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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Romney praises Christie for storm response
@Swish: According to Jackie Kucinich's tweets, it "happened next to the press riser side of a very large rally, the side opposite the entrance (making it harder to leave)." not behind the stage.
Edit: It looks like it was eventually resolved, as Secret Service cleared a route to the exit, but it looks like it took a while.
edited 4th Nov '12 9:16:21 PM by DrunkGirlfriend
"I don't know how I do it. I'm like the Mr. Bean of sex." -DrunkscriblerianHusted's antics are getting outright flagrant!
That's the last straw! Let's hope the lawsuit proceeds and throws his ass in jail!
Not something I wanted to see before I go to work at the polls on election day!
Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon: Vote for Obama, as long as you vote for me too
edited 4th Nov '12 11:34:30 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Well, Terry had the incumbent advantage, and many voters (especially first time and infrequent voters who were likely just there for Obama) likely voted only for the President and didn't even fill out the rest of the ballot.
edited 5th Nov '12 3:43:31 AM by Balmung
Okay, speaking as a software engineer, I'm not sure why the software patches are a big deal. I mean, I'm a bit leery about them not being certified, but from what I could tell all they were installing was a module that made it easier to get the results out. If anything, I'm much more worried about "damage" due to carelessness (since we have no idea what the company's internal testing procedures are) then from malice.
From the Secular Rally in Tallahassee Florida on 11/04/2012
EDIT: Warning, gets a bit antireligious near the end. I will simply say that Romney doesn't have the secularist vote.
edited 5th Nov '12 7:07:25 AM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Sooooo looking forward to a return to paper ballots. Pleeeeeease.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.@2014 Senate Race: I know I'll have to get out and vote then, because my Democratic Senator is up for re-election, and he won the blue wave because his opponent had literally just been convicted of taking the taste from the oil companies. So Begich is on rather sandy ground against whoever opposes him.
Fortunately, his replacement will probably be as close to a moderate as you can get in America today; Alaska may be a Republican state, but we've rather firmly rejected the Tea Party. Unfortunately, even Lisa Murkowski still votes in lockstep with the rest of the party, so that's cold comfort.
Paul Krugman quoted Stephen Colbert in his column this week,
with respect to Hurricane Sandy. I love it when two of my favorite media personalities join forces, even symbolically.
@Republican Theocracy: I agree with the majority of that video, but I feel it doesn't take things far enough. The Republicans want to drag us into a fascist theocracy, glorifying the military alongside their God, enabled by the two party system, with plenty of Democrats working with them, and more complicit in the transformation, while the remaining Democrats are too weak and cowardly to dare do anything to oppose them or the more conservative members of their own party.
edited 5th Nov '12 8:46:57 AM by deathpigeon
Some parts of the Republican base want a theocracy, but while they represent a non-trivial voting bloc, they do not represent the main financial interests. The big money guns that keep the party going are the ones interested in a plutocracy, or good old fashioned economic feudalism. Their agenda starts to make sense when you recognize that the social conservatives have made an unholy alliance with the plutocrats and are being led around by the nose as a result.
It's never been more apparent than in this election that the candidate who wins the nomination always represents the "establishment" Republicans — the core group of wealthy folks who see government as a means to expand their own wealth and privilege. They pay lip service to the religious right in order to keep them voting in line, but their national agenda is almost always based around making government work for the rich.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I saw an article earlier that had them polling in a dead heat but I can't find it now. Much of the information I'm reading claims that the news media are going out of their way to bill the race as "super close" when it actually isn't.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Personally, I'd rather have people be nervous about losing and accordingly interested in voting rather than apathetic in their surety that they'll win.
If the trash that is the popular news industry can happen to do a good thing for the wrong reasons, sure, I'll take that.
edited 5th Nov '12 12:07:31 PM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Well, what makes it interesting is that newsies are talking about the national popular vote like it matters, when it actually doesn't, and they know it.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

I don't disagree. The problem is that it seems that the most visible complaints seem to be coming from the "stage" area(All those people who stand behind a candidate at a rally... Those guys). There are no "authorized" exits from that area once a candidate has arrived to the location(Romney had apparently arrived, he just wasn't going to speak for another hour because [reasons]).
Now, they could have been escorted to an exit by a staffer, and that probably should have happened... But most of those who get to stand up on the stage at rallies are told, before they do so, that they probably won't be able to leave there for a while unless it's for an extraordinary reason...
edited 4th Nov '12 8:54:19 PM by Swish