Posts by Don Christie
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When do early votes get counted? Do the results from those get released as soon as polls close?
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CNN says ~80% turnouts in Indiana and Missouri.
Woah. If anything like that is reflected across the US then can I be the first to say "democracy is the winner".
What %tage are of adults registered?
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Any group that gets involved in the political arena has to be treated like a political action committee," said Hansen, 61, a Mormon who lives in Cedar City, Utah, and has stopped going to church. "You can't get involved in politics and say, 'Treat me as a church.
Someone tell the persecuted few in the Ex. Breth.
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I'm amazed that anyone's amazed about Michael Jones
Didn't Jones come out in support of National in a previous election?
Talking about previous elections, didn't National try and form a Government in 2005 despite not being the "largest party"?
Where was their "moral mandate" then and where were the damming editorials?
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A propos of nothing on this thread. This is what a good Republican looks like:
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but the game behind all this is even more interesting...
Damn straight, chuck in the Bob Jones "independent" interest and this definitely has the makings of something beyond face value.
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Lessig questions - what role do you have in advising the Obama policy team?
Are there likely to be any changes in approach to Copyright and patent issues in the event that Obama wins the election on Tuesday?
What implications would this have for the USA's stance on FTA negotiations?
I really wish I could be in Auckland for Lessig's talk tonight. If you are close by...go.
Please send him the regards of Don Christie and many many others :-)
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Paper voting in the USA is on the increase.
If computer game designers can tell when my avatar in a shooting game hits the bad guy
You are sure about that, are you?
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Note John McCain is in Wellington!! And Barack Obama is in Queenstown.
Ah, I had the scale wrong, placing Obama in Stoke and Nadar in Antarctica.
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I also think there should be a good deal of lowering expectations as to what an Obama presidency would actually do as opposed to what the rest of the world and maybe even the American public would like him to do.
Obama's been doing that himself. His 27.32 minutes ended on the "imperfect man, imperfect president" theme, which if it hadn't been followed by the live Florida fiesta would have almost been un-American...