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     - - He hangs up. "They're robocalling our ones," he moans. "He has just gotten a report from the field that Dean "ones" are getting bombarded with computer-generated phone calls telling them to make sure to caucus for Dean-then giving them the wrong address." Who would do such a thing? "Kerry," Trippi snaps.  - -

    Before thinking to himself, "Oh shoot, was the caucus on Walnut Street . . . or Maple street!?!"

    Always go for the simplest explanation - someone at Dean Headquarters got the address wrong.

    When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime come the wolf. Cormac McCarthy

    by dbratl on Thu Jan 29, 2004 at 11:50:24 PM PDT

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    •  Kerry is the easiest explanation (1.40 / 10)

      Hey dumbass... Dean Didnt Robocall... Therefore it would require about 500 kids to fuck up thousands of Calls... Plus, We know Kerry is a fuckstick, so theres the explanation

      He just lost my general election vote

      Drunken Stateside Sons of Privilege for Plausible Deniability!

      by Matt in Wisconi on Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 12:15:00 AM PDT

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    •  Occam's Razor sliced through horseshit (3.85 / 7)

      Occam's Razor says that one should assume the simplest answer that accounts for all the known facts.

      Known facts:

      • Robo-calls
      • Calling Dean 1s and 2s.
      • Giving incorrect addresses for polling/caucus places
      • Some are beginning to make slimy suggestions about Dean's faith, or his wife's.
      Could it be a blundering Dean staff?
      No.  Dean's campaign's using live callers, not robo-calls.  Erroneous addresses would work if it happened in one or two places, max -- but this is widespread, apparently, and repeating in IA and NH. And why would Dean's campaign be questioning his faith and his wife's?  

      Could it be Rove?
      Maybe--but highly unlikely.  There's no signs of the GOP closely polling Democrats to identify Dean 1s and 2s.

      Could it be Kerry?
      Entirely plausible.  Lehane's back aboard, a specialist in the lowest tactics.  Would have easy access to polling that would identify Dean's 1s and 2s.

      Occam's Razor says that it's probably Kerry.

      This sort of thing is going to be very widespread news among Dean supporters.  And Kerry better hope that it doesn't, because this is exactly the kind of thing that will persuade several hundred thousand voters that ABB doesn't apply to Kerry--that he'd simply be trading one scummy, venal prick for another.  In which case, why not vote for some third party candidate?

      Hell, it makes me feel that way now--and I was willing to vote for Kerry.

      If Bill Clinton was the first black president... why can't Obama be the first female president? -- wry twinger, DKos, 5 May '08

      by ogre on Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 01:09:52 AM PDT

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      •  huh? (none / 1)

        Lehane's back aboard, a specialist in the lowest tactics.  

        Again with blaming LeHane when something ugly is reported.  He is still working for Clark as far as I know.  And the obsession with him boggles the mind.  He isn't the anti-christ after all.

        The ...Bushies... don't make policies to deal with problems. ...It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do. Krugman

        by mikepridmore on Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 03:02:08 AM PDT

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        •  He's pretty close (none / 0)

          He doesn't get the press, but if ther eis a democratic Atwater, its Lehane.
        •  You're right (none / 1)

          I was tired, and pissed... and that was a brainfart, pure and simple.

          Whouley, not Lehane.

          Different vermin, same sewer.

          My apologies for the factual error. (I guess the association of Lehane having been with Kerry... must have been what stuck when I was cranky and fatigued)

          If Bill Clinton was the first black president... why can't Obama be the first female president? -- wry twinger, DKos, 5 May '08

          by ogre on Fri Jan 30, 2004 at 02:18:36 PM PDT

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