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?

haha yeah the 'bush isn't REALLY a conservative' thing was one of the weirder GOP-think developments of the last decade.

hart was good but then he had a lil problem

Dukakis also had a "lil problem": he was 5'8".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSLW3BG3TgE

Truman's reputation started to recover in the next ten years. Meanwhile a majority of American still think Bush remains a joke.

1988 was the year I started watching SNL.

I remember this:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xletq9_saturday-night-live-dukakis-after-dark_fun

http://snl.jt.org/caps/episode_sketches/1988-11-05-8.jpg

Matthew Modine ... Lloyd Bentsen
Dana Carvey ... Jimmy Carter
Nora Dunn ... Joan Baez
Cheryl Hardwick ... pianist
Phil Hartman ... Ted Kennedy
Jan Hooks ... Kitty Dukakis
Victoria Jackson ... Donna Rice
Jon Lovitz ... Michael Dukakis
Kevin Nealon ... LeRoy Neiman

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/the-statistical-state-of-the-presidential-race/

game over man

not really what that article says man

ok

obama now at 81.9% on 538 - his highest point so far this election iirc? (previous high mark: 80.7% from convention bounce)

Sept. 26: Could 2012 Be Like 2008?
By NATE SILVER
There’s no point in putting it gently: Mitt Romney had one of his worst polling days of the year on Wednesday.

what do you have to add to NYTimes URLs to read articles for free again?

delete evthg after "html"

or just click on an inbound link http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/sept-26-could-2012-be-like-2008

oh god, i just now finally watched the joe scarborough "sweet jesus" thing, that is pretty fucking satisfying on some irrational and childish level, for me personally

From Silver's blog post:

The “now-cast” estimates that Mr. Obama would have a 97.8 percent chance of winning an election held today. Further, it pegs his advantage at five and a half percentage points in the national popular vote.

lol @ Romney

oh god, i just now finally watched the joe scarborough "sweet jesus" thing, that is pretty fucking satisfying on some irrational and childish level, for me personally

pls elaborate!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/joe-scarborough-romney-ryan-sweet-jesus_n_1915975.html?utm_hp_ref=media

what do you have to add to NYTimes URLs to read articles for free again?

― set me on fire RAAAAH (DJP), Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

add the javascript at this URL http://pastebin.com/QNyY4bdL as a bookmarklet, go to nytimes.com, click the bookmarklet. resets your article count by deleting all your nyt cookies.

how do you add the javascript as a bookmarklet?

create a bookmark and paste the Javascript as the destination

Or drag the link onto yr bookmark bar.

Sorry drag the script

will you guys be sad when the NYT is bankrupt

They released some statement about how they're getting more digital money/subscriptions than ever so no.

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

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

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/from-video-to-terrorist-attack-a-definitive-timeline-of-administration-statements-on-the-libya-attack/2012/09/26/86105782-0826-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_blog.html

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

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

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

JENGA DUDE

five foot jenga my friend

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

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

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."

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.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1162348.1348002426!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/gallery_635/mitt-romney.jpg

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/MittRomney_CryingBaby.jpg

Clocks are big; machines are heavy.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRjYQaA0S4QsGNvzR3-fdW6r4xhGIbMX9_4h278ifRJq1lvv2TaRNHfXeD4XQ

xxxpost

Mr. Roboto, looking for the battery compartment.

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 ...)

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?

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

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

!!!!

Is that real?

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.

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

romney and crying baby pics are v. v. lol

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

1-900-mix-alot

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.