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PoliGAF 2012 |OT3| If it's not a legitimate OT the mods have ways to shut it down
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The Librarian
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Dat Ohio lead.
You can thank Youtube. Americans may hate black people, but they hate dishonest people more. Romney is the most dishonest SOB who has ever ran for office.
Anytime he says something, you can just youtube an older statement and see the contradiction.
I also think that voters don't like it when candidates INTENTIONALLY hide shit from them.
RustyNails
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Can't wait for salty fox news tears tomorrow, where they will show Black Panther goons twisting arms of pollsters, because we all know Obama's secret army is Black Panthers.
CHEEZMO
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Nation of Islam, duh.
I still don't see how it's this close. Mitt is a freaking awful candidate running a horrible campaign, and I'm almost teetering into the opinion that he's a pretty terrible human being, too. The fact that he'll still get the votes over 40% of the voters bugs the shit out of me. This shouldn't be close at all. This should be an ass-whooping like we've never seen before.
It never will, or if it does it will be in the last week of the campaign. If they call it lean Obama they may as well call the election.
Honestly I agree, it's just that I'm kinda freaking out. I'm not used to things going the way they're supposed to.
Black Republican
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Gov Kasich is gonna have to increase the unemployment rate in less than 2 months now.
Sabotage.
Ohio & Virginia trending on twitter now, oh dear
Malcom X, Louis Farrakhan.........Nation of Domination lol
Sabotage.
Ohio & Virginia trending on twitter now, oh dear
CHEEZMO™;42094568 said:
Malcom X, Louis Farrakhan.........Nation of Domination lol
Fivethirtyeight/PEC already has them leaning Obama and that's pretty much all I need to see.
Officerrob
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This is how I see it: A large percentage of voters who were truly undecided have been waiting for Romney to differentiate himself. After the conventions, Romney failed to do so and even if they think Obama will do no better, they like him more.
Believe it or not, Kasich is part of the reason Romney is upside down in Ohio. He decimated Romney's chances to improve his re-election bid.
It freaks me out that it/s 50/43 and not 80/13
FleckSplat
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NullPointer
Member
Yep, and Obama is calm and controlled enough to let him.
Romney's only positive shot is to have all kinds of details at the debates. Details that aren't fact-checked as lies 5 minutes later.
I think I'm just surprised that Romney is running such a shitty campaign, I'm expecting some kind of bait and switch here. And yes Obama should be winning by more and likely would be if the economy was better, but I'm just expecting the floor to give out and everyone to go full retard. Frankly if Romney gets elected and repeals the ACA I am literally fucked, so I'm just going to be freaked out by this whole thing until it's over.
Do you remember all the times in the last ten years or so that somebody said, "Don't worry, the country is changing, things are getting better, it's just a process of time and generational change?"
It did, they are. That's pretty much the basis of Obama's coalition -- the "New American Electorate" is everybody who got fed up with George W. The moral arc of the universe and all that. Even Reagan can't rule forever.
There were more individual humans in 2008 than at any time in history prior to that point.
FleckSplat
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Those aren't all the Americans...
Joe Shlabotnik
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All Romney has left is an economic crash. That's it. Nobody has confidence in him for an international incident (obviously), or pretty much anything.
Black Republican
Member
Will Obama pick Hilary for vp?!?!?!
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
economic crash itself won't do it, unless it is something that Obama or his admin causes by fault of their own.
StopMakingSense
Member
OH Favorability for Romney 40 - 50
Byakuya769
Member
"A new twitter record was set today!"
Anyone shocked at these polls results has not paid attention to Romney's career
He got destroyed against Ted Kennedy and even in 2008 against John McCain
He should not be the nominee and everyone knows it, he won by default for having more money and being somewhat sane but not because he ran an outstanding campaign or had a history of winning
He got destroyed against Ted Kennedy and even in 2008 against John McCain
He should not be the nominee and everyone knows it, he won by default for having more money and being somewhat sane but not because he ran an outstanding campaign or had a history of winning
Father_Brain
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The country is far too polarized for that to happen. I don't think you'll see a double-digit landslide victory again anytime soon, short of Romney devouring an infant on live television or calling Obama the N-word in the debates.
speculawyer
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He is probably happy with his decision right now. "Meh . . . I'm probably not gonna win so I'm glad I didn't give up a huge amount of my privacy to those Proletariat."
He has no choice. He still needs to release his full 2011 returns as promised.
Aaron Strife
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McCain won more votes than Kerry, and that was a close election.
So yeah, that doesn't mean anything. Would still be cool if Obama broke 75 million.
Black Republican
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After seeing various polls, i think the chances of Obama retaking North Carolina might be over.
tis a shame.
347EV's that woulda been,goddam.
tis a shame.
347EV's that woulda been,goddam.
Lol Obviously
But Reagan in 84' got more votes than anyone until 20 years later. Transformational Political figures do that I think.
You need transformational figures to get close to 70 million votes like Obama did in 08, and there is NO WAY IN HELL Mitt Romney is even coming close.
This is just a theory but I remember the 2008 election for a couple striking moments. One of those moments were when Obama won NC by a mere 14,000 votes despite the most recent poll closed just 2 days earlier having him up near or above a double digit margin.
Conclusion? Racist Democrats and Independents couldn't get themselves to vote for Obama once they got into the booth...I never thought Obama had a snowballs chance in hell in NC this time around.
It was the only state where the so called "Bradley Effect" happened where Obama won
Joe Shlabotnik
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I agree but I think it's the only avenue by which the country might question Obama's basic competence in comparison to Romney. If its reasonably believable that it was out of his control (Euro collapse) it may still not be enough for Romney.
Any other kind of tragedy or crisis is more likely to solidify the country around Obama.
Aaron Strife
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Surveyusa's last poll was complete bullshit. Romney's winning 1/3rd of the black vote, yeah okay.
Every other poll has shown a close race, with maybe a slight Romney advantage. PPP's last had Obama up 1.
NullPointer
Member
But you can make a decent argument that Romney is a decepticon.
It's about half of them. ;-)
jamesinclair
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Do candidates usually announce their secretary of state pick as a campaign gimmick?
At this point, Romney could try and throw that in.
....and perhaps the Libertarian party could fire back by announcing RP as their SoS pick?
At this point, Romney could try and throw that in.
....and perhaps the Libertarian party could fire back by announcing RP as their SoS pick?
What other polls have came out since the convention besides PPP (where he's leading slightly) and that ridiculous SurveyUSA one?
speculawyer
Member
>8% unemployment
Add that to the fact that some 35% will vote GOP no matter what due to abortion, guns, gays, etc.
But that said . . . Romney blew this. He should have shaken the etch-a-sketch and ran more like the guy that won the Mass Governorship. Yes, that would have pissed off much of his based . . . but they were not going to vote for the Kenyan Muslim Socialist.
FleckSplat
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I know, and both things are salient - was just adding it as a caveat, not a dispute, per se.
It's kinda funny looking back and how everyone predicted Mittens would shift to the center after the primaries instead of tripling down on the stupid.
Libertarians could fire back by announcing no one as the SoS because fuck the rest of the world.
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