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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #30 on: November 09, 2006, 05:30:28 pm »
Exit polls aren't accurate enough for us to use them as anything other than talking points and hypotheticals. 

I can understand a news outlet reporting the results of exit polls and I can understand them calling an election before all the official results are in, but ne'er the twain should meet.  Of course, the value of being "first" to call a winner can compel a News Director to make some risky decisions.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #31 on: November 09, 2006, 05:49:12 pm »
Quote from: Turbo Ninja on November 09, 2006, 05:30:28 pm
Exit polls aren't accurate enough for us to use them as anything other than talking points and hypotheticals. 

I can understand a news outlet reporting the results of exit polls and I can understand them calling an election before all the official results are in, but ne'er the twain should meet.  Of course, the value of being "first" to call a winner can compel a News Director to make some risky decisions.

To be fair the examples I gave were all for "common sense" calls. Like Ted Kennedy or Adrian Fenty. People who nobody ever doubted would possibly lose.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #32 on: November 10, 2006, 12:55:10 am »
turbo ninja do you think you could please change your avatar it's really getting on my nerves thanks
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #33 on: November 10, 2006, 03:41:19 pm »
Quote from: Noah on November 10, 2006, 12:55:10 am
turbo ninja do you think you could please change your avatar it's really getting on my nerves thanks

I had no idea.  I'll be happy to change it but I don't have any suitable replacements on this computer nor the means to properly create one.  Your suggestions for a placeholder would be welcome.  In the meantime, I'll be avatar-less.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #34 on: November 10, 2006, 07:36:47 pm »
I am also relieved that that avatar is gone.  Thank you.

It is always tasteful to search the Achewood archives and pick out a picture that will remind us of some great strip we've forgotten about.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #35 on: November 10, 2006, 09:57:05 pm »
Quote from: wombat on November 10, 2006, 07:36:47 pm
I am also relieved that that avatar is gone.  Thank you.

It is always tasteful to search the Achewood archives and pick out a picture that will remind us of some great strip we've forgotten about.

Quoted for truth. Search the archives and do us a favor.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #36 on: November 11, 2006, 01:30:18 am »
We've gotten rather pc around here.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #37 on: November 11, 2006, 01:36:13 am »
the reason it freaked me out, personally, is that it looked like one of my friends. so every time I saw it, I thought "Alex J***** is fellating an invisible c*ck!?"
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #38 on: November 11, 2006, 12:14:44 pm »
I liked it. 
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #39 on: November 11, 2006, 07:18:50 pm »
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I liked it.
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Re: Happy Election Day
« Reply #40 on: November 21, 2006, 08:59:53 pm »
I changed my avatar - now you can think of me as a screeching baby (even moreso than usual).
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