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[geekchick]

Today's nugget of joy from Ralph Nader, courtesy of Dana Milbank at the Post:

Tempers are hot in the capital over Michael Moore's anti-Bush production, "Fahrenheit 9/11" -- and not just in the White House. Now one of the filmmaker's old friends on the far left is accusing Moore of being . . . fat?

On Thursday, Moore was the recipient of an open letter from independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, who seems stung that his former friend and supporter has parted ways with him and gone to the Democrats. Miffed that he was not invited to the Washington premiere of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Nader, whose 6-foot-4 frame is a lean 190 pounds, said Moore's former Naderite friends are "trim and take care of themselves. Girth they avoid. The more you let them see you, the less they will see of you."

The column goes on to mention how Ralph has advised Kerry to select Edwards as his running mate, seemingly because Edwards supports Americans' right to sue. And Kerry should listen to his advice because...?

Interestingly, the vote predictor at http://www.electoral-vote.com/ shows Bush carrying VA right now by only 2%, down from a solid 18% as of June 11. I'd like to see the actual polls this guy's using, but if it really is that close according to the last poll... It would be quite interesting to see VA go Democrat in this election.

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That is what we like about Nader

[agnosticoracle.livejournal.com]

That is what we like about Nader, he is so Presidential! His letter where he whines about not being invited to the opening of F9/11 and ends by calling Moore fat is actually linked off the front page of his campaign's website!

Previously I always figured he just had an blindingly extermist sense of ideological purity. But stunts like this are leading me to believe that he is just off his rocker.

Re: That is what we like about Nader

[geekchick]

But apparently being a whiny bitch who throws temper tantrums when you don't get treated as you feel you deserve is actually fairly Presidential. Who knew?

But stunts like this are leading me to believe that he is just off his rocker.

I don't think you'll see any disagreement from me on this one.

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

If you skip backwards day by day using the "previous report" link, you can see the polls come in and the states change colour. The most recent report for VA was the 12th of this month (http://www.electoral-vote.com/jun/jun12.html), along with a great bunch of others, so they're not discussed in detail on the page itself. But if you look in the .xls files, it seems to indicate it was a Rasmussen (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/) poll.

(What would be really cool is to use one of those oldfashioned 3D spreadsheets, so you could make time the z-axis.)

[geekchick]

But if you look in the .xls files

Ah, thanks for that clue. I hadn't looked at them as I don't have anything to open them with here. I did look back to see when the numbers changed (the 12th, as you pointed out) but didn't see the polls in question.

This is really interesting to see even the possibility that Virginia might go to Kerry. One can hope...

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I used a converter: I don't have anything that'll read them here either (they choke Gnumeric).

It looks like it'll be an interesting night in November, doesn't it?

I now have two people that need permanent Fundascopic exams...

[billporn.livejournal.com]

Carrot Top, and Nader. I often wonder if stupid people are bred on stupid farms.

If so, it's probably called Nader Farms "Our stupid people are Naderific."

Sorry, feeling surly. one of those days :)