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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by SMAZ on Sun Sep 7 19:09:29 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Sun Sep 7 10:32:23 2008.

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Stranger still, Rochester has a Democrat as mayor.

Party affiliation is a lot more irrelevant in mayoral races. People look for able managers and problem-solvers.



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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:25:36 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 7 16:06:29 2008.

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Which is exactly what they're supposed to do because there aren't enough true conservatives. They can vote C.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:27:54 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 7 16:08:02 2008.

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Orange County is the fastest growing county in the state. But other than that and some others, yes.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:29:00 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Sun Sep 7 15:53:29 2008.

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Which of course defeats the argument that the electoral college benefits small states. If New York or Texas were competitive you'd bet they'd campaign there (and here). Look at Florida.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:31:17 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by SMAZ on Sun Sep 7 19:03:44 2008.

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If the Dems pick up seats that makes them more likely to break the ties in the four states with ties and to win or tie those states with Republican majorities.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by SMAZ on Mon Sep 8 00:41:14 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:31:17 2008.

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If the Dems pick up seats that makes them more likely to break the ties in the four states with ties and to win or tie those states with Republican majorities.

That's true.


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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Sep 8 00:44:49 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Sep 8 00:29:00 2008.

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And McCain overlooked a candidate that could have turned the entire Northeast into a battleground area...Jodi Rell (R-CT).

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Hank Eisenstein on Mon Sep 8 11:03:38 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Fri Sep 5 16:50:33 2008.

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Yeah, I tried too hard, crashed and burned.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by AMoreira81 on Mon Sep 8 12:24:47 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by SUBWAYSURF on Sat Sep 6 13:52:02 2008.

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No major news outlet has picked it up...and a major news outlet can be sued for libel if it turns out to be false.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Sep 9 09:31:55 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Sep 6 08:21:33 2008.

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Hahaha, and the myth was busted.

The list is bunk, but Palin's attempts at censorship was documented in the local paper in 1996.

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Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Sep 9 09:35:59 2008, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Tue Sep 9 09:31:55 2008.

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That's quite a different story than the sensationalist one that was being bunked.

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NYC Statehood and the Electoral College Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Oct 20 10:45:08 2009, in response to Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Sat Sep 6 20:14:37 2008.

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I stumbled across this thread again whilst looking for something else, and it reminded me that I meant to update this after the election, but never got around to it. Anyway, if you define an eleven-county NYC metro, the following happened:

Whole State: Obama 62.9%, McCain 36.0%, others 1.1%
NYC Metro: Obama 68.6%, McCain 30.7%, others 0.7%
Rest of State: Obama 53.9%, McCain 44.4%, others 1.6%

The NYC Metro area would have been Obama's third strongest state/district after DC and HI (and just above VT). The rest of the state has near identical percentages to IA (depending on how you count it, it's a fraction either way: Obama did 0.01 %age points better in NY-rump, whilst McCain did 0.02 %age points better in NY-rump); the next more Democratic state was MN and the next more Republican was CO.

So ultimately, everyone was right: there are still Republicans in the NYC metro area (it only leapfrogged RI and VT -- it's still not another DC), whilst the rest of the state would be very much a swing state, albeit one which was the Democrats' to lose.

One final thing to note is that my back of the envelope calculations suggest that the NYC metro area would have had 21 electoral votes and the rest of the state 12.

If politics were all about elections, NYC statehood would appeal to both parties: one side would see it as a free extra two votes, whilst the other would see it as an extra twelve to fight for. Of course, this is all in fact totally unreal, but rather fun to think about.

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Re: NYC Statehood and the Electoral College Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 20 14:27:53 2009, in response to NYC Statehood and the Electoral College Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Oct 20 10:45:08 2009.

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One final thing to note is that my back of the envelope calculations suggest that the NYC metro area would have had 21 electoral votes and the rest of the state 12.

Being lazy I'm not going to find the populations, but if you post what you got (2000 census please) then I can give you a 100% exact number for this. Yes, I wrote a spreadsheet.

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Re: NYC Statehood and the Electoral College Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned

Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Tue Oct 20 18:43:48 2009, in response to Re: NYC Statehood and the Electoral College Re: List Of Books Palin Tried To Have Banned, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Oct 20 14:27:53 2009.

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The numbers I've got are 12,409,525 and 6,566,932. Hopefully these add up.

Yes, I wrote a spreadsheet.

:-) Nice.

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