Looks like Hillary’s got Nevada
Brenda Santiago, a housekeeper at nearby Harrah’s hotel and casino, arrived shortly before Noon. Although she is a member of the Culinary Workers Union, which supported Mr. Obama, she said she had been determined to choose her favorite candidate on her own.
And that, she said, was Senator Clinton.
“I have my own opinions,” said Ms. Santiago, 46. “Hillary has more experience – and she has Bill!”
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The Clinton corner, dominated largely by women, cheered when the results were announced.
Very interesting. Very, very interesting.
And oh yeah, Mitt Headroom is now president of both Michigan and Nevada. Can anyone stop his mad winning streak? I’ve just been reviewing the Tom Cruise video situation, and I feel that the best thing for everyone concerned would be for Mitt to put Tom on the ticket as his running mate. It just feels right to me.
Meanwhile, down in South Carolina nobody can vote because it’s snowing. It’s a fact, folks: people in the South cannot deal with snow. One winter in Alabama* we got an inch of snow and the schools were closed for a week.
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*I hasten to assure everyone and her sister that I am not from Alabama. However, my family was forced to live there for a couple of years in an off-grid concentration camp after several relatives were indicted for counter-counter-Soviet espionage.
6 Responses to “Looks like Hillary’s got Nevada”
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ekittyglendower says:
I can testify for the lower south and snow, and how the combination makes them all become brain dead. The same thing happens in southern California when it rains; they call it a “storm.” A storm! I still laugh when I hear the hyperbolic use of the word storm in comparison to the actual conditions.
*I’m not from Bama either. LOL!
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Kane says:
What’s wrong with Alabama? I spent several summers with a friend’s family there in the mountains near Ft. Payne and in Huntsville which is home to NASA’s Marshall Center. There are a lot of very smart and kind people there, not just hicks or whatever…The best Thai food I’ve ever had was in Huntsville.
I sound kind of defensive there, don’t I? I don’t mean to! I was just wondering.
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simply wondered says:
looks like this blog is alabama-ist. maybe some voters will think obama is actually a cross between osama and alabama. will this help or harm his chances. i no longer know as my brain has turned to jelly. (‘jello’, you americans).
just by the by, i did a dutch test (country near england) which algins your own views with those stated by the candidates (i’m sure you’ve all seen them) and i came out (surprise surprise) way to the left of all of them but had my closest match as hilary economically and obama socially (or vice versa). i was however somewhat surprised to be asked about ‘building a fence to keep out mexicans’(i paraphrase hardly at all). i assumed this was a repugnicon joke (i mean, canadians, sure), but it appears to be one of obama’s policies…
what can i say?
gaza ring a bell?
someone help me here. it’s not true.
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The Ghost of Violet says:
It’s true. I know, it reads like a joke, doesn’t it? But they’re serious. A big fence.
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The Ghost of Violet says:
What’s wrong with Alabama?
I’m sorry, Kane, I meant to reply and got distracted.
I don’t suppose anything’s really wrong with Alabama, except that the two years I spent there were probably the worst of my life, and 99% of the people I met were hicks. I had grown up in a completely different kind of environment, and in Alabama I was confronted with incredible (to me) levels of ignorance and prejudice and backwardness. Of course that was more than 30 years ago, so maybe things have changed.
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Kane says:
Oh, there are definitely LOTS of people like that there. The time I spent there was with an ultra-progressive family in a mountain cabin so I managed to avoid them but you’re absolutely right about them being there. I didn’t mean to sound defensive. I was just curious if there was one event or experience in particular.
Love your blog! Thank you for writing!
