FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Could be.

The lack of ads is supposedly why some states have come into play.

Where Romney hasn't been beaten up by negative ads, people have grown to "like him more, the more they get to know him."

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

So here is what PPP said about its revelation:

Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney 53-46 in the state. Although Obama's not at any real risk of losing it this is the 5th blue state along with Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Oregon where we've found him doing 10 points worse or more than he did in 2008. That helps explain why the popular vote continues to look so close even as Obama looks like a pretty good bet in the Electoral College.

Cherry-picking indeed, YF. I bet when you played basketball you'd let the other four guys play defense while you waited for the layup. And then when they got mad you told them to work harder and get their asses up the court.

 

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I mostly jammed a finger, or turned an ankle when I attempted to play basketball.

As far as PPP's reasoning, that's spin. They're not impartial observers.

 

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Obama is the old boyfriend turning on the charm again in those swing states. Yeah, you really don't believe him and the magic is wearing a little thin but gosh, he does seem so sweet and earnest.

 

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Rove called '08 about as well as anyone:

 

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Give 'em hell Amazing Kreskin.

 

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He's a college dropout and isn't as good at math as Nate Silver!

 

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I need to get in the shower soon if I'm going to get to dinner on time, but don't want to miss the end of this.

Edit: LOL. Wrong thread. I will be taking a shower before election day!

 

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And here I thought you were going with my "Don't bathe until election day" system

 

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Honest question for YF. you do know that FEMA keeps a vast supply of emergency items like bottled water on hand and that this order is to replenish items already used.

 

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Who knows? Maybe they should have bid for the FEMA contract. What makes you think Budweiser can deliver huge amounts of water more efficiently than a company whose job it is to deliver huge amounts of water?

 

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Christie has been making a point of involving private companies in the NJ recovery. Today's presser might as well have been a commercial for WalMart and Hess. He mentioned the companies by name about six times each and was surrounded by the bottled water WalMart was donating at Christie's request. Good for them. If people need water and gasoline, I don't think they mind a politician scoring a few political points and the companies getting the valuable publicity.

YF, I really don't know where you get the impression that because private companies step up that it reflects poorly on FEMA. From every account I've read, FEMA's been doing an outstanding job and Fugate (sp?), who directed emergency response in Florida for eight years, has whipped the place into shape. Seems like we're well past the era in which you could appoint a political hack like Brownie for such an important role.