Chris Matthews opines that John McCain will be "one of the winners tonight with about 18 points," 18 percent being, of course, a losing margin but Matthews wants to have his babies so who cares.
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03 Jan 2008 08:00 pm
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Actually scratch that, now they're saying a ten point lead for Obama.
He also said that Hillary will get around 30%, meaning she will be "rejected" by nearly two-thirds of her party.
Matthew's McCain Math is interesting.
Well Matthews is like Andrew Sullivan: can be reasonable one minute, than be alternately adoring or vindictive the next.
Can't we get back to discussing waterboarding?
Watching 36 in-bred, overweight farmers and their husbands (ba-da-boom)sitting in an Iowa firehouse dictating the pulse of democracy, and then having Wolf Blitzer describe the event in excruciating detail, is a torture no human should endure.
Whine, whine, whine.
I really don't like the perpetual primacy of Iowa, but all this hate for the caucus system as a system rather surprises me.
I rather like the idea that a political party chooses its nominees based on a collection of community exercises in which argument and fallback choices are important. The idea that you can walk in backing a fringe candidate and still save your vote by compromising on a more mainstream candidate (or win the adherents of other fringe candidates to your side, or discover your candidate isn't so fringe, after all) really appeals to me.
I do wonder though what if any provisions are made for those who are unable to attend (emergency workers, wage slaves, invalids, etcetera).
Oops, wrong thread. Oh well, same group of people I'd guess.
Matthews is mostly good. He was almost alone on TV excoriating the chickenhawk neocons treachery early. (And been called an "anti-Semite for it) He never excused Abu Gharib, he's denounced The Patriot Act. And, because he's not easily identified as a beetweed "leftist" (a la a Keith Olberman), he's a better voice for change. The fact is he's a Beltway insider and as a journalist likes to stay on the good side of McCain, Benito G., whomever. I can see his insipid bad points as clearly as the next guy or girl, but compare the guy to Mark Shields, Alan Colmes, Olberman, Carville, or any other pipsqueak geek they throw out there to counter Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity, ad nauseum and he comes out looking alright.
461 of 1,781 districts reporting
Edwards 32.62
Obama 32.30
Clinton 32.30
Richardson 1.89
Biden 0.75
Dodd 0.11
Uncommitted 0.04
Matthews can't have McCain's babies. He had his ovaries removed back in 2000 because Dumbya didn't want to have any more kids.
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Olbermann is saying the entrance polls have obama and Clinton close for the lead.
Posted by mad6798j | January 3, 2008 8:04 PM