2008 USP(G)ET pt. II: counting the days to 2012 primary thread 1

Nixon's passed-out head in a jar fantasizing about getting it on with feminists - now THAT is satire

Listen here, missy. Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973, but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever. The only thing that's different is me; I've become bitter, and let's face it, crazy over the years. And once I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat, and I'll go into people's houses at night and wreck up the place. Muahahaha!

hmm

that is bad satire, cuz Dick was always bitter & crazy.

i have seen that, morbius! i don't think it is "genius"!

this still reflects some of the bounce, is almost half-weekend, and precedes the market meltdown, but fwiw:

Pew (9/9-14): Obama 46-44 (RVs) (+3 to McCain since August)
among LVs: tied at 46
among those whose mind is made up: Obama 38-35
among swing voters: 9 McCain, 8 Obama, 10 undecided
in battleground states: tied at 45 (+7 to McCain since August)
among independents: McCain 45-38 (+11 to McCain since August)
among Catholics: McCain 45-44 (among nonhispanic Catholics: McCain 48-41) (+6 to McCain since August)
among white, noncollege women: Obama 47-38 (+2 to Obama since August)
who will win: tied at 39
Biden favorables: 52-30
Palin favorables: 54-32

Obama is doing better than Kerry among white women, men, young people, Midwesterners, and Westerners

xp: It's not Michael O'Donoghue's "Children's Letters to Hitler" from National Lampoon but it was on TV

aww, but I liked the "Bill Clinton in McDonald's" sketch

intercepted by warlords!

One can only hope the market meltdown will benefit Obama -- but so few voters seem to have a clue about even simple economics that McCain may be able to bluster and chest-beat his way to looking 'tough' on the disintegration of the banking system, all while being one of the Keating Five and having voted for further bank deregulation.

YESSSSSS

whether voters have a clue or not, they grade Obama better on the economy just about everywhere. there's a reason McCain looked sick on one of the morning shows early this week.

gabb, got any poll data from MI? (esp. in the vein of the ARG stuff you posted earlier)

McCain loses Nagourney

When I see the numbers move for Obama later this week, I will be relieved and happy.

how much did Lehman Bros give to Obama and McCain?

Or how ilxors think that Bikini Palin came from this board.

― Pleasant Plains, Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it came from an ilxor, good enough

xpost and that reason is SKIN CANCERS

here's a whole bunch of poll data from MI

http://www.pollster.com/polls/mi/08-mi-pres-ge-mvo.php

sure, Obama has not always been quite at the level one would hope he'd be, but McCain has never polled above 46% (unless you go back to January '07). it's a blue state.

The press is so predictable.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/18/big_ten_battleground_very_tight_race_in_midwestern_states.html

how much did Lehman Bros give to Obama and McCain?

Dick Fuld is an equal-opportunity profligate; max to both, and $10K to each of the senate re-election funds

I google maps satellite viewed his house. Greenwich CT is fucking ridiculous.

BATTLEGROUNDS!!!! OH NOES!!!

democrats getting freaked out about losing virginia or nevada is kind of like getting scared shitless when russia moved tanks into georgia. you may have not noticed but we pushed the line back a little bit, kids.

After what I saw during the State Fair, I have a very hard time seeing MN as an actual battleground state.

do tell

i have a certain emotional investment in obama winning at least one southern state.

but i'm prepared for him to win iowa and still have media bods talking about how he doesn't 'connect' with middle america until 2012

Basically:

• hordes of lines from the Democrat-affiliated booths
• completely empty Republican-affiliated booths
• legions of Obama pins and t-shirts
• fewer than 20 McCain pins and t-shirts
• award-winning seed art featuring elephants shitting and pissing on the Constitution, elephants merrily dancing off of a cliff, Obama cleaning up piles of elephant shit
• an award-winning scarecrow of W holding a sign that said "MISSION BUNGLED"

award-winning seed art featuring elephants shitting and pissing on the Constitution, elephants merrily dancing off of a cliff, Obama cleaning up piles of elephant shit

bahahahahahaha

HAI GUYS, they found this year's key voting demo yet again

Maxed-Out Moms: The Battleground Voting Bloc
By Karen Tumulty Wednesday, Sep. 17, 2008

Meet the woman of the year: White, high school–educated and probably on the north side of age 50, she is getting the worst of a bad economy. She's worrying about whether her daughter will be able to afford college and her father his medicine. Her husband can barely afford the gasoline it takes to get back and forth from a job he's in danger of losing — and with it, their health insurance. She's getting her hair cut less often and sometimes has to put her utility bill on her Visa. She's the woman doing the laundry at 11 p.m., because it's the first chance she's had all day to do it. So it's no surprise that she hasn't yet gotten around to settling on Barack Obama or John McCain — though how she votes may well determine the outcome of the election...

award-winning seed art featuring elephants shitting and pissing on the Constitution

goddamnit, when i went all the seed art was just girl scouts and unicorns! wtf?

getting very meta: mccain campaign lies about what mccain said and makes up things obama is "about to" say in order to cover for stupid things mccain said this morning

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/mccain_campaign_falsely_attack.php

award-winning seed art

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queen_of_subtle/2802498705/in/set-72157606980897701/

xp good job paul weig!

there was seed art of gnarls barkley this year! the star-tribune's weekly magazine commissions something for their fair issue every year

there is also, in a vault somewhere, seed art of joan jett, who was slated to play the grandstand last year but backed out.

uh

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queen_of_subtle/2802499651/in/set-72157606980897701/

it was better without the visual - i was thinking sand castle stuff

isn't joan jett required to play at every state fair ever

http://www.flickr.com/photos/queen_of_subtle/2802501977/in/set-72157606980897701/

Where would you like to go?

http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/silenced_majority_portal/2008/08/the-minnesota-s.html

The Gnarls Barkley is on here, too.

them's some cute kids working the dem booths

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2330699,00.asp

"After the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)

"The second was somewhat harder, the question was "where did you meet your spouse?" did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screenshits [sic] that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for "palin eloped" or some such in one of the tabs.

"I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on "Wasilla high" I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower...

hacked!

i saw that bernie mac seed art at the state fair

there was a really cool bo diddly one too

they actually didn't go to hs together, but met at a basketball game where she was playing

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=minnesota%20state%20fair%20butter%20princess&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

btw this is one of the most terrifying GISs ever

http://jschumacher.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/23/statefair_butter1.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1156/1251098445_3405e3017d.jpg?v=0