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

just a regular guy, buying a case of individual bottles of poland springs water

mitt is so weird

does he come across that weird in debates?

he quite a bit better in debates, tho still somewhat weird

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intel/2012/08/07/07-mitt-romney-picnic.o.jpg/a_560x375.jpg

picnics haha a picnic bench

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

I don't know where else to put this, but the "commercials" Fieger Law has been running in Michigan are essentially hardcore attack ads on Romney. They are pretty lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-C29Lpqmhg&feature=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nttiz9JCho&feature=context-chv

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-tops-obamas-july-fundraising-by-25-million-20120806,0,354598.story

For the third month in a row, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s campaign outraised the reelection effort of President Obama, scooping up $101.3 million, while the president pulled in more than $75 million.

The fundraising totals, announced by the campaigns Monday morning, underscore an ominous trend for Obama, who has been burning through cash in his effort to hold on to the White House.

xpost That is awesome!

totals so far are Dems $627 M, GOP $495 M

pore, pore donkeys

Does that include the super-pacs:

Republican-backed Super Pacs have raised much larger amounts of money than similar, pro-Democrat groups.

http://newspano.com/news/romney-tops-obama-fundraising-for-third-straight-month

If Romney loses, I envision him doing stand-up a year or two from now, did-you-ever-notice?-type stuff about how there's always one wheel on the shopping cart that's crooked.

imagine Romney's robotic Richardsesque heckle meltdown

"...and the equus ferus caballus you rode in on."

from the Bos Globe:

Romney and the Republicans still trail Obama and the Democrats in total fund-raising, $627 million to $495 million. But the president’s cash advantage is effectively gone. The New York Times reported Sunday that Obama and the Democrats spent about $400 million between the beginning of last year and the end of last month.

By the end of June, Romney’s joint fund-raising committee had a $26 million advantage in cash on hand. Obama’s committee has not revealed its cash on hand total through July, but the deficit probably grew in a month when it was outraised by 35 percent.

Meanwhile, Romney has been stockpiling money from donors who have already given the $2,500 maximum for the primary season. These donors’ additional contributions — as much as $2,500 more — cannot be tapped by the Romney campaign until the official start of the general election season.

boo fucking hoo

Meanwhile, Romney has been stockpiling money

he can't help it

http://i.imgur.com/wyCuB.jpg

I assume Romney is waiting until after labor day to flush all his money down the toilet?

thats the thinking iirc

obama decided to move early

I look forward to Romney's ads tbh

gonna be some comedy gold

they prob won't be running in sf

there's this thing

it's called the interwebs

you watch stuff on it

it's made of tubes iirc

one cannot truly appreciate a political ad until it interrupts an enjoyable televised sporting event

I guess we have a thread for this but you know what's interesting? how little vp speculation is going on at this point in the game. people really just don't seem to care.

ya i wonder how many people have already even if just at a subconscious level written romney off

there is only one man who can save this thread and he is currently eating a double bacon hamburger somwhere in new jersey

why do you want Governor Christie to post here

half of the population has wisely written obamney off

cmon, gooney, you know where i live.

pistols @ dawn in front of gorilla coffee

http://i.imgur.com/vbSMa.jpg

Romney's down, so it will be Rubio or Ryan. The latter looks like he's right out of an Italian neorealist film.

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/ryan.jpg http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/olmi.jpg

he's totally going to pick Rubio

romney is too risk averse

They can see where they're at, though, and unless they expect the economic numbers to take an appreciable turn downward--just drifting along doesn't seem to be helping them (which surprises me)--they're surely aware that Portman or Pawlenty won't help at all.

or rubio or anyone

Rubio won't help at all either, really (if Alfred's estimation of his rep in FL is any indication)

Eastwood maybe

When is the start of 'official general election season'? It's already August

after the conventions?

I think it started about 12 threads and 30,000 posts ago...Feb. 2011?

Paul Ryan resembles Will Schuester from Glee, and they are both completely hateable horrible douchebags.

Rubio won't help at all either, really (if Alfred's estimation of his rep in FL is any indication)

In 2010 I said "Romney-Rubio" and I think I'll stick with this because, well, just because.

NPR tried to waste my time last night by profiling Condi Rice as a VP pick.

anyone who listens to npr deserves what they get

npr?