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According to this CNN poll, Obama now leads nationally by 3 points.

I swear it must be because of Edwards dropping out.

Also, it's funny how Obama has become the NEW RON PAUL. Every other article on Digg and Reddit is about obama now.
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I swear it must be because of Edwards dropping out.


It's not hard to believe.  Many of the people that are followers of Edwards and Obama are basically anti-Hillary.  I just hope that the momentum he's built up since South Carolina will be enough to convince enough people to rally around him tomorrow.
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apparently i can't vote tomorrow since I'm at college at a different town/precinct and even if I did re-register, there's a 20-day waiting period THIS IS BULLSH*T
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What about an absentee ballot?

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fucking ohio primary march 4th what sigh

I managed to register on time though so hooray!  :fogetbackflip:
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apparently i can't vote tomorrow since I'm at college at a different town/precinct and even if I did re-register, there's a 20-day waiting period THIS IS BULLSH*T

you can vote absentee or travel to your town.
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you can vote absentee or travel to your town.
pretty sure its too late for me to ask them to send me an absentee ballot, no? traveling back home is out of the question (it's a tuesday, i have classes :sad: )

or is there some other EXPRESS WAY i can get an absentee ballot and mail it back to my hometown
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Oregon: MAY 20th.

Way to lead the nation Oregon.

But hey, that could be THE DECIDING STATE the way this election is looking. I hope so, cause if it happens, no effing way clinton will be our president.
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call your city hall duhhhh

also it would be worth it to miss class! don't they teach you guys.... civics up there on the heights?
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Oregon probably wouldn't be the deciding state of anything unless there's some momentum that carried into a tight race at the DNC. But basically at that point we'd have the rare circumstance where the candidate is picked at the conference and Oregon's delegates probably wouldn't lock anything up.

Also that sucks ASE, here you can do everything day off.
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Also that sucks ASE, here you can do everything day off.
Yeah my friend said that in NH, for example, you can register and vote on the same day (this helps the large college student population!) but stupid states like MA have not adapted this policy yet!
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Yeah my friend said that in NH, for example, you can register and vote on the same day (this helps the large college student population!) but stupid states like MA have not adapted this policy yet!

it didn't matter however as christmas break was still underway and all of you parasites from out of state who take up spots in UNH were away from school  :gwa:

yeah that sucked the audacity of new hampshire etc


i hate my state being the black eye of the campaign i am so involved in
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Double posting to encourage all of you GWers in Super Tuesday states to



GET OUT AND VOTE for obama
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How long until the states start being called?

also I missed the primaries. :( i was too lazy to register earlier, and I kind of feel like shit now. Oh well!! Florida doesn't really count and pennsylvania is going Obama according to surveys.

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Huckabee wins in first Super Tuesday test.

"Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has drawn first blood in Super Tuesday's U.S. Republican primaries, winning the state of West Virginia."

*cringe*

A Huckabee nomination terrifies me to the core.

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Huckabee wins in first Super Tuesday test.

"Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has drawn first blood in Super Tuesday's U.S. Republican primaries, winning the state of West Virginia."

*cringe*

A Huckabee nomination terrifies me to the core.
It isn't going to happen. His core support is from the religious right, but the religious right also has other alignments on economics or on national security, which means McCain and Romney will take away a lot of his potential support. I am with you on that, though. I hate the religious right so much and I don't want to see a representative of them in power. McCain has the best chance of being secular, since Romney has already said that you can't have government without religion and Huckabee is, well, Huckabee.
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Gee, you know, I really hope that Obama will win. I don't even think that the differences between Obama and Clinton are irreconcilable. They're pretty close when it comes to the actual issues, despite my personal views still being more aligned to Obama's. The problem, however, is that if Hillary Clinton does receive the Democratic nomination, then all of the independents and floating voters that Obama has been attracting are going to go to McCain. McCain has shown himself to be particularly good at attracting votes from this sizable group, whereas Clinton is terrible at it. Sure, she'll get some of them to support her, especially if Obama says "sorry guys, I lost, but please vote for Hillary instead", but she is simply not going to be able to retain them all. They don't like her.

Another thing that's extremely important is that if Clinton gets the nomination, then all of the Republicans who would otherwise stay home or support McCain from a distance, are going to run to the voting booth to vote against Hillary Clinton. They don't like her.

A Clinton nomination will seriously endanger the chance of a Democratic victory. That's the worst that can happen after eight years of Republican dominance.

I really don't have a problem with Clinton being the president, but I simply don't think she'll be able to reach that point. Obama has a much better chance, and that's why he needs to win this nomination so desperately.
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Dada, on the other hand... Obama is black
your argument is very biased
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Dada, on the other hand... Obama is black
your argument is very biased
You're a latino! You guys are the ones that are massively voting for Clinton!

You ought to be ashamed!

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