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The Vorlon
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« on: November 24, 2004, 02:43:50 PM »
Mnnnnnnn... Beer Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2004, 01:41:32 PM »
Name:  mypalfish
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Date Registered:  October 07, 2004, 09:03:21 pm
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You guys should stop abusing "fishy fishy fishy".... in fact, every time there is another post, this thread gets bumped up again, and the gloating thread gets extended and continued..

Oh, wait, I just posted... oh darn... ignore this post, ok...?
 
 
 
 
 
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2004, 10:04:21 AM »
Bad, bad, BAD Republicans....

Every time somebody posts to this thread the beating and abuse for MyPalFish gets extended.. and extended...



This thread just seems to keep on going, and going, and going....
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2004, 12:23:49 PM »
Quote from: Tredrick on December 04, 2004, 10:54:07 AM

We could, if you want, instead heap our mocking on a certain Libertarian pollster who predicted a Kerry victory right on through until late October, if you prefer.

Actually, from about early September onwards I consistently, time and time again posted that I though Bush was up "about a field goal" or so, which turned out to be pretty close..

"Play nice", and don't pick on The Vorlon... ok...?

Or I'll have to send a planet killer or something....
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2004, 08:13:19 PM »
Let's all welcome MyPalFish back...

he is being a really good sport about it all, and took a good deal of abuse...

This is a nice forum, so let's all be nice and give him his dues...

Welcome back MyPal...

Smiley
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2005, 04:16:29 PM »
Welcome back MyPalFish...

If kerry had won, somebody else would have taken a similar beating.. Smiley
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2005, 01:51:06 PM »
Someday....

This thread will end...

Just not today Smiley

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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2005, 08:26:07 PM »
Quote from: DanimalBr on May 18, 2005, 12:36:29 AM
Looks like this thread has become a sticky!!!  Smiley

Just your humble moderator answering to the wishes of those he serves...

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« Reply #8 on: June 04, 2005, 01:28:37 PM »
Quote from: Harry on June 04, 2005, 12:17:04 PM
well I was happy until I saw this thread and read through it...

This thread points out why you so urgently need a good sense of humour and a great deal of humility in politics.

Polls are great, and the usually work....

But sometimes they just utterly blow up.

Just about all of us got little bits of Election 2004 wrong.

Sure I'll take a bow for having Bush up 4-6% in Florida pretty much the entire year.... I am also the guy who was pretty sure Minnesota was a dead heat... so we all screw up.... Smiley

If Kerry had won, somebody else would have taken this beating...

"So it goes".... Smiley
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #9 on: June 04, 2005, 06:05:06 PM »
Quote from: Senator Sam Spade on June 04, 2005, 04:46:59 PM
I don't understand what all the concern on polls were with this race.

The polls of the last week of the campaign (esp. state polls) were for the most part dead-on, when you averaged them together.  As I continually thought long throughout the campaign, what few undecideds there were broke evenly.  That breakdown was what got Gallup in trouble and made Pew look so good.

Only those who trusted the exit polls got shelled (witness this thread).

Of the state polls in the battleground states, the average nailed Ohio, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, etc.

The only major screw-ups were Florida (towards Kerry), which is a state where you don't trust any polls anyway and 99 times out of 100 they oversample the Democrat; Wisconsin (towards Bush), where some interesting hijinks were going on anyway; and Hawaii, which just was because of lack of polling.

http://realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_sbys.html#oh

You are correct....  You notice my "signature" picks on EXIT polling... Smiley

Other than Florida, which the polling consensus said was a dead heat, the Pollsters had a good year.  Even in Florida, Mason Dixon (the only poll you should ever trust coming out of Florida anyway) basically nailed it having Bush up 4% at the end.

Just about everything else the average of the polls was within a % or two of the final result...
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2005, 09:21:45 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 04, 2005, 06:44:26 PM
Hey Vorlon. You might want to check that text by your avatar in that profile of yours.

"I will live my life for no other"

A quote somewhat in vogue among libertarians.  Some author who wrote a book about railroads if I recall.

Smiley
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #11 on: June 08, 2005, 08:37:22 PM »
Quote from: Monopolization on June 06, 2005, 10:04:58 PM
That's not what the text says:

"It will live my life for no other. "

What a ringing endorsement of big government! Smiley

damn typos!

Thanks for noticing... !
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The Vorlon
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« Reply #12 on: September 20, 2005, 12:52:28 AM »
sticky again.. Smiley
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