anonymous_abc
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Well the president is still referred to as mr president after he left office, so I guess. It's similar for governors.
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Well the president is still referred to as mr president after he left office, so I guess. It's similar for governors.
Americans don't understand honorifics.
Seriously, that's basically it. Technically, Romney is no longer entitled to be called Governor since it's just a job and it's not his job any more. In practice, Americans are so desperate for some form of titled nobility that we call governors and presidents Governor and President for basically the rest of their lives.
Well, he's not getting my kid now -- even if Romney did make a lot of mistakes, I didn't see any falling over.
Amibguous Cad
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Is it just me, or did Obama come off as significantly more serious about the deficit last night than Romney?
This has me worried. Please tell me Obama isn't going to stop countercyclical spending with unemployment at 7.8% and a negative real interest rate. Left-wing austerity is still austerity.
This has me worried. Please tell me Obama isn't going to stop countercyclical spending with unemployment at 7.8% and a negative real interest rate. Left-wing austerity is still austerity.
I really like that description. It was a big misstep for him. Surprised he was not aware of that fact.
RustyNails
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She is a decent host of CNN's State of the Union.
I wish Fareed was the host of the foreign policy debate. Scieffer is going to get trampled. Yes I know he is probably learning to be more forceful after Lehrer's utter headless chicken moderation. But as far as I recall, he wasn't good in 2008 debates.
Sirpopopop
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Austerity is not a left-wing idea at all.
Patrick Klepek
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yeah, that shit is brilliant.
Just wait til Nov. 7th. :S
Sirpopopop
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WHERE IS YOUR REVIEW OF DUDEBRO II?
speculawyer
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This Libya fact issue is why the GOP should lose. Nothing to do with Libya but instead the fact that GOP IS DETACHED FROM REALITY.
You can't come up with effective policy or lead if you live in a world of made up facts. Far too much the right-wing talking points are not based in reality.
Oh yes. The folks living in the GOP/Fox bubble will be shocked that he's re-elected, since everyone in their spheres of everyday life hates Obama, save for maybe that one "freak" in the family that they each have.
Indeed, the only way to explain a victory to them is to say that he cheated.
It's going to be hilarious to watch. Scrumptious. Delectable. And then the holidays - Thanksgiving and Christmas gatherings for many of us - that will be entertaining as well.
We got alot of yougov polls yesterday before the debate.
http://today.yougov.com/news/2012/10/16/iowa/
They had Obama up by 4 in Iowa.
empty vessel
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As far as I can tell, that's exactly what he is going to do. He seems sincerely not to understand basic macroeconomics or the monetary system. Then again, neither does the progressive caucus, whose leaders recently sent a letter championing austerity as well. It's a serious problem.
Anyone? As a Canadian, I have no idea which sites covering US politics are any good or are just people on the same side agreeing with each other.
cartoon_soldier
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None, really.
The Librarian
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Can you guys help me out? I'm looking for articles or videos that point out examples of blatant Fox News bias.
Any help would be appreciated.
Any help would be appreciated.
gutter_trash
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hBNHQHoNk
my favorite question of the night, what is the difference between you (Romney) and G.W. Bush?
my favorite question of the night, what is the difference between you (Romney) and G.W. Bush?
Can you guys help me out? I'm looking for articles or videos that point out examples of blatant Fox News bias.
Any help would be appreciated.
www.mediamatters.com
Amibguous Cad
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It's perfectly possible to have left-wing austerity. Shut down countercyclical spending, and appoint hawkish central bank representatives while pursuing left-wing spending and taxing priorities. The "fiscal cliff" is left-wing austerity: raise taxes on the rich, decrease military spending, close the deficit.
To be clear, I rather like those first two priorities, but I wish they would be paired with another stimulus program or (more likely and probably more effective) middle and lower class tax cuts to make sure the sudden increase of taxation and decrease of government spending doesn't throttle the nascent recovery.
I can't suggest any specific outlet, but this article (and Jon Chait in general) is amazing.
http://nymag.com/news/politics/elections-2012/obama-romney-economic-plans-2012-10/
I also dig the hell out of Matt Yglesias. He's got his own point of view, but as a left-leaning neoliberal, it at least doesn't fall in line with either party.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox.html
BrokenFiction
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Can you guys help me out? I'm looking for articles or videos that point out examples of blatant Fox News bias.
Any help would be appreciated.
Chaos on Bullshit Mountain?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/20/jon-stewart-fox-news-romney-47-percent-video_n_1899787.html
Historians may just call it the Raddatz Effect.
Figures he'd pick on a white man.
how can America trust Obama with anything when he does this on camera? Do you trust his job numbers? I don't...not after seeing this.
What a bully!
Theoretically, yes. Empirically, though, the invariability of a binary equilibrium has glaring exceptions. Even in the United Kingdom, the archetypal majoritarian system, the two-party equilibrium is fraying. And it's not apparent they'll return to one as when Labour replaced the Liberals in the early 20th Century. Thus, it's more accurate to think probabilistically instead of deterministically. Even Duverger clarified his "law" was intended to identify only tendencies.
Eugh lame.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Man you could tell Bams got pissed when Romney made his Benghazi play.
TacticalFox88
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That surprised the hell out of me. That's the first time where there was no if ands or buts or no room for interpretation. He was assuredly pissed off. Even a blind man could've felt his rage.
electricpirate
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Yea, reading transcript, his response was somewhat muddled and slippery, but his body language is dead on.
cartoon_soldier
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NH really only comes into Play for Obama if Romney starts sweeping rest of the states apart from OH
Yes. Uncontested states + Ohio + Michigan + Wisconsin + (Iowa or Nevada) = 271. NH is only relevant to electoral scenarios that end in hilarious ties.
Don't know what your definition of good is, but there's also
http://www.nationaljournal.com/
http://thehill.com/
that offer some semblance of politico-like coverage. Which is basically "neutral" news aimed at the Washington crowd.
Wool hilarious ties!
If you give Romney CO, NV NH, VA, FL, NC he would still lose to Obama (271-267)
Thanks for those. I like politico mostly because their articles are less editorialized.
StickSoldier
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I like that at least Yahoo shows that Obama won. And the top trending thing on their site is "Binders full of women." lol....
Frank the Great
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the UK will revert to two-party dominant, it is inevitable. this is why the liberal democrats wanted proportional representation to be included as part of their coalition deal with the conservatives.
the last election was also something of an outlier, with a terrible labor leader and a dynamic young third party leader. labor will get their shit together and the system will revert eventually. any change in the two-party system is only temporary without a change in the voting system. the "tendency" will always be to revert to two-parties, so any miraculous third party run is only temporary. i feel like you're nitpicking at what i said only to reach the same conclusion.
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