Pierre the Great Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 (edited) Top Candidates (in order of the polls as of now) Democratic Party Sen. Hillary Clinton - New York Sen. Barack Obama- Illinois Sen. John Edwards- (former) North Carolina Republican Party Mayor Rudi Guiliani - New York City (former) Gov. Mitt Romney - Mass. (former) Sen. John McCain- Arizona Sen. Fred Thompson - Tennessee (former) more known for being an actor Gov. Mike Huckabee - Arkansas (former) Schedule of Events Democratic Party Primaries Jan 3 Iowa Caucus - Won by Obama and Huckabee Jan 8 New Hampshire- Won by Clinton and McCain Jan 15 Michigan - Romney Jan 19 Nevada- Romney and Clinton but Obama got more delegates Jan 26 South Carolina- Obama and McCain Jan 29 Florida won by McCain Super Tuesday February 5 Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Idaho Illinois Kansas Massachusetts Minnesota Missouri New Jersey New Mexico New York North Dakota Oklahoma Tennessee Utah If nobody has enough delegates to announce victory Feb 9 Louisana Nebraska Washington Feb 10 Maine Feb 12 (Chesapeake Primaries) D.C. Maryland Virginia Feb 19 Wisconsin Feb 26 Hawaii Then sometime in March American Samoa Democrats/Republicans Abroad Guam U.S. Virgin Islands March 4 (the last big one) Ohio Vermont Rhode Island Texas March 8 Wyoming March 11 Mississippi April 22 Pennsylvania May 6 Indiana May 6 North Carolina May 13 West Virginia May 20 Oregon May 20 Kentucky Jun 1 Puerto Rico June 3 Montana June 3 South Dakota Democratic Convention- Denver, Colorado Aug 25-28 Republican Convention- St. Paul, Minnesota Sept 1-4 Edited January 30, 2008 by Pierre the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Iowa Polls polling from Dec. 7 Democratic Party 30% Clinton 29% Obama 21% Edwards most likely to attend caucuses 40% Obama 27% Clinton Republican 39% Huckabee 17% Romney One problem for Huckabee is this: "In 1992, Huckabee wrote, "If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague." "It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents." (AP) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071208/ap_on_...CoZRLAGbdyyFz4D He fiercely anti gay and wanted to at one point round up all the people affected with AIDS and quarantine them. He also believes that the earth was created 6,000 years ago, in 6 days. former Southern Baptist preacher. He doesn't believe in science. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 Daily News... Mitt Romney gets it wrong on religion http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dl...396/1270/NEWS97 GOP launches first attack invoking Hillary http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7282.html Star Power: Barack Obama couldn't have hoped for a better endorser than Oprah. Problem was, she outshone the candidate - Howard Fineman http://www.newsweek.com/id/74581 GOP hopefuls debate immigration on Univision http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22173520/ Inside the Fight for Iowa (good read to explain how crazy Iowa is for our Canadian members on HW) feel free to add anything of substance btw http://www.politico.com/rogersimon/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLP Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 Yo, PTG, I ask you -- as a community member, not a mod -- to please stop answering your own posts. I for one could not give a tinker's cuss whether Pepsi or Coca-Cola prevails in the USA, in my estimation it's all the same corporate-fueled imperialism crap. Ok, can't speak for others on Habs World but anyway when you post, consideration has it that you wait to see if anyone regards what you posted as worthy of reply, if not, refrain, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted December 10, 2007 Author Share Posted December 10, 2007 okay, was just putting up "news" since we're 3 weeks away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlétique.Canadien Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 http://www.thestar.com/News/article/296341 Fred Thompson quits the race I liked this guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted January 22, 2008 Author Share Posted January 22, 2008 http://www.thestar.com/News/article/296341 Fred Thompson quits the race I liked this guy he was, how can i put this lightly, lazy. Then there's the geography and current news problem he had. aloof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nhfarber Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 can I ask question that maybe one of our America friends can answer. I have studied American Politics but this little nuance confuses me. I read that both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee have penalized states for running their primaries before Super Tuesday. In the DNC's case they stripped all delegates from both Michigan and Florida. In the RNC's situation they took away half of the delegates for Wyoming, New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina and Florida. For the Republicans however they did not dock delegates from Iowa, Nevada and Maine. Does anybody know why some states got penalized while others didn't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 can I ask question that maybe one of our America friends can answer. I have studied American Politics but this little nuance confuses me. I read that both the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee have penalized states for running their primaries before Super Tuesday. In the DNC's case they stripped all delegates from both Michigan and Florida. In the RNC's situation they took away half of the delegates for Wyoming, New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina and Florida. For the Republicans however they did not dock delegates from Iowa, Nevada and Maine. Does anybody know why some states got penalized while others didn't? In the constitution of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina it states that Iowa should be first, New Hampshire second and South Carolina third. After all the states moved up to Feb 5. The two parties didn't want anybody else moving up because we'd of had our pres nominations before christmas if that was the case. " Under Democratic National Committee rules, only Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina are allowed to hold primaries before February 5. But Michigan Democrats moved their state's primary date to January in an effort to increase the state's influence in the nominee selection process, arguing Iowa and New Hampshire unfairly dominate the process. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlétique.Canadien Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) he was, how can i put this lightly, lazy. Then there's the geography and current news problem he had. aloof. I thought it was $$$ Gotta love it. It's We The People and any of We The People can run for Prez - right? Edited January 23, 2008 by Athlétique.Canadien Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted January 23, 2008 Author Share Posted January 23, 2008 I thought it was $$$ Gotta love it. It's We The People and any of We The People can run for Prez - right? yup anybody can run for president only if they're millionaires and billionaires with huge business ties of course, god forbid we ever have someone running for president of the united states who isn't funded by huge transnational corporations... The "poorest" person in the race is Obama. He's only worth 200k if I remember correctly. Romney is almost a billionaire, Bloomberg if and when he runs is a billionaire media mogul, McCain is worth around a million, clinton has millions, edwards is in the hundreds of millions, Rudy profits off of dead people and he's got 50mil at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlétique.Canadien Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 RomneyI wish this guy would just lose. I couldn't stand him if he made the Whitehouse. He's too much of a game show host politician. Lies lies lies it seems. Fake! Chilly and cold. Makes you wonder about agendas eh? McCain, Giuliani, Clinton or Obama for President works for me. At least you sort of know what you're going to get. Romney? I can't believe the Republicans are weighing in on him so much. Bad risk IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted January 24, 2008 Author Share Posted January 24, 2008 I wish this guy would just lose. I couldn't stand him if he made the Whitehouse. He's too much of a game show host politician. Lies lies lies it seems. Fake! Chilly and cold. Makes you wonder about agendas eh? McCain, Giuliani, Clinton or Obama for President works for me. At least you sort of know what you're going to get. Romney? I can't believe the Republicans are weighing in on him so much. Bad risk IMO Romney = used car salesman mr. polish mr. clean mr. i'm perfect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 McCain "There will be more wars." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl9YE4G8gcY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) well the big day has arrived. finally. obama pulling ahead in california, don't get too excited though, remember new hampshire and a lot of absent tee ballots. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080205/...litics_poll_col Edited February 5, 2008 by Pierre the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 remember new hampshire and a lot of absent tee ballots. seriously... you are just doing this on purpose, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 no, why? You have something against my spelling mistakes, i don't hear the sound of words very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 (edited) no, why? You have something against my spelling mistakes, i don't hear the sound of words very good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_disability thank you for that wiki article. Now I know all about learning disability. "absent tee" and "absentee" sound the same... as do, for example, "per say" and "per se." I can't see how not hearing words well would cause this spelling error. You read a lot of political coverage; certainly the you've read the word in many articles. Are you suffering perhaps from more of a reading rather than a hearing difficulty? Perhaps instead of taking a small lump for a pretty funny mistake, you decided instead to make this into some sort of victim issue. If I screw up like that, I try to laugh it off... but it's not like I ever had any trouble in school. You know my whole life story, obviously. Anyways, sorry to everybody else who is reading this thread. Back to the hopeful Obama pwnage. Edited February 5, 2008 by simonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 you thought it was funny? lol. sorry i couldn't tell if you were disgusted or laughing. lost in text translation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 lol watching msnbc on msnbc.com they were talking about my state in how you pronounce it with the two official languages (english, american) Harry Truman: "If you live along the missour-ee river you say "missour-ee" if you live nowhere near the river you say "misser-ah" got to love "misser-ee" and "misser-ah" both are great states. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 huckabee takes wv that was suppose to be a romney win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonus Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 huckabee takes wv that was suppose to be a romney win Wow! This does not auger well for Mr. Romney. Too bad - I'm really rooting for the guy. I think he could really screw up a general election campaign.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 well the republicans created this three headed monster that they've got right now. But yeah I did a double take when i heard it on msnbc.com. Romney spent the night there even. lol wouldn't be shocked if huckabee won missouri. yeah mccain is up in the polls but the romney crowd is supported by the republican establishment in mo, which is super corrupt. I think Huckabee could win a lot of states today, then if Romney wins California. lol lol hahaha i'm going to laugh hysterically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 4pm pt Obama takes Georgia too close to call in Georgia between the 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre the Great Posted February 6, 2008 Author Share Posted February 6, 2008 (edited) 5pm pt McCain takes Connecticut Mitt Romney wins Mass. McCain wins Illinois McCain wins NJ Obama wins Illinois Clinton takes Oklahoma everywhere else too close to call Edited February 6, 2008 by Pierre the Great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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