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 08/23/2012 05:28:24 PM · #1


This image will update every time you load the page. It's based on state by state polling. Click on it to learn more.

"EV" means electoral votes. That's how we elect the president. "Sen" is the number of seats in the Senate, half of our legislative branch.

08/23/2012 05:49:54 PM · #2
What's up with New Mexico?
 08/23/2012 05:55:22 PM · #3
Originally posted by posthumous:
This image will update every time you load the page. It's based on state by state polling.

We can conduct a poll just by updating this page? Who knew?! ;-)
 08/23/2012 06:22:06 PM · #4
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
What's up with New Mexico?


Whattya mean?
 08/23/2012 07:21:36 PM · #5
Just oddly blue in a sea of red. Seems like an east side girl suddenly on the west side of town...
 08/23/2012 07:42:29 PM · #6
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
What's up with New Mexico?

In a word, Roswell. Apparently there IS intelligent life out there, and it skewed the polling results.
 08/23/2012 08:04:03 PM · #7
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.
 08/23/2012 08:20:09 PM · #8
It is interesting to overlay the states with recently enacted voter ID laws with this map. Odd that every swing state with a Republican legislature has enacted laws to cut down on voter fraud. thank goodness because the fraud has risen to a horrible level; it is now 0.00004%. If the polling required ID, it would skew more towards the red.
 08/23/2012 09:13:45 PM · #9
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.


Thank god...As long as Romney stays ahead...we can get this nutcase out of office...Hopefully the professors are correct again
 08/23/2012 11:03:15 PM · #10
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.


better? for whom?

08/24/2012 12:28:43 AM · #11
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.


better? for whom?


I assume Art means "better" in the sense that it's been proven "more accurate"?
 08/24/2012 02:43:29 AM · #12
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.


better? for whom?


I assume Art means "better" in the sense that it's been proven "more accurate"?

Yes. And based on it's current indication, better for the country. :P I'm half kidding. I HATE the choices we have this time more than at any other time. I also HATE the process more than I have at any other time.
 08/24/2012 08:34:18 AM · #13
A Romney victory would confirm the widely held "conspiracy theory" that wealthy puppet string pullers encouraged the bubble to burst in 2008, "allowed" a black democratic president to be victorious to take the blame for the whole thing, and despite a somewhat righted ship, lose the election to a republican who then, despite piss-poor economic ideas, manages to take credit for the increasing turn around, which would have inevitably occurred - and I am only half kidding.

08/24/2012 11:06:08 AM · #14
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
There's a better model that has accurately predicted the outcome of every presidential race since 1980 and currently has Romney soundly defeating Obama. A ways to go yet, though, and lots can happen. May the least worst man win.


better? for whom?


I assume Art means "better" in the sense that it's been proven "more accurate"?


that is a low standard of "proof"
 08/24/2012 01:02:04 PM · #15
Originally posted by blindjustice:
A Romney victory would confirm the widely held "conspiracy theory" that wealthy puppet string pullers encouraged the bubble to burst in 2008, "allowed" a black democratic president to be victorious to take the blame for the whole thing, and despite a somewhat righted ship, lose the election to a republican who then, despite piss-poor economic ideas, manages to take credit for the increasing turn around, which would have inevitably occurred - and I am only half kidding.

I hadn't heard that conspiracy theory before.

Anyways, for one reason or another, your post reminded me of the puppet masters in Team America. I guess it was just the bit about the puppet string pullers:



End tangent.
 08/24/2012 01:07:42 PM · #16
Originally posted by blindjustice:
A Romney victory would confirm the widely held "conspiracy theory" that wealthy puppet string pullers encouraged the bubble to burst in 2008, "allowed" a black democratic president to be victorious to take the blame for the whole thing, and despite a somewhat righted ship, lose the election to a republican who then, despite piss-poor economic ideas, manages to take credit for the increasing turn around, which would have inevitably occurred - and I am only half kidding.

You forgot how the wealthy/big corporations are sitting on billions in cash rather than creating jobs, to make sure that the unemployment rate remains high and the economy in the doldrums until after the election.
 08/24/2012 07:56:14 PM · #17
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
What's up with New Mexico?

In a word, Roswell. Apparently there IS intelligent life out there, and it skewed the polling results.


Out there... you mean like in a foreign country?

Ray
 08/24/2012 09:09:46 PM · #18
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
A Romney victory would confirm the widely held "conspiracy theory" that wealthy puppet string pullers encouraged the bubble to burst in 2008, "allowed" a black democratic president to be victorious to take the blame for the whole thing, and despite a somewhat righted ship, lose the election to a republican who then, despite piss-poor economic ideas, manages to take credit for the increasing turn around, which would have inevitably occurred - and I am only half kidding.

You forgot how the wealthy/big corporations are sitting on billions in cash rather than creating jobs, to make sure that the unemployment rate remains high and the economy in the doldrums until after the election.


the reason why they are sitting on this cash....the uncertainty that Obama has created. Obama has been going after businesses the last 3.5 years. These companies are hoping to have enough cash to "possibly" holdout for another 4 years. Business is scared of the current administration.
08/28/2012 05:24:20 AM · #19
Originally posted by cowboy221977:

the reason why they are sitting on this cash....the uncertainty that Obama has created. Obama has been going after businesses the last 3.5 years. These companies are hoping to have enough cash to "possibly" holdout for another 4 years. Business is scared of the current administration.


Viewed from another perspective, it could be that they are frothing at the mouth thinking that if they invest enough cash in their candidates that soon they will not have to deal with pesky inconveniences like environmental protections, unions, safety standards and other similar factors that really cut into the profit margins.

I am all for smaller governments, but most certainly do not think we should give unbridled control to the corporate elite... the final price might be way too high.

Ray
 08/29/2012 10:03:30 AM · #20
Rules have been changed.

Don't know how many of you have looked at the new rule changes so I thought I would post it to see what you all think about it.
 08/29/2012 10:30:23 AM · #21
Originally posted by cowboy221977:
the reason why they are sitting on this cash....the uncertainty that Obama has created. Obama has been going after businesses the last 3.5 years. These companies are hoping to have enough cash to "possibly" holdout for another 4 years. Business is scared of the current administration.

Yeah... that's the reason companies were doing this for years before Obama was even nominated. Riiiiiiight.
 08/29/2012 11:05:18 AM · #22
Originally posted by blindjustice:
A Romney victory would confirm the widely held "conspiracy theory" that wealthy puppet string pullers encouraged the bubble to burst in 2008, "allowed" a black democratic president to be victorious to take the blame for the whole thing, and despite a somewhat righted ship, lose the election to a republican who then, despite piss-poor economic ideas, manages to take credit for the increasing turn around, which would have inevitably occurred - and I am only half kidding.

Then you are half correct.
 08/29/2012 11:42:02 AM · #23
Originally posted by mbrutus2009:
Rules have been changed.

Don't know how many of you have looked at the new rule changes so I thought I would post it to see what you all think about it.


I think it's hilarious that Sarah Palin thinks that grassroots activism is somehow inherent to the Republican party.
 08/29/2012 11:51:31 AM · #24
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by mbrutus2009:
Rules have been changed.

Don't know how many of you have looked at the new rule changes so I thought I would post it to see what you all think about it.


I think it's hilarious that Sarah Palin thinks that grassroots activism is somehow inherent to the Republican party.


I think it's hilarious that Sara Palin is.
 08/29/2012 12:54:35 PM · #25
Originally posted by posthumous:
I think it's hilarious that Sarah Palin thinks that grassroots activism is somehow inherent to the Republican party.


I'm confused by this. Why isn't it? We often like to think the Republican party is the party of the soulless corporate CEOs, but it's far more the party of rural, smalltown America. Their numbers probably outrank the CEOs literally a million to one. How many CEOs live in the band from North Dakota to Oklahoma which regularly looks red on the electoral map?

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