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?

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xp I actually just use a subscription (not my own, but whatever.)

Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 27 September 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link

I'm a little concerned about this potential libyagate thing, some hay to be made there possibly?

space dokken (Edward III), Thursday, 27 September 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link

This was on tumblr with the caption "GOD YOU RUIN EVERYTHING"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maihp4eKsl1qz80pso1_400.gif

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link

Wait is that sped up? What the hell is he doing?

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

JENGA DUDE

farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

five foot jenga my friend

― lag∞n, Wednesday, June 6, 2012 8:01 PM (3 months ago)

mookieproof, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link

it was kind of charming to see romney jr. prank call dad with one of those arnold schwarzenegger sound boards.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:35 (eleven years ago) link

lol youtube comment on the video: "This kind of symbolizes how he would run the country. He takes from the middle and adds to the top but when the top gets too heavy and there isn’t enough of the middle left to support the top, the entire thing collapses."

Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link

I KNOW what Jenga is, thank you very much. You'll be saying I don't know what clocks are next. I meant what the hell was his little dance.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link

Clocks are big; machines are heavy.

Three Word Username, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link

xxxpost

Mr. Roboto, looking for the battery compartment.

Old Lunch, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link

Mitt isn't even pres yet and he's aged 10 years on the campaign trail (not least because he's been campaigning for 10 years, but still ...)

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

it was kind of charming to see romney jr. prank call dad with one of those arnold schwarzenegger sound boards.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, September 27, 2012 6:35 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

woah for real?

some dude, Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbaBhb7w_1s

the funny part is mitt's responses also sound like they are from a soundboard.

Philip Nunez, Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:39 (eleven years ago) link

!!!!

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

Is that real?

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

o man schwarzenegger and pacino prank calls were some of the first things i ever downloaded, off of audiogalaxy forever ago. so weird to see it pop up like that.

balls, Friday, 28 September 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i had a phase in college of listening to those constantly

some dude, Friday, 28 September 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link

romney and crying baby pics are v. v. lol

Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 28 September 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link

I wonder if anyone's sussed out Romney's cell phone number from that prank call clip...

Old Lunch, Friday, 28 September 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link

1-900-mix-alot

balls, Friday, 28 September 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link

I wonder if his sons do this to him all the time. Like it was just Schwarzenegger this time, but last time he was speaking to Daniel Plainview about petroleum concerns.

Philip Nunez, Friday, 28 September 2012 07:48 (eleven years ago) link

Mormons share love through pranks

The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link

is there a Romney with crying babies Tumblr yet

set me on fire RAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link

538's numbers keep getting more and more cheerful

paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link

although annoyingly the articles are now nyt paywalled

paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:11 (eleven years ago) link

OK, TV movie right now!!!!

http://media.avclub.com/images/414/414525/16x9/627.jpg?0793

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link

The Kwisatz Kolobach

Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link

Not a Dune nerd, had to google, still hard!

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link

538's numbers keep getting more and more cheerful

sez u

Obama, the more efficient evil

kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 September 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link

21st century America, we're all about efficiency, dammit!

Ned Raggett, Friday, 28 September 2012 14:59 (eleven years ago) link

i've never been kneejerk mocked by morbius about politics before, today i am become a true ilxor

paradiastole, or the currifauel, otherwise called (thomp), Friday, 28 September 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/oct-1-is-the-presidential-race-tightening-heading-into-the-debates/

it's weird bc the model is showing the highest % for obama since it started (now at 85.7%) - also nate is all about electoral ties right now even tho the model indicates they'll only happen a whopping 0.6% of the time???

Mordy, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link

Oh snap, Ryan's got an unwanted videotape in his past, too

Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link

it's in the interest of Nate's publisher to look for storylines other than "yep, this is all wrapped up" xp

the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link

electoral college tie where bam wins the popular vote but house picks romney = best hope for american gov't total collapse?

iatee, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:29 (eleven years ago) link

one of the things i like most about nate tho is that he generally is good at resisting nonsense storylines.

Mordy, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

imagine the other way around (were it possible) xp

mookieproof, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link

Silver's not in the business of making up shit.

Norah Jones Protest Vote (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link

oh I don't think he's making anything up, it's just gotta be boring (and bad for pageviews) to make every update "yep, O is still winning by a lot!"

the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, he's got to get a post a day up, and there's not a lot of change most days, so a lot of them are going to be "Could _this_ happen? *massive nerd-out*... so, in conclusion, no"

Specifically the race tightening is about "maybe a little, but remember that the country-wide polls don't matter shit compared to the swing states".

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link

When I was around 9 and I learned about the electoral college. I figured out that someone could win the popular vote but lose the election and I was quite distressed by this, so I used the library computer to email President Clinton that I had discovered a glaring flaw in our electoral system.

I got a letter in the mail thanking me for my interest in the electoral process. Now that Nate Silver has predicted that Romney will be anointed against the people's will, throwing us into civil war, I suppose I'll be drafted to fight the Federated States of The Real America. If only Clinton had heeded my warning.

ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link

Is it against the spirit of the thread to post the trailer to the new Red Dawn?

Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/y181U.jpg

successfully gasfacing mitt romney in a photo makes that guy a hero to us all

has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 02:54 (eleven years ago) link

In all these various electoral scenarios, Florida and Virginia aren't crucial if Obama wins Ohio/Michigan/Pennsylvania, right?

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/obama-swing-states-polls-leads-ohio-tied-virginia-florida.php

clemenza, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link


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