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Please excuse me for voting for the Huckster, but statistically speaking, some of us are voting for the demise of the amurkan system, which can only come about through more chaos.

I would rather prevent a further slide into hell, thanks. Please tell me you're joking.

by lychee (lychee9393 A yahoo D com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 02:01:35 PM EST
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With only a small part of my tongue in cheek, which part of the lesser of two evils should i vote for?   What i really vote for is the most powerful lobbying agency which listens to me.

Do i care if amurka must go through more hell?  (Yes i do)  But that doesn't stop the necessary hell.

Skennah Kowa

by Crazy Horse on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:21:14 PM EST
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Why is hell necessary? Because things need to get Much worse before they can get better?

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:31:18 PM EST
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Gawd... this place is crawling with born again armaggedon  awaiters looking for the Second Coming to fix all ills.  

Guys WE have to make the EU stronger, not some half twit huckabilly cowboy preacher....

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:38:57 PM EST
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Far as I can see there's only one vote for the huckster. That's hardly crawling.

Truth is I see an overwhelming endorsement of John Edwards as per votes cast so far. And it seems Et'ers, US & RotW, are fairly similar so far (I'll expect a full stats analysis from Mig in a couple of days ;-)) And different from kos.

Of course we are different websites, be interesting to see how booman does, and have a different culture, but it's worth knowing.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:46:57 PM EST
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Helen:
Far as I can see there's only one vote for the huckster. That's hardly crawling.

Sorry Helen - but this string of comments was started by
Crazy Horse:

Please excuse me for voting for the Huckster

and it is in that context I read them

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:51:09 PM EST
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And he gets the same as you : One vote.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 04:56:06 PM EST
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JakeS is the senior statistician here, but I'll give it a shot.

The point of the exercise was to see whether there are statistically significant differences between the US and RotW votes. The way the chips are falling and with 37 votes tallied, the only question one can answer is whether support for Edwards differs. This is because there are only 10 US votes. Come on, people, get out the vote!

The result of the vote so far is:




USRotWTotal
Edwards51823
Other5914
Total102737
Assuming no difference between US and RotW support for Edwards, the expected number of votes are

USRotW
Edwards6.216.8
Other3.810.2
The chi-square calculation is

USRotW
Edwards0.232.3
Other.38.141
The total is 3.1 with one degree of freedom, which is significant to 92% which is generally not considered enough. So, sorry, despite the outpouring of support for Edwards in the Rest of the World it cannot be said to be a significant difference.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 05:19:08 AM EST
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We are busy flaming each other on dkos.  I was going to vote for a rock star but Jagger is British.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 09:42:52 AM EST
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Bruce Springsteen?
by Gary J on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 01:47:08 PM EST
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Yeah, or John Fogarty, I guess-maybe levon Helm

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 09:34:37 PM EST
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The necessary hell doesn't have to be as bad as it would be if the Repubs keep the presidency. We're in for an eceonomically and environmentally tough time no matter who wins, but that doesn't mean we have to become a theocracy as well.
by lychee (lychee9393 A yahoo D com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 09:50:10 PM EST
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(BTW, wasn't trying to steal kcurie's point about religious fanaticism, but I felt the need to point it out. I'd rather not see the US dissolve into state-mandated religious worship. The whole school prayer debate is bad enough; we don't need to be frogmarched into church as well.)
by lychee (lychee9393 A yahoo D com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 10:14:14 PM EST
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