Voter suppression, Benghazi attack, abortion, Israel, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Olympics, Cayman Island accounts, car elevator, Oops, blimp crash, Obama's murdered gay lover, birth certificate, Osama bin Laden, Seal Team 6, the dead thing on Trump's head, Bachmann, Paul, Santorum, Perry, Caine, Pawlenty, P90X, Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, 9-9-9, "Corporations are People, my friend", 47%, 99%, 1%, 0.01%, Sandra Fluke, birth control, legitimate rape, planned parenthood, Big Bird, drone strikes, early voting, absentee voting, provisional voting, in person voting, Jim Lehrer...
Fuck, I've got a headache.
Oh, and Nate Silver gives Obama a 91.4% chance of winning.
The networks will try to call it at 8:00 or so, like they always do, but we will probably not have a good idea who the winner is until Wednesday morning.
I trust Barone more than Silver. I also trust the Washington Redskins.
Larry Sabato thinks it'll be closer than Nate has it, but he still thinks Obama wins. He's giving Florida to Romney, while Nate's giving it to Obama. Both say it's basically a coin flip, though.
12 years later, and we're still talking about Florida. Here's hoping we don't see any bugeyed election officials staring at chads and butterfly ballots. Jews for Buchanan!
I don't rightly know what happened with Barone. For twenty years he was one of the voices on how campaigns and politics worked, then he threw his lot in with the Washington Examiner in '09 and now we get this shit from him. Maybe he's just another sad casualty of the first black president--another formerly smart, formerly sane white man who done lost his damn mind.
12 years later, and we're still talking about Florida. Here's hoping we don't see any bugeyed election officials staring at chads and butterfly ballots. Jews for Buchanan!
Florida doesn't appear to have gotten any better at holding elections in the past decade. Democracy shouldn't be as difficult as they're making it. A blind chimp could run a better election.
ckdexterhaven said: Larry Sabato thinks it'll be closer than Nate has it, but he still thinks Obama wins. He's giving Florida to Romney, while Nate's giving it to Obama. Both say it's basically a coin flip, though.
12 years later, and we're still talking about Florida. Here's hoping we don't see any bugeyed election officials staring at chads and butterfly ballots. Jews for Buchanan!
That shift in Florida only happened today. When I checked this morning, Silver still had Florida at something like 57% Romney.
I'm wondering if the complete fuckup of Florida's early voting over the weekend might have made a few people change their minds.
12 years later, and we're still talking about Florida. Here's hoping we don't see any bugeyed election officials staring at chads and butterfly ballots. Jews for Buchanan!
Florida doesn't appear to have gotten any better at holding elections in the past decade. Democracy shouldn't be as difficult as they're making it. A blind chimp could run a better election.
I don't know why other states, more populous states, don't follow Iowa's lead. We could start voting back in September. I voted 2 weeks ago. It was a regular ballot, but we had to seal it in an envelope and sign an affidavit that we would not attempt to vote again. I went after 5 PM, and honestly spent more time filling out the circles than I did waiting in line, and that included the search for my name (mine is apparently in the top 10 most common names in the U.S., so it took a few minutes to find the right one).
ckdexterhaven said: Larry Sabato thinks it'll be closer than Nate has it, but he still thinks Obama wins. He's giving Florida to Romney, while Nate's giving it to Obama. Both say it's basically a coin flip, though.
12 years later, and we're still talking about Florida. Here's hoping we don't see any bugeyed election officials staring at chads and butterfly ballots. Jews for Buchanan!
That shift in Florida only happened today. When I checked this morning, Silver still had Florida at something like 57% Romney.
I'm wondering if the complete fuckup of Florida's early voting over the weekend might have made a few people change their minds.
Luckily Flordia most likely won't be the deciding factor - If Florida goes to Obama, Obama would probably have already won Ohio, NH, Penn, and Virginia and locked up all the paths needed for 270 EVs
I don't know how anyone can actually vote for Romney, he keeps saying opposite things and personally acts and looks like a D-Bag. Obama has done good things but these things take time and another 4 years will prove it. He isn't afraid to stand for something even if he knows it is controversial...
I know elections in the US are much bigger and much more complicated than they are up here but stuff like this boggles my mind. I don't think I've ever waited more than ten minutes to vote and that's without being registered in the riding where I lived. On election day. The hoops that people have to jump through to check a box are insane.
The 2012 results for the first-in-the-nation Dixville Notch are: Obama 5, Romney 5. Last year it was Obama 15, McCain 6, but then again the two largest families in the town moved out.
I know elections in the US are much bigger and much more complicated than they are up here but stuff like this boggles my mind. I don't think I've ever waited more than ten minutes to vote and that's without being registered in the riding where I lived. On election day. The hoops that people have to jump through to check a box are insane.
Here in Florida you can thank the asshole Rick Scott (fireman Bill). He denied extending early voting hours, even though both Charlie Crist and Jeb Bush before him did. We lost a total of 24 hours of early voting. A local station asked him about the long lines, and he said it's great, because people are "really excited about the election".
The ballot itself is ridiculously long. In Dade county it's 10 pages. Here in Broward it's 8. They filled it with state constitutional amendments which are all special interest friendly, and dominated by the right wing in Tallahassee. Women's privacy, separation of church and state, even a paper tiger amendment against Obamacare. Bad shit.
I knew how I was going to vote before hand, because I can read a fucking newspaper. Most people were standing there trying to read through these amendments, which are long, and intentionally worded to mislead. So one voter can take over half an hour, when it should only be a few minutes.
They also added measures to unseat some state supreme court justices, because again, the right wing in Tallahassee didn't like their rulings. This has been widely criticized as a power grab, and an erosion of the democratic process.
Ok, so the presidential choice is between a centrist technocrat who is disappointing on many levels, and a... well... who know what the hell Mitt Romney is. Seems tough to get excited about, but there are some Supreme Court seats possibly at stake and a general meandering direction to be taken, so that should be exciting enough to get you out there.
I just learned that - in Alaska anyway - a non-registered person can vote for President only (no state issues), and this act registers them. Therefore: not being registered is no fucking excuse.
CoyoteMike
Iowa City, IA
May 2006
NOV 05, 2012 06:29 PM