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FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Sep 21, 2012.

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  1. zagoshe

    zagoshe Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    When you go to vote tomorrow - remember this...


     
    zagoshe, Nov 5, 2012
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  2. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

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    Mitt's final pitch in his stump speech is that he's the only guy who can do bipartisanship...

    ...which keeps getting undercut by Chris Christie.
     
    Lugnuts, Nov 5, 2012
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  3. Tarheel316

    Tarheel316 Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    What on earth does that mean? Some kind of secret code?
     
    Tarheel316, Nov 5, 2012
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  4. GeorgeFHayek

    GeorgeFHayek Member

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    Laughing ... my phone has rung (rang?) off the hook this afternoon/evening with local candidates. There's a gerrymandered state senate district that has a very liberal (for Texas) Democratic woman running against a smarmy Republican man. Apparently the race is pretty close (again, pretty gerrymandered district), and it's high stakes (I think if the Repub. wins the GOP will have something like 2/3rds of the state senate). The calls are terrible. I find the ones from the local "Disabled Veterans Foundation ..." to be more professional.
     
    GeorgeFHayek, Nov 5, 2012
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  5. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    Our mayoral election was back in August, and towards the end I started getting robocalls from the main challenger about every other day. By the Thursday before, I had reached my limit. I looked up her husband in the phone book (this is a suburb of 30k), called the house and reached her. After introducing myself as her would-be constituent, I laid into her, saying that I didn't know if she had unlimited cell minutes, but I don't, and further she could at least have the decency to ask for my vote live. Then I hung up and tweeted out her phone number.
     
    dixiehack, Nov 5, 2012
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  6. Captain Obvious

    Captain Obvious Guest

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    There will be a lot of crying as certain voters wonder how a black muslim can win a second term.
     
    Captain Obvious, Nov 5, 2012
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  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    Silver up to 91.4%

    http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
     
    Starman, Nov 5, 2012
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  8. TowelWaver

    TowelWaver Well-Known Member

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    Wow, that is a huge leap from yesterday...was not expecting that. Frankly, I was expecting it to level off somewhere in the 80s.
     
    TowelWaver, Nov 5, 2012
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  9. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    He now has Florida a light blue.
     
    dooley_womack1, Nov 5, 2012
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  10. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

    Ragu still says buy gold instead.

    The percentage increase is a factor of time remaining. If you are down a field goal with 30 seconds left vs. 2:00, your odds are exponentially worse.
     
    dixiehack, Nov 5, 2012
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  11. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

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    Silver: "A few more polls to add. But Obama at 91% to win Electoral College based on today's data so far.There's been a pretty clear shift toward Obama in national polls. Based on most recent data, he may lead by 2-3% in popular vote.Obama gained an average of 1.5 points between 12 national polls published today. Big sample sizes. That's a pretty big deal."
     
    MileHigh, Nov 5, 2012
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  12. TowelWaver

    TowelWaver Well-Known Member

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    I don't know. I would have thought whatever uncertainty associated with the various poll results would have stayed the same. In statistics-speak, it's not like the variances should decrease all that much, even with time running out.

    I guess it really does come down to Florida, as dooley suggests?

    Edit: Never mind, it's the national polls. Thanks MileHigh.
     
    TowelWaver, Nov 5, 2012
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