This week's On The Media had a really interesting piece on how the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis were shrouded in myth for two decades and it made compromise in foreign policy much harder on future occasions. It also touched on the fallacy of leaving things up to advisers.
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PoliGAF 2012 |OT4|: Your job is not to worry about 47% of these posts.
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Not me! I've never been terribly worried about Obama electoral math. That's what wins elections, and we're looking fine there. If the worst is over for Obama, and I can't see things getting worse than the first debate for his campaign, then I'm good.
CaptainSchwann
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Im assuming RCP/Nate doesn't count them?
How dare you make me look at a zogby number.
Aaron Strife
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in other news Kerry leads in Tennessee
NullPointer
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I've instituted a new policy of not drinking on debate or voting nights. The ONLY way I avoid getting destroyed is when there's no drama, and well, that hasn't happened yet ;PWhat will people be drinking during the day of the election?
I plan to make mojitos during the day and then finish the evening with scotch.
That said, when Bams wins I may just toss that rule aside.
DragonSworne
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You might want to try cava instead of champagne. Get the seco variety for sweet but not too sweet.
Aaron Strife
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Obama's lucky. He only gets midterms every 2 years. Last one was an F though
Well of course you aren't worried, look at that confident-ass avatar with that lucky jacket on that lovable mug. That alone would bring comfort to the fearful!
Awww.. but I like my sweet stuff!
Maybe a good port instead.. hmm..
Anyway, looks like Chuck's a bit more candid on Twitter than he is on TV.
He says "correct" in response to the guy's claim on Ohio? Hmm.
I will always hate Zogby till the day I day. Those fuckers convinced me Kerry was going to win in 2004 going away.
Awww.. but I like my sweet stuff!
Maybe a good port instead.. hmm..
Anyway, looks like Chuck's a bit more candid on Twitter than he is on TV.
He says "correct" in response to the guy's claim on Ohio? Hmm.
He is saying correct that it isn't tied, he even said it is getting closer in that same tweet.
Awww.. but I like my sweet stuff!
Maybe a good port instead.. hmm..
Anyway, looks like Chuck's a bit more candid on Twitter than he is on TV.
He says "correct" in response to the guy's claim on Ohio? Hmm.
He's saying that there is chatter about it closing, but that it's still not all that close. Which is true, we've gone from a 10 point difference at best to about a 3 or 4 point.
Nate picks up Gravis and Baydoun Foster, I doubt he wouldn't use Zogby.
Awww.. but I like my sweet stuff!
Maybe a good port instead.. hmm..
Anyway, looks like Chuck's a bit more candid on Twitter than he is on TV.
He says "correct" in response to the guy's claim on Ohio? Hmm.
Another reason not to be worried:
Obama could lose ALL FOUR of his "closest states" plus New Hampshire and still win.
http://www.270towin.com/2012_election_predictions.php?mapid=NeJ
Diamond Joe knows best.
Hobbestetrician
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Well, seeing that anything 3 or less is reported as a 'dead heat'...
But maybe Tweets don't have that same rule as they don't earn clicks from misleading headlines.
There is a reason veuve cliquot (sp) is the goto safety gift champagne- its predictable and good value. but yeah, cava and prossecco are fine substitutions and better value.
soul creator
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seems to basically just show that you can pretty much justify anything when you put "Christian" behind it. In a world where Martin Luther King, Jerry Falwell, Barack Obama, Pat Robertson, abolitionists and slave holders, creationists and evolutionary scientists are all considered Christian by millions of people, the label is pretty meaningless (at least, when it comes to describing any sort of coherent moral viewpoint).
It's all just one giant Rorschach test. Let's just hope the "nice" Christian rorschach test wins out in the long run.
or just skip over all the supernatural baggage and go straight to something like secular humanism
Half and half
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I don't know much about champagne. But if O wins, I'm going to buy some high end Remy Martin.
speculawyer
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Many of women in Florida don't have functioning uteruses. (They are old.)
I prefer it to (red/white) wine. Beer is still my go to.
It doubt it's heavily weighted.
Black Republican
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aw damn man
Plus they want grandkids
An easy response to those images:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bus...O-IMeViAK-l4GIDA&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=944&bih=927
Angelus Errare
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I'm lost.
ClassyPenguin
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holy fuck, that's real!
LOL
This will be the stuff the right herp derps all day tomorrow and Tuesday, regardless of what's said in the debate.
Half and half
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Leader of free world continually falling for the "what's that on your shirt" trick.
Are we really going to have to listen to the apology tour bullshit during the debate? I swear to god if that's Romney's big thing I will fly over there and punch him in his smug robotic face.
Respect
MasterShotgun
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I wouldn't be shocked if we heard it in EVERY ANSWER. I might need to break out my emergency whiskey early.
Aaron Strife
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Obama personally negotiates world peace.
That communist swine!
That communist swine!
bad news for Obama
Fair and balanced.
Our new Iowa poll for @HCAN finds Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 49-48 there: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/10/obama-leads-by-1-in-iowa.html …
So...O+2 in...two days?
So...O+2 in...two days?
Hobbestetrician
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O 64/35 of those who have voted, R 54/42 for those who have yet to.
Bad news for Diablos' blood pressure.
Worse news for PoliGAF
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