Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 4/2/08
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great show tonight!
Great program! Good night Anderson and all!
Good show tonight. Goodnight, have a good one.
Do you guys just hunt through youtube for the strangest videos that you can find?
Heh, those elephants love you, Anderson. 😀
Elephant Art? I don't buy it!
Thanks for a great show, keep us updated on the FAA and plane maintenance regulation!
Top 20 electoral college states? Take out NC (13) and IN (9) who have not voted yet. Barack gets VA (11), MO (9), WA (9), MD (8), and MN (8). Clinton gets MA (10), TN (9), AR (9). Totals please, 213 for Clinton v. Obama's 86.
Top 25, you ask? Barack gets WI (8), AL (7), CO (7), and LA (7). KY (6) has not voted yet. Barack gains to 115 v. 213 for Clinton.
I could keep going, but it gets ugly: Barack ends up with 156 ecvs v. Clinton's 232. Not only that, but most of the states that Barack won were typical Red States with Open Primaries. Why wouldn't Repubs vote for the weakest Dem to win?
Night all......great Show as usual!
Its an autistic elephant. Some autistic people also have incredible talents.
Anderson,
Hi. I enjoyed the web cam tonight–it's much better than watching commercials.
Keep up the animal "shots". The elephant artist was amusing. Animals always seem to amaze me. I'm a believer!
I agree with you EJ. Not absolutely positive he'd be Dem though.
Great show. I really appreciate the coverage on autism that was carried out today on CNN. That opened eyes and hearts, and I learned a lot. Good show and another great night on the blog with everyone. Thanks again-
Millions of us in Florida wish that those who do not live in Michigan and Florida would go online and read what really happened in Fl & MI it seems that the actual changes are not clearly understood by many. Having lived through this has been unsettling when other states complied with the rules, therefore no drama.
I cannot wait till the eyewitness resport of the Assassination of Martin Luther King
I have a friend who went to Thailand and saw elephants playing soccer and paintin. She said it was amazing. You could buy the elephant's art. It was real.
An elephant that paints? Yes he can...Yes he can. Good night all
The elephant is really a person with an elephant trunk as a prosthesis? Seriously, painting elephants are like fairy people, they just don't exist.
Anderson (and Erica)
Love the show and I enjoy the whitty banter. Keep it up
hmmm...pretty amazing elephant...
I'm enjoying this web cam. Why is Erica always hiding? She should be sitting next to you Anderson!
Terri, My mom taught me to follow the rules also. However, the voters were not the ones not following the rules, it was their politicians. This is a national election and all citizens should be included. The biggest problem with these national elections is that they are allowed to be different in every state. This may make sense when the states are determining how their state operates. When it comes to a national issue, such as the presidency, there should be a more uniform format; a level playing field. Look at Texas, Hillary wins the primary vote and Obama wins the caucus.
Anderson,
I've been to a place in northern part of Thailand. They have elephants who play soccer and draw pretty impressive paintings in front of you....really!
Why are the abilities of elephants, in particular, getting so much press recently (referencing the youtube video on the soccer-playing elephant)? I feel like this is the sort of activity you usually hear about from gorillas. I suppose elephants deserve a little tv-time, too
I hope CDC can get on Autism, it seems a lot of kids seems to get Autism right after vaccination. Very costly disease too, here in MD one county offers help to parents with Autistic kids
If MLK Jr were alive today, he would be maligned & hated by the Republican Party. He would be fighting for many of the same issues the Democrats are. He'd be called a race baiter, hate mongerer, anti-white, and would be said to be "always whining about race."
I'd just like to thank you all at 360 for your excellent coverage of autism. I am fascinated by the disorder and hope to work with children with autism in the future, and I am constantly surprised at how little people understand about it. I hope that your presentation of real people with autism will help the public to understand and better accept those with the disorder.
Count the votes! This is an argument that would support that we really are a republic rather than a democracy. This is the second election someone has messed with the votes, it should be obvious.
Dave- they give the elephant a paint brush after doing a demonstration. Don't be concerned. It is enrichment.
Anderson
Congratulations on your award.
I think the whole process of primaries and caucuses don't work. Especially caucuses. How can Hillary Clinton win Texas by 100,000 votes and lose the caucus. This just goes to show that caucuses don't accurately reflect the will of the people. Since Obama has won most of the caucus states, I believe his support is overinflated, if Texas is an example of how skewed the results can be.
I also think primaries with proportional delegates don't mimmick a general election. If you take all the primaries and caucues and make them winner takes all, just like in the general election, Hillary Clinton is way ahead.
Something that a lot of people seem to have forgotten is the fact that in the general election, it will be democrat vs a republican. People are saying oh, well, hillary did better in large states, which means obama won't be able to carry them in the general election. That's ridiculous. People who supported hillary in the primary aren't going to support john mccain just because hillary didn't win. Hillary winning the larger states in the primaries has no bearing on whether or not the democratic nominee would be able to win these states in the general election.
I think all of this coverage (and all the coverage I have been seeing on CNN) is going to blow the doors off austim. And it is going to just expand what it is. The "spectrum" is so huge no one even really knows, and unfortunately only a few of the entire spectrum are focused on. You are really doing a great job in "unlocking the mystery"
You have no idea how thankful I am.
Soledad has such good stories, why does she only get like 90 seconds on the screen? I wish she had a nightly segment on the show, she has a great face for the news of the people.
A 50/50 split says we don't get to vote. Some politicos, who are the ones the party should be punishing, get to go to the convention, but the voters of Florida don't get heard. That accomplishes nothing and will not satisfy voters.
Thats the kind of news I'm talkin' bout...a little animal art 🙂
Additional question marks won't get your question answered any faster. If I knew my state's delegates wouldn't count, I wouldn't have taken the time to vote. Why? Because I'm busy. Symbolism gets you nowhere. The states broke the rules set by the DNC, and if they want their votes to count they need to re-vote or caucus.
I will definitely be watching Soledad's program tomorrow night about the late, great Martin Luther King Jr!
Anderson, thanks for explaining that one! YOU write the stuff you say? I didn't know! I'm impressed...
It just go to show you don't have to follow the rules. Everyone seems to be so afraid of the Clintons and when they say one thing and do another it's okay. Why did she agree to not seat the delegates and change her mind?? Seems to me she says one thing and when things don't go her way she say another thing. You want that for President again. that's what we have now.
Brian Persaud: Quite a while back on this blog I said that I thought this race would get dirty and someone questioned me about it. Unfortunately, I was right. I have to agree with your comments about the negativity of the race, no one is without blame. No matter what they claim no one has taken the high ground; they can't afford to .