I speculated a few days ago that Romney wouldn’t be coming to PA two days before the election if he was really down by 4% in the polls. Now we know why he is here today. The latest poll shows a tie. The MSM will continue to root for their candidate – Obama – by skewing their polls, but all indications from the real world show that Romney is going to win on Tuesday. He better hope he doesn’t lose by two votes, because Avalon and I are voting for Gary Johnson. We’ve chosen to not vote for the pepperoni or sausage pizza.
November 4, 2012
New PA poll shows dead heat; Romney up in new MI poll
Rick Moran
These polls could be outliers – or they could be signs of a coming Romney victory.
Whatever they are, they are welcome.
President Obama and Republican Mitt Romney entered the final days of the presidential race tied in a state that the campaigns only recently began contesting, a Tribune-Review poll shows.
The poll showed the race for Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes locked up at 47 percent in its final week. Romney was scheduled to campaign in the Philadelphia area on Sunday, and former President Bill Clinton planned to stump for Obama on Monday. The campaigns have begun to saturate the airwaves with millions of dollars in presidential advertising.
“They’re both in here because of exactly what you’re seeing” in this poll, said Jim Lee, president of Susquehanna Polling & Research, which surveyed 800 likely voters Oct. 29-31. Most of the interviews occurred after Hurricane Sandy inundated Eastern and Central Pennsylvania. The poll’s error margin is 3.46 percentage points.
Nearly 60 percent of people say the country is on the wrong track, and economic concerns continue to dominate. Almost half of likely voters say economic issues are the primary driver of their choice for president.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, Romney has a slim lead over the president:
WJBK Fox 2 -
Who are you most likely to vote for in the Presidential election - Democratic President Barack Obama, or Republican Nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, another candidate, or are you undecided?
Republican Nominee Mitt Romney 46.86% President Barack Obama 46.24% Another candidate 4.94% Undecided 1.96%
Not to throw cold water on the party, but Democratic pollster PPP has Obama up 6 in PA and 3 in WI. Rich Baehr, AT’s political correspondent, has been pointing out PPP’s thumb on the scale for Democrats for months, but that 6 point spread is closer to what most other polls have been showing in the Keystone State.
Rasmussen has the race tied nationally at 49. It should be pointed out that 48 hours before the election, no national tracking poll gives the president 50% of the vote.
KaD says:
I didn’t vote for the pepperoni or sausage either. With one you’ll get more war , more corporate welfare and more deficits, with the other you’ll get more SNAP, more welfare and more deficits. And with both you’ll get a falling dollar and more jobs overseas.
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4th November 2012 at 10:03 am
sangell says:
Romney wants to get rid of Ben Bernanke. Its not the entire solution but it is a good place to start.
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4th November 2012 at 10:23 am
Administrator says:
Romney will not fire Ben Bernanke.
He said it during the primaries to try and take the wind out of Ron Paul’s sails.
He hasn’t said it since.
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4th November 2012 at 10:33 am
ron says:
Romneys comment about getting rid of things that need loans from China,or something like that.Sounded good at the time.It well be good theater when Romney trys to get congress to work together and Harry Reid starts crying.
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4th November 2012 at 11:36 am
TeresaE says:
I’ve decided to vote Johnson too.
All liberty-minded should, because if we can get enough percentage, we can no longer be ignored.
Having Romney as President during these next four years would be pretty ironic for most Republicans I know. My gut tells me that whomever is in office next is going to take the popular blame for the hell we are about to discover. A Romney win pretty much guarantees the total neutering of the Repupukes after the real crises start devastating us.
While the likes of Obama, his wife, or (heaven forbid) Billary, rise up again as the saviors of the poor FSA and women, and the tout they are the gunslingers protecting us from the evil banksters whom will continue to line their pockets. The absolute hypocrisy is lost on our FSA and most average citizens.
Start running those thoughts out to their logical conclusions, scary shit, isn’t it?
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4th November 2012 at 12:02 pm
WIP says:
I haven’t decided whether or not to write in Ron Paul or vote Gary Johnson but I sure as shit will not vote for pepperoni or sausage either.
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4th November 2012 at 12:11 pm
SSS says:
Hey, hey, hey. What’s up with this “I’ll vote for Gary Johnson” business? I voted early here and wrote in the genuine article, Ron Paul.
So the question to WIP, who said above ” I haven’t decided whether or not to write in Ron Paul or vote Gary Johnson,” did I help you make up your mind?
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4th November 2012 at 12:23 pm
Stan says:
I be damned! How many times do I have to tell you that Obama will win?
It won’t even be close in electoral vote
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4th November 2012 at 12:24 pm
Eddie says:
I’m still voting for Ron Paul. I’ve never felt better about a decision in my entire life. It is without a doubt the right thing to do.
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4th November 2012 at 12:33 pm
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4th November 2012 at 12:37 pm
Eddie says:
Others say that a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for Romney.
Actually a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for sanity.
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4th November 2012 at 12:43 pm
Kill Bill says:
I cant see Romney firing Bin Burnbanky
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4th November 2012 at 12:44 pm
Eddie says:
When it comes to hiring and firing Fed directors, you have to remember who is working for whom. Romney will do what he is told to do, in that regard. It is a decision too difficult to be made by one man. It has to be made by a committee. (of bankers).
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4th November 2012 at 12:54 pm
IndenturedServant says:
Right on SSS! I did the same thing using a “Write in Ron Paul” ball point pen no less.
I_S
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4th November 2012 at 12:56 pm
AKAnon says:
SSS & Eddie-me too. And if Ron pulls out the world’s greatest upset, I’m making good on my $1K commitment to TBP.
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4th November 2012 at 1:01 pm
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4th November 2012 at 1:20 pm
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sangell actually believes he has a choice between two candidates, hand picked for him by the existing corrupt criminal establishment that want the status quo to remain intact. How naive.
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4th November 2012 at 1:49 pm
Eddie says:
Like, exactly WHAT voice will YOU have at the table, sangell?
I’ll tell you. The same as I have now, which is no voice at all. I call bullshit on your argument.
If Obama wins, my taxes go up. If Romney wins, my taxes go up.
If Obama wins, my civil liberties will be ignored. Likewise with Romney.
If Obama wins, we get more money for TBTF banks and less for working people. Same with Romney.
If Obama wins, it’s likely we will be dragged into some new war in the Middle East. Likewise if Romney is elected.
More status quo…until it implodes one day, imho.
Not sure why I even posted on this thread. Not even curmudgeons can agree on anything in this country.
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4th November 2012 at 1:52 pm
Stan says:
We need to give Obama a chance.
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4th November 2012 at 2:10 pm
Stan says:
“Every president has challenges
“Few have faced so many,” Four years later, our enemies have been brought to justice. Our heroes are coming home. Assembly lines are humming again. There are still challenges to meet. Children to educate. A middle-class to rebuild. But the last thing we should is turn back now.”
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4th November 2012 at 2:16 pm
SSS says:
Stan
Give it a rest.
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4th November 2012 at 2:25 pm
murphy says:
I’ve got no dog in this fight and also have voted for Johnson. But Nate Silver got Obamney at 80% chance to win as of today. Since he picked 49 of 50 states in 2008 I am inclined to believe him more than the polls.
http://www.businessinsider.com/nate-silver-election-odds-2012-10-z
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4th November 2012 at 2:28 pm
flash says:
Murphy,
Nate silver’s been wrong before.
And ,polls are highly suspect.
Obama has been total fuck-up and is not qualified shine shoes on sidewalk in front of the Whitehouse , much less prop a foot in the Offal orifice.
The majority of Americans from Union workers to the slut vote aren’t so stupid as to not pick up on this fact and will vote accordingly , polls notwithstanding.
Predictions
With the election rapidly approaching, let’s get all the public figures on record. I’ll present my Electoral College prediction in my column tomorrow. In the meantime, here are a few predictions that I’ve spotted floating around the Internet. Feel free to add more in the comments and I’ll update this accordingly.
Nate Silver: Obama 307, Romney 231 (November 5)
Nate Silver: Obama 288, Romney 250 (October 22)
Nate Silver: Obama 320, Romney 218 (September 30)
Dick Morris: Romney 351, Obama 187
White House Insider: Romney 300+
Michael Barone: Romney 315, Obama 223
John Scalzi: Obama 294, Romney 244
InTrade: Obama 303, Romney 235
Jim Cramer: Obama 440, Romney 98
As much as I have criticized the cult of Nate Silver, I could not agree with the man more when he writes the following in his column entitled “For Romney to Win, State Polls Must Be Statistically Biased:P
“My argument, rather, is this: we’ve about reached the point where if Mr. Romney wins, it can only be because the polls have been biased against him. Almost all of the chance that Mr. Romney has in the FiveThirtyEight forecast, about 16 percent to win the Electoral College, reflects this possibility.
Yes, of course: most of the arguments that the polls are necessarily biased against Mr. Romney reflect little more than wishful thinking. Nevertheless, these arguments are potentially more intellectually coherent than the ones that propose that the leader in the race is “too close to call.” It isn’t. If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can’t acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.
But the state polls may not be right. They could be biased. Based on the historical reliability of polls, we put the chance that they will be biased enough to elect Mr. Romney at 16 percent.”
That’s the primary difference between Silver’s opinion and mine. He puts a chance of anti-Republican poll bias at 16 percent. Even though I am not a Republican and I do not support Mitt Romney, I think it is closer to 90 percent. That still may not be enough to account for the gap between what the polls are reporting and how I expect events to transpire on Tuesday, but it does explain the difference. So let’s keep that in mind. If Romney does win, the only possible conclusion is that the state polls must be biased.
For those who wish to bring up the 2008 election, I would remind everyone that I was incorrect about Hillary being the Democratic candidate, not about the Democratic candidate winning the general election. It was always obvious that the Republican candidate – I thought it would be Pataki or a senator in the Dole mode – was intended to be a sacrificial lamb. Nor should anyone forget that Silver’s poll-based predictions entirely failed in 2010.
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posted by Vox @ 11/04/2012 04:38:00 AM 67 comments links to this post
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/11/predictions.html
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4th November 2012 at 3:59 pm
flash says:
sangell , you may think your freedom hinges on the popular vote and the government elected by those who participate , but I’m here to tell you that your freedom is totally depend on your willingness to resist totalitarianism by popular vote and that includes refusal to participate in the madness.
If you want to endorse vermin to lord over your freedom , fine , but don’t expect intelligent people to accept your nonsense as rational reason to “get out the vote”.
Now pull out that butt plug and learn to walk like a man.
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4th November 2012 at 4:08 pm
Stan says:
I will not vote because I do not want to help support this system nor do I care for either candidate They both lie. Neither is trustworthy.
But I do hope Obama wins. It will be better for us in the long run.
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4th November 2012 at 4:35 pm
sangell says:
If you want to shoot your mouth off and act tough on the internet and think it matters go ahead. In this country at this time and for the foreseeable future political power in this country will be exercised by elected officials. That is reality.
You don’t get eschatological choices in western democratic governments. The political systems are designed to be incremental and we’ve been losing thus the steady erosion of our constitution and its protections. You think it doesn’t matter who wins well, who do you want picking Federal judges?
Want Scalia’s and Thomas’ on the Supreme Court of Breyers and Mayors? You aren’t going to get judges who even care about what the constitution says if Obama is picking them.
This maybe the last national election the Republican party has a chance to win. Unless and until the Democratic party breaks up due to the inherent contradiction of interests between blacks and hispanics the demographics are going to favor them. I want to win it not because Romney is my candidate but because he is the only candidate we can influence.
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4th November 2012 at 4:38 pm
Stan says:
Sangell
Don’t sweat it and do not let your heart be troubled. America is a lost cause in its present form. Soon it will cease to exist. This is not an opinion- it’s math and the 2nd law of TD.
Nobody can change this. If you rolled Lincoln ,Roosevelt , Clinton, Reagan and Washington all together they couldn’t stop it. We WILL collapse. The question is what will we be when we come out the other side.
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4th November 2012 at 4:46 pm
Stucky says:
Me and Ms Freud are in a Barnes & Noble about 20 miles fro our home. It’s WARM here! Free Internet!! Hot coffee!! Books!!!!!!!!!!! We’re staying here until they close at 9PM. That’s what my life has been reduced too …. hanging out at B&N for warmth. LOL
Oh, and I went next door to the Quick Check and picked up a package of Pepperidge Farm Sausalito Macadamia Nut cookies. What the fuck …. might as well get fat (ok, fatter) while I’m at it.
Ms Freud is NOT cut out for “roughing it”. Christ. If this was the 1800′s and she headed west in a wagon train …. she’d be dead by the time she hit PA … or, the rest of the crew would commit suicide having to listen to her moaning and groaning. lol
Well, she wants the computer. Bye.
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4th November 2012 at 5:29 pm
Milw05 says:
Nate Silver does not predict, he sets odds and the odds shift daily. He doesn’t say Obama will win he states that Obama has an X % chance of winning on a particular date. If Romney wins will he have beaten Nate Silvers odds. Upsets happen, just like any sporting event.
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4th November 2012 at 5:50 pm
SSS says:
Stan
Clinton isn’t worthy of picking up the droppings from Washington’s horse, let alone be mentioned in the same sentence with him.
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4th November 2012 at 5:56 pm
Llpoh says:
Sorry to be a doomsayer, but I am still convinced Black Sambo is gonna be re-elected. Even despite SSS saying I am wrong.
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4th November 2012 at 6:03 pm
Stan says:
SSS
“I did not have sex with that woman’
George Washington
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4th November 2012 at 6:07 pm
Administrator says:
sangell
I’m exercising my right to vote for the candidate that has the views closest to my own. Since Ron Paul is not running for President, that would be Gary Johnson. He is on the ballot and I will vote for him.
Keep living your delusion of Republican change.
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4th November 2012 at 6:08 pm
Stan says:
Llpoh
You damned right mother fucker!!!!
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4th November 2012 at 6:08 pm
taxSlave says:
I choose to not vote. I refuse to pretend that I am a sovereign citizen participating in selecting a representative government.
I refuse to pick my slave-master. I withdraw my consent to be governed by a criminal gang of murderers, thieves, and thugs.
You may hold a gun to my head, but you do not own my free will fuckers.
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4th November 2012 at 6:11 pm
Stan says:
Admin
Why don’t you vote for Obama? If you are gonna vote then vote for the man who cares about us.
I sure wish you would vote for Obama. He needs the Quaker state.
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4th November 2012 at 6:12 pm
Stan says:
‘When Obama spoke I got a thrill and a tingle up my leg’
Chris Matthews
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4th November 2012 at 6:15 pm
flash says:
Sangell., thanks for playing the suckers game.
Suckers always get exactly what they deserve.
If Roberts with his Obama-care is a tax ruling , David Souter’s ruling that seizure of private property via eminent is acceptable as long as it serves the “greater good and lest wet forget the great conservatives John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence Thomas ruling that corporations people, are the Judaical rewards for electign a Republican president , thanks, but no thanks.I’ll pass
The truth is, a choice between as ass raping by the left and a bung hole reaming by the right is no choice at all.
Stop with the bullshit Sangell, you’re stinking up the board.
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4th November 2012 at 6:36 pm
flash says:
sangell, take a break from your gig as citizen moron and give this a listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igbBItLemsM
BTW, that shit about we need a Republican POTUS to keep the SCOTUS conservative was a hoot….got any more funnies to share?
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4th November 2012 at 6:39 pm
flash says:
Stan, you can unpucker poophoot……Romneys in like a gerbil at homo convention.
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4th November 2012 at 6:41 pm
Stan says:
Flash
Are you going to Obama s second inniggeration?
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4th November 2012 at 6:47 pm
sangell says:
Ok, flash. You are right. Only your opinion matters so why don’t you get the fuck off the discussion board and savor the correctness of your thinking. If no one else’s opinion matters or if anyone who disagrees is not as intelligent than you why bother commenting.
BTW denigrating others is not debate. Its juvenile. Do your parents monitor your internet use?
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4th November 2012 at 7:12 pm
Colma Rising says:
I’m writing in.
Flash: You’re cracking me up.
The Kolobians are frantic.
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4th November 2012 at 7:21 pm
Colma Rising says:
Costa/Haley 2012
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4th November 2012 at 7:32 pm
sangell says:
I realize that there is a cult of Ron Paul. I do not believe in cults be they Aum Shinri Kyo, Suma Ching Hai, Jim Jones or Ron Paul. Sooner or later they collapse and the surviving members realize they were idiots for belonging to them.
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4th November 2012 at 7:37 pm
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4th November 2012 at 8:23 pm
fool on the hill says:
Regardless of who wins ………………………..
We are going to get the wenie.
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4th November 2012 at 8:24 pm
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4th November 2012 at 8:28 pm
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4th November 2012 at 8:39 pm
sangell says:
Yep Colma I kinda suspected your intellectual prowess was on the cartoon side of things.
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4th November 2012 at 9:41 pm
Administrator says:
sangell
Your intellectual firepower is a pop gun. You are trapped in the matrix of the two party system. Ideas matter. Truth matters. How sad that you are too myopic to realize that Ron Paul is right on the issues confronting our country.
If you truly believe you will get a different result by voting for the hand picked candidates of the status quo, you are denser than I thought.
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4th November 2012 at 10:02 pm
Novista says:
“BTW denigrating others is not debate. Its juvenile. Do your parents monitor your internet use?”
Lo, a classic!
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4th November 2012 at 10:24 pm
SSS says:
“I realize that there is a cult of Ron Paul ……. Sooner or later they collapse and the surviving members realize they were idiots for belonging to them.”
—-Sangell
People like me who listen to and understand Dr. Paul’s message of constitutionally based liberty are not members of a cult. Comparing Ron Paul to Jim Jones is insulting. As for Ron Paul’s “cult” collapsing sooner or later, you’d better hope that never happens, Sangell.
I for one take comfort in our history that Paul’s philosophy will NEVER die. And its not HIS philosophy. He’s just the latest spokesman. Paul’s message goes back to The Founders and outspoken members of the American Revolution such as The Sons of Liberty member Samuel Adams and Virginia’s Patrick Henry.
Anyway, if you want to label Paul’s supporters as members of a cult, feel free. Best cult I ever belonged to.
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4th November 2012 at 11:05 pm
sangell says:
One could say Jesus was right on the issues but look where it got him and for the next 2000 years his ideas have been unattainable. Doesn’t mean he was wrong, only that perfection is not possible in human affairs.
To win in politics in a political democracy is not to kill your opponent. It is to take two steps forward and only retreat one step back. The left has relentlessly marched us towards the precipice with this method while the right fumes and fights internal battles over the purity of our positions. Until we learn to fight the Democrats on their battlefield we will lose
Is illegal immigration bad. Of course. Can we undo it. No! So what do we do? Make hispanics our enemies or do we offer them the jobs negroes now enjoy if they vote Republican? How about Israel. Maybe the GOP ought to tell Bibi Netanyahu hey we love you but if American Jews vote 80% Democrat in 2012 Iran’s your problem and you won’t be getting any spare parts from General Dynamics either. Puerto Ricans?
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4th November 2012 at 11:38 pm
TeresaE says:
Sangell, you seem to be reading the words, but you are apparently unable to comprehend the message.
You are locked into the battle. Gladiators going to war, “my” side is better than “your” side. “My” side has god supporting the murder of “your” side.
This would be true no matter whom you thought was going to save the country.
This is America, you have the absolute right (well, Founder’s written right, that absolute is dramatically changing under both R’s and D’s) to believe whatever you want to believe.
The problem is that what you believe is the status quo. Continuing to expect things to change while doing more of the same is how you roll.
Great. Terrific. Good for you chap. (or chappette)
But to expect to come on here, especially after reading a number of articles and comments, and lecture us about “throwing away” our votes, or causing Obama to be re-elected (and you do realize if Romney wins we’ll be blamed for that too, even though O already used the “independent” vote card), or that we don’t have the “right” to “whine” later, makes you part of the problem, not the solution.
BOTH sides have created this freaking disaster. BOTH sides have prospered and taken their friends, families, business supporters and lobbyists with them. BOTH sides have waged war. BOTH sides have appointed supreme court justices (to name but one court out of thousands) that have ruled against the citizens and our Constitution. BOTH sides have made promises that cannot be kept. BOTH sides, well fuck Sangell, you used big words, you fill in the blank.
Believe whatever you want (in light of all evidence to the contrary, but crap, it’s your Oz, enjoy), but if you come here spouting your delusion don’t expect to be honored for it.
I will say you made me chuckle a couple times. Sadly, I wasn’t always laughing with you.
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4th November 2012 at 12:51 am
flash says:
Sangrell, I sure hope you have someone to administer your ba ba after that ass walloping TE laid on ya.
Stan, Now why would I vote for Obamey and not attend his “second inniggeration.”
BTW, I’m working a concession booth for the NAACP selling Fried chicken ,watermelon and pork chop sandwiches.
See ya there, buddy!
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4th November 2012 at 5:55 am
flash says:
This ought to do wonders in easing Stan the niggerator and Sangie the snowflake’s troubled minds.
Regardless the unprincipled character and penchant for crony capitalism at any cost that is the hallmark of the Kolobian sociopath , Stan and Sangell will be happy the staus quo is to be continued and supported by even more wealth looted form their grand-kids grand kids, should any survive the next decade of war for profit and Empire first.
ELECTION 2012
Romney 305, Obama 233
Exclusive: Vox Day warns Republicans not to expect much change
Vox Day is a Christian libertarian and author of “The Return of the Great Depression” and “The Irrational Atheist.” He is a member of the SFWA, Mensa and IGDA, and has been down with Madden since 1992.
I am aware that many of the national polls are projecting an election that goes down to the wire. I am cognizant of the many hands being wrung about the possibility that the Electoral College vote will diverge from the popular vote. And it has been impossible to escape Nate Silver’s thrice-weekly predictions in the New York Times that Barack Obama has at least a 538 percent chance of winning the election tomorrow.
There is no need to point out the many technical problems with the polls or the intrinsic flaws and poor performance of various statistical models. Many others have gone into considerable detail doing that. I will simply note that I see no legitimate reason to abandon the conclusion that I reached long before Mitt Romney was nominated the Republican candidate for president, which is that Romney will be the next president of the United States. I do not support the man, and I do not believe he will preside in a manner that is beneficial to the country, the economy or the world; I am simply observing that the patterns of party enthusiasm still appear to be much more akin to 2010 than 2008.
It is always futile to pretend any precision in matters of human behavior. But it is also fun. So, in the spirit of the electoral season, I suggest that Romney will win 305 electoral votes to Obama’s 233. I also expect that he’ll have a margin of victory in the popular vote between three and four percent. It won’t be a landslide, but it also won’t be as close as those who expect Obama to win assume a Romney upset would have to be.
Now, is it possible that I’ve completely misjudged the mood of the electorate while being overly cynical about the professionalism of the mainstream media? Absolutely. If so, we’ll enjoy the benefit of another four years of the most incompetent, most unintentionally tragicomic administration since President Carter’s one term. But I’m not concerned about that. We already know what sort of president Obama will make, which is to say an absentee one. A country can do worse.
What concerns me is the possibility that Romney may not, as so many Republicans assume he must be, the lesser evil. I understand why many conservatives, and even some libertarians, are voting for him. Obama is not clearly going to fix the economy, address the growing national debt or arrest the national decline, so Mitt Romney represents the hope of a change in that regard. The problem is that Romney has shown absolutely no sign of even the smallest interest in addressing the core problems the United States is presently facing. He isn’t going to stop the aging of the Baby Boomers, he isn’t going to stop the Federal Reserve’s insane credit creation, he isn’t going to stop Third World immigration, he isn’t going to stop free trade, and he isn’t going to stop the use of the American military as an unpaid global police force.
I’m not attempting to convince anyone not to vote for Mitt Romney or Barack Obama at this point. I trust I’ve made my position clear in previous columns, and I will not be voting for either man. My only objective is to remind you that the president is just one man, and although he is a powerful totem as the representative of the hopes and dreams of millions of individuals voting for him, he cannot successfully arm-wrestle the invisible hand of the global economic forces.
And remember, just as it took Nixon to go to China and Obama to openly assassinate American citizens, as president, Mitt Romney’s signature policies are likely to be those that go against basic Republican principles.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/romney-305-obama-233/
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4th November 2012 at 7:39 am
Milw05 says:
I love it when cowards call people names like “Niggorator” on an internet forum with a made up now.
What a loser.
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4th November 2012 at 10:38 am
flash says:
I love it when yapping curs like Milw05 who not up to speed on regular posters positions decide to comment on a post that they have no possible understanding of.
What a maroon….probably acts like a retard in a effort spare himself an ass whooping when confronted by a niggerator.
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4th November 2012 at 12:40 pm
flash says:
BTW Milky5 if you’re going to use the term NIGGERATOR,get it right fer chrissakes , NIGGORATOR is not correct .. and when you say it like that , it’s just silly.
BTW, would you consider yourself to be a niggerator or a honkifier?
Stan is definitely a niggerator,…ask him.I’d say you’re a honkifier .
WOA…don’t get crossways with Stan unless you want your short hairs scorched.
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4th November 2012 at 12:47 pm
Joanne says:
I was treated poorly at a voting polling place in Wesrmoreland County, PA. Twice I was asked to present voter ID. A woman came over to me as I was voting to tell me to pull my jacket shut. I thought there was significant if not apparent voter intimidation. How can people outside the polling area give out merchandise from candidates but inside they are interested in what you have under your coat????
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4th November 2012 at 2:59 pm