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Did The 47% Video of Mitt Romney Kill His Chances of Winning?

Did the 47% video save President Obama from losing?

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Too much CON crap to wade through... I said COLUMBIA doesn't award 'latin' honors to transfer students... not Yale... :roll:

BYU is a MUCH lower ranked school than Columbia. I can't find a single article where anyone says Willard was top of his class but the one, with no citation BTW, you linked. Even his classmates in their interviews fail to mention Willard being top of his class.

Funny how you use 'sources' we can't confirm- some relation/friend when confronted.

Odd that... ;)
 
TurtleDude said:
He didn't deserve getting into Columbia or Harvard Law. He also was given the senate seat when the GOP guy who was beating him badly in the polls was torpedoed by a DEM judge who allowed DEM journalists access to sealed divorce case proceedings
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Are you kidding? There wasn't a single time jack ryan was leading in the polls. Im from illinois so I know. That was a bad year for repubs in illinois. there was no way they would have won that seat even if they managed to get ditka to run.
 
notquiteright said:
Too much CON crap to wade through... I said COLUMBIA doesn't award 'latin' honors to transfer students... not Yale... :roll:

BYU is a MUCH lower ranked school than Columbia. I can't find a single article where anyone says Willard was top of his class but the one, with no citation BTW, you linked. Even his classmates in their interviews fail to mention Willard being top of his class.

Funny how you use 'sources' we can't confirm- some relation/friend when confronted.

Odd that... ;)
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an you made a statement without ANY PROOF whatsoever

You are now pretending Mitt wasn't a top student because you ignore information that you don't like

and we are waiting for you to tell us where you got your degree-if any

an intelligent person would realize that since Romney's campaign touted his academic achievement, the press would have ripped it up if it was not true
 
TurtleDude said:
more crap-why don't you prove your moronic claims

one of my best friends transferred from St Lawrence to Yale as a Junior. She thus had 18 (3 credit hour classes) credits at Yale rather than the minimum 36 the rest of us had. She was awarded Cum Laude based on the following

When I attended yale, you had to earn at least 16 A grades to get CL, 24 A grades to get Magna, and 28 to get summa. To get DISTINCTION in your major you had to present either

2/3 A grades in your major and an A on your comprehensive exams or term paper or 3/4 A grades in the major with a B.

Phi Beta Kappa was based on class ranking

well my friend graduated Cum Laude with distinction because she had at least 8 A grades and she got 3/4 As in her major with a B on the exam. My brother holds a degree from Columbia and noted its undergraduate school did the same thing

So your idiocy is just that. You want to whine about Romney being first in his class because its a less competitive school than Columbia but how did Obama get in ahead of 100s of white men from Columbia who also applied to harvard law who had higher grades. I know at least 100 people from Yale who applied to Harvard and every one of us was at least a 3.6 GPA

(right on the border of Cum Laude and Magna). and lots of people from my class (which is more competitive than columbia) got turned down despite having 3.7-3.8 GPAss with top one percent board scores.


BTW where did you earn your degree
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first, You used anecdotal evidence as a source which doesn't count. Second you ask the person his degree. It doesn't matter nor is it verifiable since this is a MB. I thought you would learn by now not to make unverifiable claims about yourself.
 
99percenter said:
Are you kidding? There wasn't a single time jack ryan was leading in the polls. Im from illinois so I know. That was a bad year for repubs in illinois. there was no way they would have won that seat even if they managed to get ditka to run.
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Horsecrap
 
99percenter said:
first, You used anecdotal evidence as a source which doesn't count. Second you ask the person his degree. It doesn't matter nor is it verifiable since this is a MB. I thought you would learn by now not to make unverifiable claims about yourself.
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you are making up lies and you whine about stuff that is easily established
 
TurtleDude said:
Horsecrap
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Instead of making unhelpful comments why not post evidence. Here is a source that shows the poll numbers before the records were released

Democrat Barack Obama holds lead against Republican opponent Jack Ryan in Illinois US Senate race - AP Worldstream | HighBeam Research

As you can see not even close. Obama's 52% to ryan's 30%. I don't how you can so blatantly lie about it. I bet even after you have been educated about this you will still refuse to accept the truth.
 
TurtleDude said:
an you made a statement without ANY PROOF whatsoever You are now pretending Mitt wasn't a top student because you ignore information that you don't like and we are waiting for you to tell us where you got your degree-if any an intelligent person would realize that since Romney's campaign touted his academic achievement, the press would have ripped it up if it was not true
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Ahhh now the arrogance comes to the surface, like it did when you knocked a Brown graduate!

This was YOU trying to spin a lack of 'honors' from Columbia University, a VERY select school, when they don't give honors to 2 year students, and it appears BYU doesn't either as they CAN give 'latin' honors but (top of his class) Willard didn't earn any either.

You can EASILY check my facts but where do I go to check on some friend or relative you use as an example. :shock:

Now I don't recall the Willard election campaign claiming Willard was #1 in his class. All the interviews with his fellow classmates fail to mention that as well.

It is also an easy to check fact on the school rankings, BYU vs Columbia. It is an easy to check fact BYU has a 98% LDS enrollment and accepts 55.9% of applicants where Columbia accepts less than 7%.

(I'm sure if you had proof otherwise you'd post it, and not more some second cousin none of us can verify....)
 
99percenter said:
Instead of making unhelpful comments why not post evidence. Here is a source that shows the poll numbers before the records were released

Democrat Barack Obama holds lead against Republican opponent Jack Ryan in Illinois US Senate race - AP Worldstream | HighBeam Research

As you can see not even close. Obama's 52% to ryan's 30%. I don't how you can so blatantly lie about it. I bet even after you have been educated about this you will still refuse to accept the truth.
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sort of like lying that Romney got into harvard because his father was rich
 
notquiteright said:
Ahhh now the arrogance comes to the surface, like it did when you knocked a Brown graduate!

This was YOU trying to spin a lack of 'honors' from Columbia University, a VERY select school, when they don't give honors to 2 year students, and it appears BYU doesn't either as they CAN give 'latin' honors but (top of his class) Willard didn't earn any either.

You can EASILY check my facts but where do I go to check on some friend or relative you use as an example. :shock:

Now I don't recall the Willard election campaign claiming Willard was #1 in his class. All the interviews with his fellow classmates fail to mention that as well.

It is also an easy to check fact on the school rankings, BYU vs Columbia. It is an easy to check fact BYU has a 98% LDS enrollment and accepts 55.9% of applicants where Columbia accepts less than 7%.

(I'm sure if you had proof otherwise you'd post it, and not more some second cousin none of us can verify....)
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you keep making claims about Columbia and latin honors without any proof.

the rest of your crap is just crap. are you saying a guy with a 3.97 GPA was not going to get into Harvard?
 
TurtleDude said:
sort of like lying that Romney got into harvard because his father was rich
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Not a lie. I made an assumption using the same logic you used to make an assumption about obama.
 
TurtleDude said:
you keep making claims about Columbia and latin honors without any proof.

the rest of your crap is just crap. are you saying a guy with a 3.97 GPA was not going to get into Harvard?
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Yes, tell us about the time you saw romney's transcripts.
 
99percenter said:
Yes, tell us about the time you saw romney's transcripts.
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why are various sources saying that and why isn't the obama press disputing that
 
99percenter said:
Not a lie. I made an assumption using the same logic you used to make an assumption about obama.
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but unlike you, i went to big name Ivy schools and I know how the admissions work
 
99percenter said:
LOL. president ford was a guest at there wedding. Do you need more evidence he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth? And what were his scores in his first school. You say he transferred there. English is also an easy major.
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Says who?
 
tres borrachos said:
That, and people who have no idea what an English major actually is.
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An english major is a person who would be unemployed unless you are mitt romney and education is a formality for you and not a necessity. Heck mitt romney would probably fine majoring in music or drama or some other bs that doesn't count for anything. Science and engineering majors and hard. Anything else is a piece of cake.
 
TurtleDude said:
but unlike you, i went to big name Ivy schools and I know how the admissions work
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Yes. I bet you got an A in messageboarding 101. I also went to a major Ivy league school. See how easy that is?
 
99percenter said:
Maybe he was focused on issues instead of frivolous things that don't matter.
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that makes no sense. Just give up-obama got affirmative action to get into harvard law
 
99percenter said:
Yes. I bet you got an A in messageboarding 101. I also went to a major Ivy league school. See how easy that is?
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but the difference is I can back it up, you won't because you cannot
 
99percenter said:
No you can't. We all just have to take your word for it.
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well given some people here know my real name and can google that you are pretty much wrong again. long before you came here, a poster who is no longer with us, spent lots of bandwidth claiming I was not an attorney-especially after he had revealed that he had tried law school and apparently couldn't cut it. He constantly denied that I was an attorney. However, at least one-perhaps two posters (one Being Oldreliable 67 who was killed in a bike accident more than a year or so ago) told at least one of the mods that I was being truthful. That mod then backed me up.

So you are wrong
 
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