I’ve been fortunate to know some Somoans during my life – great, love-able people!

For sport, they’ll get together and use machete’s to cut and shape sticks that look like a 3-ft long, skinny part of a baseball bat that never fills out into a barrel. At the end of the stick, they attach a 4-ft. cord, like the cord used on the starter-rope of a lawn-mower. Then, they’ll cut and aero-dynamically shape another stick into a long, 5 or 6 ft, tear-drop shaped spear (a ballistic broom-stick) with three ring-grooves just behind the fat-est part of the spear.

Then, they take turns – starting from about 100 yds out – at knocking a coconut out of a tree full of ripe coconuts. Believe it, or not, they can wind the end of the cord around the spear grooves, lay the spear on the ground, pick-up the ’sling’ stick, use it to take out the slack, and then with a few powerful steps they have those jokers hurtling across the field like missles!

If they all miss from 100, they’ll step-up to 75 and try again, and keep moving forward until they have a winner. But, they all have stories about the ‘time they dropped the coconut from the 100 on the first try’ – usually with no witnesses around to vouch for them – Somoan trash-talk, if you will. But, amongst them, there are well known cases of skillful athletes ‘calling the shot’ in front of many people, and they, in particular, are held in high esteem.

So, that’s a long-winded way of saying that your point in this article looks like it’s whistling right at the coconut with the presidential seal on it, 8 days across the political field.

If this were on Intrade, I’d be betting on you!

Thanks for all that you do!

WOW!!! REAL Exit poll results by an avid McCain supporter. Save this and make it famous:

http://americannonsense.com/?p=15898

The Neocon Express just spent a depressing 3 hours conducting an exit poll at a Las Vegas early voting station. The Location was in a more affluent Western suburb of Las Vegas, on the edge of Summerlin; More specifically, at the Vons shopping center on Rampart, between Charleston and Sahara. It was a glorious day in Las Vegas so what better way to spend a few hours than by hanging outside a polling station and randomly sampling voters, right?

Nevada is a swing state, and the middle to upper middle class suburbs of Las Vegas, like this location, are a crucial indicator of how the state might go. Early voting started at this location yesterday and the lines have been long and non-stop all day, with people waiting in line an average of 45 minutes to cast their votes.

I randomly interviewed over 150 voters after they cast their ballots. I stood outside with a clipboard and certainly looked the part of a pollster. My question went like this: “Hi, I am conducting a quick, random exit poll; of course all participants are anonymous. Was it John McCain or Barack Obama for you?”

I could not possibly have talked to everyone who voted during the three hour time frame but I got a very good random sample. The results were devastating to me.

Let’s get to the results:

Obama: 70%
McCain: 26%
Other 4%

If I calculate the number of people who declined to give an answer, than the breakdown went like this:

Obama 53%
McCain 20%
Other 3%
Declined to participate: 24%.

My gut instinct tells me that the vast majority of those who “declined to participate” were McCain supporters, but of course, I have no way of knowing that for sure.

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Anyway, that’s how I spent three hours of my weekend and as a McCain supporter, it was deeply depressing. McCain will need to carry rural and Northern Nevada by a wide margin to overcome what will certainly be a devastating lose in Clark County.