2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vacante

[joecct]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

Part of Obamacare or the War on Crime?

Here is some food for thought...We should place the elderly in prisons. They will get a shower a day, video surveillance in case of problems, three meals a day, access to a library, computer, TV, gym, doctors on-site, free medication if needed.
Put criminals in nursing homes. They have cold meals, lights off at 7pm, two showers a week, live in a smaller room and pay rent at $4,000 a month!!! It's pretty sad that we treat prisoners better than the elderly...

[Kepler]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

I didn't see it but a friend at lunch today said Jon Stewart had a "man on the street" bit where democrats were asked, in five words or less, to describe their candidate. The responses were things like, "it's not all his fault," or "doing the best he can." That's what politics has come to.

On the one hand, it's John Stewart... he's a comic, you know.

On the other hand, it does underscore what I meant, so I'll take it.

[Old Pio]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

Meet congressman Yvette Clarke (D-dim bulb), who thinks there was slavery in Brooklyn as late as 1898. She's gaining on Sheila Jackson Lee.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/05/de...-as-1898-video

[Old Pio]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

This Nazi business seems to be catching on.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...s-to-nazis-at/

[joecct]

This Nazi business seems to be catching on.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...s-to-nazis-at/

And it's not even Spring!!

[5mn_Major]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

So Romney is at a high water mark. He and BO are tied nationally in RCP's average. Meanwhilie, Nate Silver has pushed Obama's odds to an all time high.

I guess the thinking is that Romney got small bumps from both the Ryan pick and the GOP convention. But the key is that they are smaller than expected. This evidently pushes Obama to 76.3% or big time.

This Nazi business seems to be catching on.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...s-to-nazis-at/

Somehow someone behaving like Eva Braun means that the GOP are like nazis.

It appears Fox editors are the only people on the planet who believe this. Who am I to disagree with them?

[Old Pio]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

And it's not even Spring!!

Concierge: Who d'ya want? Nobody gets in the building unless I know who they want. I'm the "concierge". My husband used to be the "concierge", but he's dead. Now I'M the "concierge".
Max Bialystock: We are seeking Franz Liebkind.
Concierge: Oh... the Kraut! He's on the top floor, apartment 23.
Max Bialystock: Thank you...
Concierge: ...But you won't find him there... he's up on the roof with his boids. He keeps boids. Dirty... disgusting... filthy... lice-ridden boids. You used to be able to sit out on the stoop like a person. Not anymore! No, sir! Boids!... You get my drift?
Leo Bloom: We... uh... get your "drift". Thank you, madam.
Concierge: I'm not a "madam"! I'm a "concierge"!

[Old Pio]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

So Romney is at a high water mark. He and BO are tied nationally in RCP's average. Meanwhilie, Nate Silver has pushed Obama's odds to an all time high.

I guess the thinking is that Romney got small bumps from both the Ryan pick and the GOP convention. But the key is that they are smaller than expected. This evidently pushes Obama to 76.3% or big time.



Somehow someone behaving like Eva Braun means that the GOP are like nazis.

It appears Fox editors are the only people on the planet who believe this. Who am I to disagree with them?

Do you take your Kool-aid neat? A truly amazing intellectual (and I use that term advisedly) inversion: repeated Democrat allusions to Republicans acting like various Nazi all-stars is okay because the Republicans are, you know, acting like Nazis.

[Foxton]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

This Nazi business seems to be catching on.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...s-to-nazis-at/

Nazi's?!!!

[5mn_Major]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

An analyst claims that if the S&P stays above 1200 (its at 1400 now), Obama wins.

Maybe its closer to 1250...but pretty much.

[walrus]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

An analyst claims that if the S&P stays above 1200 (its at 1400 now), Obama wins.

Maybe its closer to 1250...but pretty much.

Really? I'd say if the price gas keeps going up he is toast

[Kepler]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

So Romney is at a high water mark. He and BO are tied nationally in RCP's average. Meanwhilie, Nate Silver has pushed Obama's odds to an all time high.

I guess the thinking is that Romney got small bumps from both the Ryan pick and the GOP convention. But the key is that they are smaller than expected. This evidently pushes Obama to 76.3% or big time.

Silver hasn't actually "pushed" anything; his model's odds been moving in Obama's direction lately because:

1) Even though pop vote is about even, Romney trails in too many battleground states.
2) The clock is ticking.
3) There is a built-in "sine curve" in the model that tries to flatten out convention bounces and Romney got too small a one. (Your point above)

*****http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/08/29/us/politics/29fivethirtyeight-bounce/29fivethirtyeight-bounce-custom1.gif******
4) Economic indicators have been trending up and that helps the incumbent in the model.

[Kepler]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

Really? I'd say if the price gas keeps going up he is toast

Lots of things are important: unemployment, gas prices, food prices, house values, stock market.

At this point gas prices and the stock market are probably about the only things that have the volatility to really move hard in either candidate's direction.

[FreshFish]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

It's interesting to see that the Democrats basically are banking on the majority of the voting populace being stupid, or at least unable to think clearly enough to make a connection.

They keep talking about what terrible things the Republicans will do to address the nation's problems, while offering no solutions of their own. do the Democrats really believe that only by increasing taxes on "the rich" that all of our fiscal problems will be solved?

Obama says he wants to spend spend spend (okay "invest" "invest" "invest") yet offers no way to pay for that "investment." and sheeply meekly accept that without question?

yikes.

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: 2012 Presidential Election Part II -- Charlotte, a National Treasure or sede vaca

It's interesting to see that the Democrats basically are banking on the majority of the voting populace being stupid, or at least unable to think clearly enough to make a connection.

They keep talking about what terrible things the Republicans will do to address the nation's problems, while offering no solutions of their own. do the Democrats really believe that only by increasing taxes on "the rich" that all of our fiscal problems will be solved?

Obama says he wants to spend spend spend (okay "invest" "invest" "invest") yet offers no way to pay for that "investment." and sheeply meekly accept that without question?

yikes.

This is some good comedy here.

All I ask is that Mitt Romney pay the same percentage as Paul Ryan. Under the new Republican plan that gap widens.

And Bill Clinton gave a policy speech last night. I didn't hear a single policy speech out of any of the RNC guys last week. So, who doesn't offer solutions?