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PolliGaf 2012 |OT5| Big Bird, Binders, Bayonets, Bad News and Benghazi
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NullPointer
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Even if its positive "this is not what a recovery looks like", "How convenient", "The numbers look cooked", "I know whats needed to get hiring up", "Too little too late", "Hey, so how about Libya huh?" etc etc.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
CNN says the race is a dead heat and diabloses the shit out of everything so they can hedge their bets and be right regardless of what actually occurs. Using science and math to predict the election produces a particular result, which would be bad for their obsession with being fair and balanced.
Fragamemnon
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They haven't bought into the unskewer man himself, but they have bought the notion that there is a vast poll discrepancy undercounting Republican voter ID. Gallup and Rassmussen, which are working with some LV models that aren't quite on the money-are precise , providing repeated results, but not accurate.
i no longer have a head
NO, YOU FUCKING MORON, NO ONE CARES ABOUT KANSAS.
I apologize to anyone from Kansas.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Obama at the highest level on intrade since the Denver debate crash.
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Jobs numbers are almost assuredly going to be in line with the economic numbers from last friday.
reggieandTFE
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Can anyone point me in the direction of these supposed polls showing Republicans up nationally in early voting? All of the state polls I've seen have Ds up, but a lot diehards Rs are pushing them in the comments on other sites.
Fragamemnon
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They were conducted for Heath Care for America Now, and Real Conservative Politics doesn't include sponsored polls even when they are from established organizations. The NC poll was done by PPP to get a good grasp on the locals before election day.
Black Mamba
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Fragamemnon
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I think this is it:
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gop-romney-lead-early/2012/10/29/id/461978
The thing about the polls is that the right is cherry picking what they can get, and the left is just pointing to aggregates. This, more than anything, is how you can tell which side is ahead.
el retorno
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NullPointer
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Go fuck yourself Pizza Hut.
And fuck NewsMax too. So much batshit bullshit my mom tells me about (and unfortunately believes) originates from that cesspool.
And fuck NewsMax too. So much batshit bullshit my mom tells me about (and unfortunately believes) originates from that cesspool.
Where's the Papa John's equivalent?
Bubblicious
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what the heck? That segment made no sense. John King went down his screed about how the power outages are disproportionately affecting Democratic areas and showed the map about how obvious this is, saying this is bad news for Democrats, then ended the segment saying...
...if anything this is a SLIGHT EDGE for Obama? because Christie patted him on the back or something?
I am so tired of these news networks seriously
...if anything this is a SLIGHT EDGE for Obama? because Christie patted him on the back or something?
I am so tired of these news networks seriously
Fragamemnon
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If you are working at Pizza Hut, chances are Obamacare either:
A) Lets you stay on your parent's insurance longer, keeping you with good coverage
B) Provides subsidies and support for your low income wages, which in turn lets you buy insurance you otherwise wouldn't get.
I like the "If you don't buy insurance, you'll pay $1,600 more in taxes!" , never mind that the law heavily subsidizes you, and you'll likely pay very little for coverage.
A) Lets you stay on your parent's insurance longer, keeping you with good coverage
B) Provides subsidies and support for your low income wages, which in turn lets you buy insurance you otherwise wouldn't get.
I like the "If you don't buy insurance, you'll pay $1,600 more in taxes!" , never mind that the law heavily subsidizes you, and you'll likely pay very little for coverage.
Fox found their light in the disaster tonight, Looters pose a threat in neighborhoods without power, Subway rat population is about to invade the city, there are still people with infants trapped receiving no help at all.
I have to hand it to people watching this constantly, exhausting.
I have to hand it to people watching this constantly, exhausting.
That's shitty. What other sites do you use that aggregates the latest polls up to the minute. 538 only updates once a day.
speculawyer
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I dunno . . . I read that and think . . . this Obamacare is a great idea. If a business can't afford healthcare then it should not exist. Raise the prices until you can afford healthcare. This creates a level playing field where all businesses will have to buy their employees healthcare.
Where is the bad part? I might have to 30 cents more for my pizza? Boo-hoo.
RustyNails
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Fragamemnon
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TalkingPointsMemo.com has a pollttracker that is regularly updated. Pollster.com has one too. It's mostly just straight averages-none of the fancy maths that Nate does at 538-but it's good enough to keep track of the polls during the day.
Team Romney's presser today was a Baghdad Bob moment. I think all the liberals are breathing easier after the poll beating he took today and the comments out of that press conference.
Yeah. That's really "so... start providing insurance or factor in the tax when budgeting positions".
The letter is literally bitching at the employees that they'll have to provide them with health coverage now. The horror!
(also it's definitely from the franchise local owner, not PH Corporate)
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The Autumn Wind
When Papa John's came out with their whole stink about Obamacare, how they would have to raise their pizza prices by 15 cents to afford it, we pretty much all collectively agreed that we had no problem with that if it meant their employees got healthcare. That must have been the collective thought by pretty much everyone, because there hasn't been a word from them since.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20221031mitt_set_to_win_maybe_by_a_mile_republican_momentum_makes_prez_desperate
How does this kind of thing get past the editors?
How does this kind of thing get past the editors?
NullPointer
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Missed it. Anybody have a link handy?
And my first thought when reading that Pizza Hut memo was to wonder what they would have written about the FDA and whether it would have been much different.
this is their response to today's polls:
basically their house is on fire and they know it
threetri333
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My Reading Comprehension is bad, so by "their house", do you mean Romney's?
Because it's the Herald.
hold up.
a firewall is a wall of fire right? like you can't get through because the wall is fire? it's not fire-resistant wall?
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Glad I won't be the only non-alcoholic-beverage-consuming loser on election night. I'd buy some wine, but I hate how alcohol tastes, so it's cider for me.
Fragamemnon
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yeah that's from an op-ed page, where any idiocy goes as seen every time David Brooks decides to put his feeble brain to paper.
As for the Pizza Hut thing, it's probably-almost certainly-not from Pizza Hut corporate. It's very likely from a wingnut franchise owner.
As for the Pizza Hut thing, it's probably-almost certainly-not from Pizza Hut corporate. It's very likely from a wingnut franchise owner.
No. Think Internet firewall.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Even then, doesn't someone at some point say, "wait, you're just making this up based on gut feelings"
that's what i thought that meant too
Fragamemnon
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538 moves almost exclusively w/ Ohio numbers now, and today's OH numbers were pretty good, so I'm thinking it'll get close to 80 tonight.
NullPointer
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Isn't the assumption here that he will *look* like the winner before bed time? Coulda sworn that's what I saw in some election day timeline predictions here.
Shoulda said Obama's levys were bursting. Or Obama's floodwalls were... flooding.
I think it might hit 81, with less and less time for something to affect the race the polls are going to be weighted more heavily.
speculawyer
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He's a right-wing talk radio host. He doesn't live in reality.
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http://www.newstalk969.com/graham/home.aspx
It's more like a wall in a house designed not to let fire through.
my world's been twist-turned upside-down.
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