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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
As to the "Most people on TV tropes are young liberals"
Well, most of us are. However it's more like "almost everyone on the on-topic forums are reasonably well informed" There are some conservatives, it's just that they tend to be more left-wing conservatives than American regressionists. In short, we're sane. ish. We tend to actually look at facts, and likely, have more access to information and hard data, and reality has a liberal bias. About the only thing we can argue about are things like abortion, which are...fuzzy.
edited 16th Oct '12 7:56:46 PM by DrTentacles
From the great Ann Coulter. "Obama (and Candy) lied, our ambassador died: No, Obama Didn’t Call Benghazi “Act of Terror” in Speech "
cough
edited 16th Oct '12 7:55:15 PM by Thorn14
It sounds like everything went well. Hopefully this will reverse some of his decline after the first debate.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayJindal said Romney won.
edited 16th Oct '12 7:58:40 PM by rmctagg09
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.I'm wondering how many other liberals like me watched that debate and thought, "Well, I'm not too psyched about Obama, but Romney would suck way harder so I guess I support Obama by default."
In other words, how many other people see this as a lesser-of-two-evils deal.
The last battle's curtains will open on stage!Well I just got the report from my Republican friend.
"I didn't watch the debate but I heard it was basically a boxing match."
Whatever that means.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's Play

What? MSNBC said Obama won. 2 said it was the best performance of Obama in a debate yet.
Also Romney broke debate rules by constantly asking Obama "Did you? Did you? Did you?"
edited 16th Oct '12 7:48:36 PM by Thorn14