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What In Tarnation?!?!? » Blog Archive » Race for the White House — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:33:20 +0000

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By: David Y?

David Y? — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 15:35:26 +0000

well at least they have divinity guiding them. or strange hallucinations.
i’ve yet to see divine interference on most of the candidates.
maybe a lightening bolt on the forehead.
i like huckabee, just because of his name. very presidential sounding.
when you write in a candidate, and you get enough votes, does it matter at all? because of the elector, that is, from lance’s previously cited post, where he will make the votes not the majority ‘fancy public opinion poll’ votes.
i have fun with the callers I don’t know, you can be whoever you want with strange interests, like historical nonfiction magazines of the mid 1900’s, or an obsession with carrots and their correlation to land mineral rights.
Try to make a magazine about that, people who call me at strange and awkward times. like supper

By: HP

HP — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:39:52 +0000

Here’s a write in candidate for you…

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:01:37 +0000

Well, based upon what I’ve learned in the past few days (mostly from their own websites), Clinton, Romney, Huckabee, and Edwards are probably off of my list. I would be thrilled to have a leader, not a tool or manipulator.

Only 12 more to go!

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 05:29:20 +0000

But I won’t ever be called by a pollster, because I never have and will never own a landline. Yet another example of how the dinosaur of American politics can’t keep up with its people!

By: Willy Wong Ka

Willy Wong Ka — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:35:51 +0000

hahahahahaha! I just came up Romney - Thompson - Hunter. That poll was as biased as any you can find. Most of the choices they presented, I was looking for “None of the above”!

It is no wonder the stupid pollsters can’t tell who is going to win an election. They believe everybody has to think inside their little box. To get the right answers, you have to ask the right questions. When you compose a poll with a bias toward issues, people who don’t share that bias will throw the results off because even their disagreements with statements may not be with the issue, but with the bias.

Sort of like asking a candidate if last night was the last night he beat his wife. He dares not answer yes or no. Or even maybe. If he states that he has never beat his wife, some people will start asking why the question was raised, and will never trust him again.

If you are called by a pollster, pretend you are Borat and let your imagination go.

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:11:55 +0000

Here’s another one from ABC News. It asks for responses on an even more limited set of issues (Iraq, health care, immigration, and a couple random things) … and my results were:

1. Ron Paul
2. Dennis Kucinich
3. Mitt Romney

By: Willy Wong Ka

Willy Wong Ka — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:41:58 +0000

Lance : I actually find Duncan Hunter very refreshing, but would pull for Huckabee over Paul or Romney.

David : FYI, Dennis Kucinich was first elected to public office as mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, at the age of 31. His most notable achievement in his term as mayor was to drive the city into bankruptcy.

Quoting his friend Shirley MacLaine, “The smell of roses drew him out to my balcony where, when he looked up, he saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

If you ever worried about Romney taking orders from the Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, you will mess your pants over Denny-boy getting directions from a flying saucer.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:31:22 +0000

Ha, I’m so out of politics, I was “unknown/other” on more than half my answers. I just wish there was a option for a majority of them that said “stay the hell out of my business” related to government issues. And the questions are phrased quite oddly — in relation to the option of Support or Oppose, because those aren’t merely the only options in an issue. Interesting. I guess I support Huckabee according to this …

By: David Y?

David Y? — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:04:25 +0000

As a point of clarification I really only know what CBS, Digg, and the frontpage news tells me about the candidates. I don’t know who Kucinich is.
But I really don’t like any of them. They don’t appeal to me. None of them has gone out and done something amazing, like the single handed stopping of (insert amazing injustice here).
I want someone who can make the presidency look like a superhero role, so I can pile all the problems I have on him and say that he will solve it.
Actually the closest candidate for that is Arnold of Austria, but I really don’t want that…So, in his stead, I will have to say that Abraham Lincoln will do. He never finished off that last bit of his presidency, lets clone him! Or bring him back into someone who is already dead or not using their body, (celebrities)…
really, what should I think about the candidates? They all have the same ability to answer simple questions with complex answers…
Maybe if I was a real person elections would matter more.