US Presidential Election: Tuesday November 6th, 2012

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I'm seeing both $1.2bn and $6bn being bandied about as the amounts spent on this election. Anyone know how much it actually cost? $1.2bn alone is far too much, what a waste of money.

Also, for what it's worth, I felt confident in a narrow Obama victory until I visited this thread. Now I'm not so sure, curse you all.
 
Why are they projecting CNN's electoral college count on the Empire State building. FFS. CNN.
 
The Dimbleby BBC prog is up and running.

I don't understand how China is a policy at all. Why should it be? It seems to be based on the weird idea that "China is the biggest economy, we need to kill them!"...As a 1st world western democracy, why on earth should anyone be worried about that?
 
For anyone following the Senate races as well - looks like Donnelly is beating Mourdock so far.
 
Fox are going to make Mount Rushmore glow varying shades of red and blue depending on the strength of each party's performance.
 
I might give up on BBC live coverage - "3% difference in the polls in North Carolina, that looks like it'll go to Romney" "3% difference in Ohio, it's really very close".
 
niMic said:
Do you definitely need a US proxy to watch the comedy central coverage? I can watch past full episodes there without problems, but maybe this is different.
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It may be different where you are but in the UK we can't watch it. I can sort you out with a proxy program though if you want.
 
AVARiCE said:
I'm seeing both $1.2bn and $6bn being bandied about as the amounts spent on this election. Anyone know how much it actually cost? $1.2bn alone is far too much, what a waste of money.

Also, for what it's worth, I felt confident in a narrow Obama victory until I visited this thread. Now I'm not so sure, curse you all.
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Middle of the page has campaign financing. Looks closer to $1.2b which is utterly insane especially with a bad economy. And a combined $145m cash on-hand. That kind of money should be redistributed to the public through grants, schools, roads, and parks.

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/candidates.html
 
Ramshock said:
what country are you in that you dont get CNN?
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Norway. I probably get BBC World here, but I actually don't have a TV. Streaming on their site didn't seem to work (it was connected to American providers)

Scrumpet said:
Did you try the one I sent you?
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Oh sheeeet, I didn't even notice. I can go days without seeing PMs. Cheers, that works much better.
 
Romney's Ohio poll shows him losing by 5% according to CNN. His goose is cooked.
 
Ubik said:
I might give up on BBC live coverage - "3% difference in the polls in North Carolina, that looks like it'll go to Romney" "3% difference in Ohio, it's really very close".
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CNN just said Romney's last internal Ohio poll was Obama +5%.

Not that internals are necessarily right. Also, why would Romney release that?
 
mjs020294 said:
Romney's Ohio poll shows him losing by 5% according to CNN. His goose is cooked.
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You've been saying this for days. What surprises me is how quickly your tuned changed in the last week. Typical glory-hunting Republican, jumping on the latest bandwagon.
 
Plechazunga said:
CNN just said Romney's last internal Ohio poll was Obama +5%.

Not that internals are necessarily right. Also, why would Romney release that?
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If that's true...wow. Not sure he'd release it, but if someone in the camp thinks they're losing they might leak it to friendly reporters.
 
MrMarcello said:
Middle of the page has campaign financing. Looks closer to $1.2b which is utterly insane especially with a bad economy. And a combined $145m cash on-hand. That kind of money should be redistributed to the public through grants, schools, roads, and parks.

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/candidates.html
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Might be quite good for the economy. Bette the Kochs and Adelson spunking their cash into the Ohio TV market than sticking it in the Caymans.

Mind you, Krugman was implying the other day that Rove's just trousered a lot of it!
 
Plechazunga said:
CNN just said Romney's last internal Ohio poll was Obama +5%.

Not that internals are necessarily right. Also, why would Romney release that?
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So if he wins he can cue the comback Rocky music and his speech is probably laden with cliches like, "what a comeback," "chips were down," "we believed and you never gave up on me," yadda yadda.
 
DONT feck THIS UP AMERICA!!!....OK?


We still remember what your last Republican did to our nice, fluffy, liberal PM.
 
Mockney said:
I don't understand how China is a policy at all. Why should it be? It seems to be based on the weird idea that "China is the biggest economy, we need to kill them!"...As a 1st world western democracy, why on earth should anyone be worried about that?
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You think the world and particularly the US in this case should just ignore China? I'll readily admit that they are a peripheral issue at this election, however are surely destined to become a more influential one as the years go by.
 
MrMarcello said:
I would be inclined to say go back to 2000 and see what happened over the next eight years. There's a glimpse.

I imagine more tax breaks for the wealthy, wall street backing, healthcare fecked, more SCOTUS bullshit with him possibly picking 1-3 new conservative justices (adios gay rights, pro-choice, etc.), and most likely war with Iran and/or Syria, and possibly no scaling back in Afghanistan and maybe a return to Iraq.
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Brilliant summary, MM. This should be nailed up on the inside of every voting booth in America.
 
Plechazunga said:
Might be quite good for the economy. Bette the Kochs and Adelson spunking their cash into the Ohio TV market than sticking it in the Caymans.

Mind you, Krugman was implying the other day that Rove's just trousered a lot of it!
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Is it? I have no idea how campaign spending can boost the economy, perhaps with the staff spending on supplies, food, etc. and the locals when campaigns arrive boost local economies. But television ads - can they have a slight boost to an economy?

I also fully expect Romney to declare the cash on-hand to be a capital gains and donate to the church.
 
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