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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 772004 times)

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7755 on: November 02, 2012, 10:53:51 am »
Quote from: greatorder on November 02, 2012, 06:49:47 am
problem is, the majority of people appear to prefer to go for the guy with more charisma, not more competence.

What we need is a constitutional amendment requiring presidential candidates to communicate only in writing during their campaign and to be artificially disfigured by having powerful caustic acids thrown in their face prior to the start of said campaign.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7756 on: November 02, 2012, 10:54:50 am »
Quote from: RedKing on November 02, 2012, 07:28:12 am
Jesus H. Cristobal, what the herp is this derp? I leave for 8 hours of sleep, and find ten pages of....whatever the fuck that was.

Quote from: Descan on November 01, 2012, 10:57:23 pm
But neither can you choose the one in front of him, for he knows he never had sexual relations, and only a great fool would choose but a BJ!

And you know he is not a great fool, and he knows that you know he is not a great fool, so clearly you cannot choose the one in front of you!
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders -- "Never go against a guy from Arkansas when fellatio is on the line!"  :P


Right....so anyway, back to the horse race.
Nate Silver continues to see a small momentum gain for Obama, now forecasting 303-235, and giving Romney just a 19.1% chance to win.
Intrade is somewhat more subdued, but still giving Obama a 2/3 chance to win.
RCP's projection is 290-248, not that far behind Silver's.

And Republicans continue to insist that the entire math of polls and projections are fundamentally flawed/skewed/biased and in the words of Karl Rove four years ago, "They've got their numbers and I've got the RIGHT numbers." He was wrong, and so are they.

A lot of people are going to very surprised by the election results.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7757 on: November 02, 2012, 10:57:17 am »
Quote from: Kon on November 02, 2012, 10:54:50 am
A lot of people are going to very surprised by the election results.

That's going to be a true statement regardless of who wins. *shrug*
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7758 on: November 02, 2012, 10:58:02 am »
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7759 on: November 02, 2012, 10:59:55 am »
I like how the crowd booed science than chanted "U-S-A"! Nationalism beats scholarship any day.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7760 on: November 02, 2012, 11:05:41 am »
We're AMURICA. Not even America can kill America, that wouldn't be American!
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7761 on: November 02, 2012, 11:07:52 am »
Quote from: Kon on November 02, 2012, 10:54:50 am
Quote from: RedKing on November 02, 2012, 07:28:12 am
Jesus H. Cristobal, what the herp is this derp? I leave for 8 hours of sleep, and find ten pages of....whatever the fuck that was.

Quote from: Descan on November 01, 2012, 10:57:23 pm
But neither can you choose the one in front of him, for he knows he never had sexual relations, and only a great fool would choose but a BJ!

And you know he is not a great fool, and he knows that you know he is not a great fool, so clearly you cannot choose the one in front of you!
You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders -- "Never go against a guy from Arkansas when fellatio is on the line!"  :P


Right....so anyway, back to the horse race.
Nate Silver continues to see a small momentum gain for Obama, now forecasting 303-235, and giving Romney just a 19.1% chance to win.
Intrade is somewhat more subdued, but still giving Obama a 2/3 chance to win.
RCP's projection is 290-248, not that far behind Silver's.

And Republicans continue to insist that the entire math of polls and projections are fundamentally flawed/skewed/biased and in the words of Karl Rove four years ago, "They've got their numbers and I've got the RIGHT numbers." He was wrong, and so are they.

A lot of people are going to very surprised by the election results.
Again, that's exactly what Karl Rove said in 2008. Himself being one of those people.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7762 on: November 02, 2012, 11:09:25 am »
Quote from: Karnewarrior on November 02, 2012, 11:05:41 am
We're AMURICA. Not even America can kill America, that wouldn't be American!

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7763 on: November 02, 2012, 11:16:31 am »
I see a distinct lack of NASCAR on that list. You commie pinko bastard.
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Quote from: MaximumZero on October 26, 2012, 11:28:55 pm
Remember, knowledge is power. The power to make other people feel stupid.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7764 on: November 02, 2012, 11:33:40 am »
Quote from: RedKing on November 02, 2012, 11:16:31 am
I see a distinct lack of NASCAR on that list. You commie pinko bastard.
NASCAR needs a whole song to itself just to fit all of the MURRKA in.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7765 on: November 02, 2012, 11:38:13 am »
Turnin' left
turnin' left
turnin' left
FUCK YEAHH!
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Quote from: MaximumZero on October 26, 2012, 11:28:55 pm
Remember, knowledge is power. The power to make other people feel stupid.
Quote from: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7766 on: November 02, 2012, 11:42:50 am »
Thing is though, the internet was surely invented by a number of people of several nationalities, wasn't it? And the guy who invented the world wide web was an Englishman.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7767 on: November 02, 2012, 11:47:59 am »
Internet was pretty much 100% American, developed by DARPA.

Mind you, it's one of those ideas that probably would have happened anyway, and they were obviously standing on the shoulders of giants (networks of other sorts already existed, but it could be said they were instrumental in developing that concept too)

The World Wide Web was a CERN thing though.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7768 on: November 02, 2012, 11:49:32 am »
Quote from: Owlbread on November 02, 2012, 11:42:50 am
Thing is though, the internet was surely invented by a number of people of several nationalities, wasn't it? And the guy who invented the world wide web was an Englishman.

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7769 on: November 02, 2012, 11:51:41 am »
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