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The Polls Close In An Hour

01.29.2008 - 5:59 PM

Some information from the Florida exit polls has been released. From additional sources I can only say that the race is extremely tight for the top spot. We’ll have much more as the evening goes on.

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3 Responses to “The Polls Close In An Hour”

  1. mds123 says:
    January 13, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    the difference between ‘clown college’ and ‘j-school’…?

    less makeup for the journalists and a deliberate effort to be funny by the clowns…

    i would also argue that the clowns, on average, tend to be more professional

  2. DPBKMB says:
    January 13, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    I have to agree with most of mds123′s comments above, except about the makeup.
    And… that all of the above only applies to ‘on air’ non Fox media types.
    I would also exclude really attractive ‘on air’ types who are not too mean.
    Katie is too mean to be excluded, seems sweet but is really mean, well only to those who don’t think or act like her. Actually, it’s probably more of a political thing rather that just meaness, I hope.

  3. john Smith says:
    January 13, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    No comment. Am trying to erase my e-mail address.

  4. Unamerican says:
    January 13, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    Even better the Australians lost just ONE personnel from the invasion in 2003 to the pullout (new govt) in 2008.

    Yes just ONE fatality. No surprise that the architect of General Petreus (new tactics in the ‘surge’ was from the Australian military.

    rather than gloss the suicide rate of marines over ,my guess is that the authorities are examining each closely . They ought if they are not.

  5. Unamerican says:
    January 13, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Ps The ONE fatality was suicide / or as a result of pranking with a loaded pistol.

  6. Banjo says:
    January 13, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    Try to imagine the pencil-necked geek — one of hundreds at the LATimes processing its turgid copy or actually writing the crap dumped on fewer and fewer front steps as time goes on — working to put the worst possible construction on this article. This sort of drone would have been an ornament at Izvestia in the good old days.

  7. From Inwood says:
    January 13, 2009 at 11:27 pm

    So, the article proves that Marines are less likely to commit suicide than (a) Army soldiers & (b) the general population “with similar demographics”.

    See How To Lie With Statistics” (Norton Paperback reissue 1993), at p. 83 to “prove” what I just said.

    Gee I want my grandson to be a Marine!

  8. GirdYourLoins says:
    January 14, 2009 at 12:51 am

    The LA Times blogger would of course claim that he/she “really supports our troops” and, because he/she has the “courage” to be critical of the war, is “the real patriot.” Yeah.

  9. Heather says:
    January 14, 2009 at 1:35 am

    Unbelievable. We know they love to spin it, but thanks for skewering them so deftly that it can’t be denied this time. What’ll it be next? “More Marines secretly wear women’s lingerie” and then further down, “The rate remains below that of the Army or the civilian population, and a fraction of that of the civilian population living within 1.5 miles of a Victoria’s Secret”?

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