FROM 2012 INTO 2013 POLITICS THREAD

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

My daughter's orthodontist was talking about this during her appointment yesterday. Said he couldn't believe how so many incumbents were polling strongly despite having an overall approval rating of about 11 percent.

The American people, as a group, really ain't too bright.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

It's fun to look at old electoral maps.

In 1988, Connecticut was red and West Virginia was blue.

That's wild.

 

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Why? Other than the fact that she's not backing your horse.

 

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Makes perfect sense ... everyone's happy with his representative but thinks everyone else's representative is an assclown.

 

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Yeah that's a pretty time-honored tradition, along with "pork" being defined as "money that doesn't end up in my district."

 

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Those assholes are shoveling wasteful spending on pork projects into their district. My guy is merely securing our fair share of government funds for desperately needed investments.

 

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That has nothing to do with it.

Her "prediction" is based upon the "feeling" she gets from things she "hears" and the "enthusiasm" she "senses" from watching video of Romney rallies.

Utterly ridiculous, with as much data as is available nowadays, to pen a column for one of the most respected newspapers in the world, as one of its showcase columnists, based upon that level of utter nothing.

It's no different than Tina Brown or whoever it was being shocked that Bush won because she "didn't know anyone who voted for him."

It's an utter disgrace. No different than Mo Dowd, Noonan wants to sound like an expert without having to make th effort to do so much as open her Internet browser and calculator application. Again: Disgraceful.

 

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Well, in my district, most people couldn't name one thing Eric Cantor has accomplished in six terms as a congressman, and yet he wins every time in a landslide.

 

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And I'm not saying every piece has to be a FiveThirtyEight.com replica.

Ryan Lizza wrote a piece in The New Yorker last issue about the Obama ground game. He talked to people. He shared specifics. In a word, he reported. Noonan, by contrast, "hears."

 

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I've never seen more people scared of a group that could fit all its members into a 15-passenger van.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

I had a 20-minute wait to vote this morning. The line was moving pretty quickly. And thanks to the preponderance of older folks in line, the electronic machines were being ignored.

They didn't have any "I Voted" stickers though. But they were giving out some of the excess donuts that had been donated by a local bakery to the poll workers.

 

Re: THE 2012 POLITICS THREAD

We may have found our Bill Plaschke.