I am beginning to become scared that Romney/Ryan will win. Can smart people please post here and say reassuring things to convince me that he won't?

progress via art <3

oh yah i was just talking about their secret religious reasons for hating people. obama the muslim and romney the mormon.

4 out of 10 people still don't know romney is mormon according to that poll thing on cnn. i kinda wonder how it will come up in debates and stuff like that. will he have to answer questions about the angel moroni and the golden plates?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120112080943AAeWFIV

i want him to answer questions about the posthumous baptism of holocaust victims

it always kinda boggles my mind that recent american religions can actually travel to other countries. i don't know why. just the idea of asian or swiss scientologists and mormons seems so weird to me. it seems like such an american thing.

weirder than baseball in japan?

yes, totally. sports always travel around the world. all kinds of sports.

its normal for my kids to take kung fu lessons every week, but it would probably be a little more unusual if we went to a shinto shrine every week. uh, cuz i don't think there are any near us? but just more unusual for westerners in general probably.

From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.

"We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God."

A few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East.

"I've gone through stages," he said. "Absolutely denial. Utter amazement and surprise. Anger and bitterness."

There's the Peace Pagoda tho, Scott! xp

It's in Leverett

but even there its an ancient eastern religion and ancient stuff makes more sense to me. stuff invented in the last couple hundred years traveling to ancient countries and being embraced always seems weird to me.

yeah there are plenty of hippie places and buddhist places around here i'm sure. but that seems more normal than a japanese person embracing L. ron hubbard! but hey whatever floats your boat.

actually there are moonies here in town. little girls always come into my store trying to sell me their godawful homemade jewelry.

recent korean thing that made it big in america. not a lot of those.

I have a friend who is big in to K-pop

well anyway i'm voting for obama if that makes anybody feel better

there is a pretty good korean restaurant here in town.

Really really wish Obama had pushed something like Isabell Sawhill's suggested entitlement changes or even the Bowles/Simpson recommendations. To not suggest anything was ceding the idea high-ground to the ideologues of the Right.

Maybe you missed it but there was this little thing called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare which was largely designed to address the major looming entitlement problem aka health care?

all i know is i'm making sure to vote this election. just in case, ya know? god help us all if that asshat romney wins!

i'm not sure whether a vote for obama or a vote for romney will troll morbz more so i'm going to hold out in some sort of schrodinger's troll where the intention to vote for both is true until i enter the booth and then the quantum whatever collapses

I'm gonna write in a vote for morbs for school board

is "Dr. Morbius" yr legal name

Dr. Michael Morbius was created in response to the comic-book industry's self-censorship board, the Comics Code Authority, lifting its ban on vampires and certain other supernatural characters in February 1971, and not as a challenge to the code, as many believe.[1] Writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane created the character as a living man who is given vampiric abilities via scientific rather than supernatural means.

one of the best comics, but not where Morbs takes his name from I'd guess

http://thecampofthesaints.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/forbidden-planet-dr-morbius-01.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4e/Spidermanep19.jpg

vote for who you like, not a speck of the universe shall take note

http://rlv.zcache.com/emma_goldman_voting_quote_stickers-p217025536885826251bfd7p_400.jpg

this is how anarchism ends, not with a bang, but a troll

i hope my district election officials take note!

who are you going to trust? noted misogynist erick erickson's gut feeling - http://www.redstate.com/2012/09/06/the-alternative-universe-and-the-media-feedback-loop/ - or every poll that has been released to date

TOO MANY THREADS

this thread is primarily for democrat voters to feel nervous about an election that is practically a foregone conclusion. other threads are for other things!

btw, on that topic, nate writes:

But that isn’t how you draw these things up. You don’t want your chances to come down to the residual chance of a polling error or an October surprise. You want to be ahead after your party convention — not just tied, something that even Walter F. Mondale had (very briefly) managed to do in 1984.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/sept-4-the-simple-case-for-why-obama-is-the-favorite/

I’m on record repeatedly doubting Mitt Romney’s viability as a candidate, but more and more I think not only is Romney winning, but the polling is not reflecting the strength of his campaign and the media is actually sabotaging the Democrats’ chance of winning. In fact, I dare say if MItt Romney wins he will have the American media to thank for his win. Hear me out and I think you will agree.

First, and I realize you will have to take my word for it, I have a pretty good gut check on winning and losing. My gut tells me Mitt Romney is doing better than I expected and better than the polling is suggesting. Anecdotes are not data, but more and more a steady stream of anecdotes are piling up to suggest Romney is winning.

"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan" is an anagram of "My ultimate Ayn Rand porn"

Anecdotes are not data, but more and more a steady stream of anecdotes are piling up to suggest Romney is winning.

haha

Based on Facebook posts, I predict an exact tie.

I remember a lot of these 'anecdotes' floating around in 2008 -- around this time, as a matter of fact. K-Lo went to town with them.

And then, of course, there was the ultimate in shiny baubles thanks to Sarah P. Paul Ryan, no.

oh is that what K-Lo did?

What, exactly, are Mitt's strengths as a candidate? My impression was that he won the nomination by default; Santorum and Gingrich just seemed like repugnant human beings, and Herman Cain was basically insane. I'm not sure why people are into Romney. Is his whole platform "I'm not Obama"?

He's a businessman and loves his kids.

He's going to Bain-ify our failing country!

(Seriously don't understand why no one seems to play that angle when his stature as a businessman is talked up as a plus).

(I mean, not 'no one', but it really should be the overriding narrative re: his business acumen.)

Everyone is playing that angle! It was one of the main talking points of the convention last night and has been a theme in attack ads, including the super mean one that implied Romney was responsible for a dude's wife dying of cancer because he shut down a plant dude worked at, causing him to lose his medical insurance.

Ha ha. Okay, cool. I haven't seen much convention coverage or that ad. Kinda wondered if they were biding their time before they really started hammering it home.

as of today they are tied in the polls. apparently.

http://www.examiner.com/article/a-breakdown-of-the-most-recent-obama-versus-romney-polls-9

get ready to put on your mandatory bainamerica uniform. and learn the compulsory bainamerica anthem.

xxxp That was definitely the weirdest campaign ad I've seen in a long time (well, that and the famous Herman Cain one), it kinda sucks to know the Democrats are totally insane as well

one weird thing that i can report is that there is a sudden groundswell of musicians talking about the fact that the primary stakeholder in guitar center (which is in the pretty hated category, at least on the surface) is bain - like dudes coming into the store to inform me that they wont vote for romney because of his ties to guitar center. which is weird, but could mobilize some pretty lazy non-voting sorts of people.