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?

mitt vs. death

daryl morey at head of nasa, depodesta at hud, epstein at treasury, beane at state, bill james attorney general

Would have excellent, but I think he died.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/kicks105.com/files/2012/01/robert-hegyes.jpg

lasorda as henny kissinger

john schuerholz as mitch daniels
joe morgan as rick perry

jose canseco as donald trump

despite all the cheery poll numbers, i think i'm just go to have this low level anxiety until the election is over....

Quite understandable, but seriously, just do what I'm doing and drink a lot and play Xcom. It's doing wonders for my anxiety to blast Sectopods into fragments by like three dudes with plasma sniper rifles.

yeah playing ac3, but it's just...always....there

man, Silver's "there weren't so many assholes in sports journalism" cuts pretty deep

Lol at "mitt v death"

Romney & Ryan's Alternate-Reality Adventure

i don't care what they claim on internet comment sections i refuse to believe any republican has any enthusiasm about voting for romney

Mitt vs. Death by Mitt

Maddow shining spotlight on Florida's attempt to fuck up the voting experience

http://fayobserver.com/articles/2012/11/01/1214384?sac=fo.home

http://americablog.com/2012/11/computer-glitch-votes-black-florida-county-election-fraud.html

kinda of excited that this election has lead to a nationwide debate over statistics and probability theory

― ryan, Friday, November 2, 2012 6:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me, too

How many of this year's Voter Fraud cases involve Republican tampering? I guess if the problem wasn't there much before, they are doing there best to prove it really exists.

so I lost my ID and I was pretty sure that as a registered democrat I'd never be able to get a replacement. I went Friday and they just asked for my social and gave me the card, took 2 or 3 mins, didn't ask for any documentation. Really?!

if the ID card had a photo, they could check it against your appearance and... bob's your uncle

uh-oh - carolina won.

So is AC3 worth it? The podcasty reviews from the last week have been mixed.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171011/eleventh-hour-gop-voter-suppression-could-swing-ohio#

As a displaced NJ voter, by order of the governor, I can now vote by email. However, this seems to require a printer and a scanner, so it's not quite as easy as it sounds. Not sure if this will invite massive absentee ballot fraud.

That OH story is disgusting

bums me out

http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/the-smug-vs-the-stupid

Guess what: if the research is correct, up to at least one in five Americans have sociopathic tendencies strong enough to believe that full-on overt fascism would be a great idea and total improvement. There's a reason why Alan Keyes got the numbers he did when he ran against Obama, or why Nixon's approval ratings were nonzero on the day he got on that helicopter to leave office, or why Dubya's numbers never dropped elong a certain point. What do you do, how do you adjust your Enlightenment-era view of the benefits of rationality, reason, and democracy when knowing how fucked up a large enough percentage of people think?

Education, education, education.

As a displaced NJ voter, by order of the governor, I can now vote by email. However, this seems to require a printer and a scanner, so it's not quite as easy as it sounds. Not sure if this will invite massive absentee ballot fraud.

im glad that they are giving people affected by the storm more convenient voting options, this is incredibly stupid though. do they not know that pdfs can be interactive?

#jersey

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/04/3081614/florida-democratic-party-files.html

oh yeah -- I had a friend in line over there. Shit was crazy.

a line to vote in FL. thank god we have all-mail voting in WA.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6z07-WCcAAIrju.jpg:large

insane

voter suppression in FL is so real. i've had multiple convos with family members this week about friends who have waited 5+ hours in line.

one of the reasons that it takes so long to vote -- i'm sure alfred could attest to this -- is because the ballots are 10+ pages long. the ballots list the full text of all ballot measures in both english and spanish. rick scott is actively attempting to make voting the most loathsome act on earth.

After my eight-hour voting wait in 2008 i will never really be impressed by voting lines again, but that was really a matter of a significant jump in turnout and people really being super excited about voting for Obama, not a matter of anyone deliberately trying to make it hard to vote IMO.

crazy thats for early voting

The ballot is insane: five double-sided pages. One amendment "synopsis" requires a full page of legal doggerel. Voting yes to another amendment will make Obamacare unenforceable in Florida. Yet another restricts state funds for abortions.

I mailed my absentee ballot three weeks ago, about which I'm still conflicted. Naturally I avoided the fate of a friend who arrived at 6:15 a.m. at a polling station yesterday morning and didn't leave until a quarter to one, but my 88-year-old grandmother who vote in person on Tuesday.

Charles Pierce has been terrific: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/

btw lines for early voting were insane in 2008 and 2010 too but when I voted on Election Day I waited ten minutes in line both times.

I need to find a story analyzing whether early voting diminishes length of time spent waiting on ED or if it's merely a cosmetic thing.

As for the latest Pierce column, love his allusion to David Gergen blather as "enervating fatuousness."

Is that Nation link as disturbing as it sounds or a little paranoid?

here they just put the full text of the ballot measures in the voters' pamphlet (this year's is 151 pages!). the ballot itself is one two-sided page.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2012/11/axelrod-theyre-in-deep-trouble-148315.html

comments on this post are psychotic - if you're into that kind of thing

Rs Smth · Top Commenter
This Veteran will not defend an Obama Amerika!
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Rs Smth · Top Commenter
If Obama wins , you'll have to split the republic Red from Blue in order to remain free.

my voting precinct in (flooded out town in) New Jersey has electrical power and is a block away from my (still powerless) apartment. so i plan to do it old school and just walk to the precinct to vote instead of trying to do the email/fax voting option.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/president-obama-and-mitt-romney-begin-final-push-toward-election-day/2012/11/04/14b1923e-269b-11e2-8d6a-9b57d8a5215c_story.html

Love the last paragraph

Liberals are Hypocrites
I remember, not too long ago, when liberals said they would retain the house in 2010... they didn't. Then they said they would recall Scott Walker... they didn't. Now they say Obama will win re-election. ;)
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Maura Bl · Top Commenter · Boston, Massachusetts
its invent math Ma! lol first it was inventive spelling and reading which has done nothing more than make our kids dumb ...
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Lana Savin · Top Commenter
@Jack D Howard...so sick of the hypocrisy of liberals, I haven't heard about conservatives threatening riots and mayhem if Romney loses, nor have I heard about conservatives vandalizing private property and cars because they have an Obama sticker or sign. Nor have I heard of them threatening to kill black babies and black people in general. And nowhere in Paul's comments to he say he hated Obama. Democrats have become the true party of hate, the secret is out so stop the BS
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ok sorry, I just...