• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

PoliGAF Interim Thread of USA General Elections (DAWN OF THE VEEP)

Status
Not open for further replies.
S

Sharp

Member
Cheebs said:
Which is even MORE weird. Because I saw an article how Obama put tons of money into google ads compared to mccain and hillary. He dwarfed them. Yet we get zip at gaf. :lol
Click to expand...
Google Ads is smarter than you think. It knows Obama ads would be useless here.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Cheebs said:
Which is even MORE weird. Because I saw an article how Obama put tons of money into google ads compared to mccain and hillary. He dwarfed them. Yet we get zip at gaf. :lol
Click to expand...
I think Obama went for a site type specific ad buyout. For example, ads would only appear on sites google ads has listed as political sites, ect.

McCain meanwhile seems to have a keyword specific buyout. So it doesn't matter what the site is, just whether a certain keyword is mentioned or not (in this case McCain probably). You can usually tell the difference between the two by seeing if the ad appears throughout a site or just on certain pages
 
V

videogamer

Banned
StopMakingSense said:
God, the banner ads here with Lieberman are just there on purpose to piss me off, aren't they?
Click to expand...
Y'know, if they piss you off, you can always just click on them once in a while. McCain gets to pay GAF for the honor of pissing you off.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Obama sucks
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
 
S

StopMakingSense

Member
grandjedi6 said:
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Obama sucks
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Click to expand...

Dickhole



:lol
 
Z

Zeed

Banned
grandjedi6 said:
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Obama sucks
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Click to expand...
It's working.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Victory!

14sf8dx.png
 
P

polyh3dron

Banned
Formless said:
It's remarkable how polarized this election will be age-wise. Unfortunately older people vote more often.
Click to expand...
I have a feeling this election will be a piece of anecdotal evidence speaking to the contrary :D
 
C

Cheebs

Member
wait so repeating those names over and over really works? :lol I gotta try

john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
thats not change you can believe in
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Obama sucks
my friends
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
my friends
second carter term
my friends
my friends
my friends
my friends
my friends
my friends
my friends
bottled hot water
my friends
my friends
 
T

The Librarian

Banned
Cheebs said:
wait so repeating those names over and over really works? :lol I gotta try

john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Obama sucks
john McCain
joe lieberman
john McCain
joe lieberman
Click to expand...
Hey, I think I remember this other guy, Ob..., Obam..., some Muslim I think.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Cheebs said:
Oh Jesus, I love McCain's website.

Obama's family timeline goes back to 1961.

McCain? Goes back to 1840! :lol :lol
Click to expand...

But Obama was born in 1961. Is McCain implying that he was likewise born in 1840? :lol
 
F

Farmboy

Member
Via TPM: apparently McCain's staff isn't moderating the golf gear reviews on his site:

Better than the GI BILL! June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Heywood Jablome from Washington, DC United States
Getting these in the mail was MUCH BETTER than getting college benefits after my service!

I was going to give you another look until... June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Peter Nutt from Hootenanny, FL United States
...I saw that the product code was FDR2583. FDR? FDR?!? John, you crypto-socialist, I was intrigued by your ballbag until I came to your website and finally saw youre nuts.

Great for... June 11, 2008
Reviewer: Grand Ol' Duffer. from Fartsville, OH
throwing at kids to GET OFF MY LAWN YOU LITTLE JERKS!
Click to expand...
 
T

Trakdown

Member
GhaleonEB said:
Wee bit of an enthusiasm gap there.

How has the fund raising gone? Last I read the Democratic convention fund raising was running behind.
Click to expand...

See, this is where I'm getting confused. Apparently, Obama's making a ton of money (see here) for the campaign, especially compared to McCain. Last I heard, the DNC was a little light, but I thought this was all pooled, since the RNC raised $45 Million last month and it's apparently going to be used for the campaign.

I haven't heard anything new from the Dem side about their convention, and they just released a partial Convention Week schedule, so I assume it's been taken care of.
 
G

GhaleonEB

Member
Trakdown said:
See, this is where I'm getting confused. Apparently, Obama's making a ton of money (see here) for the campaign, especially compared to McCain. Last I heard, the DNC was a little light, but I thought this was all pooled, since the RNC raised $45 Million last month and it's apparently going to be used for the campaign.

I haven't heard anything new from the Dem side about their convention, and they just released a partial Convention Week schedule, so I assume it's been taken care of.
Click to expand...
From May 26:

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/convention-fundraising-still-lagging.html

The Denver host committee for the Democratic National Convention is behind on raising the money it needs to transform the Mile High City into the focal point of American politics for four days in late August, just three months away.

The host committee needs to raise $40.6 million by June 16. It fell $5 million short on its most recent deadline, March 17, by which point the host committee promised to raise $28 million, according to its contract with the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC).
...
Members of the Denver host committee concede the lack of clarity in the Democratic field has been a factor in their fundraising struggles, but only one of many.

“You’ve also got to look at the economy, you’ve got to look at [the fact that] Denver’s got seven Fortune 500 companies. That’s one-third the number Minneapolis has,” Denver Mayor John W. Hickenlooper told CQ Politics.
...
“Other host cities had a candidate to work with to rally around. We don’t. But I can’t say that that’s hurt us or not, it’s just a fact of the cycle that we’re in,” said Chris Lopez, a spokesman for the Denver host committee.
...
Lopez said the Denver host committee was ahead of where the Boston host committee was at the same point for the 2004 convention and that they felt confident they would meet their fundraising obligations.

“There’s not panic. It’ll come. We’re moving the needle, we’re trending ahead of where Boston was and we feel really good about that. . . . We expect here at the finish line that we definitely will hit the numbers,” he said. - CQPolitics
Click to expand...

That was the last update I've read. I suspect things have worked themselves out, but I'm still looking for confirmation.
 
Z

Zeed

Banned
Trakdown said:
See, this is where I'm getting confused. Apparently, Obama's making a ton of money (see here) for the campaign, especially compared to McCain. Last I heard, the DNC was a little light, but I thought this was all pooled, since the RNC raised $45 Million last month and it's apparently going to be used for the campaign.

I haven't heard anything new from the Dem side about their convention, and they just released a partial Convention Week schedule, so I assume it's been taken care of.
Click to expand...
The DCCC > RCCC
Obama > McCain
RNC > DNC

Not sure about the DCSC and RCSC (are there even such things?)

Farmboy said:
Via TPM: apparently McCain's staff isn't moderating the golf gear reviews on his site:
Click to expand...
:lol :lol :lol
 
S

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
Hitokage said:
You know, we had these kinds of signals during the 2000 election...
Click to expand...


One of the reasons th GOP is terrified of having McCain as its candidate is the very real danger he will never say anything predictable for more than two consecutive appearances. It is one of their biggest hurdles.

He is very old, lacks curiosity, terrible memory and lousy basic grasp of foreign policy and relations. Smarter than Bush in a lot of ways, but no better at talking.
 
G

GhaleonEB

Member
Thunder Monkey said:
:lol :lol :lol

Gotta love the internet!
Click to expand...
Oh my god.

These are great white balls, I for one am glad that John McCain supports these balls. The only problem is that you can't lie with these balls, once you do some guy who looks and sounds like the emperor from Star Wars corrects you on camera.

Also I'm glad to see John McCain persevere and support a game that requires arms to be raised above shoulders to play. I know that John McCain will be a great president since that this great country will be regulated down to his VP since he'll have to take regular Matlock breaks, and with the on set of alzheimers causing him to screw up leaders of different countries, it'll be like a new President every day!

---------------------------------------

When I think "McCain," I think "old balls and loose skin." These balls were pretty much straight out of the factory, and there was no lose skin at all. What a bunch of bull!

---------------------------------------

I love this kit. I appreciate the compartment for my soiled Depends(TM).

---------------------------------------

My friends, every order comes with free Pancakes!!

---------------------------------------

When are you going to offer a Joe Lieberman Certified McCain Ballwasher?

:lol :lol :lol
 
N

numble

Member
GhaleonEB said:
From May 26:

http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/05/convention-fundraising-still-lagging.html



That was the last update I've read. I suspect things have worked themselves out, but I'm still looking for confirmation.
Click to expand...
The split field hurt DNC fundraising because they couldn't have joint fundraisers with the nominee if the nominee wasn't decided yet. Since it's clear now, they should now be able to raise a ton. Case in point, Obama will be holding a joint fundraiser in 2 weeks in Los Angeles to raise money for both his campaign and the DNC:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/06/obama_heads_to_los_angeles_for.html
"Barack Obama will return to Los Angeles on June 24 for his first fund-raiser in the area since claiming the Democratic nomination.

"The event --- certain to a big draw in the Hollywood and L.A. fund-raising community --- will be held at the Los Angeles Music Center in downtown Los Angeles, although the exact venue is being worked out, according to a source with knowledge of the plans. It will start at 5 p.m., and is being organized for a crowd of about 1,000. Obama will be raising money for a victory fund via Democratic National Committee, meaning that donors can max out to $28,500 apiece."
Click to expand...
 
T

Trakdown

Member
Zeed said:
The DCCC > RCCC
Obama > McCain
RNC > DNC

Not sure about the DCSC and RCSC (are there even such things?)
Click to expand...

Ah. Thank you, sir. That helps clear it up a bit.

Also, regarding the fundraising, and just to add to what numble said, I haven't seen any DNC numbers for May, but I know there were at least 3 fundraisers for the DNC held last month. And if Obama's "Challenge McCain and the RNC" counter is any indicator, they're going to clean up this month now that the ship is running straight.

Via TPM: apparently McCain's staff isn't moderating the golf gear reviews on his site:
Click to expand...

:lol Because nothing says "McCain" like white objects that contrast with the color green.
 
D

Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Please Obama, please do something for the public in Los Angeles. I was always out of town when he came around. Kinda doubt it though.
 
G

grandjedi6

Master of the Google Search
Zeed said:
The DCCC > RCCC
Obama > McCain
RNC > DNC

Not sure about the DCSC and RCSC (are there even such things?)


:lol :lol :lol
Click to expand...

I think you mean the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC).

In which yes, DSCC > NRSC
 
N

numble

Member
Dan said:
Please Obama, please do something for the public in Los Angeles. I was always out of town when he came around. Kinda doubt it though.
Click to expand...
Something I learned from talking to people who did it, though it probably will be a bit harder in some place as big as Los Angeles (and the event is already somewhat high profile)--if you hang around near where the private event is going to be, there's a chance that he'll come out and "work the ropeline".

At the private event that he had in Beaverton, Oregon (the one where he said he was in 57 states, I believe), I heard a bunch of people just found out where the event was going to be, hung around outside and he came and shook everyone's hand (one guy even said he just looked out his office window and saw Obama walking out, so he ran across the street and got his hand shaken).

I doubt it would work at something as huge as a 1,000 person fundraiser at the LA Music Center, but maybe he'll have some other events in LA as well.
 
S

syllogism

Member
Latest SurveyUSA WA poll has Obama up by 17% in the battleground state of Washington. Up by 25% among women.

Rasmussen also finally has Obama up in MI
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

SCHiM | Review Thread
Analysis Review
7
810
Eiknarf replied
[IGN] Explaining – and Fixing – IGN's Face-Off Controversy
20
1K
March Climber replied
Sand Land | Review Thread
Opinion Analysis Review
16
2K
adamsapple replied
Sexualizing
Opinion Drama Science 2
62
6K
Raonak replied
[GI.biz] Cheap money and bad bets: How the games industry turned pandemic success into disaster
2
75
3K
sharp weiner replied
Top Bottom