Disco Stu wrote:Where are you going to put all the waste material. There is a ton of radioactive waste producted from nuclear fusion. You can't just hide this stuff and it is too expensive to send it into the sun ala Superman and nukes. You end up with it getting into the ground water and causing cancer for babies.

VoxOrion wrote:This is why there isn't more nuclear power in the US.

swishnicholson wrote:

Laexile wrote:
dajafi, I always find it odd when people think McCain is taking an opportunistic stance. While he's certainly done opportunistic things (not talking about his abortion stance, courting Hagee) he doesn't take opportunistic positions. When Romney told people in Michigan he'd get their jobs back McCain said they weren't coming back.

Hmm

June 5 (Bloomberg) -- In January, John McCain campaigned for the Republican nomination in Michigan by giving voters in the economically depressed state a taste of his signature ``straight talk'': some of the jobs they've lost won't be coming back.

Nowadays, the party's presumptive nominee is singing a different tune, striking a populist pose and saying ``new jobs are coming.''

dajafi wrote: I think there is some huge regulatory bottleneck, based on something I read a year or so ago--can't remember the specifics.

philliesphhan wrote:Yeah, so Hillary just endorsed Obama

A recent poll shows Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich leading incumbent Ted Stevens in the U.S. Senate race.

The survey found 51 percent of those responding would vote for Begich in November’s general election, compared to 44 percent who said they would back Stevens.

The poll indicates Begich is gaining name recognition across the state, but Stevens, who’s served in the Senate since 1968, also remains popular.

Some 58 percent of responders said they felt very or somewhat positive toward Begich, while only 16 percent had a negative opinion of the 45-year-old Democratic mayor. Eleven percent of those responding didn’t know of Begich.

For Stevens, the numbers were a little closer — 49 percent had a positive opinion, while 40 percent had a negative opinion. All of the survey’s 269 responders knew Stevens was the state’s senior senator.

dajafi wrote:McCain campaign strategy briefing

I've got this on now. Fascinating. I think it's a bit optimistic for McCain's purposes (Obama's support might be at a floor, McCain's near a ceiling, particularly on fav/unfav), but not a snow job either. Hope they keep doing these.

dajafi wrote:Combining campaign fundraising with RNC/DNC numbers might be a bit more relevant, though (j-hoya question) don't the national committees have other significant and more or less non-negotiable obligations in addition to serving as a second piggybank for the presidential candidates?

Democrat Frank Lautenberg, seeking a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, is in a virtual tie with Republican challenger Dick Zimmer in New Jersey, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.

Forty-five percent (45%) of likely voters in the predominantly Democratic state favor Lautenberg, while 44% are backing Zimmer, a former U.S. congressman who is running as a fiscal conservative.

Woody wrote:I agree on the nuke plants. What is the reason there hasn't been any built in so long? (3-mile island type stuff?)

TenuredVulture wrote:

Disco Stu wrote:Where are you going to put all the waste material. There is a ton of radioactive waste producted from nuclear fusion. You can't just hide this stuff and it is too expensive to send it into the sun ala Superman and nukes. You end up with it getting into the ground water and causing cancer for babies.

Ah, but is nuclear waste more or less harmful than emissions and waste from coal plants, not to mention the horrible environmental damage done by coal mining?

Lots of people who live near refineries get cancer.

mpmcgraw wrote:If Obama wins NJ I would be surprised.

mpmcgraw wrote:We'll see, it might change in a few months but teh old guys around here don't like Obama and people my age don't like Obama.