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1.07.2008

 

Primary picks

Okay, sports fans, time to be a New Hampshire primary prognosticator.

Everybody thinks Barack Obama wins the Ds primary. Any chance of that not happening? Do you think John Edwards can catch Hillary Clinton for second place? If Edwards can't do that, can he keep going? If he does pass Hillary, is it over for her?

On the Republican side, suffice to say it's a much tougher call. John McCain is surging, but will the independents be drawn to the bright lights of the Obama-Clinton-Edwards primary this year and do to McCain what they did to Democrat Bill Bradley in 2000, when McCain was the voter magnet? I'm saying Mitt Romney can win this, maybe.

Who comes in third in the GOP primary -- Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani or Ron Paul?

Who drops out after Tuesday? Fred Thompson? Bill Richardson?

As you political junkies out there surely know, deciphering what will go down in the Granite State can be tricky. The state just loves to spring surprises on the nation.

A quick story in that regard. When I was over there last week working the Jim Barnett-McCain story (see Saturday's Freeps) we stopped by MaryAnn's Diner in Derry, where McCain and new best friend Sen. Joe Lieberman had showed up for lunch as dazzled diners watched nearby.

Nearly every candidate worth talking about has passed through the joint this winter. I spoke to the diner's owner, Bill Andreoli, about who he liked. He said he was "undecided" noting that Hillary was due in for a visit on Sunday and that Bill Clinton had spent 90 minutes there the previous weekend.

Sure, he said, he liked McCain -- who wouldn't when the fella was is eating your food and schmoozing your customers. But when I asked him who he voted for in '04, he said John Kerry. And in '00? Al Gore.

So you never can tell what some voters in that crazy state might do at the last minute on Tuesday.

Your thoughts, predictions?

-- Sam Hemingway

Comments:
Romney loses.
 
Go Obama.
 
Richardson really is great.
 
I predict that Sam Hemingway will continue to write more about the race and less about the issues.

I guess it's just easier for him.
 
Anonymous said...

"I predict that Sam Hemingway will continue to write more about the race and less about the issues.

I guess it's just easier for him."

And I predict you will continue to anonymously post lame nonsense like this 'cause you've got nothing to say and it's just easier for ya.

Precisely what did he say in the article attached to this thread that prompts you to say he's writing about race instead of the issues, little anonymous fella.

Is it your contention that race is not an issue in this Country? Is it your contention that merely mentioning Barack Obama is making this about race?

Enlighten me, little anonymous fella. Show me just how Sam Hemingway is making this about race and not about the issues.
 
Umm . . . jw, did you actually read the above posting before you launched into your responsive rant?

The poster is talking about "the race," not "race."

And whether the poster is right or wrong about what Sam should focus on, the poster is correct that the piece in question is about "the race" and not about "the issues."

How surprising that you don't even read before you go into your usual volcanic eruption attack response mode.
 
^^^^ Well said.
 
jwcoop:

Do you know the difference between talking about "race" and talking about "THE race"??

Hemmingway's post was about "THE race".

You are a fool.
 
I like you Coop, but you're going to have to admit you took it out of context.
 
Big trouble in poop land - his only admirer is dissing him.
 
Big money seems to control everything.
 
I misread it. No doubt about it. I screwed that up.
 
Dork.
 
Not only did you misread it ... you attacked another poster based on your own mistake.

Total lack of class.
 
Allright. Coop acknoweldged his mistake. Move on. He's a much bigger man/woman than most of the cowards in here.
 
Thanks, I appreciate that.
 
Apologizing to the poster he belittled would show class, but we'll move on.
 
Anonymous said...

"Apologizing to the poster he belittled would show class, but we'll move on."

And which one of you little anonymous fellas did I allegedly belittle, little anonymous fella?

Am I supposed to make a blanket apology to the entire little anonymous fella community at large or should I dedicate to a certain special someone?

Moreover, if ya take the time to scan up a few inches, you'll see it was a two-part question in the first place.

So, unless ya have a problem with that part of the question, too, in which case, I really don't give a damn, just what issues is Hemingway allegedly not discussing, little anonymous fella?

I await your wise and most valued counsel, my nameless, formless, factually-challenged little friend.
 
Now that all that weepin and wailin is behind us, I'm so glad he's back to his good ol' nastyass self.
 
Anonymous said...

"Now that all that weepin and wailin is behind us, I'm so glad he's back to his good ol' nastyass self."

May all your worries be so small.
 
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