Average state IQ and presidential candidate choice
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Yes, but:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...ban-precincts/
I still find it hard to even have a stance on this sort of stuff, because this thread demonstrates just how easily statistics can be manipulated to serve your opinions. Accountability at this scale = 0.
Obama's dominance was mostly confined to largely African-American areas of West and North Philadelphia. In the third division of Philadelphia's 28th Ward, for example, 94 percent of the residents are black, and the 2010 census recorded only seven white residents. Voter registration lists showed only 12 registered Republicans in the division, none of whom voted for Romney or responded to the Inquirer's requests for comment.
Perhaps the GOP should have seen it coming - recall the frosty reception Romney received at a West Philadelphia charter school in May.
And the outcome is not at all out of step with recent history - in 2008, 57 divisions in Philadelphia returned zero votes for then-GOP nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. And in 2004, a more Republican-friendly election year, five Philadelphia divisions shut out former President George W. Bush entirely.
Perhaps the GOP should have seen it coming - recall the frosty reception Romney received at a West Philadelphia charter school in May.
And the outcome is not at all out of step with recent history - in 2008, 57 divisions in Philadelphia returned zero votes for then-GOP nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain. And in 2004, a more Republican-friendly election year, five Philadelphia divisions shut out former President George W. Bush entirely.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...ban-precincts/
I still find it hard to even have a stance on this sort of stuff, because this thread demonstrates just how easily statistics can be manipulated to serve your opinions. Accountability at this scale = 0.
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You want accountability in USA 2012? The President watched the attack on the consulate and help was REFUSED and he got re-elected 2 months later. The buck stops nowhere, unless you are a counter-revolutionary!
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I posted it once, and I'll post it again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7D3_eGaO5k
I really doubt bright foreign students want to go to Oklahoma to build up their prestige.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7D3_eGaO5k
I really doubt bright foreign students want to go to Oklahoma to build up their prestige.
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He didn't "oversee" the man hunt. He promised to end the war withing 90 days, failed to and coincidentally came across Bin Ladens compound. Yes, he made the take down order, only because he kept with the same path his predecessor laid (one that he heavily ridiculed during his campaign, I might add) and was at the right place at the right time. Tell me I'm wrong ONLY if you believe the war in Afghanistan had nothing to do with the capture process. Your touting a failure that happen to have a positive outcome as reason to elect the leader of the free world.
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^LOL!
I agree. Even the SEALS themselves who they were dealing with until the helicopter ride to the compound. If a voter says 'I voted for Obama b/c he killed Osama" then that within itself is uneducated.
While I agree with half of what Obama stands for, nearly all of the democrats I talk to that voted for Obama can't explain why they did. The republicans I've talked explained themselves and have a comprehensive idea of what is at stake.
He didn't "oversee" the man hunt. He promised to end the war withing 90 days, failed to and coincidentally came across Bin Ladens compound. Yes, he made the take down order, only because he kept with the same path his predecessor laid (one that he heavily ridiculed during his campaign, I might add) and was at the right place at the right time.
I agree. Even the SEALS themselves who they were dealing with until the helicopter ride to the compound. If a voter says 'I voted for Obama b/c he killed Osama" then that within itself is uneducated.
While I agree with half of what Obama stands for, nearly all of the democrats I talk to that voted for Obama can't explain why they did. The republicans I've talked explained themselves and have a comprehensive idea of what is at stake.
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He didn't "oversee" the man hunt. He promised to end the war withing 90 days, failed to and coincidentally came across Bin Ladens compound. Yes, he made the take down order, only because he kept with the same path his predecessor laid (one that he heavily ridiculed during his campaign, I might add) and was at the right place at the right time.
Ahahahahaha!!! You're ridiculous, man. "Coincidentally" came across a compound in PAKISTAN!?!?!? Not in Afghanistan. You don't think the President is involved DAILY in these matters? Your naivety is appalling.
It's funny how everything good Obama has done was because Dubya set it in motion and all of the bad stuff is on him.
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For that matter what happen to turning around the economy in 3 years? I recall a promise not to run again if that wasn't fixed. (I could even allow a nominal slide to pass.)
And for the record, I don't recall ever granted Bush sainthood. I don't think he is the bumbling idiot that the left want to paint him as, but in no way would I consider him infallible. If he had a set and was willing to tell the rest of the world to eat a dick that whole situation could have "mission accomplished" when he claimed it was. My opinion, there hasn't been a leader with balls of anything but pudding for quite some time now. That includes father and son, along with the impeached and our current display of idiocy.
