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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I too have a strong feeling Romney will win.
Just too many dirty tricks being used (all the Super PA Cs, the voter intimidation, the voter suppression, the firing threats ) not to mention people seem to buy his car salesman bullshit.
edited 23rd Oct '12 12:48:09 AM by Thorn14
In fairness Obama's Super PA Cs aren't exactly bastions of honesty.
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Newspaper falsely claims that an ID is needed to vote.
Five Thirty Eight is showing a small bounce for Obama coming out of yesterday's debate, indeed, he won it by a larger margin of undecided voters than Romney did for the first one, so everything is not necessarily doom and gloom for Obamafans. I personally predict that Obama will win, but by a margin, not the landslide that 2008 was. The NYT's rolling election forecasts show him with 290.8 electoral votes, to Mitt's 247.2. The Washington Post's "Issue Engine" shows Obama leading Romney on two of the "big three" of foreign policy, social policy and economic policy. (BO has the first two), and their election forecasts also have Obama ahead.
There are no significant debates left in this race, so I reckon it is going to be a narrow Obama victory. He still has the campaign momentum to keep his bounce steady, whilst Romney doesn't have the momentum to claw back enough ground. Just my two cents.
There again, I predicted a Santorum win for the GOP primaries...
P.S: This video made my evening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_1B0w7Hzc
I'm seeing ads for the site fightforjobs.org . It's a pro-business site. Yeah, I know it's funded by BIPAC, which is technically non-partisan. But when they keep on harping about debt, deficit, and taxes...and just look at their Twitter
, highlighting nice lines from Romney and saying how policies are "stifling job creators" and retweeing others' tweets about Liz Warren bringing socialism...yeah, it walks and quacks like a right-wing group.
Even ThinkProgress
recognizes the voting machine thing as over-hyped silliness. Romney doesn't own the machines, the company just happens to be one of the many sources of his income.
Romney's a hyper cynic? And would do anything survive politically, even if it meant he had to work with Democrats. Though arguably, that isn't a great thing. :x
Edit:
edited 23rd Oct '12 6:14:19 AM by PotatoesRock
From the Think Progress article:
I think voting machine issues are a cause for concern, and there's definitely some amount of conflict-of-interest going on, but I'm much more worried about the fact that those things are insecure and unreliable than any sort of rigging by the machine owners.
Actually, Ars Technica has a feature on the decline of e-voting machines
, if anyone's interested.
edited 23rd Oct '12 6:19:17 AM by Linhasxoc
How can this be anything other than a terrible idea?
Or read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoconservatism#Views_on_foreign_policy
For a more concise version: Romney's backed by people who think the US must do everything possible from having a country with equal military, economic, and political power from rising up that isn't a friend. And to spread Democracy at all costs.

Romney is awful, but he still might win, purely because of rigged voting machines.
I'm tired of Romney. I'm tired of his face, I'm tired of his voice, I'm tired of his bullshit.
I don't just want Romney to lose, I want Romney gone. I do not want any more news coverage of him. I do not want him to continue with a political life. I want him to be forgotten in the same way Bob Dole and Dukakis were.
edited 22nd Oct '12 10:43:34 PM by Serocco
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