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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:23:42

Not really sure why dems would vote for Kane. If Corbett busts unions there's a coin flip that she's on board.
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:34:15

I think Murphy is better as a legislator.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:37:53

And he's going to stay in that relatively small role now for the foreseeable future. Stupid imo
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby jeff2sf » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:42:36

How does super liberal Pac reconcile the whole "gave money to Corbett" thing for Kane?

I was genuinely shocked Murphy wasn't the favorite. By him losing here, isn't his career essentially over. You can't lose tice can you?
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby pacino » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:03:37

She was being politically expedient from what I can tell. A bad sign, but I think her views on the role of the ag in regards to the consumer and company is pretty good.

The AG should be one of the more apolitical offices, IMO. But they should aggressively fight for fairness in all forms.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:24:42

jeff2sf wrote:just googled the virginia plan - if both houses would be proportional representation, what's the point of two houses? Why not just one large house? What's the 2nd house accomplish? Or another way, how is it different than the first house?

The irony being that even the Virginia General Assembly doesn't follow the Virginia plan.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby dajafi » Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:26:42

jerseyhoya wrote:Hah, well I just sort of assumed (shows what happens when you assume) that state/congressional primaries would be tonight since it was a later primary...nope! Those aren't till June. Wtf is New York doing? Why run a stand alone presidential primary this late in the process?

Still kind of hope the results are effed up. Why are 5x as many people voting for Romney in PA than NY? Under 1% of state population voting in the GOP primary?


There was an amusing item in the NYT about how the Upper East Side zip code that's accounted for more Romney donations than any other in the US (and had same distinction for both Bush and Gore in 2000) might have had a single-digit number of votes cast yesterday.

Less amusing to me is the public money wasted by the multiple primaries.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby The Nightman Cometh » Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:04:27

Any office that is filled through elections is going to be political. The Attorney General's office is a springboard to governor or national office. If you like Murphy, that was a really strange vote pac.
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby CalvinBall » Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:29:04

I voted for Murph. F that sleazy bitch.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Apr 26, 2012 00:53:42

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby Barry Jive » Thu Apr 26, 2012 02:44:37

yeah but i'm making way more money now than i was in 2007
no offense but you are everything that's wrong with America

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby TenuredVulture » Thu Apr 26, 2012 09:20:53

So, since Republicans took control of the House, median income has dipped after showing a bit of recovery.
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:25:08

Dang, the recession was "officially" over by q2 2009? Good shit
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby Werthless » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:32:02

td11 wrote:Dang, the recession was "officially" over by q2 2009? Good shit

Recessions are just defined as 2+ quarters of declining GDP, if my economics memory is right. That does not mean that a recovery has got us back to where we were, just that economic activity (Consumption + Government Spending + Investment + net exports) is not decreasing. It's kinda arbitrary, and not necessarily a measure of prosperity.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby td11 » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:33:22

Yeah it sure felt like we were receding well into 2010
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby Werthless » Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:36:38

Exxon made $9.45B this quarter on $124B in revenue. Spent $8.8B on capital and exploration expendtures. Paid $27.4B in taxes. Yay monies.

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby lethal » Thu Apr 26, 2012 17:57:16

Marion Barry at it again.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc- ... story.html

“[I]f you go to the hospital now, you’ll find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly from the Philippines,” said Barry (D-Ward 8). “And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses, and so that we don’t have to go scrounging in our community clinics and other kinds of places, having to hire people from somewhere else.”

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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby slugsrbad » Thu Apr 26, 2012 18:30:48

I feel so bad for DC and of the minorities of this area. DC desperately needed a minority leader and instead they got Marion Barry. I just hope the people will one day stop giving him a free pass.
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby drsmooth » Thu Apr 26, 2012 18:48:54

jerseyhoya wrote:Image


Nice picture. Tell us what you think it means.
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Re: Is It November Yet? Politics Thread

Postby jerseyhoya » Thu Apr 26, 2012 20:53:59

drsmooth wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:Image


Nice picture. Tell us what you think it means.

That the economy sucks

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