Please Tell Me How This Makes Sense!!!

[BuddyRey]

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/candidates/

This is a list of the candidates, ranked, as you've probably already guessed, by "tier." Yet, the thing that mistifies me is that Ron Paul, dead last on this list, has raised more than many of the candidates placed above him, and has more cash on hand than at least four of them!!!

Should we petition CNN to rearrange the listings here, or are the magically decided and wholly arbitrary "rankings" justified in some way?

[RPTXState]

it goes by their magic numbers that state that Ron only has 1% in the polls....

[LibertyEagle]

Look at that picture they have of Duncan Hunter. :eek: :p

[RobotJaxxon]

I have been holding a boycott of cnn.com since Milton Friedman died.

That day, their main page listed three other people that had died, but did not mention Milton Friedman. The main headline was a former Michigan football coach that died. Two other people from popular culture that died were listed, but nowhere did they mention Milton Friedman.

Screw them.

[Richie]

The pictures they used are awful. Duncan looks like he's straining during a dump. :eek:

[brandon]

If you look at the front runners who they want to win, they used nice pics while the candidate was smiling and posing. It seems like the lower down the list you go, the worse the picture they decided to use

[inibo]

The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation rankings for Republicans are based on 379 registered voters who describe themselves as Republicans or as Independents who lean Republican, conducted by telephone on September 7-9, 2007. Sampling error: +/-5 percentage points.

United States — Population: 301,139,947 (July 2007 est.)
Sample size: 379

379 / 301,139,947 = 0.0000013%

Give me a frickin' break!

[Pete]

Look at that picture they have of Duncan Hunter. :eek: :p

They like Hillary, Barry, and Rudy. Everybody else looks like burnt shit. :D

Yeah, geez, poor Dunc reminds me of Frankenstein's monster. :p

[BuddyRey]

Here are the pictures they OUGHT to be using, based on the quality of the pics representing the "lower tier."

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/hillary_clinton.jpg

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/images/obama_4.jpg

http://thecylinder.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/giuliani.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/romney_gaffes/romney_landing.jpg

http://spmedia.canada.com/gallery/00posted/0905THOMPSON.jpg

http://punchup.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/john_mccain.jpg

http://home.comcast.net/~mjpyro/biden.jpg

http://dailygotham.com/files/bill_richardson.jpg

http://www.walkingthelinefilm.com/Tancredo2.jpg

http://www.wonkette.com/politics/edwardscompact.jpg/edwardscompact.jpg



And is it just me, or does Duncan Hunter have a perpetual blowhard scowl?!?! I wonder if he glares at his wife like that!!!