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[Presidential Election Thread] All Hail the Liberty Rooster.
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I think the law has to be vague enough to cover that, or your example becomes "Here's a $20. By the way, make sure you vote tomorrow." and "Oh, I wasn't being partisan, I just happened to be outside the local republican/democrat rally." The lines between acceptable/not acceptable just blur too easily.
Stories like this make me wonder how much Romney wishes Cain was still in the race, someone to act like a bigger circus act to divert the media's attention.
Yeah, I suppose you're right.
As an aside, is it weird that I kinda like arguing semantics and technicalities in instances where there's really nothing at stake but abhor it when the debate means something?
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No, it just means you would fit in well in academia.
Also, Charlie Pierce goes for epic:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/mitt-romney-wisconsin-win-7842662
That surpassed epic by the third to last paragraph. Holy shit.
when the indigo children come
The other half would beat THAT half into sumbmission and I would still pull the lever for Obama, but holy hell, that was great.
They need a real blunder out of the Oval office for any chance at this point, and they know it.
Actually, the really twisted part is that to have absolutely any chance in hell to win, the far right (and their presumptive candidate) need to hope for something catastrophic to happen with either Iran or Europe. They are literally sitting at home praying that by some time in October Iran tries to close the Strait of Hormuz and we end up with $7/gal gas, or the Euro collapses and drags us into another Great Depression.
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From the polls 270ToWin has provided putting Obama and Romney head-to-head, using the following rules:
*Most recent poll from a state is the one that counts
*Working chronologically backwards, most recently-polled states get filled in first
...Obama reached 270 electoral votes using states polled since February 22, leading Romney 273-51.
OBAMA: WA, OR, CA, NV, WI, MI, OH, FL, NC, VA, PA, NJ, NY, CT, MA, VT, NH, ME
ROMNEY: MT, AZ, NE, MO, AR, GA
In all states polled at any time, again under last-poll-counts rules, Obama leads 330-107.
ADDITIONAL OBAMA: HI, CO, NM, MN, IL, SC
ADDITIONAL ROMNEY: KS, TX, IA, MS
COMPLETELY UNPOLLED: AK, ID, UT, WY, ND, SD, OK, LA, AL, TN, KY, IN, WV, MD, DE, DC, RI
Giving the unpolled states to their 2008 winners, Obama leads 361-177.
I wonder if Romney would potentially be the first president to take office with an unfavorable rating over 50%.
Ugh, I'll never forget the Democratic Primaries and General Election. I felt like the world was gonna end.
Do they even have a game-changing VP candidate this year? The last one was Palin and that blew up in their faces.
As I was saying earlier, the VP pick is going to have to be very specific to give any real help this cycle.
Romney already has the rank-and-file locked up, but the Fundies are out for blood, and the Establishment doesn't want them to have it because they scare away everyone else.
It needs to be someone who the fundies / teapers LIKE, but is charismatic enough and just plain likable enough to not generate any massively negative feelings for the middle.
Someone who can handle a solid speaking tour to rally the base would be nice as well as someone who won't vomit word-salad in the middle of an interview.
Huckabee's the one I thought of, too. But he's not flawless with the Republican base. Many hate him for raising taxes when he was Arkansas' governor IIRC.
True.
Rick Perry might even get a look.
I think Huckabee would be a really good choice for Romney. It won't be all he needs to win, but it would bridge over a few people who are heavily in the "not Romney" camp and help them hold their nose and vote as opposed to sit at home and not vote; lets be honest, the "not Romneys" sure as shit aren't voting for Obama.
Huckabee + an international financial crisis plus Obama being caught in an affair or something.... that's about what he needs to win.
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You mean sucking their blood to turn them into undead abominations while getting preggers?
Let's Play Mass Effect - Set 6 Updated 9/8/2012
That, knowing what's good for them, treating them as property, etc.
In all likelihood, the Dems may actually get more votes from people who fear and/or hate the GOP's regressive policies than the GOP will get from people who hate and/or fear the policies of the Democrats. Ironically, if the GOP does more to drive up their vote count from those sources, it's liable to also drive up the count for the Dems as well.
Being liked by potentially voters is important because the GOP has done a pretty good job of ensuring that voting isn't an easy and convenient task. If you're already struggling to pay your bills, you're less likely to take time off from work, earning less for the week, if you don't like anyone on the ballot. If you have to drive a decent way to you polling place and it's a shitty drive, you're less likely to go to it if you don't like anyone one the ballot. As I understand it, you have to jump through hoops to do absentee voting and if people don't like the candidates they may not bother with it (I'm less familiar with the other early voting methods - so I'm not going to comment). If you are a crazy, regressive fundie who does shows up at the ballots, their is no guarantee that you'll still vote Republican if you don't like Romney because his party isn't going to be the only crazy show in town. In fact, lack of enthusiasm for Romney could make the crazies start looking at the crazy third parties for a change and actually vote for them if they feel that there is no difference between Romney and Obama.
but all the big names are probably waiting until 2016; and the prominent new players fear getting tarnished with the brush of defeat. Edwards probably was helped a bit by running in 04 (he failed in 08 because he was Edwards) and Palin certainly made it out of 08 covered in rightwing glory, but I don't think going down with the Romney ship will be a good career move for anyone.
Ryan won't go with him because he probably wants to keep his seat so he can keep trying to shiv Medicare while we're distracted with other stuff.
Holy shit
Mind you, it took Mittens an extra year to graduate from there in comparison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/05/mitt-romney-obama-harvard_n_1405723.html
This fits in perfectly with the piece they did last night on Maddow on how Romney keeps trying to use the ol Rove tactic on Obama. Except that Mittens tries to do it with absolutely everything, because he really doesn't have anything else.
*JD and MBA. I know that a few schools offer them as concurrent programs. Either way it seems like a typically dumb attack route and one that leaves wide open counters.
No, he's just being a dumbass to appeal to anti-intellectual Republican voters. if he points out that he has two degrees, that will not help him.
I see. Back to lurking.
Ah, crap. I'll delete it and move it. Yeah, I thought I was there.