2012 Race for the White House II: The Two Towers

I saw a couple Romney signs in some yards in Evanston, but I just assumed they were intended as horrifying Halloween decorations.

 

I dunno, I thought the argument was that core Dems might not turn out. These were core Dems alright. Grad students, African-American families, lefty grays, and so forth.

Sample size of one, of course.

 

Walking in Rogers Park on Halloween night -- fat white middle-aged guy, dressed in suit and tie, Satan face paint, Satan cape, carrying a sign reading "I'm for Mitt." It ain't Lubbock around here.

 

Here in Minnesota if you go for a walk in the Twin Cities, about half of houses have signs up ... probably about 80-90% liberal. Out of those houses more than half have an Obama signs up.

If you drive through a suburban or rural Republican stronghold you can also find areas that have 80-90% conservative signs. But I'd say that only a quarter of those Republican households include a Romney sign.

 

To be fair the media can't just come out and say it is over, say all pols show that Obama will win so we will move on. They would be accused of bias (well they will be anyways right) even when they would be right, the right would use that as an excuse of why Obama won.

Same thing happened in Mexico when the pols had PRI wining by a wide margin so the media just talked like a forgone conclusion that they would win, at the end, the election was much closer than what the pols showed and the PRD complained that if the media had not given up and declared PRI the winner before the election that they should have won. (They most likley would have still lost regardless)

Obviously the corruption and pol bias was much bigger in Mexico that it could be in the USA.

Plus they have to sell and keep up the ratings right.

 

I don't think you understand what "socialist" and "ideologue" mean.

 

Now wait a minute, maybe he does. He specified that Obama is an "incompetent socialist ideologue" (emphasis Smiley's). If you look at Obama's record, then as socialist ideologues go, he is indeed quite incompetent. I mean, he has never even attempted to promote any kind of socialist agenda. So yeah, as a socialist ideologue he can only be called incompetent.

 

Yes, and Obamacare is exhibit A. He wants to socialize medicine, and what we got was the worst of both worlds - insurance companies still in charge and regulators driving the costs up even farther. He made a half-hearted takeover of GM, socialized student loans, tries to force his vision of green energy down our throats and pours money down green ratholes. Slamdunk jobs on a pipeline from Canada gets put on the spike.

He wants a socialized economy but even in this he's in over his head. He's Moveon.org personified.

Then there's Benghazi. Incompetence before, during, and a cover-up that would embarass Nixon.

 

That's got to be close to a record for number of weak ass talking points in a single post...

 

Is it? I would say Kuklabot, Schapes, TalkingPoints, and Quayle could easily surpass that. Let's get serious - it was a weak attempt and failed to garner any traction.

 

You mean Chafeecare.

You mean he traveled back in time to write the GI Bill and then got back on the DeLorean to sign the Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, cleverly disguised as George H.W. Bush?

Four more Solyndras! Four more Solyndras!

You know who really wants a socialized economy? Wall Street!

I thought George Soros was Moveon.org personified.

[citation needed]

 

Smiley is right on. He is, in fact, an incompetent socialist and an incompetent ideologue.

 

[schapesbot]Another Obama failure![/schapesbot]

 

I intend to spend tomorrow watching soccer, and feeding the chipmunks and squirrels that live around the house. No more election for me.

I also fully expect to fail in this intention. Probably before I even finish my coffee tomorrow morning.

This damn thing really is wearing me down.

 

It's almost over, thank god. Tomorrow I'll spend the day doing yardwork and maybe some cooking while I watch cheesy genre TV shows (Fringe, Haven, Grimm, a Friday night DVR trifecta) and avoiding the real world. Monday, if all goes well, I'll spend the day working and resting up mentally for Tuesday, which will be a nerve-wracking, nail-biting torture fest.

 

Ohio Poll

Penn Poll

 

Stop it, you're making Abby cry.

 

Well, Abby needs to either grow up, or convince her parents to move to a nonswing state.

 

Not my fault that her parents are trying to be optimistic.

 

That was my initial point - that I didn't and don't have money to put on anything right now, being in the process of uprooting my life for the second time in just over a year, and moving to NZ.

I would also get far better odds in the bookies even now, were I to be in a position to bet money (Obama at 1:4.5 as of about 2 days ago on Paddy Power, whoand now having suspended betting... and 1:4 at Ladbrokes).

 

Tom Socca: Why don't white men vote like regular Americans?

Well, that's not the title, but that's what it comes down to. For all the talk about how polarized across racial lines this election is, and about Obama's appeal to minorities and the talk about Colin Powell supporting his own, it's really all about (older, disproportionately rural) white men being the exception to the norm. And this is why it's still impossible to talk about the Republican Party without talking about the Southern Strategy and "states' rights". And this is why Romney pushes that lie about welfare so much and keywords like "Detroit" and "food stamp president" resonate with the GOP audience so much.

I'm sure the supporters are sincere about their concern for economic issues and evangelicals do care about the nation's moral fibre. But at its very core, the mission of the Republican Party has been, for at least the last 44 years, to make white men feel better about themselves.

 

Shouldn't their wives be doing that for them?

 

For what it's worth ... the HuffPost electoral map now has Obama above 270 electoral votes, for the first time since mid October (or earlier).

The count is 277-206, with NH, Colorado, Florida, and Virginia marked as undecided.

On the bright side for Romney, Oregon, Wisconsin, Nevada, Iowa, Ohio, and PA are vulnerable per the map in that the only lean to Obama, whereas Obama has almost nowhere else to gain ground, with NC being the only Romney state marked as "lean."