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2010 Midterm Elections, or: Barnum Was Right

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    Yeah, I chuckled about that too.

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  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Burtletoy wrote: »
    This was posted in [chat] but I don't think it hit this thread.

    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/10/sarah_palin_advisers_prepped_c.html

    We've come full circle here folks.
    Goldfarb insists he was happy with her performance, claiming that Coons and the moderators had ganged up on her. "She came off as the far more likeable candidate," Goldfarb said. "Coons just kept his head down to the extent he could. My view was that it was three on one, and she held her own."

    Ah, so it was Wolf Blitzer's fault.

    Men with beards are clearly conspiring against the Republican party. What are they hiding behind those things? I don't see any Fox News anchors with beards, do you?

    Meanwhile, Wolf Blitzer has a beard, Al Gore has a beard, I think we all know where this is going.

    Late reply:
    I saw a few clips on youtube and Blitzer looks like he did surprisingly well. He actually pushed her to answer questions like "evolution is a myth" when she dodged them and he also asked some nice things like "How would you cut the deficit and don't say waste, fraud, and abuse because everyone says that".

    I wouldn't have expected that level of moderating out of Blitzer.

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  • enc0reenc0re Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    We really ought to let the BBC moderate debates in this country.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Who is this Glyph and why is he making me sad with teh crazy.

    Its also a near mathematical certainty that the Dems keep the Senate, and there is seriously no chance of a republican supermajority in the senate let alone the house.

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  • OctoparrotOctoparrot Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    syndalis wrote: »
    Haloween decoration at my dad's house. He is writing a pretty "serious business" article about the tea party movement... but figured I would post this first for the lols.
    7p875Ea

    I've always called Election Day "Halloween II", personally.

    So far it hasn't caught on, but this may be the key!

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Glyph wrote: »
    Pretty much the entire nation is in full Tea Party swing and my prediction is that we're pretty much looking at a hands-down GOP supermajority in both houses come November and a full referendum on the Obama administration come 2012.

    I believe the custom for predictions of such... shall we say, magnitude, is for them to be sigged for posterity.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Glyph wrote: »
    Pretty much the entire nation is in full Tea Party swing and my prediction is that we're pretty much looking at a hands-down GOP supermajority in both houses come November and a full referendum on the Obama administration come 2012.

    I believe the custom for such predictions is for them to be sigged for posterity.

    I have space, I shall do the honors.

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    It only counts if there's a cock eating challenge.

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  • OctoparrotOctoparrot Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    This is a two year commitment. Think it through.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Octoparrot wrote: »
    This is a two year commitment. Think it through.

    Deal.

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  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Glyph wrote: »
    Pretty much the entire nation is in full Tea Party swing and my prediction is that we're pretty much looking at a hands-down GOP supermajority in both houses come November and a full referendum on the Obama administration come 2012.

    I believe the custom for such predictions is for them to be sigged for posterity.

    I have space, I shall do the honors.

    Hold off until you can get Mr. Rove here to assert that it will be a permanent supermajority.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Missed in the sea of madness was something of a tautology: "a full referendum on the Obama administration come 2012." That is the case for every single presidential election, you silly goose. Especially for incumbent presidents running for reelection.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Really, it's only for a couple weeks, since the first part of it's going to get blown to hell soon enough. I'm not doubting the Obama-referendum stuff- bids for second terms always are and that's like predicting the Yankees will make the playoffs. I'm looking at the first part, and just didn't want to truncate the sentence.

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  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    wwtMask wrote: »
    I can't wait to see the savage partisan fights over controversial stuff like military spending.

    That's how fucking far we've fallen, shit that normally sails through unopposed will be held up and fought over. It'll be entertaining, if nothing else.

    The dems seemed pretty damn spineless even in 06-08. I doubt they will put up much fight over things like military spending.

    Edit: Completely unrelated to what wwt said. I think it will be hard as hell to predict what will happen to Obama in 2012 since the electorate has such a short memory and votes using massive cognitive dissonance. We dislike Republicans more than Democrats but we want to vote for them because *logic explosion*

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    2012 will be a cakewalk for Obama, and it'll be because of shit like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvp0Jljh6U&feature=player_embedded

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    That is one fucking racist ad.

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  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    2012 will be a cakewalk for Obama, and it'll be because of shit like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvp0Jljh6U&feature=player_embedded[url][/url]

    Sadly I've talked to 2 people that seem to hold similar views to this ad while campaigning and I'm vol-ing in a really liberal part of Colorado.

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  • Salvation122Salvation122 Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

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  • SammyFSammyF Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    2012 will be a cakewalk for Obama, and it'll be because of shit like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uvp0Jljh6U&feature=player_embedded[url][/url]

    Sadly I've talked to 2 people that seem to hold similar views to this ad while campaigning and I'm vol-ing in a really liberal part of Colorado.

    That ad is also par for the course in the nasty world of Louisiana politics. And Vitter wanted to get especially nasty with this particular race because being accused of being a race-baiter is still better than having people talk about Melancon's two-minute ads about the DC Madame sex scandal that spotlighted Vitter as a U.S. Senator with a diaper fetish.

    Personally I would have ignored the fact that Vitter broke the law by hiring prostitutes (Louisiana is the origin of the quote "HE MAY BE A CROOK, BUT HE'S OUR CROOK," and they weren't being even close to ironic at the time). Just focus on the diaper thing. End every ad with the phrase "Tell David Vitter to stop being such a baby."

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Speaking of racist ads, I saw one against Rick Scott that made me cuss at the TV. Basically it said that Scott wants to decrease law enforcement and prison budgets, thereby letting criminals out early. It had a Scott double opening a fence and a bunch of thuggish looking and mostly black guys in striped prison uniforms thanking him as they streamed out, then at the end of the commercial they were standing there, looking tough and saying "Thanks, Rick Scott". It was a horrible, race-baiting, piece of shit ad from a third party pro-law enforcement PAC.

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  • Just_Bri_ThanksJust_Bri_Thanks Seething with rage from a handbasket.Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited October 2010
    Gosling wrote: »
    Glyph wrote: »
    Pretty much the entire nation is in full Tea Party swing and my prediction is that we're pretty much looking at a hands-down GOP supermajority in both houses come November and a full referendum on the Obama administration come 2012.

    I believe the custom for predictions of such... shall we say, magnitude, is for them to be sigged for posterity.

    nah, that is for if they swear to eat their cock if they are wrong.

    Edit: Yeah, I know. Beat'ed.

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    What if I swear to eat my cock if he's right?

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  • CommunistCowCommunistCow Abstract Metal ThingyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    This is how we need to start marketing health care reform. With hilarious Jack Black satire.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj4uBwpimjg&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR3C0S7yiv8&feature=player_embedded#

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

    See, even as I mock the names, I don't think this is true. I actually think the GOP wins in 2012 if nothing changes, because between the Fed and the White House they've kind of fucked up the whole recovery thing and the foreclosure meltdown part 2 is going to create a double dip and unemployment is going to be even higher two years from now.

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  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

    See, even as I mock the names, I don't think this is true. I actually think the GOP wins in 2012 if nothing changes, because between the Fed and the White House they've kind of fucked up the whole recovery thing and the foreclosure meltdown part 2 is going to create a double dip and unemployment is going to be even higher two years from now.
    This, basically. If the economy is as bad in 2012 as it is now, or even worse, Obama is going to have a really tough time getting re-elected. His opponent won't really matter all that much.

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  • NotYouNotYou Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I think it's not looking likely that the economy will improve by 2012.

    This might belong more in the economy thread, but it's a really good chart showing possible future outcomes and what's required to get unemployment back to around 5 percent

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/the-output-gap/index.html

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  • DoctorArchDoctorArch Curmudgeon Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

    My favorite is Barbour. Yes, this country is totally ready for and wants a corrupt, corpulent, good 'ole southerner who is in charge of one of the poorest states in the nation to be the next President.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Modern Man wrote: »
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

    See, even as I mock the names, I don't think this is true. I actually think the GOP wins in 2012 if nothing changes, because between the Fed and the White House they've kind of fucked up the whole recovery thing and the foreclosure meltdown part 2 is going to create a double dip and unemployment is going to be even higher two years from now.
    This, basically. If the economy is as bad in 2012 as it is now, or even worse, Obama is going to have a really tough time getting re-elected. His opponent won't really matter all that much.

    And then we get a massive transfer of wealth to the rich and everything goes even more to hell! Woooooo!

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I really want Jindal so that, if we have to have a shitty Republican, at least he'll be a groundbreaking shitty Republican.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    wwtMask wrote: »
    I really want Jindal so that, if we have to have a shitty Republican, at least he'll be a groundbreaking shitty Republican.

    And funny!

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  • HachfaceHachface Not the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of Dammit, Shepard!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    wwtMask wrote: »
    I really want Jindal so that, if we have to have a shitty Republican, at least he'll be a groundbreaking shitty Republican.

    And funny!

    And deeply dedicated to his responsibilities as NBC page.

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  • Modern ManModern Man Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    DoctorArch wrote: »
    Thune! Barbour! DeMint! Ryan! Paul!

    The only person that could run and win is Petraeus, and I don't think he wants to.

    My favorite is Barbour. Yes, this country is totally ready for and wants a corrupt, corpulent, good 'ole southerner who is in charge of one of the poorest states in the nation to be the next President.
    That didn't stop Bill Clinton from being elected twice.

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  • HachfaceHachface Not the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of Dammit, Shepard!Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I don't think I'd call 1992 Clinton "corpulent."

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Say what you will about Clinton, but he was not a good ole boy southerner. Dude was poor white trash from a broken home, blessed with a pretty staggering intellect (and charisma).

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  • wwtMaskwwtMask Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    All of this speculation is reminding me of how depressingly boring it will be to have an average, old white man as president again.

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hachface wrote: »
    I don't think I'd call 1992 Clinton "corpulent."

    Or 2010 Clinton. Dude has a bad heart, but that's not the same thing.

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    I think it's not looking likely that the economy will improve by 2012.

    This might belong more in the economy thread, but it's a really good chart showing possible future outcomes and what's required to get unemployment back to around 5 percent

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/the-output-gap/index.html

    Wow, that just just a really good chart, that a great chart. And just as a bonus, it has one of the clearest and most reasonable explanations for why economists say the recession is already over.

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  • Styrofoam SammichStyrofoam Sammich WANT. normal (not weird)Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    What the fuck Tennessee
    Sixty-seven percent of Tennesseans polled said Muslims deserve the same rights as any Americans and only 14 percent disagreed

    And these people need to be put in their place

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  • Captain CarrotCaptain Carrot Alexandria, VARegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Looks like you read Daily Kos as much as I do, Sammich.

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  • Eat it You Nasty Pig.Eat it You Nasty Pig. tell homeland security 'we are the bomb'Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    The remaining 19 percent were presumably willing to extend muslims only some rights

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