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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 771609 times)

Nadaka

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7995 on: November 05, 2012, 11:52:17 am »

If there was one way I could not be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, it would be by quoting pokemon. And that reminds me of a deeply moving song I once heard, I believe from a pokemon movie...
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« Reply #7996 on: November 05, 2012, 11:54:11 am »

Well between that and his Sim City tax plan he must've completely sewn up the too-young-to-vote demographic.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #7997 on: November 05, 2012, 11:55:33 am »

I'm worried that Obama will get re-elected, and then Congress will drive over the fiscal cliff.
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« Reply #7998 on: November 05, 2012, 11:56:33 am »

Herman Cain is on The Daily Show semi-occasionally playing the part of hypothetical President Cain. They give him various situations and have him speech it up for them. And generally it's hilarious. I'm not sure about him as president... but seriously, someone give that man a tv show.
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« Reply #7999 on: November 05, 2012, 12:28:40 pm »

Herman Cain is on The Daily Show semi-occasionally playing the part of hypothetical President Cain. They give him various situations and have him speech it up for them. And generally it's hilarious. I'm not sure about him as president... but seriously, someone give that man a tv show.

Do you ever wish sometimes though that he was actually a decent candidate? I think he'd be great if... well, if he was great.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8000 on: November 05, 2012, 12:46:29 pm »

Herman Cain is on The Daily Show semi-occasionally playing the part of hypothetical President Cain. They give him various situations and have him speech it up for them. And generally it's hilarious. I'm not sure about him as president... but seriously, someone give that man a tv show.

Do you ever wish sometimes though that he was actually a decent candidate? I think he'd be great if... well, if he was great.
Yeah, the sad thing is that for the republicans for a while he was a serious and decent candidate.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8001 on: November 05, 2012, 01:01:45 pm »

Herman Cain was- as another member of this forum coined, I am not sure who or when- truly hilarifying.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8002 on: November 05, 2012, 01:11:51 pm »

My only concern is that if Obama supporters are too confident in his victory and the Republicans deploy some voting shenanigans in key locations, Romney could get into office. Whether he's freezing kids at rallies or not.

Republicans have been deploying shenanigans in over a dozen states all year.
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« Reply #8003 on: November 05, 2012, 01:19:20 pm »

Map of poll closing times for future reference, all times listed as EST.

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8004 on: November 05, 2012, 01:24:39 pm »

I would just like to state that we should really keep the polls open until 10:00 at the least.
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« Reply #8005 on: November 05, 2012, 01:27:21 pm »

Hell, I'd move voting to Monday and make election day a national holiday, and make mail-in balloting legal in all 50 states.
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« Reply #8006 on: November 05, 2012, 01:28:54 pm »

I'm worried that Obama will get re-elected, and then Congress will drive over the fiscal cliff.

I'm not buying that argument. Romney / Ryan tax cuts will eat up any savings they manage to implement.

And "austerity" has worked, so, so, well for Europe. All that can really achieve is pushing more people onto food stamps and medicaid.

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« Reply #8007 on: November 05, 2012, 01:29:58 pm »

Horribly, it's possible that long-run the best thing that could happen for American politics is for Romney to win and Congress to stall its way into imploding.
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@Footjob, you can microwave most grains I've tried pretty easily through the microwave, even if they aren't packaged for it.

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« Reply #8008 on: November 05, 2012, 01:30:29 pm »

Hell, I'd move voting to Monday and make election day a national holiday, and make mail-in balloting legal in all 50 states.
Holiday elections have not produced significant results in areas that they have been tested, and mail-in balloting sounds like it would be kind of difficult with that whole thing about your ballot being secret and anonymous.
And "austerity" has worked, so, so, well for Europe. All that can really achieve is pushing more people onto food stamps and medicaid.
Which we can then use to justify abolishing food stamps and medicaid! Brilliant!
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8009 on: November 05, 2012, 01:36:06 pm »

The one thing you can say about Romney is that he has a plan of action. The Obama administration had to squeeze their "plan" out after the third debate, and this is a guy who's in the hot seat for four years. And he publishes his plan after being hectored about having no plans.

So it's Romney going in for the big win tomorrow! Big win. You heard it here first.
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