The 2012 Election

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_Quasimodo
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Re: The 2012 Election

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Drifting wrote:Can someone tell me the top five things (policies) that Romney stands for?


1. Tax cuts for the richest among us.
2. Tax cuts for the richest among us.
3. Tax cuts for the richest among us.
4. Tax cuts for the richest among us.
5. Tax cuts for the richest among us.
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_Bond James Bond
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Re: The 2012 Election

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Quasimodo wrote:
Drifting wrote:Can someone tell me the top five things (policies) that Romney stands for?


1. Tax cuts for the richest among us including me.
2. Tax cuts for the richest among us including me lol.
3. Tax cuts for the richest among us including me lmao.
4. Tax cuts for the richest among us including me rotf.
5. Tax cuts for the richest among us including me stfu gofo.


I expounded upon Quasi's in bold. Talking in Mitt's voice
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Re: The 2012 Election

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Barack Obama is very likely going to beat Mitt Romney in the State of California by at least 18 percentage points, so I very much doubt that Obama is going to beat Romney in the electoral college while losing the popular vote. If Romney beats Obama in the electoral college, Obama will still very likely win the popular vote.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-m ... 28173.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -2009.html
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Re: The 2012 Election

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Brackite wrote:Barack Obama is very likely going to beat Mitt Romney in the State of California by at least 18 percentage points, so I very much doubt that Obama is going to beat Romney in the electoral college while losing the popular vote. If Romney beats Obama in the electoral college, Obama will still very likely win the popular vote.


http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-m ... 28173.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -2009.html

California isn't the only state in the country. Nate Silver's forecast has Romney with a huge 5.2% chance of winning the popular vote, but losing the electoral college. Obama conversely has a .9% chance. Why is this so much more likely to happen in Romney's case? Because he is going to win by huge %'s in the South that's going to make up for the California's of the country. Meanwhile, Obama has moderate leads in a bunch of swing states.
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Re: The 2012 Election

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More 2008 Obama Voters Than McCain Voters Switching Sides:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156446/2008- ... Sides.aspx
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Re: The 2012 Election

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Brackite wrote:More 2008 Obama Voters Than McCain Voters Switching Sides:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/156446/2008- ... Sides.aspx

Obama won in a quasi-landslide in 2008. Right now, Obama enjoys a small, if consistent lead. So why on earth would this not be obvious? It seems like all you want to do is post any poll you can find that you can interpret as relatively good news for the Romney camp to neglect of accurately understanding of what's going on. And if that's what you want to do, why not just get this out of your system by writing "Romney! Yay!" once a week?
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Re: The 2012 Election

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According to isidewith.com I am best in line with:

Jill Stein 95%
Obama 91%
Stewart Alexander 79%
Ron Paul 43%
Romney 16%

Democratic 96%
Green 91%
Libertarian 52%
Republican 18%

A somewhat interesting website.

I agree with Romney on "do you think able bodied welfare recipients should be required to work?" I said Yes and agreed with Romney as well as about affirmative action and decriminalizing drugs (although I think several drugs should be legalized like marijuana). I also agreed with Romney on supporting Israel and a NATO solution to Sudan genocide as well as granting illegal aliens access to government subsidized health care.

The website is limited by the caveats I carve out on most issues such as support for Israel as well as illegal immigration.
Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded.-charity 3/7/07

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Re: The 2012 Election

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So I finally checked out that site and took the quiz.

Stein 97%
Obama 88%
Romney 4%

Apparently I really, really need to vote for Jill Stein, someone I didn't know anything about until today. In Utah, where our electoral votes are predetermined to go to the white-horse candidate, I can easily do that.
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Re: The 2012 Election

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My isidewith results.

Jill Stein 98%
Obama 83%
Stewart Alexander 75%
Ron Paul 11%
Romney 6%

Democratic 98%
Green 97%
Libertarian 28%
Republican 5%



edit: Harrumph. Does this mean I shouldn't vote for my main man, Romney?
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Re: The 2012 Election

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I am still Predicting here that Mitt Romney will win the State of Florida.
The Unemployment rate in Florida rose to 8.8% recently, which is 0.5% higher than the National Unemployment rate.

Florida: http://www.deptofnumbers.com/unemployment/florida/

The latest two Polls in Florida has Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama by one percentage point
and by two percentage points.

Polls: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls ... -1883.html


As far as the General Presidential election for all of America goes, I am now going to Predict that this is going to be so very close, that this Presidential election will end up going to the U.S. Courts. I think that the State that will be so very, very close will be in Ohio.
This Presidential election is very likely going to be like Bush vs Gore was back in 2000.
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