US Presidential Election: Tuesday November 6th, 2012
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Brian Schweitzer another name.
Anyone posted this yet? The candidates spend $20 per vote on campaigning, fecking madness:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20163081
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20163081
For efficient read, sparsley populated.
compared to some of the swing states...yes
Minneapolis is crowded though. someone on teh radio said her polling place normally is fine...but was packed today.
and after all that, the Presidency, Senate and House will all probabaly remain in the same hands.
Oh feck this, I am not going to make a god damn penny off this election.
... you didn't bet on Obama to win Missouri, did you?
compared to some of the swing states...yes
Minneapolis is crowded though. someone on teh radio said her polling place normally is fine...but was packed today.
Oh yeah, I drove through it last year at a ridiculously early hour but it still gave the impression of a vast bit of urban sprawl. Your freeways must be horrible at rush hour.
No in fairness that was a free bet so I went ambitious as it did not cost me anything in essence.
The bet I put my own cash on was for Romney to win the popular vote and Obama to win the electoral college.
Where did the elephant and donkey thing come from?
Not sure why the media are still going with this "it's a tie" line..
It clearly ain't.
It clearly ain't.
I already did that but three seconds went by without me discovering the answer so I decided to ask the caf. That'll learn me.
three second answer: Political cartoons in the 19th century.
we all bitch about the 'jams' in the cities but I am certain compared to say LA or Chicago, where I have been btw, it is a joy ride.
My work is opposite of the driving 'jams'. So I have a good drive...about 15 minites at most both in the mornings and evenings.
Once you leave the cities...its just beautiful...the drive from the cities to Duluth and further to the Canadian border especially when the leaves turn color is georgoeus.
Exposing my ignorance here but that "acts as a 'no' vote' sort of surprised me. Perhaps it's the norm and I somehow never thought of it for ballot initiatives.
You are in the St Paul area aren't you? I PM' you as I am going to be here for a while wanted advice on locations. Did you take a look at it?
Any money to be made on this?
Exposing my ignorance here but that "acts as a 'no' vote' sort of surprised me. Perhaps it's the norm and I somehow never thought of it for ballot initiatives.
I think it's a good thing. When faced with a proposition expressed negatively, describing something I approve of, like "Do you think a marriage should only be between man and woman?", where 'yes' really means 'no to gay marriage', I think the chance of my actually voting the way I intended would be basically 50-50.
Exposing my ignorance here but that "acts as a 'no' vote' sort of surprised me. Perhaps it's the norm and I somehow never thought of it for ballot initiatives.
think this is the first one I have encountered unlike our friends in California. Excal's answer was enlightening.
we were told at our church that if we left the ballot blank for the marriage amendment vote, it would count as a 'no'
. I'm nort sure the priest was right..so I am going to vote 'no' just in case.
A donkey and an elephant are clearly better than a tree & a rose.
Have you ever tried to make steaks out of trees and roses?
Took the day off. Told my boss that as a Democrat I had to vote at 7, 9:15, 11:45, 2:30 and 4:45.
Shit. These newfangled statistical forecasts may be looking good for Obama, but on the other hand, Peggy Noonan's seen a shitload of Romney yard signs:
I would love to place an Obama/Biden placard in my yard but I know that living in Georgia the sign would be destroyed/stolen and my home subject to vandalism. I'd rather just be silent in a red state. I'm sure this is the thinking of others in various regions.
The BBC says that South Dakota, and Georgia was a "tough fight"
Terrible punditry.
Terrible punditry.
The various models are now converging on the O 332 prediction Drew Linzer's one has maintained, more or less, since June.
I had an Obama/Biden bumper sticker on my car in 2008, but I lived in a very blue San Francisco Bay Area county at the time. When I moved out to a more purple city in a sea of red, I worried some, but if anyone took a kick at my car or something, I've not seen it.
Eventually I got pissed off by the whole Bradley Manning issue enough that I covered it up with a United sticker instead.
I've never understood why people would put bumper stickers on their cars. It's like those mini-kits that came out in the 90's...why would you invite some knucklehead to damage your motor?
It's ridiculous, isn't it. They sent a reporter out to an Ohio voting place and his wisdom was "polls recently have shown Obama with a slight lead of three our four points, within the margin of error, so it's a tie". feck you Clive! Mark Mardell is gash as well.
It's decorative messaging. I liked to think of it as wumming right-wingers behind me.
thats what I am concerned about.
Most here are good...but you do have the odd nutter...
why bother...just vote.
Had the thought when I first moved, but then I thought, "well feck it, I'm not gonna hide my views just cuz some arsehole somewhere can stand the thought that people disagree with him. And if I do, aren't I letting him win?"
nah...its like avoiding a rattle snake.
Nate has Romney at 9% chance of winning now. It was under 9 last night.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/opinion/frum-election-chaos/index.html?hpt=hp_t1_1
Interesting opinion column on US voting process.
Interesting opinion column on US voting process.
my ballot is 64 pages long!
In terms of people noticing bumper stickers, I don't ever recall people reacting to Obama/Biden, but now that there's a United sticker in its place, I do remember seeing someone in a Liverpool shirt on a motorbike ride up behind me, and looking at him in the rear-view as he got the same smirk in his expression I had.
That's the voting guide, isn't it? Not the actual ballot.
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