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According to CNN:

Poll: Edge goes to Obama: It was close, but Obama won the night with an aggressive performance and a couple of zingers.

The Quick Poll on the same page, just under this 'headline'

This is their definition of close? Or just truth challenged?

Current 'Tude amused

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) made outrageous claim that 90% of Planned Parenthoods business was abortions. Too bad he was 87% off, as it's a matter of public record that only 3% of their business is providing abortion by request.

But that isn't the best part. When he was cold busted lying on the Congressional floor, he or his office released this comment. He didn't 'lie', and that his comments were "not intended to be a factual statement"

Ahem, just because you add more syllables to "I lied" doesn't suddenly make it not a lie.

Current 'Tude angry

US exluded car, suicide bombs from Iraq murder toll

This little piece of the statistical spinning really has me pissed off.

Under the military definition, murders include civilians killed "who are specifically targeted," but do not include executions or "those killed in indirect fire, IED, VBIED, or suicide attacks, all of which may or may not be related to sectarian violence."
Executions, as defined by the U.S. military, include people who have been held,tortured and then killed and are considered to be motivated by ethnic or sectarian reasons -- unless they are some form of reprisal killingor related to crime.

These people were murdered, EOS. If you kill someone in the commission of a crime, then you are held responsible for murder.

Current 'Tude infuriated

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Talk about spinning statistics to make things sound rosy

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