FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Could somebody check a weather report from Hell?

I actually agree with Ben -- Good riddance, Allen, and please take Cantor with you.

Virginia would be so much better off with neither of those shitbags anywhere near the levers of power.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Already voted. Thankfully I live in a small enough precint/town that I was able to get in line at 6:30 (there was already a line) and get out of the polling place by 7:10.

Can't imagine the wait time for those of you in much larger cities.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

Especially Cantor.

 

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No doubt. I'm a registered Republican, but if I could figure out a way to vote 1,000 times for Wayne Powell today, I'd take off work to do it.

Cantor represents everything wrong with what the Republican party has become. Sucks that these gerrymandered congressional districts make it almost impossible to send this fucker packing.

 

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I was voter number 36 at Precinct 7 in Lexington, MA. There were about 70 people in line when the polls opened at 7 a.m.
It will not surprise veteran members of this board that I am now assuming Romney will win. It's an anxiety reflex, I know, but it takes over my cerebral cortex every election. Sometimes it's right, too.

 

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Oh Gee, you endless source of absurd predictions supported by intuition. Never stop being you.

 

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I'm guessing if I had been a member of this board since the beginning and bet against every one of Gee's "hunches," I'd be a fucking millionaire.

You really should change your handle to Eddie Mush, Gee.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

The short version: The last round of polling averaged about Obama +1.5, and he's looked strong in state polling in a couple of the states that would normally be 1.5 points worse for Obama than the national average.

It's a big, fancy model, but that's basically what it comes down to.

 

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Yeah, fuck Cantor. The guy wouldn't even applaud when Obama said he wanted to stop shipping jobs overseas.

 

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He took over my role.

 

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That's because Cantor is owned by the guys who ship jobs overseas. He's their bitch.

It's a silver lining I'm hoping to take from an Obama victory: that somehow, another stinging electoral rebuke will prompt the Republican Party to rise up and kick out the charlatans like Cantor.

There's no longer any room for moderation or independence of thought in this party. Like McCain before him, Romney was a moderate who sold his soul in a calculated attempt to turn out the base. At some point, hopefully sooner than later, we're gonna have to pick a candidate who can win on a national stage while being true to himself.