the most important election of your lifetime: 2012 american general election thread

What's a Robby Mook?

"exec director" of the Dem Congressional Campaign Com'tee

http://irregulartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/robbymook.jpg

looks like Alex P. Keaton

former Hillary '08 flack

Okay--I thought it was a 400-pound Irish guy who ran a pool hall.

I think he also played the "MacGruber" character on SNL.

http://content9.flixster.com/rtactor/41/03/41031_pro.jpg

Try to catch this little clip CNN showed of Romney grocery shopping today. The camera catches him just as he's about to walk into the store; he stops, takes a look at the shopping carts, starts to go in again, doubles back and grabs a cart. You can almost see the thought bubble: "What would a regular voter do in this situation?"

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/50201ac669beddfb71000010/mitt-romney-grocery-shopping.jpg

did he buy the grocery store and fire all the employees

campaigning must be a really bizarre life

acc to nymag he was asked, after coming out of a hardware store, what he bought, and he said: "hardware stuff."

but i don't have corroboration on that.

when they ask him "paper or plastic", his calculations go into overdrive and his eyeballs start spinning backward

I'M NORMAL!

I'M NORMAL!

I AM NOT MADE OUT OF PLASTIC WHO TOLD YOU THAT

lol!!

When one reporter asked Romney if his house guests were named Rob Portman or Tim Pawlenty — the two most-buzzed-about potential vice presidential candidates — he just laughed.

“Ha, ha, ha, ha,” Romney said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-now-with-press-pool-in-tow-goes-grocery-shopping/2012/08/06/f9f23332-dfd1-11e1-a19c-fcfa365396c8_story.html

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

mitt romney shopping... GROCERY BAG

The fourth ha is the trigger for the laser eyes.

would so love to bro down with Mitt at a Whole Foods

Ha comma ha comma ha comma ha

lolling at 'GROCERY BAG'

"0100100001100001001000000110001101101111011011010110110101100001001000000110100001100001001000000110001101101111011011010110110101100001001000000110100001100001001000000110001101101111011011010110110101100001001000000110100001100001"

for(int i = 0; i != 4; ++i) { cout << "ha, "; }

How come he's shopping himself isn't he rich why does he hate success and shrinking from AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM?

for(int i = 0; i != 4; ++i) { cout << "ha, "; }

― aspiring barkitect (silverfish), Monday, August 6, 2012 5:32 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a few errors here

there are a few errors, there

Here's video of what I was trying to describe earlier:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/06/cnns-gut-check-for-august-6-2012/

he bought pepsi AND coke products.

this guy's good. REAL good. he's got the instinct. you can't buy pepsi without pissing off coke >> unless you ALSO buy coke. this guy's a fighter

but wtf, he didn't buy Dr. Pepper? to hell with Mitt Romney, he favors coke and pepsi!

u guyz luv 'optics'

Xpost

No Dr Pepper?
He just lost the Texas vote

coca-cola went to town, pepsi cola shot him down, dr. pepper fixed him up and now they're after 7up

Clearly the thing Mitt should have done was buy one of everything in the store.

including the employees, then sell them to China.

he missed a trick by not buying some grey poupon and winking at the camera.

http://www.tnr.com/blog/electionate/105834/romney-could-use-sister-souljah-moment

The mythical "Sister Souljah moment"--did it actually have much of anything to do with Clinton winning? I mean, I was certainly aware of it at the time, but did it really bring any undecided voters over? This is the only tracking poll I can find from '92:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Global/content/icons/2012/5/3/1336081889832/1992Gallup_406.jpg

Clinton said what he said on June 13; by my best estimation, that'd fall somewhere around where he goes from 42 to 40 to 41. It was also weeks before naming Gore, the convention, and Perot's temporary withdrawal. My memory of Sister Souljah is that was a two or three day story.

yeah mostly nonsense

Okay, I see I'm misreading the graph (duh)--it starts a month out from the election, not a year and a month. So whatever happened in June isn't on there. Anyway, I'd be interested in seeing a tracking poll that suggests the Sister Souljah thing may have indeed meant something.

she has a new book coming out in october fyi

Sister Souljah Moment and Michael Kinsley Gaffe and Tom Bradley Effect should get together for lunch one day.

Here's video of what I was trying to describe earlier:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/06/cnns-gut-check-for-august-6-2012/

― clemenza, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 00:36 (5 hours ago) Permalink

This is incredible. Who the hell is this fucking guy?

just a regular guy, buying a case of individual bottles of poland springs water

mitt is so weird

does he come across that weird in debates?

he quite a bit better in debates, tho still somewhat weird

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2012/08/07/07-mitt-romney-picnic.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

picnics haha a picnic bench

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

I don't know where else to put this, but the "commercials" Fieger Law has been running in Michigan are essentially hardcore attack ads on Romney. They are pretty lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-C29Lpqmhg&feature=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nttiz9JCho&feature=context-chv

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-tops-obamas-july-fundraising-by-25-million-20120806,0,354598.story

For the third month in a row, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign outraised the reelection effort of President Obama, scooping up $101.3 million, while the president pulled in more than $75 million.

The fundraising totals, announced by the campaigns Monday morning, underscore an ominous trend for Obama, who has been burning through cash in his effort to hold on to the White House.

xpost That is awesome!

totals so far are Dems $627 M, GOP $495 M

pore, pore donkeys