VP Debate - Darth Vader and Mr. J Crew: One is Rubber, One is Glue

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Thumbs up to Dick Cheney: I like a man who isn't scared to burp on national television. When you opened with the connection between Iraq and al Qaeda and then, roughly two minutes later, denied making that connection, I was really impressed with the shamelessness of your Dark Empire ways. I hear your wife wrote an erotica novel, so, that's kinda hot. Repressed! But hot.  The checkmate bitchslap of the debate: when Cheney tried to step to Edwards like a bratty nerd in school on some attendance beef (I'm not pointing any fingers but I haven't been playing "Where's Edwards?" for the past four years, I've been playing "Where in the World is Crawford, Texas?"), Edwards delivered a Colt-45-type right hook by sharing Cheney's record of voting against revered black heroes: against a day commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. and against working to free Nelson Mandela! And the whipped cream? You voted against Head Start! You voted against Meals on Wheels for seniors! SHAME! [more ]
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  • CNN yanks online poll favoring Edwards, deletes results, and replaces it Wednesday. Time Warner's Cable News Network abruptly yanked a poll from the front page of their website Tuesday which was favoring Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards by more than a three-to-one margin. They then replaced it in the 12 p.m EDT hour today, completely eliminating all previous results. The original poll, which asked simply, "Who do you think won the vice presidential debate?" was replaced in the eleven o'clock p.m. hour Tuesday with "Did the vice presidential debate help you decide which way you will vote?" Wednesday, the original question was reinstated, but the results from the original poll were discounted. Some 200,000 previous responses to the poll were deleted when the new poll was posted. The previous poll can be seen here where at press time 78 percent of the vote went to Edwards, 18 percent for Cheney, and four percent declaring that the contest had been a tie. The new poll has Cheney with nearly twice as much support. [more ]
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