Americans to Conks, Move ON Losers

[Skjellyfetti]

OK, Herr Spindoktor, to shut you up from your infernal cackling and graph-spinning, I will put 20 bucks on Romney. My only stipulation is that it be paid in cash -- a crisp new Andy Jackson either way. No checks. No Paypal.

Do we have a deal?

Yup. Straight up electoral college winner.

[Ivytalk]

OK, Herr Spindoktor, to shut you up from your infernal cackling and graph-spinning, I will put 20 bucks on Romney. My only stipulation is that it be paid in cash -- a crisp new Andy Jackson either way. No checks. No Paypal.

Do we have a deal?

Yup. Straight up electoral college winner.

Right. No welshing if the EC winner loses the popular vote.

[bluehenbillk]

Oooh, can I get in on this too? Ivytalk you're taking Romney? I'll put the same $20 down on Obama winning, do we have a deal? Payable in cash at the Delaware-Villanova game??

[Ivytalk]

Oooh, can I get in on this too? Ivytalk you're taking Romney? I'll put the same $20 down on Obama winning, do we have a deal? Payable in cash at the Delaware-Villanova game??

No, sir. I've probably already exceeded my self-imposed budget for political bets for the year.

[Skjellyfetti]

In Ohio, which is a must-win state for Romney, Obama’s hefty lead is based on his strong support among women, blacks, and independents. According to Quinnipiac, the gender gap is a stunning fifteen points. Among female voters, Obama leads Romney fifty per cent to thirty-five per cent. He is also doing a good job of attracting support from independents, where he leads by nine points. These are alarming figures for Romney. If he loses Ohio, the electoral-college math becomes forbidding. Obama’s support among Ohio women and independents is so strong that it almost makes up for his chronic weakness among white men, which has always been his biggest vulnerability. Among white voters of both sexes, he is now trailing Romney by just four points: forty-five per cent to forty-one per cent.

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[Wedgebuster]

Polls show clearly that only one out of six respondents said they "liked" Mitt Romney.

The caveats are all over the place, what if gas went past four dollars, what if the economy worsens, another war in the middle east, yada, yada....

Bottom line is, that if only 17% of voters can actually say they like Mitt Romney as a candidate, then just how badly does things have to go for the current administration for folks to say well, we are voting for Mitt even though we do not like him?

I am going to go ahead an mention the fact that Romney has offered absolutely no alternatives to the policies of the Obama administration that he is so vehemently criticizing, on the economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy, or anything else for that matter. All he has done as try to hold himself out as an economic expert who has lead a life of job creating. Oh I know that is just plenty good enough for the "anybody but Obama" and the partisan Republican robots, but that is still only about 30% of the voting populace.

When reality meets rhetoric later this fall, Romney might well be one of the biggest losers in recent Presidential election history. Again, over by cocktail hour west coast time on election day.

[Ibanez]

I read a story today that Romney is leading Obama in 15 swing states by a margin of 51-43.

Obama is up in most of the swing states.

Obama up in:
Ohio +2.6
Virginia +2.4
Florida +1.7
Iowa +2.5
Colorado +3.0
Nevada +5.6
Wisconsin +3.5
Michigan +1.8
Pennsylvania +8.0
New Hampshire +5.7

Romney up in:
North Carolina +1.8
Missouri +3.0

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It seems Obama is THE ONE who will be moving on.

I have an open wager with any of you Conks that actually feel confident about these kind of statements. Feel free to step up to the plate. No one else has.

What was the polling margin of error?

[Skjellyfetti]

What was the polling margin of error?

It's a compilation of a shit ton of polls. All with different margins of errors.

You can click around on realclearpolitics if you want to find out more about the polls though (except rasmussen... you have to pay him to look at his data )...

[Ibanez]

What was the polling margin of error?

It's a compilation of a shit ton of polls. All with different margins of errors.

You can click around on realclearpolitics if you want to find out more about the polls though (except rasmussen... you have to pay him to look at his data )...

Yeah, I saw that. My thing, with a margin of error that is conservative, +/- 4 points (which I think we can agree on), it isn't a a shoe in for either guy.

[CID1990]

Polls show clearly that only one out of six respondents said they "liked" Mitt Romney.

The caveats are all over the place, what if gas went past four dollars, what if the economy worsens, another war in the middle east, yada, yada....

Bottom line is, that if only 17% of voters can actually say they like Mitt Romney as a candidate, then just how badly does things have to go for the current administration for folks to say well, we are voting for Mitt even though we do not like him?

I am going to go ahead an mention the fact that Romney has offered absolutely no alternatives to the policies of the Obama administration that he is so vehemently criticizing, on the economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy, or anything else for that matter. All he has done as try to hold himself out as an economic expert who has lead a life of job creating. Oh I know that is just plenty good enough for the "anybody but Obama" and the partisan Republican robots, but that is still only about 30% of the voting populace.

When reality meets rhetoric later this fall, Romney might well be one of the biggest losers in recent Presidential election history. Again, over by cocktail hour west coast time on election day.

Dude, I don't like Romney but Im holding my nose and voting for him. Hell I voted 3rd party in the last election.

[CID1990]

In Ohio, which is a must-win state for Romney, Obama’s hefty lead is based on his strong support among women, blacks, and independents. According to Quinnipiac, the gender gap is a stunning fifteen points. Among female voters, Obama leads Romney fifty per cent to thirty-five per cent. He is also doing a good job of attracting support from independents, where he leads by nine points. These are alarming figures for Romney. If he loses Ohio, the electoral-college math becomes forbidding. Obama’s support among Ohio women and independents is so strong that it almost makes up for his chronic weakness among white men, which has always been his biggest vulnerability. Among white voters of both sexes, he is now trailing Romney by just four points: forty-five per cent to forty-one per cent.

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More evidence that all those impressionable chicks I banged in college cause they thought I was an astronaut are now voting.

[Ivytalk]

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More evidence that all those impressionable chicks I banged in college cause they thought I was an astronaut are now voting.

So Shannon Faulkner was impressionable?

[CID1990]

More evidence that all those impressionable chicks I banged in college cause they thought I was an astronaut are now voting.

So Shannon Faulkner was impressionable?

You have mistaken me for new corps. I am old corps (ie I finished before she showed up)


but yes I rolled her smelly ass in flour and gave her 1 in the pink and 2 in the stink

[Skjellyfetti]

You have mistaken me for new corps. I am old corps (ie I finished before she showed up)

so by impressionable chicks... you mean knobs?

[AZGrizFan]

I am going to go ahead an mention the fact that Romney has offered absolutely no alternatives to the policies of the Obama administration that he is so vehemently criticizing, on the economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy, or anything else for that matter. All he has done as try to hold himself out as an economic expert who has lead a life of job creating. Oh I know that is just plenty good enough for the "anybody but Obama" and the partisan Republican robots, but that is still only about 30% of the voting populace.

When reality meets rhetoric later this fall, Romney might well be one of the biggest losers in recent Presidential election history. Again, over by cocktail hour west coast time on election day.

Well, we KNOW Obama's ideas don't work, don't we....

[Cap'n Cat]

I am going to go ahead an mention the fact that Romney has offered absolutely no alternatives to the policies of the Obama administration that he is so vehemently criticizing, on the economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy, or anything else for that matter. All he has done as try to hold himself out as an economic expert who has lead a life of job creating. Oh I know that is just plenty good enough for the "anybody but Obama" and the partisan Republican robots, but that is still only about 30% of the voting populace.

When reality meets rhetoric later this fall, Romney might well be one of the biggest losers in recent Presidential election history. Again, over by cocktail hour west coast time on election day.

Well, we KNOW Obama's ideas don't work, don't we....

Where have been the last three years, shizzle?

[AZGrizFan]

Well, we KNOW Obama's ideas don't work, don't we....

Where have been the last three years, shizzle?

Watching Obama crash and burn.

[Cap'n Cat]

Where have been the last three years, shizzle?

Watching Obama crash and burn.

See me in November, Rush.

[AZGrizFan]

Watching Obama crash and burn.

See me in November, Rush.

Just because 51% of AMericans may be stupid enough to elect him again doesn't mean he hasn't crashed and burned with his policies and ideas.

[CID1990]

You have mistaken me for new corps. I am old corps (ie I finished before she showed up)

so by impressionable chicks... you mean knobs?

No i mean your sister. Not the dumb one but the gullible one with the gap in her teeth and the eyes a little too close together.

That's how you say something funny SK. You're at the big table with the grownups so bring something funny or keep your a$$ in your seat and try not to be conspicuous.

[kalm]

See me in November, Rush.

Just because 51% of AMericans may be stupid enough to elect him again doesn't mean he hasn't crashed and burned with the Reagan/Bush II policies and ideas.

[UNI88]

Just because 51% of AMericans may be stupid enough to elect him again doesn't mean he hasn't crashed and burned with the Reagan/Bush II policies and ideas.

Please list the Reagan/Bush II policies and ideas that Obama has crashed and burned with. It would also be great if you could distinguish between those that he chose to continue (Patriot Act) and those that he was "saddled with" (TARP - but for the record I consider TARP a necessary evil and a Bush success).

It would also be nice if the Obama supporters on this board could list his successes (and IMO, Obamacare can be considered a policy success until we can measure the long-term ramifications).

[kalm]

Please list the Reagan/Bush II policies and ideas that Obama has crashed and burned with. It would also be great if you could distinguish between those that he chose to continue (Patriot Act) and those that he was "saddled with" (TARP - but for the record I consider TARP a necessary evil and a Bush success).

It would also be nice if the Obama supporters on this board could list his successes (and IMO, Obamacare can be considered a policy success until we can measure the long-term ramifications).

Well I was being somewhat tongue in cheek but for starters failing to truly regulate financial services...continuing trickle down theory.

You can make a case that he needed to stabilize things and trust the banks to do so, and perhaps in the long term we slowly work out of it. But there's also the concern that he's simply re-inflated the bubble economy and we are set up for another, perhaps deeper fall.

[Skjellyfetti]

OK, Herr Spindoktor, to shut you up from your infernal cackling and graph-spinning, I will put 20 bucks on Romney. My only stipulation is that it be paid in cash -- a crisp new Andy Jackson either way. No checks. No Paypal.

Do we have a deal?

BUMP.

Address pm'd.

[AZGrizFan]

OK, Herr Spindoktor, to shut you up from your infernal cackling and graph-spinning, I will put 20 bucks on Romney. My only stipulation is that it be paid in cash -- a crisp new Andy Jackson either way. No checks. No Paypal.

Do we have a deal?

BUMP.

Address pm'd.

Hold the phone, analjelly. Ohio is still in play.