Recent content by Alan Smithee

That's terrible news. DFW was one of my favorite writers and Infinite Jest is just an amazing novel. I usually tell people to stick with it until the Eschaton Debacle. If they're not hooked after that, then it's ok to give up.This snippet is from an essay in "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never...

The USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll numbers cited by Spiderman are correct. First chart here.

Here's the exact McCain quote: "You could make the argument that there's been great progress economically over that period of time, but that's no comfort, that's no comfort to families now who are facing these tremendous economic challenges."Obama's truncating of the sentence is pretty much...

Link. Realistically, she only has to win PA by 15 points to give herself a good shot at winning the popular vote. Fifteen points would net her somewhere in the neighborhood of 350,000 votes, cutting Obama's lead (including Florida and unreported caucuses) to 60,000. I guarantee you if she...

She's up 26% in the latest PA poll. :eek:

Clinton has a huge lead in Pennsylvania. A ten point victory in Ohio translated to a gain of 230,000 votes for her. Since they're similarly sized, a 20 point win in Pennsylvania could result in a pickup of 460,000 votes. A 25 point win could equal a 575,000 vote margin. According to Real...

Conservative voters include conservative democrats. Would anyone doubt that Texas is a more conservative state generally than Wisconsin?Exactly the same percentage of people voted against Obama if they felt he was the best candidate in Wisconsin as in Texas. That's the only number you should...

To summarize: 13 percent of voters in Wisconsin who said Obama stood a better chance of winning in November voted for Clinton. In Ohio, 18 percent and in Texas, 13 percent. Nine percent of voters in the Democratic primary were Republican in Wisconsin. In Ohio? Nine percent. In Texas? Nine...

It's available as a really well seeded 750MB torrent as well.

There's too much talk about how Clinton can't win the pledged delegate count. It's true, she probably can't. But that's not the only legitimate metric a super delegate can use to cast a vote. Apart from asking super delegates to vote for the winner of the popular vote, another possible tactic...

Why should Obama's crossover votes count but not Hillary's?

I think the worst news for Obama supporters is that Clinton has really closed the popular vote gap. As of right now, she's picked up a net of about 340,000 votes, closing the popular vote gap (FL included) to just about 275,000. Losses in Mississippi and Oregon combined with hypothetical wins...

Mississippi's primary next week is open. :lmao:

Even the comments in the Daily Kos thread say that the entire ad is dark and that Hillary herself is darkened. And it is an attack ad, so isn't making your opponent dark and menacing how it's supposed to be done?Anyone have a link to the actual ad?

From the same Pew poll I linked to: "The "defection" rate among Obama's supporters if Clinton wins the nomination is far lower; just 10% say they would vote for McCain in November, while 86% say they would back Clinton. "