1. No, even Businesses should have their freedom of speech and Sinclair owns those stations. 2. No, Freedom of Speech once again trumps personal prejudice, plus if Moore was able to get his show on TV Networks like CBS, ABC, or NBC they would force down the throat of all their little stations much like you accuse Sinclair of doing, but even th
"If Cheney's daughter had Parkison's disease would you think it okay for Kerry to bring her up as an example of why we need to have federally funded fetal stem cell research? I would find that equally distasteful." The releva
I do a lot of my thinking while jogging in the morning -- up 1st Ave to East 59th St, west to Columbus Circle, and down Broadway to Union Square -- which has the strange result that a lot of my thinking is linked to the music to which I'm listening. Part of my current rotation is Rocky's "Going the
More from Republican Andrew Sullivan : All Kerry did was invoke the veep's daughter to point out that obviously homosexuality isn't a choice, in any meaningful sense. The only way you can believe that citing Mary Cheney amounts to "victimization" is if you believe someone's sexual orie
I am married, and CrispE has a good point.
Stepping outside debates about whether it was wrong for Kerry to bring it up. I will say that I doubt it'll be much of an issue. People only care about these things when they fit some previous concern regarding the candidate. Swing voters are concerned that Kerry is wishy washy and boring, but no one -- including Bush -
Fscking funny!
Okay, here's what Andrew Sullivan thought about this . Sullivan is a Repu
Oh shit. Alison, there's been a major screw up. Someone forgot to give you the cheat sheet for discussions here: Free Republic : Reasonable. Democratic Underground : Whacked Out, Man!
Two things: (1) Personally, I think that Sinclair has the right to force their stations to show this anti-Kerry propaganda. The problem with American media isn't that media outlets are too partisan, but that the Left hasn't built up a infrastructure of partisan media that mirrors right wing talk radio and Fox News.
"Let's see what they say tonight, after they've had time to do a proper survey." True enough. For people who remember, polls done after the Gore-Bush debates showed that Gore had won, but it turned out that when you asked the same question a week after the debate, Bush had won. On the other hand, I wonder if post-debate momentum always favors challengers. I have no theory behind that, just a sus
Agreed. That said, I've been arguing since before the debates that unless Bush can make Kerry the focus of the elections, Bush is in trouble. Kerry could have lost all the debates , and still been in a stronger strategic position as long as the issue was Bush's presidency, not Kerry's character. Of c
Three factors are decidedly pro-Kerry (I guess this is also a guide to my "expert" methodology for figuring out these things): (1) Since the debate, Kerry futures have strengthened at the online political futures markets. You can take a look at TradeSports , NewsFutures , and the <a
I don't think I really think my argument depends on anyone accepting my logic. I cited the voting results from 2000, and polls done this year, and I included links so you could verify my assertions. Don't argue with me, argue with Catholic voters. Catholics supported Gore over Bush and an overwhelming majority of Catholics oppose Church involvement in how Catholics vote and the positions Catholic candidate
Those are absolute numbers, not percentages. Only 24 people. Not much to say about this. Obviously, the sample size is low, so take it for what it's worth.
Score this as a draw, but notice that Independents favored Kerry : The ABC poll of 566 voters found 42 percent picked Kerry as the winner, 41 percent chose Bush and 14 percent said they tied.
Here's the description After another volley of rhetoric and statistics from both sides of the stage, Sen. John Kerry walked away as the clear winner of the final debate according to a flash poll conducted immediately after closing statements by the candidates. According to the Gal
Here are early poll results : A CBS News poll of uncommitted voters who watched the debate named Kerry the winner by 39-25 percent over Mr. Bush, with 36 percent calling it a tie. Fifty-nine percent said Kerry has clear positions on the issues. Before the third debate, only 29
That's not good for Kerry. We'll see if that become a story.
There are two ways to talk about who won the debate: One is to talk about how you would have scored the debate were you a judge. The second is to talk about how viewers and -- once the spin gets going -- non-viewer voters see the debate. I'm always more interested in how the debates will be interpreted by the viewers and other voters. Personally, I've th
Hey, is it my imagination, or did Bush focus on foreign policy in his closing statements? Wasn't this the domestic policy debate?
No, it's not, actually. It 's a post from someone who think this is close, and doesn't know what viewers prefer. I have tended to overestimate Edwards's appeal, and underestimate Kerry's. I eventually concluded that this was because a large number of people gravitate towards Kerry's gravity. Get it? Ha ha. I think both candidates are doing well. I'm not sure what goes over better with viewers. I'm kind of fishing for opinions from reade
And did Kerry say he hadn't? Does anyone know?
I don't mean that in a biased fashion. Bush is coming off well because he's energetic and aggressive. Kerry is performing very similarly to how he has in the previous debate. He's less energetic, but he speaks calmly in a measured voice, and he knows his facts. I've generally assumed one reason poll respondents like Kerry in debates, is that he sounds pre
Bush looks less angry, and more comfortable than in the last debate. Worlds better than he did in the first. The initial take will probably be that it's a draw. My guess is that overnight polls will show that. Both Democrats and Republicans will think their candidate won, and the number of undecideds has been d
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