Because republicans stayed at home this election right?
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United States Election: Nov 6, 2012 |OT| - Barack Obama Re-elected
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Because republicans stayed at home this election right?
Voting for revenge? Really? That line of thinking is toxic for this country and shows how fucked up their priorities are.
Rocket Punch
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It's a radio show. This guy posts the day's highlights daily. Nothing yet for today. Beware it's a dark, scary and depressing world if you belong to his audience.
Tea Party 2: Electric Boogaloo
Felix Lighter
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PA votes Democrat for the 6th straight Presidential election. What are the odds we're not bombarded with political ads next election? What's it like in say, Vermont during the election season?
Interfectum
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I can't tell if you're trolling or not.
PhoenixDark
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"He has lost a lot of credibility, as far as I'm concerned," Chambers said. "He did a lot of surveys. A lot of those surveys were wrong."
ahahahaha
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
No no no. Romney as Business Czar. Blow Fox's collective mind.
We'll continue to be a state the Reps try to win as long as we're electing Republican Governors and a Republican Congress.
SouthernDragon
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I wanted to bump this again. Good on you, Tex. I wish we had more people like you in Congress.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Well, I guess the only reason why I wasted my time is that I expect hacks to come up with internally consistent models that have insane external assumptions.
Morris' completely insane predictions were based on his terrible assumption about turnout and weighting and unskewed polls--btw natesilverwrong.com has been down since polls closed and unskewedpolls.com did not update at all on election day, permanently enshrining their Romney wins by 5.4% of popular vote--but had those assumptions somehow been true, his predictions were internally consistent.
His new external assumptions are that polling was accurate the whole time, but the narrative he's constructed about the race doesn't fit with those external assumptions. If polling was accurate, "Romney's momentum" (an immediate 2 point popular vote bounce which did not result in Romney taking the lead) stopped well before Sandy. The Christie hypothesis is less hard to observe since Obama did boost a few points in the last week, but it's not clear why the Republican governor of New Jersey would have caused a national swing that flipped FL/VA/OH. I guess we'd use exit polling to try to interpolate the cause of those last minute bumps?
Maybe it's my error assuming good faith on his part that he was just misguided rather than deliberately ignorant.
speculawyer
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Sam Wang did exactly that with several article berating people for continuing to talk about 'Ro-Mentum' long after it died.
http://election.princeton.edu/2012/10/23/ro-mentum/
http://election.princeton.edu/2012/10/25/do-you-understand-polls-as-well-as-david-brooks/
http://election.princeton.edu/2012/10/26/ro-mentum-watch-john-dickerson-cbsslate/
Nerds with stats win. The bonehead pundits like Dick just spewed shit. Of course, the idiots will continue to the listen to boneheads like Limbaugh, Morris, Hannity, etc. You can't fix stupid.
bodyofanamerican
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Has this made the rounds? Might be my favorite gif coming out of last night.
Macho Madness
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It's older than last night too.Has this made the rounds? Might be my favorite gif coming out of last night.
Gary Whitta
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As much as I love Chris Matthews that comment he made about being glad Sandy happened because of the political advantages was pretty disgusting. Even the other MSNBC anchors at the table were grossed out. He's apologized on Twitter but I hope he also does so on air.
bodyofanamerican
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ah damn, is it? oh well.
Oh, I bet Republicans are seething at Chris Christie right now. He played them beautifully, fully knowing 2012 was a lost cause.
ratcliffja
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I respect the conservatives who admit when and where they were wrong, as I do for the liberals. I also hate it when either side gloats when the other is down. I'm an Obama fan, but I'm embarrassed when I see the vitriol from some of his supporters against the other side. Learn how to win with class.
NYR
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Concur. Gives the Righty something so easy to attack, poor show.
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thepotatoman
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So, probably about 2 weeks until the internet can finally stop the "love obama to get him elected" thing and start treating him like the flawed president he really is?
Chris Matthews cares more about the political "game" than he does any actual governing. He disgusts me.
Same with Chuck Todd. He's Wolf Blitzer with numbers.
This is the best post I've read in years.
shaowebb
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What?
Gary Whitta
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FOX News still banging on about voter fraud, as though it was enough of a problem to account for 100+ EV deficit.
Fenderputty
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He's BY FAR my most favorite conservative poster.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
He got the presidential stuff entirely right--which is pretty impressive, some of his detractors in the polling community including the Gott/Colley Median poll projection missed Florida--but underestimated Senate Democrats (called both Montana and North Dakota for Republicans--Democrats very narrowly won both).
CitizenCope
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Looking forward to Michael Graham here in Boston at 3pm.
I'm one who doesn't think all Republicans and their ideas are nuts but they need to get this nut job off the air.
I'm one who doesn't think all Republicans and their ideas are nuts but they need to get this nut job off the air.
All presidents have flaws, and how Obama is seen 20 years from now will be interesting considering his massive list of accomplishments coupled with the issues that the more left leaning members of the Democratic party have with him.
malingenie
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I know, right? It's like a lost art.
bitch should be arrested for inciting treason,....disgusting
Pctx is fun and more clever, but Bulbo's been beating this drum for a long time and he's more subtle.
Bulbo > Pctx
speculawyer
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http://isnatesilverawitch.com/
PROBABLY
As of Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, Nate Silver is probably a witch.
While we on the Is Nate Silver a Witch editorial board are strict rationalists, Mr Silvers performance has been uncanny enough to raise small but significant doubts as to whether his methodology is entirely of this world. We are following the situation closely.
Uh, no. You don't know what treason is.
What is up with people throwing treason accusations around lately?
Indeed it is.
Exactly!
I mean eff, if you and I, two Gafers can figure this out in 5 mintues, why the Republicans can't accept this is beyond me.
IF they do exactly what you just said, the Republicans will be a very viable party in general elections. A party many people would support I think.
Oh and another thing.
Im all for free speech...Everyone deserves that right, but not everyone deserves a microphone. Rush and Hannity need to have vieweriship fall through the floor boards. That kind of fear mongering will have no place in the Republican party if the Republicans take this wonderful opportunity to re-evalute everything from the bottom up.
Thank you! I will be annoucning my candidacy running on the Neogaf platform in 2014! (Jokes aside, I wish more Republicans across the board...down to the looney facebookers would recognize what is actually happening...and the golden opporunity that is now present the Republicans have to re-invent themselves while still holding a House of Congress...call me idealist or naieve, but eff...thats my hope).
Haha, maybe. But what could Christie have said during the storm to help Mittens? The President could be doing much more to help the citizens of Jersey? That would make him look like a liar.
That's what Fox News is running with and they look ridiculous.
Gary Whitta
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He looks like he's been campaiging in Colorado.
Definitely. My dad watches that channel so much and while Sandy was happening all he could talk about was the political aspect of it. Everyone else before his show was talking about the storm and about the areas it's hitting, but the first thing he does is "how does this affect the election". It was as horrible as anyone on Fox News.
Couldn't agree more. I don't know which party would better represent me, I'd like to say GOP but why they chose clowns like Akin to lose unloseable elections I have no idea.
Good man! You kept your word.
(Were you junior'ed as well? A bit harsh...)
Gary Whitta
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I admit I've been souring on Matthews a bit lately. I used to like his bombastic style but he's gotten to the point where he will barely let his guests get a word in.
God Tier:
Maddow, O'Donnell, Bashir
Platinum Tier:
Schultz, Sharpton (rough around the edge but still awesome)
Trash Tier:
The Cycle - seriously, WTF
Big fan of Thomas Roberts in the mornings too, I feel like he could be the next Brian Williams.
God Tier:
Maddow, O'Donnell, Bashir
Platinum Tier:
Schultz, Sharpton (rough around the edge but still awesome)
Trash Tier:
The Cycle - seriously, WTF
Big fan of Thomas Roberts in the mornings too, I feel like he could be the next Brian Williams.
Fenderputty
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I think Bulbo might be more reasonable with his actual politics than pctx. He's also a master troll. I could be wrong on my first assumption, but he's perfected getting bites from gullible libs on this board.
I love his posts. They always make me laugh.
ClovingWestbrook
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You've been a good sport today. I applaud you.
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