Last year Stefan Hankin of Lincoln Park Strategies threw Craig James into a statewide poll and found that James was less popular in West Texas than Barack Obama. ‘It’s not that people in West Texas don’t like him,’ said [GOP political consultant Brian] Mayes. ‘It’s that nobody likes him.’

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Ladies and gentlemen, Craig James!

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1:54 pm - 27 Jan 2012
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Imagine a map of the United States of America was transformed into a game of Risk, with each state as a territory, and that state’s total economic output corresponding with the number of armies it can produce. In which order would the states be drafted?

Imagine five players, so each each player will end up with ten states. Alaska is connected to Hawaii and Washington. Hawaii is connected to Alaska and California. Here’s how I think it would play out, in a snake draft.

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3:31 pm - 20 Jun 2011 - 3 notes
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