United States Election: Nov 6, 2012 |OT| - Barack Obama Re-elected

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I live on a small island in Texas too. There's hardly any republican tomfoolery around these parts, but if there is it's usually minor with the usual stolen signs. My area is a democratic majority.
 
SteveWinwood said:
I see two hangs (they don't look like cuts to me) and one is a good second before he touches anything and then there is uninterrupted footage of him pushing it multiple times and then near the end of that is another hang. My phone's video function hangs very similar to that.
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Watch the boxes on the right edge of the screen and not his finger every time he clicks. Always reference a screen edge to catch a cut, never the subject material.
 
Thequietone said:
I like how the election brings out the worst in people. Woman hands me the ballot and announces that your a democrat and get people in the whole room including her saying ooooo a democrat he's sooo special.

WTF?
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Where do you live?
 
cast my ballot in tustin this morning. confusing electronic wheel voting thing. but i guess it's better than a touch screen?

anyway, no paper at the end of the day to hold in my hand, but i did actually see it. so i guess that's something.

voted for obama. i think he'll take california.
 
Thequietone said:
I like how the election brings out the worst in people. Woman hands me the ballot and announces that your a democrat and get people in the whole room including her saying ooooo a democrat he's sooo special.

WTF?
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I probably would have went, "yeah, that and the most intelligent and sane person in this room." With a smug face.

I read Zombie Survival Guide and watched The Walking Dead enough to I think I'm fairly prepared to survive a mob of dumb people.
 
CSX said:
South Houston
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Wow, sorry to hear that. Things have been calm here in West Houston/Katy area. Not that many Obama/Democrat signs here though.

animlboogy said:
My dad had his Obama stickers torn off his car repeatedly, scraping up the area. He lives in LA. Doesn't matter where you are, just needs to be someone crazy in the neighborhood.
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Yeah, my mom wanted to get an Obama sign and some bumper stickers but I talked her out of it. Like I said, things have been calm here but I don't want to take any chances.
 
ClovingWestbrook said:
Come and join us for the final hours of this election in #poligaf chat
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The way you say that terrifies me.

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AniHawk said:
cast my ballot in tustin this morning. confusing electronic wheel voting thing. but i guess it's better than a touch screen?

anyway, no paper at the end of the day to hold in my hand, but i did actually see it. so i guess that's something.

vote for obama. i think he'll take california.
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I always thought you were Canadian for some reason :P
 
Evening Musuko said:
Wow, sorry to hear that. Things have been calm here in West Houston/Katy area. Not that many Obama/Democrat signs here though.



Yeah, my mom wanted to get an Obama sign and some bumper stickers but I talked her out of it. Like I said, things have been calm here but I don't want to take any chances.
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Too many crazies. I saw the large Romney sign across the street from a church here in Missouri did not make the night. All shredded up now. I'm pretty sure it was intact when I left work, but it was dark. My route to work is not exactly a republican contingency, that's for sure.
 
devilhawk said:
Too many crazies. I saw the large Romney sign across the street from a church here in Missouri did not make the night. All shredded up now. I'm pretty sure it was intact when I left work, but it was dark. My route to work is not exactly a republican contingency, that's for sure.
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Where in MO?

I remember a few McCain signs in my neighborhood in Columbia didn't last too long back in '08. Also a lot of Obama signs. It was just a bad time to be a sign.
 
ElectricBlue187 said:
Is that what that movie was about? I thought Kubrick just wanted to shoot a lot of naked ladies
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Eye's Wide Shut is about a lot of issues we see today. Mostly experiments in "Dream Logic" for the narrative

Here's an awesome review, and Rob Ager does a great analysis of the film as well:

"these Biblical references only serve to show us how bankrupt the Christian ethic is in America by the end of the second millennium A.D., how completely it's been coopted and undermined by commerce."
 
CSX said:
What its like to vote in Texas...

1. Discover that you can vote at local middle school which is a two minute walk away.

2. Wake up early to avoid the school carpools.

3. Walk on sidewalk leading to front entrance of school

4. Notice that there are 30 election signs all around the sidewalk.

5. Notice that only two of the signs were endorsing a Democrat. Both for this lady here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Olivo. No Vote for Obama/Biden sign seen

6. Notice that in these signs, the font size for "Republican" is almost as big as the name of the candidate.

7. Then proceeded to get a call from a friend about how two of their coworkers got their mailboxes flipped over because they had Obama endorsement signs on their front lawn.
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My Obama signs have been ripped up, shot with pellet guns and spray painted. On my street it's just me and one other yard that has Obama signs up and we've both had to replace them several times. I saw a guy on the news in Nashville that put up cameras and a fence around his.
 
BobTheFork said:
IT drops a frame the first time he presses it but not any of the others.
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Congrats on being duped then.

Several other flags include the location of the polling place, no other reports or videos, no name of the person he says he talked to that said its fine, etc.

You would think there would be a huge stink about this blow up within minutes - instead we get a poorly hoaxed video.

Yeah not buying it along with all those bigfoot videos.

I understand the hate for Romney here, while deserved, I can't blindly believe every video I watch on the internet.

Too many holes in the entire story. I'd bank on Ancient Aliens being true despite the flat-out lies to wrench those theories loosely in place before I believe this whole scenario.
 
Tobor said:
I don't see how that matters. If Romney wins, there will be severe Nate backlash. Count on it.
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I agree, I think this will happen if Nate is wrong.

A random Newspaper or TV pundit who makes confident claims is not held to this standard, obviously. They make wrong predictions all the time -- and not even probabilistic ones, like Silver makes, but confident ones without probabilistic language -- and nothing happens to them. Often, their ratings or readership go up. By contrast, if Nate Silver makes one wrong prediction, he's toast.

Science-y/math-y people are simply held to a different standard. Implicitly, we know that they have to follow different rules than typical bloviators and pundits who can say anything they want with impunity. These additional rules are necessary because math-y science-y types actually are able to predict the future in a serious way, and as such they are held to much tighter standards. We may not openly admit that Joe Scarborough or Ed Sullivan are entertainers, we may not even consciously admit it, but the way in which we immediately discard their (frequently wrong) predictions suggests that we know it, deep down.

Just as we all know deep down that English majors are less important than Biochemistry majors, even if we don't admit it, we know that Joe Scarborough isn't the same as Nate Silver and thus we don't hold Scaroborough to the sort of standards we hold a statistician to.
 
Opiate said:
I agree, I think this will happen if Nate is wrong.

A random pundit who makes confident claims is not held to this standard, obviously. They make wrong predictions all the time -- and not even probabilistic ones, like Silver makes, but confident ones without probabilistic language -- and nothing happens to them. Often, their ratings go up.

But science-y math-y people are simply held to a different standard. Implicitly, we know that they have to follow different rules than typical bloviators and pundits who can say anything they want with impunity. These rules are necessary because math-y science-y types actually claim to be able to predict the future in a serious way, and as such they are held to much tighter standards. We may not openly admit that Joe Scarborough or Ed Sullivan are entertainers, we may not even consciously admit it, but the way in which we immediately discard their (frequently wrong) predictions suggests that we know it, deep down.

Just as we all know deep down that English majors are less important than Biochemistry majors, even if we don't admit it, we know that Joe Scarborough isn't the same as Nate Silver and thus we don't hold Scaroborough to the sort of standards we hold a statistician to.
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:(
 
Jack_AG said:
Congrats on being duped then.

Several other flags include the location of the polling place, no other reports or videos, no name of the person he says he talked to that said its fine, etc.

You would think there would be a huge stink about this blow up within minutes - instead we get a poorly hoaxed video.

Yeah not buying it along with all those bigfoot videos.

I understand the hate for Romney here, while deserved, I can't blindly believe every video I watch on the internet.

Too many holes in the entire story. I'd bank on Ancient Aliens being true despite the flat-out lies to wrench those theories loosely in place before I believe this whole scenario.
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I've already said I don't believe it to be a massive conspiracy or anything, simply a incorrectly calibrated machine, which is not only plausible but I would say very likely to happen when you have this many polling machines.

And the guy has been contacted by CNN and MSNBC so I bet we'll see some stuff in a couple hours.

And it could be fake, I just don't see any GLARING reasons to think it is.

Also ouch at the english degree dig!
I have a biology degree
 
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