Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

yep

http://publicreligion.org/research/2012/09/race-class-culture-survey-2012/

Among southern working class whites, Romney leads by 40 points, 62-22, an extraordinary gap.
The story in the rest of the country is different. In the West, where Colorado and Nevada are battleground states, Romney leads by a modest 5 points, 46-41. In the Northeast, which Obama is expected to sweep, except perhaps for New Hampshire, Romney holds a 4-point advantage among working class whites, 42-38. In the Midwest, where Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin are in play, Obama actually leads among working class whites by 8 points (44-36).

Among southern working class whites, Romney leads by 40 points, 62-22, an extraordinary gap.

obama is black. just sayin'

keep talkin

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omg good thing shes not practicing law in massachusetts

hhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

"Yeah," Romney said in an interview aired on Sunday on the CBS television show "60 Minutes," when he was asked if he thought his relatively low rate was fair. Romney then stared impassively for forty minutes with no further elaboration.

Uh.

hahaha

Romney then stared impassively for forty minutes with no further elaboration.

Wait – he and the reporter sat in the room for 40 minutes w/out talking? Creepo.

"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem."

*ties dog to top of airplane*

mitt romney knows the truth about phlogiston #teachthecontroversy

looolllll @ Old Lunch's post

I really feel like Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney was an early birthday present or something

wish we could Crisis On Infinite Earths our way to seeing what the Perry campaign would have looked like though. And Herman Cain. Or or or or or or the Perry-Cain ticket

I wanna see the Trump campaign

Trump/Palin

it would be tough smart wise and incredible obvs

@realDonaldTrump: The GOP must spend its money wisely and do incredible television commercials. They must be tough and smart.

just be better than you are nbd

haha that quote is just insane, i keep re-reading it

oh my god hahahahahahaha

*ties dog to top of airplane*

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, September 24, 2012 1:31 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^

Someone start a grease fire at a campaign event so when can watch Romney run up with a bucket of water.

"somebody open the windows! we need air!"

[overhead panel pops open and oxygen masks drop down, startling the candidate.]

Obama gets shit for giving everyone parachutes. Romney just wants to bust out all the windows.

the writing of that article is masterful; great headline lulling you with the figure he pulled in fundraising, a smooth transition into the anecdote and the BAM total idiocy presented without embellishment

Obama gets shit for giving everyone parachutes. Romney just wants to bust out all the windows.

― pplains, Monday, September 24, 2012 1:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha nice

@realDonaldTrump: The GOP must spend its money wisely and do incredible television commercials. They must be tough and smart.

oh my God

INCREDIBLE TELEVISION COMMERCIALS

The GOP must embody these buzzwords I pull out of my ass.

Maybe he can have one of his celebrity apprentice teams do a political ad for Romney.

As max noted on Twitter, we have so reached event horizon:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81587.html?hp=l6

I heard a lot of things in the same vein in 2009 from Republicans I knew.

That's precisely why he was so lionized in Orlando during his speech there oh wait.

"we’ll roll back some regulations and try to bust some unions"

PRESIDENT GAS

the guy who wrote that politico bit:

https://twitter.com/keithkoffler

mainly just links to his blog posts

PRESIDENT GAS

So would rather listen to that than "Won't Get Fooled Again."

A meeting of the minds:

Akin and Gingrich will host a joint press conference today at 12:30 PM.

Romney then stared impassively for forty minutes with no further elaboration.

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

i suppose Frum has to rationalize his inevitable endorsement of this clown somehow, but this little imaginary puppet show of his is some real rmde bullshit

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/opinion/frum-real-vision-obama-romney/index.html?hpt=op_t1

the president's call for higher taxes on the rich will only stifle and slow consumer progress

surely he realizes that taxes have been significantly higher (and regulations in many regards stricter) than they are now, right? even back when America was so hella awesome 94/7?

(for white men, obv)

Akin and Gingrich will host a joint press conference today at 12:30 PM.

their platform: no abortions on the moon

^^^ HA!!! A+

even back when America was so hella awesome 94/7?

I first read this as a hyperbolic version of 24/7.

That is correct.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/09/24/obama-aide-bumps-comment-concerned-mideast-unrest/70001016/1

dissecting Obama's 60 Minutes responses. This above one plus reading in a criticism of Israel with his reference to blocking out "noise" concerning how to deal with Iran.

Man, Paul Ryan is the gift that keeps on giving. This'll turn the polls around!

"Today, if we want to send an astronaut to the space station, we have to pay the Russians to take him there," Ryan said to boos from the crowd. "China may someday be looking down on us from the Moon. That's unacceptable. Mitt Romney and I believe that America must lead in space. Mitt Romney and I believe we need a mission for NASA, a mission for a space program, and we also believe that this is an integral part of our national security."

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/#ixzz27Q5ycY1z

China may someday be looking down on us from the Moon. That's unacceptable.

testify!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/China_moon.jpg/220px-China_moon.jpg