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

although i'm not convinced that obama is any better going to his left than mitt

Obama "goes to his left" about as well as Derek Jeter #stolenjoke

y'all, Morbs just used a funny hashtag.

Now, Romney seems to be stepping up his efforts. In a new ad, he is shown driving an SUV, talking to voters like they’re a companion in the passenger seat.

“I know what it’s like to hire people and to wonder whether you’re going to be able to make ends meet down the road,” the candidate says.

this guyu

er GUY

just a regular guy, out hiring people

Some tactical follow-up to yesterday's no-taxes dare (funny headline):

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/let-the-goads-begin.html

Romney's plan = lower taxes for the rich, higher taxes for everybody else

sounds great, no idea how that could fail

“It is not mathematically possible to design a revenue-neutral plan that preserves current incentives for savings and investment and that does not result in a net tax cut for high-income taxpayers and a net tax increase for lower- and/or middle-income taxpayers,” the study concludes.

Guns, Jews, and Steel: Mitt Romney’s Theory of Everything

By Jonathan Chait

lol good one

in the TV ad at :09 what's goin on in Romney's temples? weird effect of psyops or something idk

everybody be cool

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/07/romney-photo-facebook-turpin.html

A 40-year-old Tennessee man who looks like the offspring of Don Corleone and Jabba the Hut became irate last Sunday, smashing his girlfriend's laptop and hitting her once in the face, after he spotted a photo of a handsome man on her Facebook page. The man in the photo was Mitt Romney.

Romney now a blogger at the Corner

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/01/romney_clarifies_by_culture_he_meant_everything_else/

Will listen when he learns how to clarify butter

Any of you live in the suburbs? Head for the hills.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/312807/burn-down-suburbs-stanley-kurtz

Didn't know iatee had the president's ear.

http://www.nationalreview.com/sites/default/files/nfs/uploaded/page_2012_200_kurtz_square.jpg

Step two is to move the poor out of cities by imposing low-income-housing quotas on development in middle-class suburbs.

If anybody's able to locate the actual document where Obama has all of this written down, that could really shake up the election.

there is no time for your pious requests for evidence when the new world order looms in a radical socialist second term

Adam Cadre:

When I was a kid I obsessively played this game called President Elect. One of the things you could do was send your candidate on a foreign trip; if it went poorly, the game would report that your candidate went overseas "and received several rude rebuffs," adding that "Campaign officials here are shocked and disturbed at the outcome of the trip, and are scrambling to regroup in its aftermath." In light of Mitt Romney's disastrous trip to Britain, I thought it might be amusing to plug him into the game, generate that screen, and post it on Twitter. But as it turned out, the process of generating a President Elect sim of the current election was actually pretty interesting. Some observations:

While much of the initial questionnaire was obsolete (e.g., does the candidate support or oppose sanctions against South Africa?), it was interesting to discover that by 1980s standards Barack Obama rated as a moderate — not a moderate Democrat, but a moderate period — while Mitt Romney scored as "arch-capitalist, plutocratic." Note that the top marginal tax rate when the game was programmed was 69.13%. Obama is pushing for 39.6%, which by Fox News standards makes him a wild-eyed Marxist.

The game predicts an Obama landslide, with Romney able to win only Utah and maybe Oklahoma. The reasons? First of all, the economy. At the time the game was programmed, 8% unemployment seemed decent, while 2% inflation meant partying in the streets. Secondly, the game had no way to account for identity politics. It simply did not compute that a moderate from Illinois known for his communication skills, up against a gaffe-prone plutocrat from Massachusetts, might nevertheless lose white male Southerners by margins of 80% or more. For some reason.

well the game probably doesn't have an option 'black candidate'

oh I said that before finishing reading the second paragraph

enjoying the comments on the nro article

stephenx100    08/01/12 15:36
Underlying all of these comments is the impending race wars that this war on suburbs will cause. Nobody dares mention this and it will probably be censored by NRO's politically correct arbiters. Obama has absorbed the long standing black panther religion driven by the need to distribute the white wealth of the suburbs back to the decaying cities being run by the Zimbabwe style currupt black leaders. It is difficult to predict when the white breaking point will occur, but enough black flash mobs redistributing the black on black murder rate to encompass more white victims may define that breaking point.
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NRO's politically correct arbiters?

the long standing black panther religion driven by the need to distribute the white wealth of the suburbs back to the decaying cities being run by the Zimbabwe style currupt black leaders

it basically reads like the suburbs thread

it basically reads like doesn't

wow, totally evidence-free article there on nat'l review. i think this plan of obama's is "little known" because it exists entirely in the author's head

it basically reads like the suburbs thread

― iatee, Wednesday, August 1, 2012 9:58 PM (1 hour ago)

wasn't gonna say it

black flash mobs

black flash mobs

black improv everywhere

black reddit meetup

black yelp elite event

it basically reads like the suburbs thread

Really? I missed the part with the open racism and predictions of a race war.

maybe you should go reread it I distinctly remember you declaring a race war the same day you wished cancer on all of us

i guarantee i never declared a race war. you are seriously the worst poster ever.

Redistributing the murder rate...

"Ma'am, I know you've been underprivileged when it comes to murder so we just gunned down your son. No need to thanks us, just doing our job."

if anyone wants to go look at what a race war declaration looks like go read the suburbs thread, I swear to god, jon declared the war of all wars

what the fuck is your problem?

I don't have any problem I just disagree w/ the idea that cancer and race wars can solve all our problems

mods, can i request that iatee be permabanned for making an accusation like that?

i mean, what the actual fuck.

you take it to the mod request forum, iatee take it to the suburban race war thread and this goes back to being about romneyshambles

you're right, sorry for derailing thread.

oh god not *another* race war thread

plz let's stick to the presidential race

http://orangehuskyproductions.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/0415_mascots-racing-presidents_485x340.jpg

those giant presidents are seriously terrifying in person. especially lincoln. he intensely looms over you, 9 feet tall, unblinking.