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

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/03/Obama-Campaign-Women-Are-Helpless

conservative ranting about Julia here is so over the top

that is an...unfortunate URL.

Under the Obama administration, self-respect and personal responsibility are unnecessary when the federal government saps resources from the private sector to clean up your messes. Julia can be a professional student and study web design for a frillion years so she can build flash-heavy websites.

Annnd Obama is still president.

these ppl are so stupid

http://www.freep.com/article/20120504/NEWS15/120504045/Mitt-Romney-Richard-Grenell-campaign

well that lasted about as long as i expected

The Prez spoke at my son's high school yesterday. Did his spiel about the Republicans wanting to let federal loan interest rates double

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2012/0504/Student-loans-Do-Republicans-really-think-program-is-socialist

Biden on Meet the Press = yes, we're worried.

about the adequacy of "Osama's dead and Chrysler isn't"?

^^ actually, that makes a damned effective bumper sticker for a MOR candidate

unless maybe if you don't work for Chrysler

appparently JoeJoe spouted that in the last 2 weeks

Joe's good at one-liners

Every time Joe opens his mouth I hear wookie noises.

*Biden smashes wrench into access panel on Amtrak engine.*

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/06/young-voters-are-abandoning-obama-but-not-running-to-romney.html

Young voters gonna stay home

which seems encouraging, but

Surprisingly, little support is expressed by 18- to 24-year-olds for the Occupy Wall Street protests, at 19 percent. (A plurality of 42 percent are unsure.)

where would they find out about it, right? HBO?

Of course jobs is #1, but smh at the rest:

The top-10 issues ranked in importance for this cohort were creating jobs, reducing the deficit, lowering the tax burden for all, becoming energy-independent, ensuring affordable access to health care, creating a world-class education system, addressing Social Security, preventing the spread of terrorism, protecting individual liberties from government, and preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Combating the impacts of climate change fell near the bottom of the list.

college kids aping their parents shocka

Through facebook, right? Isn't this supposed to be the web.20 generation with their twitter revolutions and magic youtube text aps? Friedman and Bobo said so.

the legacy of the democratic party's failure to articulate a clear political philosophy of any kind for decades

^^^this

it's hard to do when you don't believe in anything.

Surprisingly, little support is expressed by 18- to 24-year-olds for the Occupy Wall Street protests, at 19 percent. (A plurality of 42 percent are unsure.)

It is very hip, even on the Youth Left, to mock OWS.

Young millennials today are dramatically less politically engaged and less enthusiastic. Just 64 percent are registered to vote, compared to 73 percent four years ago. The number who say they are definitely voting in the presidential election has dropped significantly from 64 percent to 47 percent. And a majority of those registered or unregistered say that either their vote would not matter or they are unsure.

^And far easier than actually doing anything.

i don't know what to make of such a rapid fall in registration within a 4 year period. are ppl born in 1994 dramatically less involved than ppl born in 1990?

it appears so!

I assume some of the '08 kiddie corps let their registration lapse when Gizmo turned into Spike.

iPhone service cuts off when you go to a polling place.

four years of severe recession and political deadlock will do a number on people turning 18 during that time

xp yeah and that -- which i would expect you to be 'encouraged' by, morbs?

i don't know what to make of such a rapid fall in registration within a 4 year period. are ppl born in 1994 dramatically less involved than ppl born in 1990?

― Mordy, Monday, May 7, 2012 12:34 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seniors suck, freshmen rule

which i would expect you to be 'encouraged' by, morbs?

yeah I thought Morbz didn't want ANYBODY to vote

They've been hearing about youth unemployment/not holding a job for 4 more years

I don't want em to recognize the Obamney choice as a sham

http://www.gallup.com/poll/154502/Obama-Romney-Race-Competitive-2012-Swing-States.aspx

tied says Gallup

boring says Taibbi

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/is-this-the-most-boring-election-ever-20120507

i DO want em that is

i didn't read that taibbi piece yet but i was thinking something similar yesterday. this thread has been relatively quiet, esp compared to last two elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDwwAaVmnf4

it is a boring election, but it's only May. though I was in France recently & a friend asked about Mitt Romney & how the USA could consider electing such a fascist religious nutjob, & I found myself defending Romney as being just a bit more fascist than Sarko, & really only a very mild Mormon & thus not very nutso, & really he was a lot more mild & "centrist" than the GOP could have settled upon...I convinced my friend & found myself rather startled that I didn't care much anymore about who wins this election, except for the aid & comfort a Romney victory will give racists.

totally gonna be a boring election. will be a replay of Clinton v. Dole sans Perot, more or less.

be careful what you wish for

that was an observation, not a wish

k, don't tempt a totally gonna crash again economy, then

The irony being that our socialist Keynesian overlords, Messrs Bush and Obama have left us with an economy far less dire than the austerity budgets have left those in Spain, Greece, France and Britain.

I think a few of us were aware very early on how boring (a vulnerable) Obama vs. (any kind of) Romney would be, so, Yippie-style, we tried to levitate Rick Perry or Herman Cain or Newt Gingrich into the lead. It just didn't take.

The National Review is nostalgic for the excitement of '08 too.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/299147/dohrn-connection-robert-verbruggen

I'm pretty apathetic to all of this, but then something like this comes along: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/07/479229/house-gop-military-cut-programs-poor/

Santorum has endorsed Romney. With that kind of clout...

I'm pretty apathetic to all of this, but then something like this comes along: http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/05/07/479229/house-gop-military-cut-programs-poor/

― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, May 7, 2012 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As CAP’s Melissa Boteach, Lawrence Korb and Max Hoffman noted in a report last month, with the cuts they are calling for, House Republicans will be protecting “largely useless” weapons systems, preserving funding for unnecessary programs like the V-22 Osprey, and adding two nuclear submarines to the U.S. military’s already “overwhelming preponderance of sea power.”

At the same time, the GOP plan would, for example, cut food stamps for 2 million people and reduce the same benefits for 44 million others. Nearly 300,000 school children would lose free school meals and hundreds of thousands could lose their Medicaid or CHIP coverage.

sort of like Bill Clinton's abolition of this cost (or would've) him your '96 re-election vote.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid_to_Families_with_Dependent_Children

There are no useless weapons systems! They create JOBS.