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

What a wonderful country, where a man can have his own golf course just for running a chain of pizza shops. Really is a shame we're going to make him pay his employees health care.

This is a real tribute to America, to entrepreneurship paying your shift managers $9.29 an hour.

What a piece of work is a pizza, how noble in flavor, how infinite in toppings, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an autopsied calzone

The Republicans desperately wanted Eddie Albert; whether it's trees or pizza, they ended up with Charles Grodin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqYlm3xc9ww

(Substitute "the presidency" for "Kelly"--and if Romney were to win, I envision him just as drifting-off-into-his-thoughts as Grodin in the film's final scene.)

I'm not a business, man

tell us more about how you won't release your tax returns Mitt! Genius strategy there!

people are corporations, my friend

hmmm, corporations are people, but people are not corporations

so this is like the a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square thing, i see

i know it's obvious and it doesn't really add anything here, but mitt romney really is a despicable asshole

he is obvious and he doesn't really add anything

he shows it more unconsciously than....

As they say on the blogs, reality check:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabmky1BT38

"An organization I can't name..."

http://i390.photobucket.com/albums/oo346/HadrianVIII/whoathere.jpg

disgusting

whose idea was it to put lipstick on a pig?

Steve Schmidt, I think

Srsly though what a forever blossoming asshole

Haha. He almost choked on his own self-importance there at the end.

Truthfully, Morris's reading--or maybe his top-secret organization's reading--of the situation today didn't seem all that outrageous. He basically says Romney's got about 230 electoral votes, and then names a bunch of states where he's within 2-3 points. Overstated, but not delusional. The crazy part is that from there he's got Romney winning every last one of them and ending up somewhere near Obama's 2008 total.

he's nuts

There might be a good DIY YouTube in there, splicing Morris into the I-don't-want-to-be-Mr.-Pink scene from Reservoir Dogs.

nate silver has obama winning at around 70%, which seems like a lot (and from a historical perspective probably is) but 30% chance of romney presidency is kinda obscenely high!

like that's a little less than rolling a 1 or 2 on a 6-sided die, which, you know, happens a lot!

That TPM Polltracker thing has Romney at 191 if you assume he wins Indiana and Tennessee. Just to get to that 228 figure, he'd have to win states like Nevada and Michigan where they've got Obama ahead by more than five points.

Sorry Wisconsin, not Michigan.

As long as he holds onto the rest of the states he won in 2008, Obama can lose NH, OH, VA, NC, FL, and CO and still win.

70% is pretty blessed for a guy whose solution for a financial meltdown was an economic team that made it happen.

CHICAGO—With campaign rhetoric becoming increasingly heated and both presidential nominees releasing more attack ads, a new 30-second spot from the Obama campaign this week accuses his opponent Mitt Romney of committing the 1996 murder of 6-year-old beauty pageant queen JonBenét Ramsey.

Titled “He Did It,” the advertisement asks if anyone can truly remember where Romney was the night of the child’s murder, and whether the U.S. populace wants a president capable of strangling a little girl and dumping her body in her parents’ basement.

lol

amazing
cannot believe they did that w/a real story!

they still got it

hmmm, corporations are people, but people are not corporations

so this is like the a square is a rectangle but a rectangle is not a square thing, i see

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*nods*

the U.S. populace

dead giveaway -- should have been 'the american people'

Romney Faces Pressure From Right to Put Ryan on Ticket

lol go for it. lets talk about his fucked up mythical budget fueled by tax cuts for rich people, increases for poor people, ponies and dreams.

it's been working out so well tho!

afaic tax the fuck out of ponies

they're not ponies, they're road eapple creators

will lead to a cost increase in pony meat pizza tho

There is no U.S. market for the human consumption of horse meat. But it is seen as a delicacy overseas, especially in some European and Asian countries. In addition, horse meat has been used in the U.S. to feed zoo animals, because it's a good source of protein.

I think I would like a hat made out of a pony's face

somewhere in wisconsin Ed Gein's distant relative toils in his forebear's shadow, making you that hat

I looked up "pony hat" on Google and would like to formally retract my request, they've all been MLPed to death ;_;

except this dude:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3596/5843053799_eeee2daa90.jpg

now that's something

dang

hahaha i was like what, they've been mary-louise parkered to death?

Mary-Louise Pony

i'm matthew broderick, and i disapprove of this message

Jim Greer, the Florida GOP guy who ratted out the state party's voter suppression efforts actually went on Al Sharpton's show today and laid out his whole testimonial again. Guy is a bit of a hero imo.

Obama campaign: Governor Romney "let people stay on welfare for an indefinite period," and gave the "free cars"! The horror!

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/obama_channels_reagan_on_welfare_salpart/