[Jaysun]

I watched a bit of one of his college speeches on C-SPAN. He reportedly gets something on the order of $35,000 to do these. Unbelievable. What a sham. It was like listening to that guy that always gets drunk first and makes lewd comments at parties. For someone that supposedly hates capitalism, he's milking it for all it's worth.

[rudehost]

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

Except that was basically identical to the baker county results in 2000

Gore 2,392
Bush 5,611

Perhaps the machines were cheating for Kerry because he did better than Gore did in 2000 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/flacountyrecounts112700.htm

[livius]

He gets $50,000. This is beyond the limit permitted by the University of Florida for student activity fee expenditures, so the sorority that is in charge of getting speakers did a little creative accounting, putting some of his fees in another account, so that they could bring Fatso here.