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Mark Steyn- The tearjerker (Profile: John Edwards)
The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 07/11/04 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 07/10/2004 3:22:08 PM PDT by Pokey78

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To: Fintan

Need a lift? Sure, hop in!

81 posted on 07/11/2004 1:44:53 PM PDT by SquirrelKing ("I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion." - Maxine Waters (D - California)
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To: driftless
If every American weighed three hundred pounds, lived in a mansion, and had five Cadillacs...

Pretty close! The same media that wets themselves over the "Two Americas" speech runs a special report on obesity every week.

HEADLINE: Obese children, overweight pets, immoble grandmas, corpulent parents, the SUV crisis and the role of genetics.

82 posted on 07/11/2004 1:50:07 PM PDT by SquirrelKing ("I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion." - Maxine Waters (D - California)
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To: Kozak

Tagline material!


83 posted on 07/11/2004 1:50:35 PM PDT by SquirrelKing ("I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion." - Maxine Waters (D - California)
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To: SquirrelKing

I was thinking along the lines of a T shirt or
bumper sticker.....


84 posted on 07/11/2004 3:45:52 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Rummyfan

I don't ignore them for only one reason .. it tells me who THEY are.

The same week that Gallup came out with their latest poll showing Bush at 53% .. out came CBS and Newsweek with their polls showing Kerry ahead of Bush. I can read a lot into that. If the 53% wasn't right .. there wouldn't have been any need to put out phoney polls showing Kerry ahead.

We know the pollsters lie .. and the LAT has proven that more than once.


85 posted on 07/11/2004 5:51:39 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: a core set of principles from which he will not deviate)
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To: CyberAnt
What I find interesting .. right after Edwards was picked there were all the prognastications about the "bounce" Kerry was going to get. A couple of days went by .. no bounce .. several of the very credible pollsters said .. no bounce. Then .. out of the blue here is Newsweak and Zogby showing that Kerry got a bounce and now he's ahead of Bush.

However .. none of these polls have Kerry above Bush's 53% which Gallup had several days ago .. and Newsweak and Zogby had Bush back down to the usual 44%.

If you go back and look at Reagan's '84 win .. the numbers were very similar .. like those same pollsters had done the same thing to Reagan .. making it appear Reagan was losing .. when in effect THEY ALREADY KNEW HE WAS WINNING.

This whole thing with the numbers has only one purpose. The purpose is to get us discouraged and defeated and TO GIVE UP. I simply refuse to allow that to happen.

As you suggest, polls often function to manipulate popular opinion, rather than to represent it. That's why I am deeply suspicious of most of them.

86 posted on 07/12/2004 7:25:55 AM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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To: nothingnew
...so that was the first thing that occurred to me.

You're a genuis!

FMCDH(BITS)

No, no, no. I knew it wasn't my line.

87 posted on 07/12/2004 7:31:16 AM PDT by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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To: Pokey78

I love this man. I really, really do. :)


88 posted on 07/12/2004 7:32:36 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Yardstick; Political Junkie Too

Or Al Gore--what was the story he said, about "Look for... the Union label..." being his bedtime lullaby?? LOL!


89 posted on 07/12/2004 7:34:51 AM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: proud American in Canada
Or Al Gore--what was the story he said, about "Look for... the Union label..." being his bedtime lullaby?? LOL!

"Look for the Union Label" -- that's what I was trying to think of in #30.

90 posted on 07/12/2004 12:23:26 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Pokey78
Thanks for the ping. This is another one I'm going to send to a friend!
91 posted on 07/12/2004 7:13:50 PM PDT by irv
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To: Pokey78

Am I on your Steyn Ping List? I seem to be missing a lot of these.

If I'm not on it, please add me...if I am on it, there is a glitch somewhere.


92 posted on 07/15/2004 6:48:53 PM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend

You're on it now!


93 posted on 07/16/2004 6:41:20 AM PDT by Pokey78
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