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PoliGAF 2012 |OT4|: Your job is not to worry about 47% of these posts.
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Joe Shlabotnik
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The Technomancer
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What time is the debate anyway?
Fenderputty
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Didn't they try this with Biden? Woudln't the response be the same? "What would you do different? Go to war?"
RockTurtle
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guys any reccomendations to dwell the feelings of nausea starting to swell up from nervousness?
i keep fixating on the clock.
i think im going to go walk on the beach from 9 to 11.
i keep fixating on the clock.
i think im going to go walk on the beach from 9 to 11.
It wasn't a rage flip out it was more "If that's really how people see me I'm gunna hang up my hat " mixed with utter bewilderment.
Comparing someone to Kosmo is so over the top it ceases to be detectable as satire in certain cases (and is just inaccurate in most others)
Yep they tried this already.
I mean unless he starts talking like Gary Johnson or something I don't see how he could come away from that.
If I was running Mitts campaign all I would attack is jobs.
Why would you attack Steve Jobs?
If they aren't, they should be. Their path is much tougher.
Seriously come on!
littleworm
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I think you can be nervous and confident at the same time, at least that's how I'm feeling.
Shadow Hog
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Que Sera, Sera
Whatever will be, will be
Beer Monkey
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You know what I'd say to Romney? "Man up like Bush and doctor some intel and cost us 4,000 troops and $5 trillion? You guys are all the same, aren't you?"
I expect Obama to do well. At the very least, I don't expect it to be the same level of disaster the first debate was. But I also thought he was going to dominate the first debate, so I'm keeping a cap on my expectations this time. I'm not going to underestimate Mittens again.
You and me both.
Obama does hammer these points, plenty of times, in stump speeches, in videos and ads of his own. He doesn't "constantly" rely on Clinton - don't exaggerate.
And don't act like we wouldn't be having the opposite conversation if Clinton was barely involved. Then Obama would be "weak" for not getting Clinton onboard. If he can't get his own party behind him, if he can't get last Democratic president worth a damn to strongly endorse him, yadda, yadda, yadda.
I wish the debate was nothing but an attack on Steve Jobs.
Byakuya769
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Fuck it. Obama is going to shine like a 1,000 exploding stars, and Mitt Romney will reference "living la vida loca" as a way to connect to common humans.
Republicans aren't nervous because they literally cannot lose. Mitt Romney could drop his pants and take a shit on the debate floor and Fox/CNN would call it a tie.
FleckSplat
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Hey Mittens, you're so fine. You're so fine you blow my mind, Hey Mittens!
ThisWreckage
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So there aren't going to be any direct questions and there can't be follow ups asked by the audience or the moderator? This isn't even a debate.
speculawyer
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Seriously. Now I understand why Dems get the reputation as pussies.
The Technomancer
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Yes. No. Maybe. Check back in fifteen minutes. And then two hours. And then tomorrow.
CROWLEY: Yes, Mitt shit right on my face and told me I resembled a sloppy joe, but to be fair to Mitt, it was a highly impressive shit and I do resemble such a sandwich. Obama really needs to be clearer. Tie!
littleworm
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The Chosen One
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When Romney is on his game, he's a class 5 shapeshifter. It's really hard to hit him on any particular issue because he'll just change his position/policy on the fly. I doubt Obama will be able to really pin anything on him.
It's hard to debate a guy who has his own rules of reality. Obama will probably do better than the first debate, but I doubt he'll make much headway.
It's hard to debate a guy who has his own rules of reality. Obama will probably do better than the first debate, but I doubt he'll make much headway.
Polls are all over the place right now (some with Romney up, some with Obama up). General consensus seems to be that Romney has already reached the peak of his debate bump and the bleeding has stopped on Obama's side, but things are definitely settling closer than they were before the debate.
Obama still has a heavy electoral advantage.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Hopefully the one that thought it was a good idea to make a 10,000 dollar bet during a debate shows up
Half and half
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This might be too brutal, but if ever asked to man up on FP, Obama could just rattle off his rather impressive Al Qaeda kill list. Honestly, Obama is one cold mofo. He just has a nice guy exterior.
YouGov has Colorado Obama 48% Romney 45%
http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/16/colorado/
and Florida Obama 48% Romney 47%
http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/16/florida/
http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/16/colorado/
and Florida Obama 48% Romney 47%
http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/16/florida/
The Librarian
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I think one of the worst things to come out of this thread is the debate fanficiton.
There will follow ups from the Moderator.
Unless Romney comes out with a whopper, I think it would be better off if he talks himself up as consistent.
DataStream
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I have my doubts that will be worthwhile, is anyone familiar with this moderator and how legit they are?
Obama hammers these points in stump speeches all the time. Stop being disingenuous.
Aaron Strife
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Good to hear. YouGov was pretty reliable in 2010 even if their methodology is a tad unorthodox.
This is about in line with what I feel about those states: a small Obama advantage in Colorado (solidified by early voting/registration efforts), toss-up race in Florida. We'll see what PPP's snap poll in Colorado shows tonight I guess.
An internal poll for McCaskill in Missouri has her up by 14, 52-38. Wocka wocka doo doo yeah.
Angry Fork
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It's really shocking how bad CNN has become with the false equivalent 'fair' bs. I still like Anderson Cooper though he seems like someone who genuinely cares about being a legit journalist.
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Get ready for moderator to ask Obama to disprove he's a muslim communist. Surely if republicans make the accusation there MUST be some truth to it!
Soledad O'Brien is also one of the best ones in CNN - hot as hell to boot.
Frank the Great
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yeah, hard to believe she's 46.
Anyone know if the Paul Ryan soup kitchen story is getting any play in the evening news, particularly Ohio? It's been popping up on my facebook and stuff, so I'm curious. I would think something like that could be really fucking damning in Ohio, and since it happened there I'd think they'd be reporting it.
Nice @ those yougov numbers... that's encouraging, the more open avenues towards 270, the better.
And as someone who watches it often, since it's the only choice here, CNN as a whole isn't actually too bad. A-Coop/Soledad/Fareed are all obviously solid and a bunch of their normal morning/afternoon presenters aren't bad at all. However, their most visible 'journalists' in Blitzer/King/Crowley are all pretty fucking terrible and simply drag everything down. Combine that with their mostly awful crew of talking head pundits/analysts and it feeds that poisonous perception about CNN.
You give the solid people more of a voice and further face-time and opinions can change. Unfortunately, they seem to be going in the opposite direction.
And as someone who watches it often, since it's the only choice here, CNN as a whole isn't actually too bad. A-Coop/Soledad/Fareed are all obviously solid and a bunch of their normal morning/afternoon presenters aren't bad at all. However, their most visible 'journalists' in Blitzer/King/Crowley are all pretty fucking terrible and simply drag everything down. Combine that with their mostly awful crew of talking head pundits/analysts and it feeds that poisonous perception about CNN.
You give the solid people more of a voice and further face-time and opinions can change. Unfortunately, they seem to be going in the opposite direction.
Aaron Strife
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But he's just so darn earnest!
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