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

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.

I was thinking about welfare reform when I posted that quote. Mostly because I waiting for you to post it.

As far as I can tell, there are Democrats and Republicans over here, and there are the mysterious entities (aliens? ghost pirates?) on the other side who maintain, and occasionally improve the welfare state.

I have no idea who these mysterious entities that create and protect the policy I like that somehow exists. And I have no idea how the ratio of Democrats to Republicans might affect this.

All I know is that Democrats and Republicans are indistinguishable. This is proven by NAFTA.

PS I voted for Clinton in '92, but not in '96

I think i was trying to send a clear message to someone

you did it just because you knew that eventually ilxor would exist and you could tell us about it and we could applaud you for your principled stand

hahaha. no, I did it just because I knew that eventually Dr. Morbious would exist and be smug on political and movie threads and I wanted him to be wrong again

oh, have I been wrong? Haven't noticed, need more coffee.

...and I guess I know what I'd do in San Francisco this Saturday night.

http://www.gp.org/press/pr-state.php?ID=506

I like Rose Aguilar

I finally read that Sunday Times Mag piece on the '08 Wall St Obama donors who think he hasn't kissed their ass enough. Start this country over please.

It also illustrates the quadrennial presidential auction as vividly as anything else I've read.

I don't know why I keep being surprised by how thin-skinned and obvious these guys are.

http://www.baywindows.com/romney-ill-be-better-than-ted-for-gay-rights-53688

Have you guys talked about this article? This guy's position seems to have evolved.

Yeah, gawker or buzzfeed or whomever was talking about this and, as I pointed out yesterday, at least Obama, for whatever reasons, evolved in the right direction.

Romney has a lot of work ahead. I don't see how he lines up with, much less defeats, Obama in November. Anything's possible, but Romney doesn't strike me as a come-from-behind maverick. Then again, that's my personal opinion. I'll leave it to the states to decide.

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2012/05/got-to-let-it-show.html

snap crackle or pop?

So Romney was a dick in high school

lol Dennis Perrin never gets old.

he does, but much more naturally than the obsession w/ Romney trivia vs war crimes does.

as naturally as your obsession with posting in the wrong threads

I know I introduced you to Greenwald only a couple years ago but still

I don't think you did.

Nothing wrong with this thread, ain't nothin goin on but an election, whether you're a marriage-obsessed idiot gay or President Machiavelli himself.

I posted some Bambait in the other thread.

Romney's base will like that story of him grabbing his high school classmate and forcibly cutting his hair

they could (but won't) point out that no one cares about Bam's bullying.

http://jahanzebjz.tumblr.com/post/2753963879/victims-of-us-drone-attacks-in-pakistan-drone