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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:33 PM Original message |
Why is this campaign so ahem, toxic? |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because the candidates are more or less identical on the issues. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Think about it though |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. This may have to do more with race and gender. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. She is, and that is paradoxical... I remember readying some years |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 09:04 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. They've ALWAYS been better at marketing than we have. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. MMmmmm . They sure are close. |
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Levgreee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. If it was Edwards and Obama, or *insert any two candidates excluding Clinton* it wouldn't have been |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. If psychology is playing a role here, I doubt it |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. "PSYCHOLOGICAL CAMPAIGNING and generating group think." |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. You have two high quality candidates running against each other |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:45 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Bush generated the same kind of loyalty... and we still have the 19% |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
8. Close in their positions - close in the delegate count - best Dem prospects since 1964. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:48 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Agreed, there is that, but I am also looking at this |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 04:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Hillary. That's why. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. In a psychological campaign the poo flies from both sides |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. Seeing people from the other group is scary. Why is your icon Cthulu? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:22 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Funny I started using the icon WELL BEFORE the 2006 race started |
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napoleon_in_rags (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 10:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. I wasn't trying to sound accusatory. |
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Smarmie Doofus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. "True believers " ? This is an odd pair of candidates.... |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-07-08 05:46 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Yes, but it is not just this site |
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Bongo Prophet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-08-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
21. Interesting premise, NB - could you go into more detail as to the actual "how" of it? |
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shockra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-08-08 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
22. I've been thinking about this in a different way for the last few days... |
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