the all important carp fishing vote
― pandemic, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Darragh: The Choice of a New Denegration: the US Election Day 2012 Thread
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
"No retreat, no surrender," sang rock icon Bruce Springsteen, warming up Obama's crowd on a frosty morning outside the State Capitol in Madison, Wis.
iirc, this was Mike Dukakis' rallying cry the day before the '88 election.
(also, Springsteen's "Kitty's Back" was written about Kitty Dukakis)
― 5-Hour Enmity (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
aero, today's princeton map should make u happier
http://election.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/presidential-map-election-eve-2012-500px-lores.jpg
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
that dude colby cosh gets some stuff wrong about pecota. or at least hes kind of misleading abt it
― max, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
not that silver isnt probably "overrated" or at least "over-visible" but
this cheered me up, considering the source:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/332590/twilight-or-breaking-dawn-henry-olsen?pg=1
you could say it's olsen being a "mr. me too" re: silver's methodology, but since it's coming from someone who's actively hostile, it's interesting that this rightwinger already sees Romney as toast because of his failure to connect with non-evangelical blue collar midwesterners
― the tune was space, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmeUlU6urmKPpu4I_S_VKRNmxSbEaC7he1YlCA-KYOkiyX1ov4BZPregQ
― ^ sarcasm (ken c), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Uuugh why does the 538 forecast keep going down?
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
preparation for the big reveal... ROMNEY 400EV
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Nate Silver @fivethirtyeight
Running one last projection based on this AM's polls. Our projected margin in Florida now Obama 49.797, Romney 49.775.
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRp2lhjUQmYye_keBZM2L8RRufdcGb-Yd_lHxTYHgWSw9dU7iU6
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
plz no florida recount
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
hi guys!
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
Obama 49.797, Romney 49.775
FFS
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
2000:48.84748.838
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Alfred in...Swing Vote.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:35 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
if youre suggesting that there should be more stats dues in the media then yes, but as per the current situation where theres a million innumerate pundits and like five dudes running numbers id be happy if he was more visible
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
xxpost Yeah I'm thinking "Wait, how is that surprising, isn't that Florida anyway?"
― Mordy, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:17 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
come on itll be funny because it wont matter
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure Silver is off by a couple of percentage points. Let me check my math again.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, should be:
Obama 49.798Romney 49.774
I would prefer Romney win Florida – just so we avoid a recount.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
he won
http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Opinion/110512_romney.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
Did you know that in IL you can apparently challenge any voter at the poll? It'd be fun to be King Asshole PIA Spoiler and just bounce voting station to voting station going "J'accuse!" all willy-nilly.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/igotthis.jpg
(but do vote, seriously)
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
What's scary to me is how many signs we saw that said 'Vote Pro Choice!' So who cares about policy or the economy??
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
UK bookmakers have Obama at 1/5 and Romney at 7/2 to win. They're pretty confident.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
abortion rights are both a policy AND economic issue! xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
7 out of 2 ppl damn
― am0n, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Romney said he'd overturn Roe V. Wade enough times that i think it's fair game to use that against him
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
It might seem like a minor issue to those who don't have to worry about choice being taken away.
― Sug ban (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
"policy"?
― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
for most of us it will have no effect at all --matt taibbi
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
you can't be serious
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
undecided voters are supposedly 60% female in this election
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
i believe that interracial couples should be prohibited from marrying and that gravity is "just a theory"
which guy should i vote for?
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not saying abortion is not an issue of policy, but to blindly vote for who ever is pro choice regardless of how their other goals with affect you is crazy to me.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
jill stein iirc xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
guys focus on the important thing...in just 7 or 8 hours we'll know whether voters have chosen "Taxi" or "Cheers," and what their favorite "Simpsons" Treehouse of Horror segment is
― ICY BRO (SPECIAL GUEST) (some dude), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
here in downstate IL the local polls have had a fair bit of citizen kops challenging would-be voters on their id creds; US attorney's office is apparently on it.
drove about an hour on I-74 this weekend in IL & every mile there was another NOBAMA sign with a pic of a crying eagle; woulda been sad if it, along with the landscape, weren't so corny
― Euler, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:20 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just mean that like, silver is not better than, and maybe worse, than linzer and wang and a bunch of the other guys,
― max, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
hes a better explainer of his process/results is basically what it comes down to imho
― GOOD LUCK USA! (lag∞n), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he doesn't necessarily have 'better numbers' but he is good at getting people to understand what matters
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
to blindly vote for who ever is pro choice regardless of how their other goals with affect you is crazy to me.
I'd be really surprised if a pro choice pol did not line up with a huge number of my own political beliefs. Are there many pro-choice candidates who are anti-tax, pro-bombing Iran, pro-right wingers on the Supreme Court, etc?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Silver also lets his balls hang out
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
I plugged all these guys into my model and nate silver came up as best 58% of the time
romney xp
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Are there many pro-choice candidates who are anti-tax, pro-bombing Iran, pro-right wingers on the Supreme Court, etc?
my parents! They justify their pro-choice stance as "conservative" – no one should tell her what to do with her body, Mom says.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
so, don't vote for Alfred's parents
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link