Posts by Russell Brown
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Tze Ming has done it little bits before.
Readers unfamiliar with Chinese text can refer to the original here.
Keith, what's Part 1 of the post?
And have you cross-posted to SkyKiwi already?
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Reports from Gary are claiming that they had 95% voter turnout that broke %75 for Obama. Those numbers are so unbelievable that . . . I kind of don't believe them. Very dodgy.
You're not the only one to think that. But it's apparently for real -- the Republicans overseeing the count have taken the unusual step of vouching for the validity of the result.
Gary does have a large black population, and a popular mayor who seems to have been full-time campaigning for Obama.
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Ironically, he might win the popular vote there by half a percent, get exactly the same number of delegates as if he lost it by half a percent, and one way it'd still be game on, and the other it'd be the ball game.
The punditocracy seems to be saying it's game over for the nomination. Hillary first cancelled her network TV interviews for tomorrow morning, then all public events tomorrow. There will be some talking going on.
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FRom TPM:
First results reported in Lake County, 75%-25% for Obama with 28% reporting. If he maintains that margin in Lake County he wins the state. But it all depends where in the county those results are from.
The margin is now about 20,000 votes separating the two statewide.
This is amazing: if those late votes don't actually erase her lead, they'll come very, very close to it. There will be some people hanging on that count. It's basically the nomination, right there.
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More on Gary
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The Obama team are now talking of doing a deal over seating Michigan and Florida.
A clear sign that they now think this is sewn up and that's probably an accurate assessment of what's happen today. They wouldn't be offering to have those votes counted if they thought that would jeopardise his chances. Now they feel it safe to do so. Politics.
The goss is that they believe they have a majority on the party's Rules and Bylaws committee and could force through a decision to seat the delegates. Which would not go down well.
Obama's reasoning may be that he'd rather not go into the election with the Democratic Party in flames.
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Russell - thanks for conceding my point.
You're welcome ;-)
It ended up in an effective PPP with Toll but with the access arrangements far too loose.
But Cullen says even the access agreement they had was never adhered to, and that if it had been enforced, Toll made it clear would simply have started closing down services.
I'll concede that Toll has arguably done us taxpayers like a dinner here. But I think it was going to keep on doing that no matter what sweetheart deal it got.
I checked Cullen's full statements on the deal on the Beehive website just now - the rent-free deal is not mentioned. Toll made it explicit in their own press statement to the ASX.
I think Cullen can do a lot better here when it comes to transparency.
You're right. That's poor.
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Clinton clearly had never slugged back a couple of shots and then gone shooting 'coons off the back her truck ...
I am so glad you used an apostrophe there.
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Margins on votes counted so far:
NC: Obama by 156,585
Indiana: Clinton by 35,804
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the objective is the same - to keep gas prices down for political reasons
From the WaPo:
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she'll have no truck with economists telling her where to put her gas-tax holiday.
Well, now she's got a truckload of them.
More than 230 economists -- Democrats, Republicans, advisers to past presidents and four Nobel laureates -- signed a letter today opposing proposals by Clinton and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain to suspend the 18-cent federal gas tax for the summer driving season.
"First, research shows that waiving the gas tax would generate major profits for oil companies rather than significantly lowering prices for consumers," they wrote. "Second, it would encourage people to keep buying costly imported oil and do nothing to encourage conservation. Third, a tax holiday would provide very little relief to families feeling squeezed."
If you can direct me to a similar degree of opposition for the deferring of the Auckland regional fuel surcharge, I'll concede your point.
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