapter on evolution, but not on creationism...
You'll find average people everywhere, but what do you mean by textbook bias? Did they mention US black ops in Iran? Suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War? Trail of Tears, Philippine massacres, Executive Order 9066? Neoclassical AD/AS curves? Black Panthers? Global warming?
I mean, sure, it exists. Texas comes to mind, from a previous TL thread. But what did you see?
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On March 07 2012 15:43 liberal wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2012 14:51 TOloseGT wrote:
Lol, just read that Santorum thinks higher education brainwashes students. What a joke. There's certainly some truth to that. Many of the teachers have a very deliberate bias, and use the classroom as a captive audience, I've experienced it first hand. I've even been in math classes where the teacher spent most days criticizing republicans instead of teaching math. Same thing with english and other classes, but math is the most inexcusable. Have you been to college, and have you not experienced this to some degree? Even some of the textbooks are blatantly biased.
I can certainly attest to this. Most of the time it isn't very obvious but you can definitely feel what they're trying to imply. Many of the professors in the humanities departments view the world in a manner that is pretty incompatible with conservative philosophy. It's nothing ever major except for an anthropology class I had. But the subliminal underlying message is there pretty frequently. Even my engineering profs sometimes like to poke fun at some of the more notoriously liberal schools (education, humanities)
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