Last campaign speech he'll ever give (for himself). ;_;
Of course, he'll be campaigning for future Dems until he drops dead I'm sure.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
After 2016, he and Bruce can just tour as a duo act, taking turns as headliner.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
proportional map kinda reassuring
w/FL as tossup? maybe not v. reassuring
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
don't need florida
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link
That's true in general. If we can airlift Alfred out, we can let the rest of it go.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:11 (eleven years ago) link
Make the Magic Kingdom a principality, Alfred can be king.
― Sug ban (Nicole), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
i like the nyt main story headline right now
"Costly, Bitter Race Is Down to the Voters"
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
is that right? the proportional map above reads like "yes, need florida," doesn't it?
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
This is a pretty handy graphic of the permutations from the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html?smid=tw-share
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
yr eye is misleading you. difficult to judge areas (which is why pie charts are terrible.)
see http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html. give florida to romney and ohio to obama.
ha xp
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
already way past 271 electoral votes in the proportional map. florida's 50-50 as far as polls go but very unlikely to be decisive as far as the electoral math goes.
― iatee, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Obama can get to 300+ w/o FL pretty easy. It'd just be icing on the cake.
― Clay, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
intrade up to 71.5% potus
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743474
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/04/tarnished-silver-assessing-the-new-king-of-stats/
ha i forgot about uk 2010 thing. that was major lols.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
is there a thread for ppl just to check in to see how it's going or should i start three?
― ut's nutta bull, ut's a *romanda* (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
bobby z is all aboard the o-train
http://news.yahoo.com/bob-dylan-predicts-obama-landslide-061628696.html
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
thats not bobby z
― ut's nutta bull, ut's a *romanda* (darraghmac), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Thought you meant Prince's old drummer for a minute.
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:10 (eleven years ago) link
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