En attendant Bloomberg.

[SlaveNoMore]

Not Bob
Looks like your playoff strategy worked, by the way.

Yeah. I know. Tell me about it. :-(

I'll start scalping if they make it to the 3rd Round.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Indeed. And if it was a cash or money order donation, how could one verify it? I'm now curious to see if Mike Hunt, Warren Pease, or Dick Hurtz have contributed as well.

Kidding aside, one possible explanation is that Roy sent the contribution in before he died, and it didn't get credited for a while. From my limited experience at raising cash for a candidate, contributions received at fundraisers tend to sit a bit before they are forwarded off to the main office for deposit.

Or the Obama finance people are crooked, but incompetently so.

Or it could be a different Roy.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A lot of the press was saying that Hillary needed to win by double-digits (this sort of thing is stupid, but I digress), and this morning they're reporting that she indeed won by 10%, justifying her decision to keep on fighting.

Only she didn't. According to the numbers updated three minutes ago at CNN, the percentages for the two candidates were:

Clinton 54.6875149%
Obama 45.3124851%

The difference being 9.3750299%, or 9% for those who like to round.

But you need a calculator to figure this out, because CNN, in a typical innumerate way, rounds the totals to 55 and 45, pushing her margin into double digits.

Now, I think the whole exercise is stupid. The double-digit benchmark is entirely fictitious, an expectations game that has nothing to do with the important questions of substance or tactics in the race. But if that's going to be the benchmark, she didn't hit it.

Teddy Ballgame?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Not Bob


Kidding aside, one possible explanation is that Roy sent the contribution in before he died, and it didn't get credited for a while.

He was in cancer treatment during his last days . . . .

But, jeez, $50? If that's the biggest fundraising fraud any of the candidates have, I'd be surprised. If there's any fraud, it's that a hollywood actor was such a skinflint that he gave only $50. Didn't he know it's $2300 primary/$2300 general?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Adder
Or it could be a different Roy.

I don't think Sag Harbor is big enough for two Roy Scheiders.

[Adder]

Hopefully the national party can do a little better than N.C., as this ad featuring Rev. Wright isn't all that effective, IMHO. But maybe the picture of Obama with his arm around a white woman will do the trick.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Adder
Hopefully the national party can do a little better than N.C., as this ad featuring Rev. Wright isn't all that effective, IMHO. But maybe the picture of Obama with his arm around a white woman will do the trick.

you relaize the ad was against the "white woman", don't you? all that had "begun" is a ramp up in your stupidity index.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you relaize the ad was against the "white woman", don't you? all that had "begun" is a ramp up in your stupidity index.

I provide you with a link to a website known for its sarcasm, and still it is totally lost on you.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Adder
I provide you with a link to a website known for its sarcasm, and still it is totally lost on you.

your post was "sarcastic?" got it.

Poll- how many people think space-fuck was being sarcastic?

there will be some extreme hate crap prepared, if he wins the nomination. you should not create the hate where it doesn't exist.

[SlaveNoMore]

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I don't think Sag Harbor is big enough for two Roy Scheiders.

Sag Harbor is small.

Like the boat.

[Adder]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
your post was "sarcastic?" got it.

Poll- how many people think space-fuck was being sarcastic?

there will be some extreme hate crap prepared, if he wins the nomination. you should not create the hate where it doesn't exist.

Intriguingly, and to his credit, McCain has apparently asked them not to run it. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...vlBbwD907MFJ00

[Hank Chinaski]

http://thenewsdispatch.com/main.asp?...rticleID=12532

• Worst Campaign Idea Ever?
  
  Hoosier congressional candidate speaks at birthday party for Hitler, in Chicago
  
  CROWN POINT, Ind. - If fans of Hitler held a party, and a candidate for federal office attended, would anybody notice?
  
  Apparently, yes.
  
  U.S. Congressional candidate Tony Zirkle is facing criticism from one of his primary opponents, and a host of people on the Internet, for speaking at an event over the weekend that celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday.
  
  Zirkle confirmed to The News-Dispatch on Monday he spoke Sunday in Chicago at a meeting of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, whose symbol is a swastika.
  
  When asked if he was a Nazi or sympathized with Nazis or white supremacists, Zirkle replied he didn't know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.
  
  "This is just a great opportunity for me to witness," he said, referring to his message and his Christian belief.
  
  He also told WIMS radio in Michigan City that he didn't believe the event he attended included people necessarily of the Nazi mindset, pointing out the name isn't Nazi, but Nationalist Socialist Workers Party.

I'm just sorry that it wasn't a Dem. I'd love to see how Ty spun this as not a negative.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'd love to see how Ty spun this as not a negative.

Wow, this gets my vote for the weirdest ad hominem attack on this board.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Wow, this gets my vote for the weirdest ad hominem attack on this board.

:blush:

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
He was in cancer treatment during his last days . . . .

But, jeez, $50? If that's the biggest fundraising fraud any of the candidates have, I'd be surprised. If there's any fraud, it's that a hollywood actor was such a skinflint that he gave only $50. Didn't he know it's $2300 primary/$2300 general?

My grandmother wrote a check for a US Senate candidate a few weeks before she died in 2006.

As for the amount and the cheapness, it may have been sent in from a $50 a plate barbecue or poetry reading or cocktail party or something -- heck, my law firm had a $50 a plate wine and cheese mixer for a Republican no longer in the race (Fenwick is a oenophile, I like cheese, and my clients, sadly, tend to be in the GOP). But isn't Sag Harbor a high end kind of place? A $50 event seems a bit low, unless he was campaigning amongst the help (which is kind of what Mitt Huckabee Rudy Thompson was doing at my firm, come to think of it). Anyway, a conundrum.