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There was a thread about this yesterday. It prompted Duffyside to come up with some very creative and complex post-facto rationalizations on Mitt's behalf.
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There was a thread about this yesterday. It prompted Duffyside to come up with some very creative and complex post-facto rationalizations on Mitt's behalf.
RiccochetJ
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Can't I be purple?
I think peer pressure is definitely a part of it, at least in low information voter pools. People want to vote for a winner, people want to be part of something that they can participate with friends on, family is another big issue I know I am liberal based almost exclusively (to start with) due to family reasons, but even though I don't see eye to eye with every issue as a grown up, I still have that liberal affiliation and lots of my friends and family are liberal oriented and almost never see my conservative parts of the family unless its on holidays or birthdays or monumental family events (Babies, weddings etc.). This isn't even from lack of trying, at some point in my life I just stopped seeing them very often without even thinking about but now I wonder if politics might have had something to do with it, just somehow drifted apart.
If any of you guys are on Intrade, please don't try to rationalize why Obama will win on the forums there. I'm trying my best to encourage Romney supporters to buy Romney (or sell Obama) to support their dude, but everytime I do, some guy has to ruin it by posting 538 and telling them it's impossible for Romney to win without Ohio (which he's going to lose).
i'm indifferent on the results. I'm just baffled by either their conclusion or the poor wording that 95% of voters are going to vote.
You are one of those godawful "undecided" voters -- aka a republican too afraid to call himself republican?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
95% is literally around the figure that you find in countries with compulsory voting.
At this point, I honestly don't know what to think about the national polls. It seems like nobody is really sure about what the final demographics will be for voter turn out. At this point, my only source of hope lies in 538 and PEC. I can't help but be nervous until the election happens.
Well, the 47% comments really damaged Romney and showed him to be out of touch with the working class and generated some discussion on wealth inequality. But then the first debate happened.
You need to apply for a trolling license before you keep making posts like this..
Holy fuck the approval rating is terrible. The LV model has always been bullshit but he needs to be >50 in the daily tracking. Ughhh
I hate this so much that even if it is a joke, don't type it.
i'm going with the assumption that it is a poorly written/worded sentence
RiccochetJ
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Naw, I broadcasted myself in the previous OT and I'm fairly active in other political type threads around here. People know where I stand on things.
Or maybe not. I have no clue if if people remember me.
speculawyer
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Seriously. Fox News is such a joke at this point that it is largely ignored by everyone but the 'true believers'. They ran Glenn Beck crazy for so long that they are the boy who cried wolf. Want some election analysis? . . . here's Dick Morris!
this is the closest anyone has shown the race since the marquette university poll, and the first time it's been close to a romney lead since the ryan pick.
i think we need more polling out of the state before we can panic. ras keeps showing ohio and iowa tied when every other poll is showing a 2-point obama lead, at least.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
People like to say claim both parties are identical as a way of justifying not having a deeper understanding of any the issues or nuances of US Politics.
http://news.yahoo.com/presidential-race-remains-effectively-tied-reuters-ipsos-poll-165654660.html
Obama +2 in Reuters/IPSOS O 47 R 46
Obama +2 in Reuters/IPSOS O 47 R 46
AlteredBeast
Fork 'em, Sparky!
Here for some Democratic analysis is a shamed Democratic campaign strategist
PhoenixDark
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So I guess Gallup doesn't matter today, whereas twitter and GAF were full of dems championing the poll yesterday
That last sentence was a quote from Romney not a troll...well, HIS troll. He IS running a good campaign though down the stretch. He's the change candidate now. It's crazy.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Well at the very least, it sure ain't a typo given they wrote out "ninety-six"
It matters, but again, the problem is that its difficult to interpret a swing of a point or two in either direction when there isn't anything to precipitate a swing.
National trackers still hopping around in opposing directions.* So much noise.
*unless you ask Joe Scarborough, who thinks Romney is "pulling away nationally."
StopMakingSense
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Approval, since its just a 3 day average, is extremely volatile.
i think the general movement is important, not really the numbers. it looks like obama got a bounce from the third debate and it wore off.
cartoon_soldier
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WTF...Minnesota. Really?
Nail, meet head. By the end of the movement the only people who seemed to be involved still were the braindead "omgzzzz both sidez are evillll" crowd.
ClovingWestbrook
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Oh you.
It's stupid. Dems have led with women for decades and will do so again with a nice margin
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
That's kind of surprising.
Statistical 'noise' dawg.
On that note, PD and other posters like him do have a point. We shouldn't praise one poll while disregarding another. Both, one, or neither could be affected by noise.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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, cancelling out the shamed Republican campaign strategist and bringing balance to the Force.
ClovingWestbrook
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TBH, I have stopped carring about the national polls (good or bad). It's all about state polling now.
And this is why you are my hero Papa Joe.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Again, this kind of thing just shows the biggest difference is how they determine "likely voters." Turnout is what's going to determine how the vote goes. Actual support for either candidate seems on the whole relatively even.
they might be trying to reach wisconsin voters if the markets overlap. i think that was the rr campaign's idea a week ago.
it might mean the state actually is competitive.
Please dont start this.
TacticalFox88
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I have to ask, are any of your co-workers as passionate about politics (relatively speaking) as you are? You're pretty much the only game developer on here that seems to give a damn. :x
Visiting Nevada.
Funny how that works.
We only have two weeks until the election.
Yeah this is cause for concern. Making me start to think states like WI are closer than we expect right now. Fuck.
Panic time! Let's get to 5 more pages by the next hour.
The Librarian
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Really what? The state isn't in play.
Romney decided to start running ads in Minnesota starting this weekend (as a feint, I believe).
Obama campaign is probably just going to match whatever they're running just to be on the safe side.
Lots of money to spend and perhaps some TV market overlap with Wisconsin.
Likely to 1) counter Romney's new ad buy just to keep the state safe and 2) bleed over into Western and Northern Wisconsin.
Plus there's only so much time remaining to use up donated campaign funds. Gotta spend dat cash.
PhoenixDark
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Probably. Ras had Obama up 5 less than a week ago
Obama camp wouldn't waste money they don't need to spend. They must have some concerns up there with WI/overlapping markets.
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