Comments on: Truth and Truthiness… isn’t Obama ahead? http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/ Living the optimized work week Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:43:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: The Four Hour Trial http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-22 The Four Hour Trial Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:13:36 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/#comment-22 Delegates vs Vote Count Addressed in main stream media: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080131/ts_nm/usa_politics_delegates_dc_2 BTW, it has nothing to do with the 4HWW, but people should be able to chat on their own blog about whatever they want. That doesn't mean the main focus is gone, but if you have something to say, say it. -M Delegates vs Vote Count Addressed in main stream media:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080131/ts_nm/usa_politics_delegates_dc_2

BTW, it has nothing to do with the 4HWW, but people should be able to chat on their own blog about whatever they want. That doesn’t mean the main focus is gone, but if you have something to say, say it.

-M

]]> By: rexreed http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-21 rexreed Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:56:05 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/#comment-21 Good point! I need to get back to the focus and topic at hand. I've been distracted lately, but no longer.... stay tuned. I have more to say on the subject! Rex Good point! I need to get back to the focus and topic at hand. I’ve been distracted lately, but no longer…. stay tuned. I have more to say on the subject!

Rex

]]> By: Tim Ferriss Impersonator http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Tim Ferriss Impersonator Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:22:24 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/#comment-19 How does any of this have to do with the 4HWW? How does any of this have to do with the 4HWW?

]]> By: The Four Hour Trial http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-18 The Four Hour Trial Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:33:56 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/#comment-18 BTW, I just looked at the image you have posted again, and it is not indicative of the NV-ONLY results! To be fair, it does say "Up to...". However, to be clear, the following I present for NV specific results: Clinton 5,355 51% 12 Obama 4,773 45% 13 From this, we can see that Obama got 13 delegates with only 45% of popular vote to Clinton's 12 delegates with 51% of the vote. My goodness, can you believe only 10k people in NV voted in the Democratic Caucus? :-) WOW! The media should have just let it slide as a non-event. Oh, wait...it's a Republican State! Romney knows that! He received 2.5x as many votes as these candidates combined. -M (source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660914) BTW, I just looked at the image you have posted again, and it is not indicative of the NV-ONLY results! To be fair, it does say “Up to…”. However, to be clear, the following I present for NV specific results:

Clinton 5,355 51% 12
Obama 4,773 45% 13

From this, we can see that Obama got 13 delegates with only 45% of popular vote to Clinton’s 12 delegates with 51% of the vote. My goodness, can you believe only 10k people in NV voted in the Democratic Caucus? :-) WOW! The media should have just let it slide as a non-event. Oh, wait…it’s a Republican State! Romney knows that! He received 2.5x as many votes as these candidates combined.

-M

(source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21660914)

]]> By: The Four Hour Trial http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-17 The Four Hour Trial Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:23:26 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2008/01/26/truth-and-truthiness-isnt-obama-ahead/#comment-17 Interesting article because I had the same exact thoughts on this! Certainly, the media will generally report on popular votes. But I'm absolutely shocked that the media didn't report on the fact that Obama really did win NV! It actually would have been a good article for them. If I remember correctly (and I may not), I thought that NV and FL were the last two (maybe two of three) states to announce results in Bush/Gore. Is that accurate? Surely a dangling chad or parallelism analogy could have sparked some interest. My money says that the Democratic candidate selection will be VERY close - similar to the presidential race of '04. It may even boil down to the same outcome: Delegates outweigh popular votes. Either way, I'm about 99.99999999% confident we see a D become the next President which means history is going to be made with either a female or a black male as President. With Obama just gaining the sponsorship of Camelot, I think he has a really good chance. I only hope that neither will face the same destiny - which is a very real, yet equally ignored and unreported possibility. (note: I don't watch much news, but do read quite a bit and haven't seen mention of anything I've stated above - so if it is widely reported them I'm simply among the ignorant many). -M Interesting article because I had the same exact thoughts on this! Certainly, the media will generally report on popular votes. But I’m absolutely shocked that the media didn’t report on the fact that Obama really did win NV! It actually would have been a good article for them. If I remember correctly (and I may not), I thought that NV and FL were the last two (maybe two of three) states to announce results in Bush/Gore. Is that accurate? Surely a dangling chad or parallelism analogy could have sparked some interest.

My money says that the Democratic candidate selection will be VERY close – similar to the presidential race of ’04. It may even boil down to the same outcome: Delegates outweigh popular votes. Either way, I’m about 99.99999999% confident we see a D become the next President which means history is going to be made with either a female or a black male as President. With Obama just gaining the sponsorship of Camelot, I think he has a really good chance. I only hope that neither will face the same destiny – which is a very real, yet equally ignored and unreported possibility. (note: I don’t watch much news, but do read quite a bit and haven’t seen mention of anything I’ve stated above – so if it is widely reported them I’m simply among the ignorant many).

-M

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