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TODAY'S STORIES
03.02.2008
McCain Picks Up Another Vote

Michael Graham:

I am so confident of both a Patriots win today and a Romney win in Massachusetts on Tuesday that I made this pledge on the air Friday: "If the NY Giants beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl, I will vote cast my Super Duper Tuesday primary vote for (shudder) John McCain."
Who says McCain can't win over conservatives?
 
--Josh Patashnik

Posted: Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:41 PM with 13 comment(s)

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Onnword said:

hahaha

February 3, 2008 10:47 PM

CharlesFosterKane said:

What will be the impact of the Giants victory parade on Super Tuesday? Does it have an adverse effect on Clinton's or Obama's turnout?

Did my Patriots go down as sacrificial lambs to ensure a better outcome for Obama, or are Eli Manning and beady-eyed Tom Coughlin just add insult to injury?

Inquiring minds want to know.

February 3, 2008 10:51 PM

rozenson said:

The Pats' loss hurts, but this does more. McCain does not need more help.

February 3, 2008 10:53 PM

CharlesFosterKane said:

What will be the impact of the Giants victory parade on Super Tuesday? Does it have an adverse effect on Clinton's or Obama's turnout?

Did my Patriots go down as sacrificial lambs to ensure a better outcome for Obama, or are Eli Manning and beady-eyed Tom Coughlin about to add insult to injury for this Obama-supporting New England-born New York transplant?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Posted this twice, typo'd it twice. It's been that kind of night.]

February 3, 2008 10:56 PM

rozenson said:

"[Posted this twice, typo'd it twice. It's been that kind of night.]"

I feel your pain.

February 3, 2008 11:05 PM

caaggies said:

CHA-CHING!!!!

And I imagine, somewhere, Bridget Moynihan is laughing her head off...

February 3, 2008 11:21 PM

CharlesFosterKane said:

rozenson,

The worst part is I live in New York now and will have to endure the gleeful Giants fans at the office tomorrow. At least I stayed home instead of going to a Super Bowl party in Queens, in which case I would have spent an hour or so commute...well, I don't even want to think about it.

February 3, 2008 11:51 PM

bcbaird said:

...I think Giselle will leave Brady.  After all, he is a loser now, and supermodels can't date losers.

February 3, 2008 11:51 PM

caaggies said:

And the Manning dynasty is alive and well!

Shame that Archie had to play on really, really crappy teams. But the kids sure made up for that, didn't they?

February 4, 2008 12:04 AM

guyminuslife said:

Hillary had an interview earlier on Fox News. ("Q: Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl?" "A: Well, we've got the Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, and I'm rooting for the New York team for both.") I decided, based on this, that the the outcome of the Super Bowl was, in fact, supernaturally related to the outcome on Super Tuesday.

Taken at face value, that would mean that if the Giants won the game, then Hillary would emerge victorious from the primary, and if the Patriots finished their perfect season, Obama would clean up in the primaries. So I started rooting for the Patriots. Then I realized that karma doesn't work that way---it throws you a small bone (a Giants win for Hillary) and then screws you on the stuff that matters. So if the Patriots won, I would expect Obama to win, and then he would lose based on karmic homeopathy. So I realized that whoever I didn't want to win, should win, because then the person I wanted to come out ahead on Tuesday would win----but then karma would adjust to that contingency and make it so that if whoever I didn't want to win won, the person I was rooted for on Tuesday would lose because I'd anticipated them winning based on them losing the Super Bowl. So, just as I started to work through that one, the Giants scored a touchdown and my paradox game was over. I'm not sure what the impact will be on the election at this point. Karma, as far as I know, is not ex post facto.

I suppose, being an atheist, this must just be some sort of weird manifestation of the neglected part of my brain normally used for praying.

February 4, 2008 5:54 AM

drdannyu said:

*said very quietly from inside a secret anti-Patriots bunker somewhere in northern New England*

woo, hoo

February 4, 2008 7:06 AM

purcellneil said:

There was something deeply just about putting those arrogant Patriots in their place.  Way to go, Giants!  

After Tom Brady ridiculed Burres for saying the Giants would hold his offense to 17 points, you had to know the Giants defense would be on fire.  What was he thinking?  

Bill Belichick couldn't wait to get out of the place -- I don't think I've ever seen a coach leave the field like that, and his post-game comments were typical of the sandlot sore-sport we all knew in our adolescence. Leaving with one second on the clock was bizarre.  His team had to stay, and the Giants had to stay, but Bill was entitled to choose when to end the game.  He is not a classy guy, to say the least, and I am not sorry to see him robbed of a perfect season.

Congratulations to Eli Manning and the Giants!

Neil    

February 4, 2008 8:25 AM

blackton said:

drdanny, ha. worst thing about being down here in Mexico is that nobody cares, the game was on Foxsports, but no Superbowl party for me. I am happy for Eli fconsidering all the crap he has had to put up with the past few years.

February 4, 2008 3:02 PM