150,000!
It was February 8, 2007 when this site hit the magic number of 100,000 comments.
Last night, more than ten months later, this site hit another milestone of 150,000 comments. This number does not count spam comments, so that is 150,000 legitimate comments to posts over the past five years of this site’s existence on Wordpress. Now there were periods when I used Haloscan with Blogger, so those comments are not included and the total number of comments was probably well over 150,000 through the past five and a half years, but it is impossible for me to know for sure.
What was the 150,000th comment? This comment from “steven” at 8:41pm:
2 early to forcast, but i think the election will be plus or minus 2 points for whoever wins, i think today you saw Dobson start to go after obama, more people will follow, it may not get national attention but it will get attention in that state,the point is most of obama supporters are crackheads, gays, freaks, punks, eneducated 18-24 yr olds, and the anti bush folks, those are his contributors, eventually that money will wear out, just look at his last money totals
Anyway, let me take this quick interlude to thank anyone and everyone who has ever commented on this site.
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Congrats to Mr. Wissing. Best political blogging site around.
You’re welcome. Thanks for the site!
I like this site too. Does Steven get a prize?
Congrats to Dave and to Steven
Congrats Dave – I gotta take issue with Steven though. Most gays that I’ve seen and heard were die-hard Hillary fanatics and will probably either not vote or will vote for McCain. Obama will still get the freak and punk vote but the crackheads usually don’t wake up early enough to get to the polls.
Congrats Dave, I only wish the milestone comment was something more tolerant and insightful. “eneducated”?
Dave – you really should recognize Tim and lisab for the 53,000 posts they exchaneged on the “little lady vs vapid little toady” Iraq war debate.
I will my five point post right here. I really do not need to post it, but here goes. My rational for this post is that I am fairly disinterested in the polls right now because certain historical & electoral factors favor McCain
1st The candidate who has the hardest & most bitter path to the nomination of their party is at a disadvantage in Nov. (that’s Obama)
2nd The candidate who is farthest to the right or left of their party and who is farthest from the middle faces a disadvantage in Nov (that’s Obama)
3rd the democratic party base is shrinking to the Left & Right coasts-to urban centers-college campuses. The great American middle of rural & small town America is nearly to the Dems
4th Obama has a strange combination of cultural factors that work to his disadvantage. He is a big city liberal, has a Muslim sounding name, he’s 1/2 Black and belongs to an unconventional church
5th Finally McCain starts with a 240 electoral base. (forget polls showing Obama competitive in MO-IN-VA-FL-GA-NC) McCain has an electoral base where he only needs to collect two or three more states & he’s in
I repectfully disagree with points 3 and 5.
Tim
I would suggest that you look at the Map of counties carried in 2000 & 2004. You cannot argue with geography. Even in some states Gore & Kerry won they carried only a fraction of the counties in that state. Does that impact the election in 2008? well the democrats have nominated the 2nd Big city Urban liberal democrat in a row now. How do Big city guys play out in rural & small town America on the whole? Does any see Obama in New Albany MS?
As to point #5 that’s the difference of opinion I guess when people actually vote we will see what plays out.
I might add to give you a local perspective. How many Atlanta based democrats have won statewide offices in GA as Democrats the last few years?
So there we have it: Big city Urban liberal verus War Hero. I guess we’re done here.
Congrats, David!! Awesome site!!!
rdelbov:
Well, let us see. Our Commissioner of Labor is from Clarke County. (Athens) Our Attorney General is from Decatur. Our Agricultue Commissioner is from Habersham County.
Our former Secretary of State was from Bainbridge. Our former Lt. Governor was from Albany. Our last Dem Governor was from Mableton.
So, you answer is none. Georgia, historically, does not have a habit of electing politicians from the city of Atlanta. The last Atlanta politician to be elected Governor was Lester Maddox, in 1966.
Great site Dave! You’re a partisan who can take off his tinted glasses and tell it like it is. Although I disagree with some of your politics, I almost never disagree with your spot on analysis of the polls.
It is ironic that the 150,000th comment is “eneducated” and disappointing, kind of the antithesis of what you are about. I’ll pray that Steven is sent to the crosstabs of wisdom and enlightenment.
Tim
thanks for the current research. Senator W. Fowler was a city boy (southern phrase), but he did get in 1986. Strangely he replaced by another city boy GOP senator and after Zell was there that senate seat is still held by a suburban altanta guy. So there is some hope for an Atlanta boy or surburban Atlanta guy. There is a prejuidance against big city slickers in elections. Just the way it is. Lester Maddox, of course, was not your typical city boy. He was not a city boy who really all country so to speak. Pick axe handles and all.
I echo #16: Cheers to a great website and a fine milestone; jeers to that milestone being achieved by such obnoxious claptrap.
I guess tommorrow never comes
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Dave,
I don’t comment much anymore but I wanted to congratulate you on running a nice site. Here’s to another 1.5 million posts. I am sure the rest of the gang at Rightpundits feels the same as me.
Congrats on the milestone, Dave. I would also like to thank you for all your time and effort that you put into the Hedgehog Report. I enjoy it greatly.
“Of course, Survey USA is the polling outfit that released two polls that were taken over the same time period that gave two completely different results. Who knows, Survey USA might release another poll tomorrow showing Obama ahead.”
–Wouldn’t it then be best to say “McCain is ahead in Missouri in a parallel universe”?
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