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[Zrk2]

I don't understand how Y can be anything but a vowel. Just feel that sound, man!


...Vowel power. *raises fist*

[Sirus]

I don't understand how Y can be anything but a vowel. Just feel that sound, man!


...Vowel power. *raises fist*

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How many times has that gif been posted here, now?

[Frumple]

Less times than it will be by the time the presidential election is over.

[Zrk2]

I don't understand how Y can be anything but a vowel. Just feel that sound, man!


...Vowel power. *raises fist*

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How many times has that gif been posted here, now?

Shit, so this is the thread I got it from. Good to know.

[Heron TSG]

PTTG??, you are not alone. There are other progressives out there, but they dare not run against the incumbent from their own party. Have you tried running for office? I'd vote for you.

[LostCosmonaut]

I'm fairly libertarian, and I'd vote for you. Sanity trumps politics, in my book.

[RedKing]

Game on! At long last, Floridians will go to the polls today in a mass ritual designed to drive away evil spirits by placating them with votes. If successful, the plague of attack ads and debates and smarmy campaign photo-ops will leave the state for good. Or at least until August.

Latest polls suggest Romney will wipe the floor with Gingrich in Florida today. The aggregate spread for Romney is 13 points, but I think that's skewed a bit high by a single poll out of Suffolk University that showed Romney up by 20. Other polls are a bit more cautious, projecting an 8-10 point lead. Imma go ahead and project the results:

Romney: 40%
Gingrich: 30%
Santorum: 15%
Paul: 11%
Other: 4%

This thing is still far from over though. National polls continue to show Gingrich with a 1-5 point lead, even as his momentum in Florida got swept under by Romney's newly-aggressive ad offensive.  Although there's no really recent poll data availalble, Gingrich has polled extremely well out west, pulling an 18 point lead in Minnesota as recently as a week ago, and a 19 point lead in Colorado a couple of months back. Could be a typical Western mistrust of an "East Coast/New England moderate", although it should be pointed out that Georgia is on the East Coast too. 

Even in Nevada, with its substantial Mormon population, Romney's lead had shrunk from 20 to 4 in the last couple of weeks. Could be people upset with the way Huntsman got treated, could be the non-Mormon population voting against the Mormon candidate, or just people who like to bet against the house.

[Nadaka]

I am not voting today. Florida is not an open primary state, and I would have had to register as a republican 30 days prior, AKA last year.

[RedKing]

I am not voting today. Florida is not an open primary state, and I would have had to register as a republican 30 days prior, AKA last year.

Do they allow Independents to vote in the primary? If not, that'll hurt Ron Paul by at least a couple of percentage points.

[Nadaka]

No, you can only vote in the primary of the party you are registered to. It is a fully closed primary. As I have no party affiliation, I can't vote in any primary.

[RedKing]

No, you can only vote in the primary of the party you are registered to. It is a fully closed primary. As I have no party affiliation, I can't vote in any primary.

That stinks. That's how it used to be in NC up until about six years ago.



EDIT: A new study calls the Florida primary race "most negative campaign ever", with a whopping 92% negative ads compared to only 8% positive or neutral ads. Wow. The numbers in that study also show that the Romney camp absolutely buried Gingrich with their ad blitz.

Of the 1,012 spots Newt Gingrich's campaign ran, 95% were negative. Mitt Romney's campaign ran 3,276 ads and 99% were negative.

The two super PACs supporting the top candidates were more divergent in their ad strategies. Restore our Future, supporting Romney, ran 4,969 spots, all of which were negative. The Gingrich-backing Winning our Future ran 1,893 spots, and only 53% were negative.

To wit, that's a combined 8,245 ads from Romney + PAC vs. 2,905 ads from Gingrich + PAC. And virtually every single ad Romney ran was negative. Looks Newt has some justification in complaining about Romney running a "dirty" campaign, although it's not so much that Romney's ad campaign was so much dirtier than Gingrich's as it was just so much bigger.

[Nadaka]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/everyone-step-toes-gingrich-security-harasses-ron-paul-165042767.html

A Ron Paul supporter was assaulted by Gingrich security after the Gingrich posse arrived at the polling station where the boy was holding up a Ron Paul sign.

[PTTG??]

I can tell you only one thing about the presidential election this year; it will be horrifying. This meager primary will make this look like a barroom brawl next to the all-out warfare of the presidential campaign.

[nenjin]

Apparently Newt already thinks he has the Secret Service following him around.

[Mego]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/everyone-step-toes-gingrich-security-harasses-ron-paul-165042767.html

A Ron Paul supporter was assaulted by Gingrich security after the Gingrich posse arrived at the polling station where the boy was holding up a Ron Paul sign.

It's official. I would vote for one of the Castro brothers before any of the Republican stooges this year.