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whew!
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm genuinely pleased for Hillary Clinton. Tickled, really. And, she doesn't have to be my first choice for me to feel that way. I want the race to be a race as close to the end as possible. I second Mishima666's observation. Never has it been clearer to me that our primary system, in addition to the electoral college, could stand some reform. I loathe the intended/unintended effects of the press' influence on this race. A pox on them all.
A very special thanks to you, Glenn, for keeping a firm grip on objective reporting. By keeping your preferred candidate to yourself (if you even have one), and by peeling back the layers of the press-onion, for once I feel like I'm examining my own preferences. Thanks for that. It's a profoundly powerful gift.
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I love it
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]From Think Progress
Live New Hampshire Primary Updates
11:36 PM: Talking with Tom Brokaw, Chris Matthews lamented the fact that the pollsters and pundits got it all wrong. Brokaw suggested that the results today should cause the media to reevaluate its desire to “stampede the process,” and he cautioned the media to “wait for the voters to make their judgment”:
BROKAW: You know what I think we’re going to have to do?
MATTHEWS: Yes sir?
BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment.
MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess.
BROKAW: No, no we don’t stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they’re saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this.
But we don’t have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed. And trying to stampede in effect the process.
Look, I’m not just picking on us, it’s part of the culture in which we live these days. I think that the people out there are going to begin to make judgments about us if we don’t begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding, in many cases, as we learned in New Hampshire when they went into the polling booth today or in the last three days. They were making decisions very late.
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poll tampering
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Bradblog was going nuts last night over whether the Diebold machines were tampered with - and, any number of other bloggers were referring/linking back to Brad.
Personally, if one is searching for an explanation, I like the theory of the un-sourced/unnamed New Hampshire resident quoted up thread.
Where's ondelette or Arne? I'm thinking the act of measuring people's intended behavior, affected the behavior the act wanted to measure. Given the New Hampshire resident's experience with poll saturation and inconveniences thereof, the polls themselves has an influence on the outcome. Toss in the media (a show of emotion, "iron my shirt," and the endless wanking), and the discrepancies all seem plausible to me, independent of a Diebold 'malfunction.'
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DurianJoe
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Maureen Dowd could not endure 2 minutes of the 15 years of hate that Hillary Clinton has endured...
That is probably so very true. And, it's chilling to think of the degree to which Dowd has reduced the Clintons to mere objects with which she can trifle. The entire humanity of "do unto others" is remarkably absent. No wonder any number of people strike back (if indeed that's what happened in NH).
I worked with a teaching assistant in a college setting. The TA was not a native speaker, their skills in English were more than adequate but one needed to tune ones ears to move with the ebb and flow of a non-traditional cadence. There was one student in the TA's class who endlessly remarked - in front of the class - that the TA should speak English in the student's preferred manner; generally, being really disruptive. The TA was on the verge of confronting that student. I cautioned against. Told the TA to be patient, be respectful to the student, repeat what needed to be repeated in a genuinely helpful way. My prediction was the other students in the class would deal with the whining problem child. Within a few classes, the students exploded at the problem child. They had no problem "rescuing" the TA from the sly insults. Although it would have been reasonable for the TA to confront the student, there was no good way she could defend herself. She was a non-native speaker, and the students were going to have to tune their ears a bit. One didn't want to. The rest of the class told that student, "What the King of Spain said." End of problem. If only someone could say that to MoDo.
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<*strong*>Be! Bop!<*strong*>
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are beginning to sound cranky, but I'm beginning to feel crankier. I'm a frustrated bloodhound following the trail of your stinky leg and rotting foot as you double back and forth over your own trail. Leaving little scent drips here and there for me to chase and follow as you weave your trickster path through these threads. If this weary bloodhound catches up with you it's likely to take a CHOMP out of more than your stinky leg. Bloodhound say, WOOF, means come clean about your leg. Woof?, means see doc today? The Hounds of Hell will chase you through these threads until you exhaust your sneaky self and the good dogs. No fair to leave good dogs belly down and panting of thirst and fatigue. Dang dogs. They'll not give up the hunt. Your smelly self will keep them on your tail and your trail. Time to give in and drag yourself to the white coat warden. Surrender time, bebop. When? Today? Now? When?
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Nah, I defer to Mona
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't need no stinkin' 12 step program.