Letters to the Editor
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carictures(sp?)
Is the huckster not a cartoon just because he doesn't need one? Or did you guys forget someone?
~Luke
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Huckabee pic
Likely explanation: Nobody took Huckabee seriously when the other candidates got their caricatures drawn. No doubt there are very good cartoons of Giuliani and Fred Thompson sitting in a circular file somewhere.
Gut feeling: Huckabee is his own caricature. He doesn't need a cartoon.
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Whoops
Maybe tomorrow Huckabee will get his own cartoon avatar.
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Mitt
Is anyone else struck by what an odd name Mitt is? Is it short for something? A nickname? Some archaic name? wtf?
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No smile for Obama?
McCain looks positively puckish.
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Huck
Man, that's awesome that Huckabee's not caricatured in that lineup. Too damned funny! And McCain looks like he's downed a fistful of happy pills.
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Huckabee
looks like a South Park "real world celebrity" character. How hilarious....
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Progressive Democrates should hope Hillary wins because
Unfortunately, we are getting some unhappy evidence about Obama. See the Feb 3 (4?) article in The NYTimes. He caved on a bill governing nuclear regulation and the people who wanted him to cave are among his largest contributers, Exelon and 2 top executives.
A close look at the path his legislation took tells a very different story. While he initially fought to advance his bill, Mr. Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect changes sought by Senate Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new bill removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of unreported leaks.
But, contrary to Mr. Obama’s comments in Iowa, it ultimately died.
“Senator Obama’s staff was sending us copies of the bill to review, and we could see it weakening with each successive draft,” said Joe Cosgrove, a park district director in Will County, Ill., where low-level radioactive runoff had turned up in groundwater. “The teeth were just taken out of it.”
The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other. On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country’s largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama’s largest sources of campaign money.
Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama’s campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.
Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry’s lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon’s support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.
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Was a strike called before the job was done?
Why does Huck have a real photo? Or, was he expected to be just an *
Well, anyway, I think the drawings are pretty damned representative of the candidates' "look."
Good job..
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Too much trouble for Salon to include info for RP?
Salon couldn't be bothered to include info for RP? I realize he has less delegates than the other GOP candidates, but he has placed.
Your coverage is not much better than Fox or CNN when you do this.
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Paul
You might at least include Ron Paul in your graphics, even if he doesn't win a thing.
Isn't this what Glenn Greenwald complains about? The media ignores all but certain candidates?
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Barack Hussein Obama
Looks like you guys will get what you want. This name against war hero McCain in a country that is, in part, keeping the dream of a Huckabee candidacy alive. Unbelievable. But, you all knew he'd lose, right? You knew that no one that is named Barack Hussein Obama, and who looks like that, would ever be elected president, didn't you?
I sure did.
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Women came through
Well, it seems a lot of those women tied up in knots aqbout whom to vote for finally got themselves straightened out and voted for Hillary.
Both candidates did well, but Hillary did much better. Yay!
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Mike Gravel
Mike Gravel is still in the race. Its not your job to like the man but it is your job to have him as one of the candidates and his vote totals.
Thank you.
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So Obama took Idaho!
Isn't Idaho, like, the mothership of white supremacy? Interesting.
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I love that Huckabee's photo is up there with the other caricatures...
...because really, that man IS a cartoon, isn't he?
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Re: Idaho
"Isn't Idaho, like, the mothership of white supremacy? Interesting."
If it is, do you think those people are attending the *Democratic* caucus?
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Democrats Abroad?
Why are Democrats Abroad listed as Super Tuesday voters? I don't vote until Sunday.
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"We are the ones we have been waiting for"
In his 'victory' speech tonight after Super Tuesday, Obama used this phrase, which he stole from Maria Shriver's speech last Saturday. It's actually a Hopi Indian saying.
He didn't give them credit.
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usually i read the posts before posting
but i gotta just say straight out, those cartoons are funny.
what up with huckabee photoshop. lol. no, i mean yuck.
i read alot. the simpler, the better. but thanks for the effort, i guess. not. :)
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Frequently Update Not
The democrat totals don't make any sense. For the Dems, who won a state doesn't really matter, we aren't talking Electoral College here, what counts is delegates, and this page is insanely slow to show those. You've got 99% of precincts reporting, but can't count more than 10% of the delegates?
And the caucus states, it is not correct to bow to the fiction that delegates have not been sent until the caucuses (caucusi?) meet and select delegates, pretty good estimations of that can be made before hand. Since you are willing (albeit at the deep dark dungeon of the bottom of the page) to include the stupid CNN superdelegate counts. Salon's "frequently update it" page is really not terribly useful.
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I think Missouri delegate count must be wrong.
You have Cinton with 48% of the vote and 15 delegates, and Obama with 49% of the vote and 6 delegates.
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Updating
You say this will update but the last time was a little after 11 PM. This makes me wonder what Salon Premium is good for.
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Disappointed
I am very disappointed in Salon for not including EVERYONE in their article. I attended my first ever caucus last night and want to share with everyone that the man I want representing me, Dr Ron Paul, came in second behind Romney in my hometown in Colorado. THAT is certainly news worthy as all candidates deserve coverage. Not just who YOU wish to cover as "journalists".