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[Osmosis Jones]

Like I said... EVERYTHING there is pure Mittens (except for I think one quote by Lucille, on a pic of Romney).

And think, at least 40% of your population want him in charge

[Mech#4]

Heh, the more times you say America, the more patriotic the comment is yah?

[KaelGotDwarves]

And think, at least 40% of your population want him in charge

At least 40% of those "likely to vote".

It's likely to be a close race, % vote wise, but a curbstomp in the electoral college by Obama. That's what many experts predict, unless something major happens.

[RedKing]

Remember Todd "Forcible Rape" Akin, the GOP senate candidate who was persona non grata after his assbrained comments about how you can't get pregnant in a "real" rape?

Well, since he refused to drop out, the GOP apparently decided that they'd rather back an idiot slimeball than let a Democrat keep the seat.

[nenjin]

Honestly, are you surprised? They did their media duty in decrying him, but when reality finally set in they realized that at the end of the day, the success of the party is what matters and nothing else.

[darkrider2]

Yeah keeping their base is a lower priority to them than opposing the democrats.

[Nadaka]

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map

Huffpo is projecting that Obama has 271 electoral votes "strongly favoring" with 61 more electoral votes leaning his way. If their polling methods are good, Obama is already over the hump.

[10ebbor10]

The point I'm making is that we could be spending our taxpayer's money on a space program or defence, but we choose to spend it mostly on services like free prescriptions and so on. However, the space program is a tough thing to debate with respect to America because America brings a lot to the world through their space research.

A point of interest here is that NASA's budget is only a little bigger then Scotland's healthcare costs ($19 billion vs. $16 billion) and not all of NASA's budget is space stuff (National Air and Space Agency).  So a worldclass space program costs as much as healthcare costs for a smallish region.  NASA is chump change in the US federal budget.

This prompts me to wonder actually if you could see a smallish but wealthy nation actually decide to become the leader in space.  Canada for instance has federal revenues of around C$255 (.98C$=1US$).  So NASA wouldn't be a pittance for them but it would be something they could afford.

Canada is affliated with the ESA though. They contribute 0.5% of it's budget, though that might change in the future.

[Leafsnail]

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/romney-vs-obama-electoral-map

Huffpo is projecting that Obama has 271 electoral votes "strongly favoring" with 61 more electoral votes leaning his way. If their polling methods are good, Obama is already over the hump.

But how about the UNSKEWED polls?

http://unskewedpolls.com/

I think you'll find that Romney is actually winning easily.

[Nadaka]

Do you expect me to believe polls from a page that uses a layout from ye olde web of 1992? 

[Techhead]

I was looking at his methodology and it seems like he doesn't understand statistics. I might also take him a little more seriously if he had links to any news articles that weren't from The Examiner.

[RedKing]

BWAHAHA...I tried clicking that GOP2112.com link, thinking "WTF?? Is typo or really long-term planning?" and got a DOJ block notice that it was a malicious source (i.e. flagged for malware).

Now I'm almost wondering if it's some kind of honeypot, designed to lure right-wingers in by giving them all this wacky data that confirms what they want to believe, while secretly putting half a dozen Trojans on their system or something.

Best line read all day: "Romney's campaign is so dead, the Mormon Church just baptized it."  xD

[nenjin]

Wasn't there some study that said a large percentage of malware was found on religious sites?

[Leafsnail]

Sorry about that, I'm pretty sure the site itself doesn't contain any malware.  Keep off the external links then.

I was looking at his methodology and it seems like he doesn't understand statistics. I might also take him a little more seriously if he had links to any news articles that weren't from The Examiner.

It seems to run deeper than that.  The "methodology" consists of assuming that there are more conservatives than liberals and messing with the polls accordingly.

[Zrk2]

IIRC there was, it had something to do with how little they were updated making it easier to infect them.