Not so sure about that. Wasn't there just that stat about Romney's tweets getting circulated more than Obama's? Obviously that's a small element, but an interesting one nonetheless. Seems more likely that there just might not be a lot of crossover between political sides on Twitter, so we just don't see what else is going on.
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Not so sure about that. Wasn't there just that stat about Romney's tweets getting circulated more than Obama's? Obviously that's a small element, but an interesting one nonetheless. Seems more likely that there just might not be a lot of crossover between political sides on Twitter, so we just don't see what else is going on.
Captain Pants
Killed by a goddamned Dredgeling
That's too bad about TA and Manos being banned. Kosmo I can take. Granted I don't know where I'll get my humor when I don't have a false equivalency generator fired up and ready to go, but TA and Manos are rad contributors.
adamsappel
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No, I recall reading they were "verbally reprimanded," which also pissed people off for its lack of consequence.
brianmcdoogle
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jamesinclair
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Will the last active poster post that vita is dead?
I would kill for audio of what was surely something like: "You can't be out there doing war whoops; I'm running for office for Pete's sake".
Dr. Pangloss
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You guys are not thinking clearly. Who will inform us on Wednesday night how Romney destroyed that simpleton Obumur?
1. We'll poll our reactions
2. unskew them
3. ???
4. Corporations are people, my friend.
polyh3dron
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And here I thought Kosmo was immune to the bannings.
I'm sure he's in some alternate forum right now talking about how it's unfair that conservatives get banned just for being conservative and he's living proof or something.
I'm sure he's in some alternate forum right now talking about how it's unfair that conservatives get banned just for being conservative and he's living proof or something.
Thanks for that vision of a dystopic alternate forum where we are the trolls.
ClassyPenguin
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Kosmo and Manos banned all in the same week?
We are through the looking glass people!
We are through the looking glass people!
brianmcdoogle
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Manos died in this thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=492721&page=16
Read the last two pages to see the gists of it.
Sir_Crocodile
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Ignoring inconvenient facts and general trolling in the campus gun thread I think.
edit: beaten like a jobber
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Same shit he's been pulling for almost a year now. Only finally he bowed up against someone more stubborn than he was, and they had the advantage of not being an obtuse compulsive liar.
Why does the GOP have such a boner over trying to make Obama look like Carter?
This is going to fail miserably.
They better have Obama on tape saying "fuck Libya, I've got shit to do, I'll piss on the embassy" or something. Otherwise, trying to make the man who greenlighted killing Bin Laden in a risky op look like a weakling on foreign policy in an election driven by the economy is, like, the dumbest shit ever -- and speaks volumes to how desperate they are.
brianmcdoogle
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If Obama is Carter, then Romney is Reagan. I mean, they both start with the letter "R", right?
PhoenixDark
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To make matters worse the media clearly doesn't care. Not that I agree with how the media is handling this, but I don't see them changing their tune. Especially if Romney lays a clear dud at the first debate
A good jobs report on Friday would be devastating for him
Holy shit. From the omnibus dismantling post through to the end, that was a spectacular flameout.
Well, Carter lost. I really don't think it's any more complex than that; they're just looking at the last Dem to lose reelection and pretending Obama is him. He's not, of course.
Aaron Strife
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Well someone in this election is Reagan, and it sure isn't Romney.
speculawyer
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The bolded part would probably be a winning slogan.
PhoenixDark
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The Carter comparisons have been weak for years. Initially they seemed to compliment the GOP's very first talking point: "president Obama hasn't done anything." Of course once he did some stuff they decided to label him an extremist, which remains the main point. I don't think anyone considered Carter an extremist liberal
Romney won't be able to discuss Libya for 90 minutes at the fp debate. How does he argue Obama is Carter while acknowledging Obama got rid of Bin Laden and is decimating terrorists with drones? Perhaps in a more crass world Obama could say "do you know how many innocent brown people I've had killed? Would Carter approve that shit?"
Romney won't be able to discuss Libya for 90 minutes at the fp debate. How does he argue Obama is Carter while acknowledging Obama got rid of Bin Laden and is decimating terrorists with drones? Perhaps in a more crass world Obama could say "do you know how many innocent brown people I've had killed? Would Carter approve that shit?"
viciouskillersquirrel
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As a foreigner, it seems to me that Republicans hate Carter because he was, in their eyes, weak. I think that was his biggest crime. He wasn't the rugged, courageous, football captain manly man they wanted and it killed them that this dorky, polite policy wonk with the reedy voice was their president.
Never mind the fact that everything seemed to be going wrong for the guy with the economy, the hostage crisis and thus the polls at the time. It makes people remember his presidency as a difficult time, so it makes him a convenient bogeyman like Nixon or W Bush on the left.
Had the rescue operation he ordered succeeded, could Carter have won?
Never mind the fact that everything seemed to be going wrong for the guy with the economy, the hostage crisis and thus the polls at the time. It makes people remember his presidency as a difficult time, so it makes him a convenient bogeyman like Nixon or W Bush on the left.
Had the rescue operation he ordered succeeded, could Carter have won?
brianmcdoogle
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What's poligaf's opinion on the "Carter is the reason religion is so pervasive in modern politics" theory?
viciouskillersquirrel
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Explain?
brianmcdoogle
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Carter was a very religious guy, brought it to the national stage, and there it stayed. That's it, really.
Aaron Strife
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It's weird watching Ford and Carter debate on abortion - both of them are against it, though Carter stops short of saying he would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Many prominent Democratic politicians were pro-life until the church jumped in bed with the Republicans.
Funny how when the actual polls start closing somewhat they proclaim them less skewed. How convenient, dipshits.
Many prominent Democratic politicians were pro-life until the church jumped in bed with the Republicans.
Do you have to ask?Oblivion said:
Funny how when the actual polls start closing somewhat they proclaim them less skewed. How convenient, dipshits.
PhoenixDark
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Obama's fp numbers have fallen since Libya. The administration's response has been aimless, confusing, and contradictory. If Romney didn't blow his load while blood was still warm he would have had a clear opening
I'd like to see some examples of this. I find it really hard to believe as bad as the shit that happened in Libya's been, it's hard to think that it would sway the public away from Obama's FP accomplishments.
Rocket Scientist
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I just read the whole thing... WHAT?! I can't believe people actually think that every pollster out there is doing their math wrong. They get money to be right, not wrong.
lol. tea baggers are the least popular group in the country. Even less popular than atheists and muslims!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/17/the-most-unpopular-group-in-america.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/17/the-most-unpopular-group-in-america.html
speculawyer
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I've seen no evidence of that. But it is not like it matters . . . no one gives a shit about foreign policy right now other than making sure we don't get dragged into a pointless expensive war and we get out of the one that we are still in.
speculawyer
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polyh3dron
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pheeny pls
Glorified G
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The actual poll itself is a year old. Frum for some reason decided to link to it now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-BB-Xk9xYY&feature=related
Pheeny cares. Concern, you could call it, technically.
Don't fuck this up EV. I need dat confirmation bias.That last 2 pages makes my head hurt.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Hell I love it. It was so cathartic to witness Manos' bullshit fall down around him and watch him squirm to reprhase, "NO U" in pithy ways.
Manmademan
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SOME animosity? Steele was propped up as a diversity token after the GOP got obliterated in 2008, then run out of town on a rail once going full racist turned out to be a better strategy.
I don't like the guy, but you almost have to feel sorry for him. He seemed to really think the GOP was interested and capable of positive things, and got smacked down hard with the reality stick
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