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[darkrider2]

Perhaps I haven't been reading the exceptionally long (and growing!) posts here lately, but I'm increasingly beginning to wonder what gun control and nuclear missiles have to do with the upcoming election. So far as I know, neither candidate has even commented on current gun laws.

Don't worry about it. Thread topics on the Bay12 forums swerve off the rails regularly, but we eventually find them again. Although it can be REALLY entertaining when we don't.

I'm looking at you Kind DZA.

[RedKing]

Perhaps I haven't been reading the exceptionally long (and growing!) posts here lately, but I'm increasingly beginning to wonder what gun control and nuclear missiles have to do with the upcoming election. So far as I know, neither candidate has even commented on current gun laws.

Oh, they have. After what went down in Aurora, it was kind of impossible not to.
Romney's stance is "No new gun laws...the ones we have work fine, except when they don't, which just proves that new laws wouldn't help anyways."

Honestly, I'm not even sure what Obama's stance is, because he seems to want to have his cake and eat it too. He's been remarkably mum on gun control up until now, but some of his comments seem to suggest he'd be okay with reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban. Unfortunately, it wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of passing Congress at this point.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Someone joked about shooting a plane down with a rocket launcher. Not something you wanna laugh at. Drones are airplanes, and them boys with arsonals are getting targeted by drones now. Just cameras on US soil, but bet that this situation  of a rocketlauncher will happen someday.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Can we please get back to the actual election? Is anything interesting at all happening?

[Jervill]

There were primaries for senate and house races in Georgia and Texas, but other than that, nothing at all interesting.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There were primaries for senate and house races in Georgia and Texas, but other than that, nothing at all interesting.

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, THIS ELECTION IS SO BORING! SKIP TO 2016, WE'll DO IT LIVE!

[Owlbread]

There were primaries for senate and house races in Georgia and Texas, but other than that, nothing at all interesting.

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, THIS ELECTION IS SO BORING! SKIP TO 2016, WE'll DO IT LIVE!

Obama's going to win anyway, why should we get all excited about it? Who the hell would elect Mitt Romney?

[Drunken]

For me this election is about taxes. Romney is opposed to them unless poor people are paying them, obama seems indifferent.

[Leafsnail]

It's also about Romney opposing things he implemented in the past.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Who the hell would elect Mitt Romney?

Everyone who doesn't want to elect Obama. It is to the point where Romney's slogan really should be "Not-Obama 2012". No one likes Romney for Romney, only for Romney not being Obama.

[Dutchling]

Who the hell would elect Mitt Romney?

Everyone who doesn't want to elect Obama. It is to the point where Romney's slogan really should be "Not-Obama 2012". No one likes Romney for Romney, only for Romney not being Obama.

Isn't the other way around as well? Maybe not as much as with Romney, but with only two 'real' candidates I doubt the majority of the 'merkins are going to vote for someone they wholeheartedly like/support.

[Kogan Loloklam]

For me it's a choice between ruinous corporate policies and a rogue nation.

Romney would get my support if I didn't think him too weak to stop our disreguard of the laws of war.

So with both choices I see further damage to the country in the thing I care most about. Romney just has the unfortunate habit of calling people who make over 250000 a year "job creators" when the truth is that this group employs less americans per dollar spent. The real job creators are around 125000 a year.

So yea, Romney has four strikes to Obama's three. To me, they are both out.

Stumps and Scamps 2012!

[Jervill]

There were primaries for senate and house races in Georgia and Texas, but other than that, nothing at all interesting.

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, THIS ELECTION IS SO BORING! SKIP TO 2016, WE'll DO IT LIVE!

You could look at your own state's elections and see how those are doing.  Of course, with your state being gerrymandered to hell and back the races may not be that exciting.

[RedKing]

There were primaries for senate and house races in Georgia and Texas, but other than that, nothing at all interesting.

I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, THIS ELECTION IS SO BORING! SKIP TO 2016, WE'll DO IT LIVE!

You could look at your own state's elections and see how those are doing.  Of course, with your state being gerrymandered to hell and back the races may not be that exciting.

I see you're familiar with North Christolina. 

Especially thrilling is the race to see whether we elect for Governor a pro-business, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, pro-fracking Republican, or a pro-business, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, pro-fracking conservative Democrat.

It really is like the "John Jackson / Jack Johnson" race in Futurama. Except I don't have the option of voting for a malevolent, robotic Richard Nixon.

[Aptus]

Mr. Schaden Freud esquire inside of me would find it interesting if Romney would win. The news are always more interesting with a dumbass republican in office. The sane part of me would like a third partier to get in, someone like Jill Stein.

EDIT: Now I don't agree with everything she says but from an outsiders perspective she seems a far sight better than both Obama and Generic-Republican.