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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 07:47 PM
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Poll question: Who is this election about?
Edited on Tue Jul-08-08 07:54 PM by ColbertWatcher
Chuck Todd MSNBC's Political Director says the election is a referendum on Obama not Bush (or McCain). (Countdown, July 8, 2008)

Who do you think the election is a referendum on?

If you happen to have an opinion that differs from the esteemed Mr. Todd, please explain why you feel the way you do.
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ryanmuegge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 07:49 PM
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That's certainly what the corporate media is trying to get the public to think.
I don't think it will work, though, with economic conditions.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:20 PM
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5. The economy has been trumped today by the FISA vote. n/t
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ryanmuegge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:47 PM
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6. Only to political junkies like us and to the media.
Most average people on the street wouldn't know what you were talking about if you asked them about FISA.

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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:52 PM
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7. That may be true...
...but that doesn't mean it is not important.

I just wish the GOP-controlled media would discuss more than one issue at a time.

This "talk-about-one-issue-every-day-for-nine-days-while-ignoring-everything-else" shit it getting old.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 07:49 PM
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1. The m$m and McCain are 'trying' to make it about Obama; I sorely
wish he doesn't let them. Now McSame's VN history is being used by the RNC; I think it's time to revisit Wes Clark's point; a POW does not a prez make.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 07:57 PM
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2. FYI: I added a new selection for those who might agree with Chuck Todd. n/t
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freesqueeze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-08-08 08:00 PM
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3. I would say SHRUB alone
not the whole republican party...just him and his miserable failure of an administration.

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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:05 PM
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4. Post-FISA kick n/t
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 07:53 PM
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8. Diebold and also our whole system of government
Edited on Wed Jul-09-08 07:53 PM by sleebarker
As long as voting is manipulated, the results of elections are pretty meaningless. And the numbers of people who drop out and stop participating reflect on our whole system and how it disenfranchises people and ignores their voice.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 08:09 PM
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9. I agree, we also shouldn't allow ourselves...
...to be so easily led about by whatever issues the GOP-controlled media chooses to entertain us with.
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