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datopbanana Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:35 AM
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Heard a new argument today. It's pretty good.
HOME STATES shouldn't count because they are biased and don't represent the nation as a whole.

It gets better though...

New York isn't HRC's home state... ARKANSAS is.

So BO loses his net of 700k or whatever out of IL and HRC loses her 150k net out of AR.

THEREFORE


HRC WINS.
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:38 AM
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1. But she was born and raised in IL. So they should both lose 350K.
OBAMA WINS.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:49 AM
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10. Obama was born in Hawaii
Obama still wins!!!
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:54 AM
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14. By far!
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:42 AM
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2. Sorry, Obama already concedes that she is an Arkansas girl.
"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/37388.html
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:44 AM
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4. ...
Now I've seen everything! :rofl:

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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:44 AM
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5. By that standard, Hawaii is Obama's home state.... not Illinois....

We'll not count Obama's Hawaii votes and you don't count Hillary's Arkansas votes.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:47 AM
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8. Obama has said that Illinois is his base and you have seen what he said about Hillary.
Why do you have to diss Barack like that?
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:51 AM
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11. Have you seriously been reduced to ridiculous arguments like this?

You don't do Hillary any favors.


You re-inforce the idea that her supporters are uneducated simpletons.


Are you REALLY going to try to argue that votes from "home states" don't count? That's where you're at now?


..and I thought Terry McAuliffe was a mentally fucked-up moron. But you take the cake.


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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:17 AM
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20. Who cares...
this is one of the dumbest arguments yet, and that's saying something!

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:42 AM
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3. Stupid argument. Candidates usually pick VP's for the states they
can bring to the win!
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JimGinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:44 AM
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6. Her Home States Are: IL, AK, PA, NY, WV, KY & OH - She LOST
:rofl:
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:44 AM
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7. If Arkansas is Hillary's home state... then Hawaii is Obama's.... do your math again...
...
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:48 AM
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9. How do you come to the conclusion that NY is Hillary's home state?
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:52 AM
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12. Hillary=Senator from NY.... Obama=Senator from Illinois... 2rth2pwr = mentally unstable moron
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:56 AM
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18. Check. Check. Check. Grade: A
:thumbsup:
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datopbanana Donating Member (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:55 AM
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16. really? you're asking that?
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:54 AM
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13. I can't believe anyone would take this seriously...
and why can't hillary play by the rules that every other presidential candidate has in recent memory (ok, ted kennedy in 1980 took it to the convention, but we all know how well that turned out). I for one don't want our first female president to be elected because the rules were changed for her!

and I'm sure that's offensive and sexist, but I'm a woman and I find the constant cries of sexism combined with the increasingly delusional moving of the goal posts to be highly freaking offensive!

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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:56 AM
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17. 2rth2pwr takes it seriously.... 2rth2pwr is a disruptor....
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:23 AM
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21. It's like 600:1 here Obama supporters vs Hillary's. It's lonely.
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bhikkhu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:54 AM
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15. Their electoral votes still count. Argument over. n/t
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ruby slippers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 12:57 AM
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19. so, this isn't Hillary Math, this must be Billery Math, right? The Arkansas reasoing jumped out at
me...
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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:29 AM
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22. "It's Pretty Good"?
For what purpose?
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:42 AM
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23. lol. That certainly is entertaining!
Damn and just when you think you've thought of all the permutations...
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Honeycombe8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:43 AM
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24. But I thought she was counting the states with more than two syllables!
:rofl:
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quakerboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 01:52 AM
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25. Hmm
Now wouldn't it really be

Barack- HI, so -0(caucases don't count to begin with)

Hillary-Il... I don't know how that works, since she lost. Surely there is some symbolism there.

Plus John McCain- Panama Canal US, so Minus 500 million for good measure?
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papapi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-20-08 02:56 AM
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26. Who cares. She's finished. Kaput. Done. Over. Toast. Washed-up.

You call this pretty good?
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