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Joe wrote:I don't know; however, Dean's numbers are probably better than Kerry's Southern numbers, which are just abyssmal.

I still don't see the Dems carrying a single southern state this time around, unless they run Edwards, and even that's questionable.
I think Dean may have tried appealing to the Southern voters just a little bit too early, and I think his "Confederate flag" line was the utterly wrong way to go about it. I think he may be a little too enthusiastic for his own good. He could've just said, "You know, if you look at the problems that people living in the inner city have, and the problems that people living in rural trailer parks have, they're not all that different under this administration," or something similar, it would've gone over a whole lot better. I know that's what he meant, but that's not what got the press.

Though let's admit it, if Dean were to be elected president, The Daily Show would have another 4 years of superb material in the form of Dean's facial expressions. :)
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Publically announcing his intent to lay on the Jesus bullshit for the express purpose of getting votes didn't help, either.
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Joe wrote:Publically announcing his intent to lay on the Jesus bullshit for the express purpose of getting votes didn't help, either.
Well at least he was honest.
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MKSheppard wrote:Worthless trolling edited out.
Keep your taunting out of here, Shep.
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Fuck you. Iceberg has been posting thread after thread proclaiming the
greatness of Dean and how he's going to kick our asses for months, and
when his pretty boy gets his ass kicked, we don't hear a peep from him?

Oh this is fucking rich, let us enjoy our little schadenfreude.
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MKSheppard wrote:Fuck you. Iceberg has been posting thread after thread proclaiming the
greatness of Dean and how he's going to kick our asses for months, and
when his pretty boy gets his ass kicked, we don't hear a peep from him?

Oh this is fucking rich, let us enjoy our little schadenfreude.
Iceberg wasn't trolling.

You were.

As usual.
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MKSheppard wrote:Fuck you. Iceberg has been posting thread after thread proclaiming the greatness of Dean and how he's going to kick our asses for months, and when his pretty boy gets his ass kicked, we don't hear a peep from him?
Iceberg is under no obligations to prostrate himself before you if he happens to be wrong about a political race. If you want to gloat, do it over PM. I don't need your dick-waving in here, so go fuck yourself.
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Daltonator wrote: As usual.
Hmm, I've got a nice reply to that :finger:

Ah well, this dry spell of me going for a couple of weeks without
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BTW, this is why I love SDN, you can tell a mod to fuck off, without being
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MKSheppard wrote:BTW, this is why I love SDN, you can tell a mod to fuck off, without being
temp banned by the mod in question in a hissy fit :lol:
Shep, while this is a true statement, we already know that the board's policies regarding mods are MUCH looser than in other places. That being said, stop spamming the boards and provoking mods like this. Dalton already rendered judgement on your statements against Iceberg. Don't make other mods step in to keep you and Dalton apart.
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Master of Ossus wrote: Don't make other mods step in to keep you and Dalton apart.
I think you're underestimating me here, I am not a bomb-happy lunatic
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If Kerry ends up having the best chance against Bush, then I'll vote for him

This isn't the final nail in Dean's coffin, but things sure aren't looking so swell in his camp
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By the way, did anyone else thing the talking mouth "Live Via Satillite" bit last night on Conan was genius?

Dean: "RRAAAAARRRR!"
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I haven't been following the Democratic nominations process too closely (not my country, after all), but even I'm getting the distinct impression that this "Dean" character has a screw loose.
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Darth Wong wrote:I haven't been following the Democratic nominations process too closely (not my country, after all), but even I'm getting the distinct impression that this "Dean" character has a screw loose.
Actually, I think that Dean is a sane man pretending to be insane. It just didn't work out for him well in Iowa, but it may very well pay off in NH.
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Joe wrote:Actually, I think that Dean is a sane man pretending to be insane. It just didn't work out for him well in Iowa, but it may very well pay off in NH.
He's bound to do well in NH, since that's his home state. If he fails there, he might as well give up and bow before one of the other candidates. Until then, it will be DEAN SMASH!
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Joe wrote:Actually, I think that Dean is a sane man pretending to be insane. It just didn't work out for him well in Iowa, but it may very well pay off in NH.
He's bound to do well in NH, since that's his home state. If he fails there, he might as well give up and bow before one of the other candidates. Until then, it will be DEAN SMASH!
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But the idea is the same. He's on his home turf in NH.
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But the idea is the same. He's on his home turf in NH

Yea, but so is John F Kerry .. It will be another dogfight and then add Weasaly Clark and it becomes a 3-way horse race
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This is good. I was expecting Dean to take everything, but it looks like this'll be an interesting race for political junkies to follow.
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Joe wrote:Dean's a Vermonter.
Whoops, my bad. Still, it's New England and the same general neighborhood.
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theski wrote:Howedar: wrote
But the idea is the same. He's on his home turf in NH

Yea, but so is John F Kerry .. It will be another dogfight and then add Weasaly Clark and it becomes a 3-way horse race
Exactly, but the problem for Dean is that if he loses in NH then his campaign is sunk. If he can't even beat Kerry or Clark on his home turf, then there is no way he's going to be able to pull in enough support in the Western states.

Personally, I think that liberals are starting to realize that Dean isn't nearly as electable as his opponents, and they will probably choose to vote for either Kerry or Clark, who are far more presidential. I think Kerry is the most likely candidate at this point (and his name recognition/image among liberals has improved dramatically in the past few weeks) although I won't discount Dean until after NH. Should be an interesting week.
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It should be noted that this is also home turf for Kerry.
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LMAO! The day before he lost the Iowa caucuses miserably, Dean sent his fan club an e-mail with the subject "Delivering Results."
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Master of Ossus wrote:LMAO! The day before he lost the Iowa caucuses miserably, Dean sent his fan club an e-mail with the subject "Delivering Results."
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