US election 2012

[Vintage Paw]

http://www.ismittromneythepresident.com/

^ A fluffy infogram showing how many electoral college votes they each have atm according to polling data.

 

[weltweit]

How? Just, HOW, America?

Stranger things have happenned!!

 

[Balbi]

The horses and bayonets line is a very smart man, getting very annoyed, and not being able to to say 'this is fucking ridiculous'

 

[Vintage Paw]

The horses and bayonets line is a very smart man, getting very annoyed, and not being able to to say 'this is fucking ridiculous'

Kind of how it felt when Biden was getting annoyed too.

They might not be the glorious saviours some people think they are, but it is at least clear they do understand how the American system of government works (even if that system is evil, fucked up, whatever), whereas Mitt the Shit and the Boy Ryan haven't got a fucking clue.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It's gonna come down to vote rigging Florida again isn't it, in which case bye bye barack.

A judge disallowed some of the voter suppression that was going on in Florida. Keep a watch on Ohio.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Ohio is important. Good job that no-one called Romney has invested heavily in the company which runs the electronic voting then.

http://christwire.org/2012/10/tagg-...ng-machine-company-for-ohio-solamere-capital/

 

[leftistangel]

Those polls don´t reassure me at all i´m afraid. Quite the opposite.

With 206, Romney just needs
Florida 29 - Where he has an ever growing polling lead in a state which often votes Red.
Colorado 9 - Consistent momentum in the polls to draw slightly ahead
Virginia 13 - Where he is leading in some polls, a huge momentum shift from just a few weeks ago.
And Ohio 18 - Where again, after being consistently behind in the polls, he is either just a couple of points to actually drawing level.

And with polls often having a 2% margin of error id say Obamas chances - dependant on Ohio, not exactly a Democrat strongold - of staying in the White House are melting away with each passing day.

Once you loose momentum in elections you never get it back. A remarkable turnaround.

 

[weltweit]

Hmm, Romney. He was not so pro British when he was here, perhaps the special relationship might wane...

 

[Corax]

Hmm, Romney. He was not so pro British when he was here, perhaps the special relationship might wane...

Finally, an up-side.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Hmm, Romney. He was not so pro British when he was here, perhaps the special relationship might wane...

what happened to those days? the ones where wherever Mitt went, he acted like a total ass and offended everyone?

or at least just acted incredibly awkward?

 

[teqniq]

Ann Coulter tweeted this last night in reference to the Presidential debate:

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

and this was published by way of reply, an open letter from a guy with Down's syndrome.

 

[Corax]

what happened to those days? the ones where wherever Mitt went, he acted like a total ass and offended everyone?

or at least just acted incredibly awkward?

It's like a missing episode of The Office.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Ann Coulter tweeted this last night in reference to the Presidential debate:



and this was published by way of reply, an open letter from a guy with Down's syndrome.

It's a good reply. Shame it'll have no effect though. She's a shock jockey, nothing more. She's just there to get a rise and give voice to some of the more nasty things the right of the GOP base wish they could hear more of.

 

[Corax]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/ric...4/romney-obama-october-surprise-politics-live

So. Trump's going to release Michelle Obama's allegedly prepared but not filed divorce papers from several years ago. What's the Romney bombshell gonna be?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm more interested in this from Gloria Allred:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/gloria-allred-stemberg-mitt-romney-divorce_n_2009637.html

 

[savoloysam]

Surely all it would take for the Democrats is a well crafted last minute national advertising campaign of Romney's endless gaffs/guffs showing that he only wants to get in to give tax breaks to the already filthy super rich.

Either way if the nation does vote for him they sure as hell deserve him

 

[Corax]

I'm more interested in this from Gloria Allred:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/gloria-allred-stemberg-mitt-romney-divorce_n_2009637.html

That being the Romney bombshell referred to in the post above...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

That being the Romney bombshell referred to in the post above...

It's not really a bombshell. Its just more evidence of the usual attitude of the far-right regarding women, aka "disposables." One of the things Mitt's buddy did to his ex-wife was to suspend her health insurance in the middle of chemotherapy.

 

[Quartz]

One of the things Mitt's buddy did to his ex-wife was to suspend her health insurance in the middle of chemotherapy.

 

[Corax]

It's not really a bombshell. Its just more evidence of the usual attitude of the far-right regarding women, aka "disposables." One of the things Mitt's buddy did to his ex-wife was to suspend her health insurance in the middle of chemotherapy.

You're clearly very literal.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You're clearly very literal.

You're clearly a pedant.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Trump's announcement:

Donald Trump's "big announcement is here, and he is offering $5 million to a charity of Obama's choice if he releases his college transcripts and passport.

He sets a deadline for the records to be released: Oct. 31 at 5 p.m.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-announcement-obama-election-gloria-allred-2012-10

It's Al Capone's vault, as expected.

 

[teqniq]

It's not really a bombshell. Its just more evidence of the usual attitude of the far-right regarding women, aka "disposables." One of the things Mitt's buddy did to his ex-wife was to suspend her health insurance in the middle of chemotherapy.

what the fuck????

 

[miktheword]

Those polls don´t reassure me at all i´m afraid. Quite the opposite.

Once you loose momentum in elections you never get it back. A remarkable turnaround.

well, seems like the momentum has stopped.
Obama made gains in 5 out of 8 national polls on Wednesday, with 2 unchanged. these were also before any ) 'Momentum' seems to swing back and forth, month to month in the Senate; it has more of an effect in primaries with multiple candidates.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...ys-momentum-seems-to-have-stopped/#more-36636

But there are other times when the notion of momentum is behind the curve — as it probably now is if applied to Mitt Romney’s polling.
Mr. Romney clearly gained ground in the polls in the week or two after the Denver debate, putting himself in a much stronger overall position in the race. However, it seems that he is no longer doing so.
Take Wednesday’s national tracking polls, for instance. (There are now eight of them published each day.) Mr. Romney gained ground in just one of the polls, an online poll conducted for Reuters by the polling organization Ipsos. He lost ground in five others, with President Obama improving his standing instead in those surveys. On average, Mr. Obama gained about one point between the eight polls.

 

[dylans]

Pepsi or coke?

 

[miktheword]

Pepsi or coke?

point taken (not getting into a debate about ultra leftism). It don't matter who gets in to those getting the drones; it might matter, to those in US seeking abortion rights. If you had to choose who gets in, would you seriously just flip a coin?

 

[dylans]

point taken (not getting into a debate about ultra leftism). It don't matter who gets in to those getting the drones; it might matter, to those in US seeking abortion rights. If you had to choose who gets in, would you seriously just flip a coin?

No. I 'd vote Obama.

 

[TomUS]

Pepsi or coke?

Watered down Pepsi or poison? I'll take the Pepsi.

 

[Vintage Paw]

point taken (not getting into a debate about ultra leftism). It don't matter who gets in to those getting the drones; it might matter, to those in US seeking abortion rights. If you had to choose who gets in, would you seriously just flip a coin?

Agreed. You hope your choice might help mitigate some of the crap that might be piled on some of the people, while acknowledging that overall it's not going to do anything to attend to the structural inequalities and problems and systemic power balances that will perpetuate the bigger piles of crap in the long term.

 

[Corax]

point taken (not getting into a debate about ultra leftism). It don't matter who gets in to those getting the drones; it might matter, to those in US seeking abortion rights. If you had to choose who gets in, would you seriously just flip a coin?

It might also matter to the people getting the extra drones if the more hawkish one gets in.