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[Sydnie]

Vilsak dropping out of the race for President.

[bryant69]

1. A year from the primary season, a year and a half from the election?

Everything happens so fast these days.

Bryant
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[plcdude]

2. the snowball

has seen its chances in hell.

[originalpckelly]

3. "White ducks all across America are disappointed that their candidate didn't make it.

They threaten to break off and form their own duckie party.

Now for Morton Vigo with our Duck on the street segment.

Morton."

"Hi, Bob.

So Mr. Duck how do you feel about Vilsack pulling out of the race?"

"Aflaaaac (quacked in a depressing tone.)"

"Bob, back to you."

[underpants]

4. ?

I don't get the reference

:shrug:

[originalpckelly]

9. ...

[underpants]

15. Oh

got it

DUH!

[Dr.Phool]

11. Daily Show reference

AFLAC duck keeps saying VILSAC.

Even Vilsac got in on the act.

[Beetwasher]

5. The Question Is, What Was He Thinking Getting In In The First Place?

Not that I don't think he's a decent guy, but let's be real.:shrug:

[TahitiNut]

13. Indeed. He obviously didn't get the corporate media's permission.

He must realize that their campaign contributions (in the form of media coverage) are determinative. It's a shame Iowa isn't a "major media market."

[PassingFair]

26. Get his name out there so it won't be a surprise

when Hillary picks him for vice pres for
services rendered in Iowa.

Just looking into my crystal ball.

[Botany]

6. Vilsak Gone?

Hold Me.



but what about my Tom Vilsak tattoo? :blush:

[LSK]

7. that was fast

[Champion Jack]

8. Maybe somebody found out

he's a furry?

[Sydnie]

10. that pictures is just so many levels of wrong

(as my teenager would say), I don't know where to begin. :rofl:

[originalpckelly]

12. Yeah, we didn't need to see that.

:P

[shain from kane]

14. Out before you learned to spell his name.

[Sydnie]

16. Yep, that occured to me after I quickly posted this

good observation.

[shain from kane]

17. That's OK. Look how many people are confusing Obama with Osama, whether

intentionally or not.

[LSK]

19. dont worry, we still got Ahmadinthehead from Iran to practice with

:D

[DKRC]

24. Or, Ahmadinnajacket as Stephanie Miller calls him

:evilgrin:

[LSK]

25. Ahmadinthehead is Randi's spelling of it

:D

[tridim]

18. Phew.. I thought for a second that ANS had died again

Since MSNBC has been 99% ANS crap for about two weeks now.

[Eurobabe]

20. Not surprised...nice enough guy, but non-starter

:boring:

[Turbineguy]

21. OK, I'll bite...

who's Vilsak?

[Sydnie]

23. :P

[Czolgosz]

22. When the ex-Gov. of Iowa of polling fourth in Iowa (tied with undecided), it's time to re-evaluate

John Edwards 24%
Hillary Clinton 18%
Barack Obama 18%
Tom Vilsack 14%
Joe Biden 5%
Bill Richardson 3%
Wesley Clark 2%
Chris Dodd 1%
Dennis Kucinich 1%
Undecided 14%

http://strategicvision.biz/political/iowa_poll_022207.htm

PS - Before anyone says "polls don't mean anything at this stage" know that I generally agree. However, the Iowa polls do mean something for Vilsack because the poll population may not know any of the other candidates well, they certainly know their ex-governor well enough to judge his candidacy and if he's not polling better than fourth in his home state, he's just not viable.

[wisteria]

27. Polling at this point is irrelevant. To many times to recount, those that

are trailing end up ahead. Iowa is just dating right now.

[Czolgosz]

28. If you saw my "PS" then you know I agree. But Iowans already know Vilsack and when even Iowans don't

embrace Vilsack's campaign, that's trouble at any stage in the campaign. The polling at this stage is almost pointless for the other candidates (although good early poll numbers do help fund-raising and poor early poll numbers tend to hurt fund-raising), Vilsack's inability to rally more support from his home state voters who know him best is a death knell for a marginal low-profile candidate.