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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
To be honest, I think the voting machine things are just scaremongering. It comes up every election year since they were invented. And the type of ballot that did manage to fuck up an election was a weird style of paper ballots.
North Carolina uses a Scantron. Here's North Carolina's.
It's a .pdf.
edited 20th Oct '12 5:51:16 PM by Completion
I think the most likely scenario is a narrow Obama win where Romney retakes Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina, while Obama hangs on to Ohio and Pennsylvania. The small states New Hampshire, Colorado, and Wisconsin are all too close to call. Each candidate will almost certainly win if they pull one more of those battleground states to their side, but Obama can still afford to lose one battleground state if he sweeps the smaller toss-ups, and Romney can still win with just the three I mentioned if he sweeps the little states.
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What polling are you looking at? The polls shown on RCP have Romney leading by 5.6% and trending upward, while in Wisconsin Obama leads by 2.8% and is trending downward.
As we discussed before, that's a deceptive figure. While it's true that they paid back their debts in full, the vast majority of that payment was not in cash but in GM stock, and the government paid GM well over twice what the stock trades for on the free market and hasn't since been able to sell much of the stock even at that massive loss. So in effect GM got a huge pile of money on the taxpayer's dime.
edited 20th Oct '12 6:08:09 PM by EdwardsGrizzly
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NC:
- Grove 47.0 44.0 Obama +3.0
- Rasmussen 46.0 52.0 Romney +6.0
- PPP 47.0 49.0 Romney +2.0
WI:
- Rasmussen 50.0 48.0 Obama +2.0
- Grove 47.0 44.0 Obama +3.0
- NBC/Marist 51.0 45.0 Obama +6.0
538 has N.C. more competitive by .1% - and I wouldn't consider N.C. to be competitive. It leans Romney.
edited 20th Oct '12 6:18:31 PM by Completion
@Completions's ballot: What is with the lack of write-in options? My libertarian friend would have a fit about that.
At least you actually have a fair number of people running. Half the offices in my district are uncontested incumbents, and believe it or not nobody is running for Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor. Said libertarian friend tells me I should write in Ron Paul for everything. It'd be hilarious if he actually won that office.
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- PPP * 10/18 49.0 44.0 Obama +5.0
- Grove 10/16 47.0 44.0 Obama +3.0
- We Ask America * 10/15 47.0 48.1 Romney +1.1
Stars indicate that they included Gary Johnson. The margin of error of these polls are all different (unlike NC and WI) so they average to Obama +1.
I never know what to do with uncontested incumbents. I usually fill in the bubble since I figure that they're doing a fine enough job to where no one wants to go against them, unless it's a legislative seat where I think gerrymandering.
Also, I think N.C. has a very odd write-in law.
edited 20th Oct '12 6:28:53 PM by Completion
RCP's polling here
has Obama ahead, but within the MOE, for all the pollsters except NBC. The polling for North Carolina here
has Romney ahead by more than the MOE for every pollster except PPP. I guess the site you're looking at either has some polls that RCP doesn't have or is based on information from a couple weeks ago, when Romney was quite a bit worse off in both states.
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No.
I use 538.
They predicted the 2008 down to the single Nebraska electoral district going for Obama. RCP doesn't weigh their polls based on historical accuracy, 538 does.
edited 20th Oct '12 6:32:31 PM by Completion
But in general, both the Democrats and Republicans are hostile to third parties that could cost them the election. This is especially true after the Nader spoiler of 2000
edited 20th Oct '12 6:42:46 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016

I believe he once said that the US should have let Detroit go bankrupt, or something like that.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016