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Title: Barr Run May Tip Georgia to Obama
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Daily Kos
URL Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/20/16318/3574/564/519125
Published: May 20, 2008
Author: "decon"
Post Date: 2008-05-20 16:52:45 by aristeides
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Comments: 3
Barr Run May Tip Georgia to Obama by decon [Subscribe] New polling and analysis from Insider Advantage show that Georgia may be a dead heat: Click through to Insider Advantage and read the poll and analysis for yourself. This provides an interesting counterpoint to the recent Clinton electability arguments. If Obama can win Georgia, and Towery thinks he can, it's game over. That said, this is a mixed blessing as the major impact of Barr's run will be to help down ticket Georgia Republicans as turnout will be slightly higher with Barr than without him.
Tue May 20, 2008 at 01:47:35 PM PDT (5/20/08) An InsiderAdvantage/Majority Opinion survey of 652 likely voters shows that a Libertarian candidacy by former Republican Congressman Bob Barr could create a free-for-all in Georgia in November.
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#2. To: aristeides (#0)
Barr isn't going anywhere. Once the commercials start running saying Barr paid for his wife's abortion he is finished.
Look for this movie. There was a loud outcry when Romania's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days failed to garner a 2008 Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Film, and it could certainly be argued that this extraordinary movie was unfairly overlooked. At the very least, had it been nominated, it would have offered a stark contrast to Best Picture contender Juno. Whereas the latter is a funny, touching tale of a teenage girl who decides to find more suitable parents for her soon-to-be-born child, 4 Months is a decidedly bleak look at a time and place when one of the two alternatives to adoption (i.e., keeping the child) is beyond consideration and the other is an illegal, highly dangerous last resort. It takes a while for the viewer to realize that abortion is the subject of director Cristian Mungiu's film; for the first 40 minutes or so, all we know is that Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), college roommates in a country still controlled by the Ceausescu dictatorship, are up to something they'd prefer to keep secret. Gabita, it develops, is pregnant. She is also an innocent, scared screw-up who's unable to handle any of the necessary details involved in solving her problem, which obliges the far more capable Otilia to take care of everything from booking the hotel and meeting the abortionist to buying black market cigarettes for the pair. What follows is anything but cute, clever, or romantic. Mr. Bebe (Vlad Ivanov), the abortionist, is a straightforward but frightening character who demands more than money for his services. Meanwhile, Adi, Otilia's boyfriend, is a decent but essentially clueless fellow who insists that she attend his mother's birthday party on the very day that the two girls have checked into the hotel where Gabita's procedure takes place; the two scenes in which we meet Bebe and Adi's parents, reveal Mongiu's mastery of his medium and are at once intense, discomfiting, and completely riveting. And if Oscar voters missed the boat, many other didn't: among numerous other plaudits for the film was the '07 Palme d'Or at Cannes. --Sam Graham
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