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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
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Originally posted by Ming
Dream on Aggy... As DanS points out, he's still doing fine... He's taken a big post election hit, but his numbers still beat the hell out of a lot of other political programs...
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To ascribe O'Reilly's number drop over the past months to an election drop is simply inaccurate. All political shows had a sharp drop, followed by a leveling out. O'Reilly has had a steady decline for months with no such leveling, losing ~100,000 viewers per month.
In July of 2003 O'Reilly had 3.1 million viewers per show, so you can't say it's "back to normal" for him. Ever since the little revelation of his phone sex escapades, his credibility has been in the toilet. He's slipping fast into irrelevancy, hence why he has to do childish baiting of actors to come on his show, since he can't get anyone else interesting.
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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:19
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Originally posted by pchang
Everybody. You have to remember the origin of the term gerrymandering. |
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“An official statement of the returns of voters for senators give[s] twenty nine friends of peace, and eleven gerrymanders.”
So reported the May 12, 1813, edition of the Massachusetts Spy. A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which it is, considered from a historical perspective. This beast was named by combining the word salamander, “a small lizardlike amphibian,” with the last name of Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts—a state noted for its varied, often colorful political fauna. Gerry (whose name, incidentally, was pronounced with a hard g, though gerrymander is now commonly pronounced with a soft g) was immortalized in this word because an election district created by members of his party in 1812 looked like a salamander. According to one version of gerrymander's coining, the shape of the district attracted the eye of the painter Gilbert Stuart, who noticed it on a map in a newspaper editor's office. Stuart decorated the outline of the district with a head, wings, and claws and then said to the editor, “That will do for a salamander!” “Gerrymander!” came the reply. The word is first recorded in April 1812 in reference to the creature or its caricature, but it soon came to mean not only “the action of shaping a district to gain political advantage” but also “any representative elected from such a district by that method.” Within the same year gerrymander was also recorded as a verb. |
http://www.bartleby.com/61/62/G0106200.html
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