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PoliGAF 2012 |OT4|: Your job is not to worry about 47% of these posts.

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KingGondo

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Will Texas ever become a swing-state in the near future?
I'd say it's possible within 3 presidential election cycles if the Dems run the right (read: Hispanic) candidate.

Obama really, really needs to prioritize immigration reform--it's the right thing to do both morally and politically.
 
Yikes, you guys are not voting for this mad man, seriously

Is Efraim Halevy held in good standing in general? If so, this is a particularly interesting talking point that BO could bring to tonight's debate. "what Romney has done, in itself — is a heavy blow to the ultimate interests of the United States and Israel" is pretty damning.


edit: I see he brokered peace with Jordan. Wikipedia says he's pragmatic and doesn't subscribe to forms of idealism.
 

GashPrex

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Seems a bit dramatic no?

So currently 538 puts this at 66% for Obama and 33% for Romney - seems about right based on Ohio's latest poll IMO

I still don't see how either side could be sure this is in the bag though.
 

Cheebo

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Reuters/Ipsos:
O - 46
R - 46

I love the first line:

"The bad news for President Obama"

Which one of you is Nate?

He had bad news for both candidates, and the one for Obama is that the second debate didn't improve his poll numbers. It isn't like Nate is making anything up. Everything knows that already and is worth pointing out.
 

gcubed

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Seems a bit dramatic no?

So currently 538 puts this at 66% for Obama and 33% for Romney - seems about right based on Ohio's latest poll IMO

I still don't see how either side could be sure this is in the bag though.

not in the bag, but the path to victory is far easier for Obama then Romney. If it wasn't for the EC, i'd be worried
 

norinrad

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Al-Monitor: Beyond the heated US campaign rhetoric, what do you make of the wider perception that, even though Obama has actually used force quite a bit, and successfully oversaw the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, that he is perceived, or misperceived, as not wanting to use force, and the US is seen therefore as weak.

Halevy: I think nobody who has been involved in ordering the use of force can forget the angst, the days and nights of concern, as to what and how it can be done.

Romney has said, Anybody could have decided to finish bin Laden. Even [Jimmy] Carter. This again was a mistaken concept. President Obama didn’t just decide [one day to kill bin Laden]. The operation to end the life of bin Laden necessitated multiple points of decision by him. I know from operations I have been involved with on a smaller scale.

They are very intricate. You don’t just give the order and wait in your office for commanders to come three months later and say it’s done. No. This kind of operation, which is accident prone, hands on operation, one has to make one decision after the other […] It took courage and cool headedness and leadership. Anyone who says it was an easy thing to decide, doesn’t understand what he’s talking about. [Such comments] show a total lack of understanding of what this kind of operation means.

Once I was in charge of an operation and Netanyahu was Prime Minister. One day, because of the intricacy of what we were doing, I talked to him 10 times on the phone […] Ten times. It was a Friday, a day I will not forget.

This kind of operation, every minute, an issue comes up, that sometimes requires a decision on the political level.

Mitt you idiot
 

TRENDING: Akin compares McCaskill to a 'dog' playing 'fetch'

"She goes to Washington, D.C. and it's a little bit like one of those dogs, you know 'fetch,' and she goes to Washington, D.C. and gets all of these taxes and red tape and bureaucracy and executive orders and agencies and she brings all of this stuff and dumps it on us in Missouri," Akin said Saturday at a fund-raiser in Springfield, Missouri.

Audio of the GOP Senate candidate was posted to PoliticMo.com on Saturday.

"It seems to me she's got it just backwards," Akin said at the event, featuring former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee - one of few conservatives who stood by the Republican candidate following his controversial comments on "legitimate rape."

Akin continued: "What she should be doing is taking the common sense that we see in Missouri and taking that to Washington, D.C. and blessing them with some solutions instead of more problems."
 
So the quinnipac poll calmed some people here? As I said it looks like a 2-3 point race.

Nationally it is tightening but it is also possibly noise.

Ras Colorado poll not good for Obama though.
 
I used to think republicans were either oblivious or tone deaf, but after years of this I think they know exactly what they're doing. Comparing women to dogs, comparing the president to apes, making drug references...they love toeing that line and then saying "I didn't mean it like that. You're racist/sexist for even thinking I said that." Bachman, Gingrich, etc love doing this, and of course it validates the people who hate on "politically correct" social norms
 

Forever

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I used to think republicans were either oblivious or tone deaf, but after years of this I think they know exactly what they're doing. Comparing women to dogs, comparing the president to apes, making drug references...they love toeing that line and then saying "I didn't mean it like that. You're racist/sexist for even thinking I said that." Bachman, Gingrich, etc love doing this, and of course it validates the people who hate on "politically correct" social norms

Yet you seem invested in the image of Obama as King Kong with Hillary slung over his shoulder.
 

RDreamer

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lol, Tommy thompson

"It's a step in the right direction. A giant step in the right direction. We may have to modify it, you know, as we go along. When I'm elected United States Senate (sic), and I get a chance to use the computers, and have the access to CBO, I'll be able to make the necessary things. I'm talking conceptually, an idea out there that has been advanced by somebody else, and I believe it makes a lot of sense."
 
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