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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 06:55 PM Original message |
What might have been: had Michigan and Florida kept their original primary dates. |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think the end result would have been much the same, really. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. Michigan is pretty demographically similar to Ohio |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Michigan is demographically much different than Ohio. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Well, there's some truth there, but they are both industrial states |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Northern Ohio was supposed to be a part of MI. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:23 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I know because I had ancestors involved in that war! |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I'm second generation but have lived here all my life. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:32 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I think it's called the Michigan-Ohio War, and it's almost certainly out of print |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Heh. It sounds like a fun read. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:37 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. We're not much for Ohio in our family. |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. You forgot Cedar Point! |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:44 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Oh, yes, that's right. Once we drove all the way down there in the pouring rain |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:46 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I got a season pass for this year. |
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LisaM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. yep! |
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spartan61 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 08:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. I'm former Lincoln Parker!! |
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last1standing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 09:40 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. I envy you. |
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spartan61 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 07:24 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. We now live in Maine but did live in CT. for many years. |
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Asgaya Dihi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
3. Not much would have changed |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:41 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. There's no way we will ever really know. |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
12. I think the main difference would be early perceptions on who the frontrunner was |
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FlyingSquirrel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-07-08 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
19. Obama's a great campaigner... MI and FL barely knew him. |
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MaineDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-08-08 06:47 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I think that's the crux of the whole situation |
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