Can you add a "This poll is stupid" option?
The US won, and any 6th grader who paid attention in history class could tell you the same.
He [Obama] needs to remember what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space. Yup, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hence, the reason I asked for another poll option. When someone posts a poll for the sole purpose of dropping in progressive hack job links...
Damn I actually answered the poll, I feel so used...
Depends greatly on how you define it.
In America its generally defined as the race to get to the moon. Not surprising, the race to get to the moon is the race America won.
It could be equally legitimate to suggest that the first to make it INTO space was the winning of the space race, as typically the first to get to where you're trying to go is the winner.
You could easily say that America won the Race to the Moon while the USSR won the Race to Space.
Ultimately its a matter of opinion based on what arbitrary goal post you stick in for your designation of what the "Space Race" was. There wasn't some universal checked flag sitting there that marked the boundries. Simply because the US takes a view point of it that places them as the winner and "any 6th grader" could know that does not mean its some kind of absolute truth or measuring stick.
Of the things to quibble about in Palin's statement, you've grasped the wrong one.
Just to clarify. You set up a poll on the forum purely as a set up for a nonsensical Palin bash?
Genuinely fascinating....:roll:
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Who Won The Space Race?
The United States
The former Soviet Union
I don't know
D) It isn't over yet... not by a long shot, and the Chinese are catching up
Why does everything have to be about race? :mrgreen:
How else can we keep the little green men down brother.