The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[innerSpaceman]

Democrats are smiling ear-to-ear. Yes, Romney has been working hard to gin up his base, which are merely anti-Obama and hardly pro-Romney. But every step he takes just alienates the holy-grail of swing-voters. He's already lost women, latinos and youngsters. Now with his pick of Ryan he's going to lose senior citizens. It's going to be tough for him to cobble together a winning recipe.

His only hope is that all the efforts to block democrat voting in Ohio, Michigan and half-a-dozen other states really works. This is all going to come down to turnout. Obama would be wise, imo, to lay off expensive advertising and invest in door to door bus service to get every democrat to the polls, and arrange entertainment for the really long lines.

[alphabassettgrrl]

Oh, and make sure that all the voting areas have enough functional voting machines.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

His only hope is that all the efforts to block democrat voting in Ohio, Michigan and half-a-dozen other states really works. This is all going to come down to turnout. Obama would be wise, imo, to lay off expensive advertising and invest in door to door bus service to get every democrat to the polls, and arrange entertainment for the really long lines.

Yeah, in the end I just don't see the Republican base being mobilized to vote FOR Romney. Just as the Democratic base had no interest in voting FOR John Kerry. It really at this point seems like the closeness of the poll numbers is on the strength of "anyone but Obama", but by the time November comes around, I think there will be a lot of, "Okay, maybe not anyone."

[Betty]

I'm not sure if I should be more alarmed about comments on "legitimate rape" or "armed revolution".

Up until now, I've always felt that the US is fairly even keeled. That is, that no matter who was elected, nothing seemed to change all that much.

This election feels so much more polarized. Am I just paying more attention to politics as I get older? Am I getting more entrenched in my views when I think "the other side" is go off the deep end a bit? Or is it that people say whatever they think will get them elected and in reality nothing much really changes. People are all talk but don't mean what they say?

[cirquelover]

I am appalled at the term legitimate rape! Seriously cannot believe what I heard and he worked on that with the new VP candidate! Scary stuff

[Alex]

I think I heard the squeal of glee from Claire McCaskill all the way out here in San Francisco.

[Snowflake]

Originally Posted by Alex

I think I heard the squeal of glee from Claire McCaskill all the way out here in San Francisco.

VAM





I heard it, too.

[3894]

Got my nerf balls and wadded up paper to throw at the screen.

[JWBear]

I'm hoping we'll see Hurricane Isaak wash them all out to sea. That would be entertaining.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I think today's ruling against Samsung is a terrible ruling and severely restricts innovation and competition in any design market.