AlteredBeast
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That it is all sorts of messed up. Of course, the notion that two people spend billions to get elected says just as much.
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PoliGAF 2012 |OT4|: Your job is not to worry about 47% of these posts.
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That it is all sorts of messed up. Of course, the notion that two people spend billions to get elected says just as much.
As someone from Florida, that's not as big as you think. A LOT of old people here.
mckmas8808
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That tells me that Obama is probably going to win it by 2 or 3 points (if the election was held today).
Ah huh.
NullPointer
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I see somebody has never played X-Com.
Byakuya769
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More fuel for dumbass Facebook posts. Great.
I think that people see 70% on Silver's page and think it's a bolder prediction than it is because they're used to looking at percentages of how people might vote, not probabilities of a certain outcome. 7 out of 10 is just out of the range of a tossup. Anyone who has played D&D knows that things with only a 3 out of 10 chance of happening happen constantly.
Black Republican
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we're gonna kill the gaf boards come election night.
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PhoenixDark
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I've played Fire Emblem!
But yea, 70%...if that's the case on election day Obama will win
Bad news for Obama.
Someone already said that ;Ppolling discussion is like 2/3 of this entire thread haha. Should just call it POLLGaf
Byakuya769
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Monday can't come soon enough!polling discussion is like 2/3 of this entire thread haha. Should just call it POLLGaf
NullPointer
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This one wins, one and done.
Yeah, the debate should hold back the dominance of polls in Poligaf--for about 15 minutes.
Nailed it.
Jon Stewart was great on the 17th on Please Proceed: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/w...bate---now-including-the-president---benghazi
If Kosmo was still around, we could call it "Please proceed, Kosmo."
This gets my vote.
speculawyer
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Even Fox knows that no one gives a shit about this obscure consulate security snafu.
We've also lost 267 people in Afghanistan this year, how about a special on that? That would seem much more important.
speculawyer
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Definitely a pivotal moment in the election.
Romney going for move that may have scored himself a few marginal points (I still don't think anyone cares much about that event) but ends up getting his nose bloodied and having the crowd laugh at him.
The Chosen One
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I'm surprised "Romnesia" is getting so much play in the media. Since it's basically just a campaign attack line.
Maybe he's going to announce that the CIA finally got Fidel Castro.
Byakuya769
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True. We'll be discussing the effect of the debate before the first question is answered.
librul media
electricpirate
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Yea, I thought Romney was up by 3-4 in FL, now I see it's a dead heat/maybe Romney 1 point advantage.
With the ground game edge, that's actually quite doable.
PhoenixDark
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I wonder if there will be a Castro/Cuba question given the recent events there
A late night news dump haha.
Probably, but the last two Florida polls also said Romney +1, while the last two Iowa polls said +6 Obama and +3 Obama.
That what I thought, and now Angela 'austerity' Merkel has a baby chryssalid in her chest cavity.
This is what I don't get. I don't mean to downplay the death of Americans. It's an absolute tragedy what happened, and we should absolutely get who's responsible and find out what happened and where the info problem was. That said, people on the right are acting like this is the actual fucking 9/11 that happened. As you said, we lose more people in Afghanistan. We lost way way way way more people in Iraq, and we had false info leading us into that, too. To act like bad info or muck ups are suddenly upon us now that we've elected the Kenyan usurper into the white house is just crazy. Being an ambassador in a volatile part of the world is dangerous shit. And dangerous shit means at some point something is going to happen. It's inevitable. It sucks, but we have to learn from it and move on.
And, fuck, far more people than that would die every year if Romney were elected and repealed Obamacare!
if you plot that and use a trend line the next poll should be Romney +5... so...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/world/africa/election-year-stakes-overshadow-nuances-of-benghazi-investigation.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all&_r=1
How does Romney keep getting away with saying the video had nothing to do with it?
How does Romney keep getting away with saying the video had nothing to do with it?
electricpirate
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Don't worry, Hollande has a flank on her zombie.
It sums up one of Romney's major qualities, his flip flopittyness, in a single word. It lets the news talk about how he likes to flip flop which they haven't really done. I'm not complaining.
i see florida as an outside chance for obama, like wisconsin is an outside chance for romney. it's possible, but probably not going to happen.
in that regard, i think nc is to obama what pa is to romney: simply too far out of reach.
it's going to have to come down to ohio, colorado, iowa, new hampshire, and virginia. semi-confident in ohio, and colorado. iffy on iowa and new hampshire. i think virginia will ultimately go to obama, but maybe in an indiana or nc sort of way where it winds up a sort of surprise.
in that regard, i think nc is to obama what pa is to romney: simply too far out of reach.
it's going to have to come down to ohio, colorado, iowa, new hampshire, and virginia. semi-confident in ohio, and colorado. iffy on iowa and new hampshire. i think virginia will ultimately go to obama, but maybe in an indiana or nc sort of way where it winds up a sort of surprise.
Obama should spend the rest of his Florida funds on running a November 6th Matlock marathon on ABC. Landslide.
No way Romney wins NH, they like to flirt with the Republicans but they always come home to the Dems on election night.
Ignatz Mouse
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The commenters aren't playing along.
Because it both does and doesn't. The video was used for political advantage by those wanting to rile people up.
I seriously don't even get why the fuck it matters whether the video had anything to do with it or not, especially to Republicans. To them these people are attacking us for our freedom either way, right?
Rocket Scientist
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I read this when it was in the paper and thought it would blow up, but... nothing. I'm so confused. It was written before the debate.
I — I — I want to make sure we get that for the record, because it took the thread 14983 posts before we called the post a perfect thread title.
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