Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
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Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#2I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History:
http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#3This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#4This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
The original article being: http://deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-ar...
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#5This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
I think its quite cool. I had no idea this blue band in the south existed. The history behind the fertile land and slavery migration I found particularly interesting.
It does make an unwritten assumption that more black people = more democrat votes. But I guess that is probably a fair assumption to make.
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#6I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History : http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...
Another great book is _Annals of the Former World_ by John McPhee (at least regarding US geology):
http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/037...
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#7This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
"blog spam" aka packaging and reporting a story from elsewhere, a basic part of journalism. People around here really try too hard to be indignant.
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#8I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History : http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...
I agree, for me it's most fascinating that we are not only able to learn about things that happened so long ago, but also that they can still affect us today.
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#9This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
It's also at least the third submission of the article.
Re: Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
#10Considering that Obama was trounced in those states and thus won no votes in the Electorial College, it is hardly a "secret weapon." Were it one, the consistency of its Democratic lean in previous elections, would call into question that it was his.
The article just promotes an ignorant sort of racial understanding while missing the really curious relationship between agriculture and his campaigns.
Obama's secret weapon has been Iowa.