Manos: The Hans of Fate
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I know there is another dumb McCain, but isn't she at least hot looking?
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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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ErasureAcer
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From Mitt's video where he is urging the crowd to chant "Romney-Ryan" I think he's being serious. No joke. That or I don't get his sense of humor. Joe Scar's reaction is great though.
like i said, you check the voter rolls every day during early voting and on election day, you get a rolling update.
The Librarian
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Cherokee Chief is demanding Scott Brown apologize. hahaha
Manos: The Hans of Fate
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An Indian Chief asking a Bostonian to apologize....yeah I'm suer that will happen.
I didn't know non-election boards members had access to realtime voter rolls. Thanks for the clarification
Al-ibn Kermit
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Is there any breakdown of how the congressional elections will go? I imagine most of the new sets created by the 2010 census are in bluer states.
No, the records posted at the election sites on the end of election day are only the voter totals. But the election officers do check off your name on a big list if you show up to vote.
Therefore, only the people with the actual list (registrar of voters office) will be able to see WHO voted.
I didn't know non-election boards members had access to realtime voter rolls. Thanks for the clarification
No, the records posted at the election sites on the end of election day are only the voter totals. But the election officers do check off your name on a big list if you show up to vote.
Therefore, only the people with the actual list (registrar of voters office) will be able to see WHO voted.
Aaron Strife
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Don't worry, romney will pick up all the undecideds... And still lose.Obama over 50% nationally in the latest RAND poll. First time this year. Also, biggest spread, up over 7%.
The Librarian
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Mittens is worth $200 million. He'll be fine.
That pesky R next to his name.
talisayNon
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i think people here are still salty about 2010
Nah. We'll wait for November 7th before that happens.
If this is too much for you I think you're going to have a stroke during the debates. Just avoid the internet completely on election night if Obama wins by more than a few points.
NullPointer
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He'll have to do a hell of a lot to undo my ill will from his Libya and 47% comments.
Until that time I'll laugh as he falls.
holy shit how did i miss this
so much comedy gold from this campaign... it delivers so much in the most unexpected ways. it's like watching a burning train with fireworks, children and puppies on it rushing right over a cliff
you want to save the puppies and shit but, hey, fireworks!
Yeah, but that's not all of it. If the Dems had the balls to call the GOP's bluff on tax cut expirations, Wall Street reform and various other issues, surely the electorate would reward them.
Then again, maybe I'm underestimating the power of the GOP distortion machine.
polyh3dron
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Agreed, we should just sweep all of Romney's embarrassing conduct under the rug and get back to talking about the issues that matter to Americans, like how President Obama is eliminating the work requirement in welfare and saying that hard-working American business owners didn't build their businesses.
On the list of things that affect "the common people", gloating about success in politics is right near the bottom. Talk radio, cable news, religion, and the hundreds of millions spent in ads by SuperPACs are far FAR more important.
NullPointer
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Tell you what, we can discuss turning the other cheek once we re-elect our first black Kenyan Muslim socialist/communist/fascist/anti-colonialist radical pallin' with terrorists president. The same guy who started the war in Afghanistan, raised everybody's taxes, killed small business, started a class war, destroyed traditional marriage, and presided over a government takeover of healthcare.
talisayNon
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I just hate Mitt Romney to tell you the truth. He's just an easy person to hate.
I hated Palin too. McCain I didn't mind so much.
I hated Palin too. McCain I didn't mind so much.
speculawyer
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I don't think many people are predicting a blow-out . . . but the confidence of Obama winning is high.
Tough to tell, but it sounds like some people were saying Romney and some were saying Ryan.
Yes, the next time somebody hangs a chair, we'll know PoliGAF was to blame.
PhoenixDark
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Eh, not really; as usual Taibbi went hyperbolic and lost his footing. This country has a two party system that deeply divides people along ideological lines. Barring some major fuck up, a party candidate is almost always guaranteed at least 45% of the vote. Even Dukakis got 45% in 1984.
i can't be horrified by this because it's so fucking stupid. it's just really funny instead.
BotoxAgent
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Republicans are just bordering on cartoon evil at this point. I hate the partisan atmosphere, but President Obama tried to work with these people and get shit done, but hell man......
they deserve to get laughed out of this country
Shadow Hog
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I can't imagine changing his name to "Domney" would change things.
Pretty much the same for me. I get to see the southern redneck underbelly of the Republican party (i.e., the party's epicenter) pretty often, and it's goddamn scary. I hold absolutely no regret for any schadenfreude I enjoy at the expense of these people.
speculawyer
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There is a good solid 30% to 35% that have abortion as a litmus test. Then all he needs is another 10% to 15% from people only voting on tax-cuts, hardcore Israel supporters, people paranoid about gun law changes, dittoheads, rapture-ready crowd, etc.
Agreed, we can afford no sympathy for these people.
I hear ya, and I wasn't really asking literally.
It's just so frustrating to watch such a large number of people vote so clearly against their own interest.
I don't know what the solution is.
Part of me wishes that in Presidential elections 'running up the score' didn't have real-world benefits like helping down-ballot races and giving the winning Presidential candidate more of a mandate for their policies.
I mean, I would prefer to see a "good game", as they say in sports, as long as my team wins in the end. Nobody looks back on Clinton vs. Dole with any fondness and says "now that was a good election". Kennedy vs. Nixon in 1960, winning by just a hair, now that was a memorable election with good candidates and a photo finish. Nixon vs. Humphrey ("I just needed one more week."), Bush vs. Gore, even Obama vs. McCain will probably be talked about for years, despite not being close.
But Romney's just kind of sucking the magic out of this with his, well, constant tanking.
I mean, I would prefer to see a "good game", as they say in sports, as long as my team wins in the end. Nobody looks back on Clinton vs. Dole with any fondness and says "now that was a good election". Kennedy vs. Nixon in 1960, winning by just a hair, now that was a memorable election with good candidates and a photo finish. Nixon vs. Humphrey ("I just needed one more week."), Bush vs. Gore, even Obama vs. McCain will probably be talked about for years, despite not being close.
But Romney's just kind of sucking the magic out of this with his, well, constant tanking.
And here's what I've come to realize:
Politics on their own are boring, at least to the common people. Realizing this, the popular media has turned political debate into a story of good vs. evil, making politics exciting but causing a nearly insurmountable rift between the two parties. We've seen the results of this in the deadlocking of congress and the hatred perpetrated by both sides of the political spectrum.
I guess what I'm saying is I just wish we could try to work together in friendship, rather than drift apart in enmity. But I don't see it happening in the US any time soon.
And dropping. It was around 4% just a couple days ago. :lol
I want to see it drop below 1%, for the lolz.
RustyNails
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Just saw Daily Show interview with King Abdullah of Jordan. Dude is so personable, yet smart, pragmatic and realistic. Granted I saw his previous interview with Jon Stewart last year as well, but just wanted to point this out. I hope he has done great things with his country.
StopMakingSense
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Shit that's practically spearmen vs. battleship odds. Romney's got it in the bag.
i'm all for historical revisionism (lol) but man the MEDIA caused the congressional deadlocking and the 'enmity' that exists on both sides?
It isn't, you know, years of birthers, kenyan muslim digs, cheering for the concept of allowing a person to die at the footsteps of a hospital, Republicans entering into congress and immediately saying that their primary goal is to prevent any of Obama's legislation from passing?
No, it's the MEDIA who caused this emnity and the deadlocking. If it wasn't for the media, the Republicans and the Democrats would hold hands and french kiss and maybe even work together every day before going up and hanging their hats up on a coat rack, chests puffed out, prideful for a new day done in service to making the country better
speculawyer
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I understand the abortion stuff . . . but that hasn't been a huge part of the election. So much is the Kenyan Muslim Socialist stuff. It is hard not to chalk that up to racism because that is giving them the benefit of the doubt. If it is not racism, then they just seem kinda crazy & paranoid.
And speaking of crazy, I caught part of Bill O'Reilly today while at a McDonalds that has Fox News running 24/7. He was talking to Dick Morris and Dick Morris was going through how the polls are all bogus. I was thinking "This guy is just crazy". Then Bill O'Reilly wraps up the segment: "Thank you Dick Morris . . . Dick Morris' latest book is 'Here come the black helicopters!'" . I burst out laughing.
NullPointer
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Romney's cursed at the moment though - any witnessed action he takes results in an immediate debuff-self, so its a modified roll from the get-go.
And of course Obama's got the initiative.
Well I think U.S. politics has always been considerably more entertaining and lively than other democracies since close to the nation's founding. John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson in 1796 was probably the first lively election, and not soon after you had scandalous elections like when Andrew Jackson lost the Presidency despite having the popular vote, then following elections attacked his marriage. Politics in the U.S. has always been pretty fun.
ErasureAcer
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Shocker of the day. A Democrat is leading in Ron Paul's district Didn't even know Ron was retiring and if his seat goes blue... lol.
lol
time to start work on that Obama v Romney flash RPG game
"Obama casts SOARING RHETORIC...
...but the crowd did not respond."
"Romney utilizes TEA PARTY FERVOR...
...but they were chanting PAUL RYAN'S name."
Joe Shlabotnik
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Give Romney a hundred elections and he's bound to crit at least once.
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