Posts by giovanni tiso
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Nate Silver is one of the stars of this campaign, EOS.
That was Sean Quinn, though, his roving reporter. And what a magnificent job he's done.
Wanna $5 Rolex?
Heh! That'd be great, but I'm not sure I'd be able to grow the requisite moustache.
No I'm not scared
Nice...
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On Wednesday next week, Russell, you can write a post about the GOP entitled "Because they couldn't" and quote this beautiful, beautiful piece from 538. Best reporting of the campaign for me thus far, head and shoulders - heck: navel and buttcheeks - above everything else. Enjoy.
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I don't think Arizona will flip. McCain is still ahead by an average of 4 points there, but I'd love to see it and I guess anything is possible.
Wanna go double or nothing, Grigg? I ain't scared.
Well, okay, maybe I am, a little: it still looks McCain if you weigh the polls, but only just, and if this turns out to be a wave election - which I think it will - all those toss-ups and near toss-ups will go democratic. Notice too how McCain struggles to get to 50 per cent in the last few polls - that's the smell of death for an incumbent, and that's what McCain effectively is in that particular state.
Nor can this.
Yes, because we know how well Americans respond to the Brits telling them what president to vote for.
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I'm more intrigued by this bit.
"There's a lot of wealth in New Zealand ... if you tap into it."
And sex workers, it seems, know how to do just that. Spot a Bentley, Porshe or Maserati, walk confidently up to the driver's side, open the car door and ask the man in the expensive suit for directions.
"Of course baby, where to?" he would say. "To your bed darling," the woman would reply, before jumping in.
So she jumps in from the driver's side? How does that work?
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We're just not sufficiently enlightened, Danielle.
I think that's pretty obvious. But if I may impersonate one of those creepy male feminists for a moment... can I get your opinion on the following lead on the New Zealand Herald as of right now?
__I'm no victim, I'm a survivor: Rape victim__
"I am not a victim. I am a survivor." That is how the woman attacked and raped by Liam Reid in Dunedin feels about herself - and it is how she wants others to view her.
Emphasis added in the interest of belabouring the point that this woman would like others not to view her as a victim, but the New Zealand Herald doesn't give a shit.
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Of course, hindsight is always 20/20. But from the beginning McCaiin could have decided that he was serious about running a campaign of "civility and respect".
He would have lost, but by a smaller margin. That's the nature of hail mary passes, though - he took a small chance of being president over no chance at all, and I'm sure he was well aware of the consequences in terms of his reputation.
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They're trying to rally the anti-media vote, in an effort to hang on to what - the low forties in the eletoral college?
And in the states they're positively crumbling. They're going to lose McCain's own state and it turns out that even Georgia is a real tossup, along with its 14 electoral votes in a state where Obama has never campaigned and is only putting ads up today. That would give me untold pleasure and bragging rights with a friend in Atlanta for as long as we both shall live.
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Sacha is a bloke eh? That's bad parenting that is.
I don't know why English speakers assume that when a foreign name ends with "a", it must be feminine even when it isn't - witness Nicola and Andrea (and Andrea actually means male - go figure) - but as far as I know Sacha is the diminutive of both Alexander and Alexandra, a bit like Jo/Joe for Joanna and Joseph. Deliciously ambiguous.
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(where's Sacha?...she seems to be good on overly graphic threads).
In that overly graphic way she has of actually being a he.
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the principled, maverick-ish Republican whom viewers were supposed to be reluctantly wooed into accepting as the next President in a final bipartisan fling for the show (a plan stymied by John Spencer's untimely passing)
How was that supposed to work? I'm asking because in the first episode of series seven, when the next president gets out of the car in soft focus and you're not supposed to be able to tell who it is, if you freeze the frame it's actually Santos. And Spencer was still alive and well back then.
Not that I'm obsessive about the West Wing or anything.