The new and improved, fight-free Romney vs. Obama thread!

The VP thing about states is very overplayed. I've got to think most campaigns are sophisticated enough to realize that finding someone who might help in several states (not just their home state) and appeal to different groups is the ideal.
It won't happen due, but a guy like Tom Coburn whose conservative and evangelical cred is solid, yet he doesn't have a lot of soundbites out there that make him look nutty - would be ideal, even if Romney won Oklahoma on the day after McCain lost in 2008.
I figure Romney needs someone to make sure he gets every hardcore R to vote more than help with independents.

 

David Maraniss introduces us to Barack Obama's (dead, gay) drug dealer. Doesn't sound like the kind of guy whose hair you would try to shave:



He was a long-haired haole hippie who worked at the Mama Mia Pizza Parlor not far from Punahou and lived in a dilapidated bus in an abandoned warehouse. … According to Topolinski, Ray the dealer was "freakin' scary." Many years later they learned that he had been killed with a ball-peen hammer by a scorned gay lover. But at the time he was useful because of his ability to "score quality weed."

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In another section of the [senior] yearbook, students were given a block of space to express thanks and define their high school experience. … Nestled below [Obama's] photographs was one odd line of gratitude: "Thanks Tut, Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times." … A hippie drug-dealer made his acknowledgments; his own mother did not.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/a-users-guide-to-smoking-pot-with-barack-obama

 

Asked and answered.

 

Hope and change!

The Republican nominee argues against spending cuts:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/25/romney-spending-cuts-depression-tea-party_n_1545933.html

 

It's not a theory. The conspiracy is real.

 

Yeah, they'll do crazy things like make people show ID.

 

Is that a screech I heard?

 

It will be interesting if this race comes down to a single state.

I don't think it will, but it would be interesting if it did...

 

Every time the margin is 55 electoral votes or lower, it does.

 

"“Thanks Tut , Gramps, Choom Gang, and Ray for all the good times.”

 

I don't have time to look this up but if memory serves Tennessee and Kentucky vote almost exactly the same in presidential elections. There was little difference in the margin of victory in both states for Clinton in 92 and 96.