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

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

― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Thursday, August 9, 2012 3:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*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/

Saw the Romney welfare ad on tv last night and a Karl Rove anti-Obama one and a Rove anti-Tim Kaine one(democrat candidate for Senator in Virginia) one. Aaaargh! I need to stop watching network coverage of the Olympics.

x-post - that plus the pro-coal message and the various other items on the list means I'm gonna be holding my nose very tightly while voting in November

I would think libs ran out of nose-holding fingers about a year and a half ago.

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.

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude, pony meat

so Macaca guy is going to be back i presume.

(as in back in the Senate)

Slowly but surely the GOP realizes they have an awful candidate:

http://freebeacon.com/the-killing/

We are therefore witnessing a well-rehearsed and coordinated and almost balletic exercise in voter suppression, as Obama and his helpers spend hundreds of millions of dollars convincing middle America that Romney is a rich elitist who made a fortune in rapacious finance capitalism, and whose concern for the bottom line trumps transparency, compassion, and community. The objective of this campaign is to tie Romney down, Gulliver-like, with connections to the most lurid aspects of Bain Capital and the global economy, thereby hobbling his ability to make his case and dragooning white voters into apathy.

how the hell is this "voter suppression"

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clever clever

The Massachusetts multimillionaire who won his party’s nomination largely on perceptions of “electability” had become the target of a ferocious blitz of negative advertising.

Electability was always pretty fucking relative here - "the Massachusetts multimillionaire who dragged his party’s nomination from their gritted teeth once all of the other candidates proved to be screaming lunatics" might be a bit closer, but maybe there was a word limit.

(I know it's not actually Romney, but it's really not actually Romney is my point)

He also seems to have forgotten how the Massachusetts multimillionaire secured the nomination--ask Gingrich and Santorum.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/how-to-counterattack-obama/2012/08/10/f979112e-e2e6-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

In the right-wing world the only misleading ads have been from Dems, of course.

A Sullivan standin has an 'uh-DUH' moment:

What this all unfortunately may mean is that the campaigns, their supporters, and the press see almost the entire political process as nothing but an athletic bullshit competition.

YA THINK?

wouldn't "bullshit athletic competition" be the better construction?

Both work, really.

how the hell is this "voter suppression"

My hat has long been off to GOP spinmeisters at simply being better at messaging than dems, but yeah this totally seems like flailing to me. "Oh, that very real attempt at disenfranchisement of the Dem vote via voter ID, well... uh... oh, look over THERE!

Weird...truce or dare?

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/romney-to-obama-please-stop-attacking-my-business-taxes.php?ref=fpa

Romney said he would prefer the campaigns “only talk about issues,” and claimed that “our ads haven’t gone after the president personally...We haven’t dredged up the old stuff that people talked about last time around. We haven’t gone after the personal things.”

if all romney has left in his quiver are jeremiah wright and bill ayers...

lol "if you guys don't stop hitting us we're going to imitate John McCain"

"stop talking about my taxes or palin is gonna be my veep"

Marco Rubio's got a zing about community organizing all lined up

romney pisses off iowa republican voters by saying he'll end wind industry tax credit:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20120810_Stance_on_wind_tax_credits_could_hurt_Romney_in_Iowa.html

Many Republicans in Congress support tax credits for renewable energy, including Iowa Sen. Charles E. Grassley, South Dakota Sen. John Thune and Iowa Rep. Tom Latham, who introduced Romney at an event Wednesday in Des Moines (though when a Latham aide was asked about the tax credits before the event, she covered her ears with her hands, said "I can't hear you," and walked away).

meanwhile the UN is calling on the US to curtail ethanol production because drought conditions are driving up global grain prices already. kind of o/t but mentioning iowa made me think of it.