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Student’s For McCain

August 29th, 2008

Actually for sale at JohnMcCain.com:


In other news, ObamaTaxCut.com made it to #1 on Digg yesterday with something like 3000 diggs in 12 hours before succumbing to the McCain Bury Brigade and being inaccurately labeled as “potentially inaccurate.”

Check below the fold to see the impact of being buried at Digg.

A quick e-mail exchange with Digg support informs me that:

  1. Digg editors cannot reconsider the results of their algorithm that analyzes user response (whether something is dugg or buried, by whom, and with what reason); if they were to do so it would jeopardize the integrity of their open community.
  2. Digg will never give any information about who buried your story, why they did it, how many people did it, what other stories they buried, etc, because such an open exchange in information would endanger the community they’re trying to foster.

The community they want, apparently, is one where stories with any obvious political opinion behind them that become popular are quickly buried by the other side (I assume this goes both ways, but don’t have any examples of it happening to a pro-McCain or anti-Obama story).

The decline in the early hours of the morning is normal; being that precipitious isn’t.  And no, I don’t think there’s any organized McCain burial squad, I just think Digg needs to modify their algorithm to detect folks who do nothing but repeatedly bury ideologically similar stories and treat their opinions with a grain of salt.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 10:45 am and is filed under dunce.

  • Moby
    Funny how you make McCain sound like the bad guy because he cuts taxes for ALL people. Obama looks like he is buying votes by cutting taxes for 80% of the people but screwing the rich. Is that how he gets his jollies, by screwing people over? So, if I am a successful business man that creates a company and provides jobs, goods and services that people want, I am penalized. But if I am a slacker, not producing much wealth, I am rewarded. So, what do you think you'll get more of with Obama vs. McCain?
  • MDgal
    McCain is not planning to cut taxes for "all people." Where are you getting that? A commentary in Forbes magazine, for example, said "McCain's tax cut plan would provide no new direct relief to 100 million households, but would give a $4 billion tax cut to Exxon Mobil (which recently posted a $40 billion profit) and other big oil companies."
  • fredkern
    Does Obamataxcut take into account the fact that Obama and the Democratic congress wil let the Bush tax cuts expire on 12-31-09??.
    This will in effect be a large tax increase for most, including my family making AGI $65,000
    This is important to know. Fred Kern
  • Yes it takes that into account. Go to TaxPolicyCenter.org and read the full report if you need to know more about the baseline used -- Obama and McCain are treated identically in that respect.
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