FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Well now that just shocks me that Ari Fleischer thinks Romney will win.

I hear Rahm Emanuel has Obama.

 

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Garrett Haake Garrett Haake ‏@GarrettNBCNews

Pin-drop silent in Des Moines for Romney RNC-Bio video. The single most effective piece of tape created by his campaign, without question


And they didn't show it in prime time. Ugh.

 

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I think it gets strung out for weeks with multiple legal challenges. If it's decided by the Supreme Court again, Romney obviously wins.

 

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Since LTL likes Ari's predictions so much, here's one more:


Ari Fleischer ‏@AriFleischer

Prediction Time: 1) The election won't end Tuesday night. 7 states will b decided by 1 pt or less. (VA, OH, CO, IA, PA, WI, NH)

 

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I saw one of those too. Maybe we have the same friends!

That's what worries me most. The closest and most pivotal states (FL, OH, WI) also have Tea Party governors who would have no problem understaffing stations where the vote is more likely to go against them. Pretty sure you won't hear about these problems in the senior centers of Pinellas County. And for everyone waiting in line for six hours to vote, how many people aren't going to wait in line and thus aren't going to vote?

In my time as a white suburban person, I've never had to wait more than 20 minutes.

 

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Six-hour lines to vote?

#thirdworldcountry

 

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I love these stories I'm reading about candidates making various "plays" at states. Methinks it's a little late in the game for that.

I read that Romney is making a play at Pennsylvania. Right. Because he's going to sway that many voters in the span of two days.

In the same realm of that point, the assault of ad buys for national candidates insults my intelligence. Most people are sick to death of ads. I'm not even in a battleground state (though I am in battleground Senate state) and I would think the effectiveness of non-stop ads would be close to nil after voters have heard the same shit over and over and over again.

Ad buys matter in local contests where you can truly turn the worm. Ad buys in a Presidential race? Not unless it's on a national broadcast.

But if politically-motivated rich assholes want to throw their money down an ad-buy Super PAC well ... whatever.

 

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Obama doesn't "need" to win Ohio, but he's only losing Ohio if the night is going pretty badly for him around the country. You don't lose Ohio and win Virginia as a Democrat.

 

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Obama has lost the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison's main paper.

Madison is more liberal than just about any city in the country with the exception maybe of San Francisco.

http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/editorial/our-pick-mitt-romney/article_902e45bc-25cc-11e2-a89f-001a4bcf887a.html

 

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Score at halftime: Romneys 14, Obamas 3

 

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The Wisconsin State Journal is widely known in Madison as the "conservative" paper.

If the Cap Times endorsed Romney, I would be shocked... The State Journal? Not so much.

 

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Also Madison is 45 minutes from Paul Ryan's hometown.

That was a terribly written editorial. It's like 14 different people were asked to write a paragraph each.