Posts by Eddie Clark
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Good call Hamish. In some ways heighted by the fact that it now seems certain he WAS murdered... watch the media circus intensify further.
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TPM made the good point that its actually risky for the Allen campaign to ask for a recount. The FBI is already invesigating alleged voter fraud on their part, and stretching out the electoral process for another week or two will draw further attention to it.
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I wish it were otherwise, but I can't see the Dems getting past a tied Senate. The exit polls DO look very nice, though.
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90 percent of House Democrats voted against the NSA's Terrorist Surveillance Program; 80 percent voted against the terrorist interrogation bill.
So those would be the secret, no-warrant-required wiretapping bill, and the "goodbye, habeas corpus" bill? Gee, isn't it awful they voted against those? Still waiting for solid evidence of Nancy Pelosi's loony lib, terrorist enabling policy platform. Voting against bad legislation does not provide said evidence!
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americablog has just put up very early exit poll numbers from politicalwire. Lots of caveats, probably completely unreliable, but interesting nonetheless.
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Nice repetition of Fox News talking points, James. Although I have to say I'm not convinced by some of the rather erm, shall we say, creative? 9/11 conspiracies being thrown around at the moment.
Anyway, distraction from real issue. Which is: will this election really reflect popular sentiment. As I said above, the number of documented attempts to disenfranchise, intimidate, and lie to voters is just appalling. And most of the reports I've seen are about republicans. James pointed out that if I read other blogs I might see reports of Dems doing the same thing. Well fine. ANY and all attempts to corrupt an election must be investigated, prosecuted, and the people responsible jailed. Dem, republican, or dodgy lobby group. And any political party found to be involved should be fined heavily.
If you can't have faith in the electoral process, debate about policy is meaningless. Might as well go live in Zimbabwe.
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Anyone else amused by americablog's hour-by-hour grimacing Satorum countdown? Classic.
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Nancy Pelosi, the loony tunes San Fran lib who would become speaker if the Dems win.
As far as I can tell from looking at their policy platforms, "looney tunes libs" in the US would fit squarely in the middle, or possibly slightly towards the left, of the Labour party here.
Besides, voter fraud/intimidation has been documented, recorded, and reported on by the MSM as well as those nasty looney left bloggers... the fact that people are trying to lie/cheat/steal their way to an election win is shocking, whether or not you like Nancy Pelosi, and whether or not the Dems end up taking control of either house.
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So the question is, can we and did we keep it cleaner here in NZ?
Yes. Because our version of a serious electoral scandal is Labour's pledge card, or National's GST bill. The amount of money involved in those two combined would buy you like 30 seconds of air time for one political ad in NYC.
Incredibly dirty, dare I say corrupt, tactics, are not part of the NZ political landscape. People got dreadfully upset about the personal attacks that happened with Don Brash and Peter Davis, and those were several hundred times milder than the worsts of the vile US attack ads. Plus, look at our nice shiny "we're number 1 least corrupt nation (equal)" rating from Transparency International.
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I've frankly been shocked by the tactics in these elections - racist ads, fake late night robocalls, calls threatening arrest and/or deportation if you vote... guess which side 95% of these are coming from? If any country this side of Zimbabwe needs election monitoring, its the US!
As for the first monday thing, I read an explanation here:
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/electionday1.html
As for my 2 cents on a prediction, Dems to get to 49 in the senate, somewhere in the 220s in the House.