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Yesterday, NPR talked with a statistician who discussed this point. The current difference is statistically negligible; it is virtually a tie, you cannot state with confidence that either person won. The difference in a total of 6 million vote tally (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nothing specific, though I'm sorry to hear GW wasn't able to pull off the execution hat-trick this week. Dave! (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This could probably be posted in OT.FUN, but I figured this was a safer place to start. Last night, while availing myself of the fine Pittsburgh mass transit system, I had the pleasure of sitting a few seats away from a quite vocal and colorfully (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I think ox(y)moron is the precise word:-) (...) ooh, my facetious meter just went off-- anything you care to share, Dave!? -John (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes, exactly. And your response was that you'd try to keep it a personal decision. Now obviously, that's not what you meant, or how you meant it. Fine. For the sake of the next two points below, I'm assuming that we're defining murder as a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sorry, I'm not going to get into any ideological arguments. It looks like you and John Neal can have lots of fun together. I did praise your Brickbay shop, so let's leave it at that like you previously suggested. /Eric/ (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unless I miss your intent, the word you're probably aiming for is redundancy. Unless I miss your intent, the word you're probably aiming for is redundancy. (...) Especially given Republicans' long-standing tradition of honesty, integrity, and (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oops. My mistake:-) (...) It is amazing to me that the law means nothing to Democrats; they are so &*%$# arrogant that they think they can abide by the "intentions" of the law (which is however it favors their needs) instead. -John (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) My distress is over your inappropriate political comments in lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade more than it is over Bush being likely to become president. Gore was not my candidate. But I still think hand recounts are more accurate. They do (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) John, Isn't the words fraudulent Democrats an oximoron. Was there ever any doubt that they would try to pull something. Gerry (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) If thats the case. Eric McCarthy, LETS GET READY TO RUMMMBBBLLLEEE!!!! (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Gerry Venteicher wrote: <snip> Gerry, please don't mention the "L" word here-- it is OT and not welcome;-) But politics are happily discussed-- howa 'bout those fraudulent Dems who are about to get royally busted for rampant voter fraud in (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Eric, I do appreciate your distress over the choice of Bush for President. Quite frankly I would make goofy demands if my canidate lost. As far as the accuracy of a hand recount you might say that it is as accurate as the people counting it (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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"Eric McCarthy" <eric@reasoning.com> wrote in message news:3A15557A.3EC6F3...ing.com... (...) have (...) Your point is one that is not being addressed in the media. ARE hand counts more accurate than machine counts? My opinion is that no, they are (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And my comment to you is that hand counts are more accurate than machine counts in determining the intent of the voters. If, due to a defect in the perforations of a voting card, my vote wasn't counted, I would be angry too, just like the (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You are mistaken Eric. I never called my customers crazy I called the people who want to continue this brutal assult on our Constitution and Forefathers crazy. My only comment to you on this matter that if regaurdless who you vote for, whether (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No prob. Thanks for making that clear! (...) See below... (...) Not really. Whatever you decide that point might be (sentential tissue issues were brought up here IIRC?, and the fetus being viable (i.e. can survive outside the womb), etc) it (...) (24 years ago, 17-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The statement you quoted from before had to do with IF I were pro-life and thought that any abortion was murder. In that case, I might vote for people who would put the likes of Thomas and Scalia (sp?) on the Supreme Court in the hope that (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm still not comfortable with this, since it suggests "choose to conform or we'll make you choose to conform to society's ideals" in a way every bit as totalitarian as the Big Brother states of which Libertopia is the antithesis. (I know you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) ... and what if one does not have the ability to make that choice? What then John? Just leave them to rot? (...) I have choice. I choose to not want guns in my society for example. Every single day of the my life I could choose to be a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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