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Clinton Tries to Trick Congressional Democrats
May 9, 2008. Clinton has reduced her claim to be the Democratic nominee to 9 power-point slides with statistics on 20 Congressional districts—that's 4% of the country. She cherry-picked these 20 from 32 districts where Dems picked up seats in 2006. But cherry picking is not the main deception. She claims she can win better in November because she won 16 of her 20 hand-picked districts. But she "forgot" one thing.
She won in races without Republicans. She forgot—In November, it's not a Dem primary and the Republicans just might be voting—against her.
It just happens that Hillary is the best get-out-the-vote machine the Republicans ever dreamed of. Plus she loses the Independents to McCain. Not to mention people younger than 64.
Did Clinton really forget there were Republicans? Or is this just more of her ...
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Rush Limbaugh Delivers Indiana for Clinton
May 7, 2008. zHardFacts: This time Rush is right. His "Operation Chaos" actually threw the race. By zFacts analysis, absent Limbaugh-following Republicans, Obama would have won Indiana 51% to 49% instead of the other way around. According to CNN exit polls 10.6% of Hillary's vote was Republican. Why are Hillary-haters voting for Hillary? Because they think she will destroy the Democratic Party. If she takes their help without saying a word, then shame on Hillary. She should denounce Limbaugh, just as Obama denounced Wright. Operation Chaos analyzed. Besides handing Indiana to Clinton, Operation Chaos has increased Clinton's popular vote total by an estimated 217,000, and her delegate count by an estimated 14 (3 in OH, 2.5 in TX, 3.5 in MS, 2 in IN, and 3 in NC).
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Who's in Clinton's White-Voter Edge?
May 8, 2008. Republicans and "race-matters" Democrats--that's who. Specifically, Rush-Limbaugh Republicans and Democrats who tell CNN that the "race of the candidate was important to them." I'll call these admitted racists (ARs). They make up only about 5.5% of the Indiana Democrats, so they are only important for Hillary's white edge. She and Obama have about equally-broad non-racist white support.
15.4% of Clinton's votes came from ARs (not all of them Democrats).
10.7% of Clinton's votes came from Republicans.
Eliminating the likely overlaps, this comes to:
23.4% came from Republicans (for Chaos) or Democratic ARs.
If these votes were eliminated the white vote would have been 53% (not 60%) for Clinton. If a few Democrats voted for her for racist reasons and did not tell CNN, then her remaining 3% edge in Indiana would likely disappear. more...
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Clinton Helps OPEC while Talking Tough
May 6, 2008. “We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel." Tough talk—but every year OPEC writes a report asking us to reduce gas taxes (so we will use more oil)—and now that's Clinton's policy. more...
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Carbonomics: How to fix the climate and charge it to OPEC
Once, many years ago, in a distant land, Yamani the Enigmatic launched the great energy experiment. Without warning, he sent a proclamation to every corner of the earth declaring the need to conserve. This story is true. The lessons of the great energy experiment, if properly applied, provide a path to escape the enormous costs that now await us if we fail to choose a secure and sustainable energy future. more
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2007 tied for second place (with 1998), after first-place 2005 "The unusual warmth in 2007 is noteworthy because it occurs at a time when solar irradiance is at a minimum and the equatorial Pacific Ocean is in the cool phase of its natural El Niño-La Niña cycle." NASA
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Bush stuck on climate change
Bush proposed an "International Climate Change Framework" at the G-8 conference. But the "framework" is only this: The top 15 greenhouse nations will set "national targets that reflect their own future energy needs." It's a do-what-you-want framework—just like the current US policy for itself. The point is to prevent real cooperation. But the huge and immediate problem is energy .... read more ( zFacts on Bush International)
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Subsidizing the switch away from fossil fuel can make sense, but corn ethanol, made more from coal than sun, is too expensive and among the worst choices. Confirmed by new National Acadamy of Sciences report. Biodiesel is better, and non-corn ethanol will be good when it gets here.
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zFact:Conventional oil may peak soon. But heavy oil and synfuels are far from peak. High oil prices will cost us a fortune (now over $300 billion/year) if we don't curb demand.
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Sunnis: US invasion wrong: 98%. OK to attack US troops: 94%
Only 30% of Iraqis want us to leave immediately. But figure this out. 94% of the Sunnis think its acceptable to shoot at US troops, but 44% want us to stay till things settle down. Why? So they can shoot at us? read more
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We're in Iraq to prevent Iran from dominating our oil. —Kissinger
Kissinger, a contributor to the surge plan, has just explained that "American forces are in Iraq to prevent the Iranian[s] from dominating the energy supplies of the industrial democracies." Cheney and his secret Iran/Syria Operations Group still want to attack Iran. He and the neocons have blundered at every turn.
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zFact: In 1981, it was only 32.5% of the our yearly GDP. The press said it was at an all time high. It's much bigger now, but two huge parts of the federal budget run surpluses and get a bad rap. Graph Debt Free clock
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Wednesday, August 31, 2007
National Debt Tops $9 Trillion
When George W. Bush was inaugurated, January 20, 2001, the National Debt was $5,727,776,738,304.64. Today it reached: $9,005,648,561,262.70.
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Zfacts approaches current controversial topics by looking for decisive and well-documented facts. Topics are selected not simply because they are controversial and current. They must also be part of some policy debate and have some long-lasting social significance. Current controversial topics will always include: taxes, income and wealth, jobs, war, and the environment.
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http://zfacts.com/p/S1.html | 05/09/08 21:51 GMT
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