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samsonlonghair wrote:There's also the so-called "drink a beer" study that shows that voters prefer the candidate with whom they would rather drink a beer. This indicates that relate-ability and physical attractiveness may be more important than experience.
Sarah Palin drank a ton of beer last time she visited Greenville NC, and I doubt it had anything to do with getting votes.

I'm not joking either, she can pound 'em down.
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samsonlonghair wrote:There's also the so-called "drink a beer" study that shows that voters prefer the candidate with whom they would rather drink a beer. This indicates that relate-ability and physical attractiveness may be more important than experience. If that's the case, Hillary may have an uphill battle.
Well, it's not beer, but she seems like she'd be happy to sit down and have some Chipotle with you. That's gotta score points with the younger crowd. They love Chipotle.
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Luke wrote:
samsonlonghair wrote:There's also the so-called "drink a beer" study that shows that voters prefer the candidate with whom they would rather drink a beer. This indicates that relate-ability and physical attractiveness may be more important than experience.
Sarah Palin drank a ton of beer last time she visited Greenville NC, and I doubt it had anything to do with getting votes.

I'm not joking either, she can pound 'em down.
I mean what else is there to do during the winter in Alaska?
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Also :lol: at our previous prime minister and the german chancelor being on opposite sides.

Also....I'm not sure most people on these forums will get the context.
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Yea sadly, and it seems fewer non-US members are posting these days.

Speaking of falling apart, that earthquake in Nepal.. I just hope their faith system helps them cope with such an unspeakable disaster. I can't get used to such mass tragedies, regardless of their location.
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Nine dead. Those are sons of anarchy numbers.

Reports say over one hundred arrested. Let's see what happens when you put one hundred mc members in gen pop.
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samsonlonghair wrote:It seems to me that in Presidential elections, the most important factor is the economy, which is kind of funny considering that the economy is one thing that the President has relatively little control over.
I never understood this "better economy thing" , whenever the economy goes up, it just goes down again. I heard that the economy was great during Clinton's era but bad during Bush's, and now its picking up again. I believe it takes at least 2-3 years to improve the economy. It needs to stay up longer where the whole country is improved. I guess something like Turkey, China, and India.

I care about US economy because my local currency is tied to the dollar, if it goes down everything else becomes expensive for me. There was a specific Japanese car model that used to cost $47K 12 years ago now it costs $71K . Not sure if low Dollar value or inflation.
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samsonlonghair wrote:It seems to me that in Presidential elections, the most important factor is the economy, which is kind of funny considering that the economy is one thing that the President has relatively little control over.
I never understood this "better economy thing" , whenever the economy goes up, it just goes down again. I heard that the economy was great during Clinton's era but bad during Bush's, and now its picking up again. I believe it takes at least 2-3 years to improve the economy. It needs to stay up longer where the whole country is improved. I guess something like Turkey, China, and India.

I care about US economy because my local currency is tied to the dollar, if it goes down everything else becomes expensive for me. There was a specific Japanese car model that used to cost $47K 12 years ago now it costs $71K . Not sure if low Dollar value or inflation.
The cost of the Japanese car is also directly caused by the value of the Japanese Yen. If the Yen is doing better against the dollar, than the car becomes more expensive. Japan's economy was relatively poor in the 1990s and early 2000s, saw improvements in the mid-2000s, and then saw new damage with the recession. As for the US economy, it did well in the post-Cold War era(particularly with the dot-com bubble), had a stumble in the early 2000s(as the dot-com bubble burst) but recovered until around 2008, where the housing crisis occurred. The stock market for the US has recovered with flying colors, but due to low interest rates, it could be argued that the stock market has been artificially propped up since no one can make money on interest from banks, which causes everyone to invest in stocks instead.
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