The Last Election Thread

[Q Classic]

Here's The Economist's take.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Here's the real story with the electoral college map, though: it's not about point spread. The fact is, Obama's been doing nothing but gaining and gaining; the widening or narrowing of the spread has to do with who's picking up undecideds, not with Obama going up or down. So it seems to me the real question is, what's the EC total for the states in which Obama is over 50% -- that in, in which McCain can't catch him, because Obama's not losing votes? Right now that looks like 291 (the Kerry states plus IA, VA, NM, CO, and NV). And that's Game Over.

[Agathon]

Like a black guy being president is new, or something.

[Theben]

Originally posted by Mrs Snuggles
Well, to be fair, Khalidi is pro-Palestinian. And he does pal around with Palestinians.

I think it's safe to say that anyone who associated with Obama is a terrorist. Or votes for him.

[Q Classic]

As Jon Stewart pointed out, that's why we can't find Obama Obama Osama. After he destroyed the Twin Towers in Fake America, he was so overcome with shame at not hitting Real America, he went into hiding.

[GePap]

Originally posted by snoopy369


Gepap is a fellow Maroon???? How did I not know this?

Yeah, how could you possibly have missed that????

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Mrs. Firefly and I were talking about it last night, and we realized that, if Obama wins, there'll likely be a delicious irony to savor:

The GOP took control of Congress in 1994 vowing to shrink the size of the federal government. They didn't. Then Bush got "elected" in 2000 pledging to shrink the size of the federal government. He didn't. Then the GOP took control of the whole flipping government from 2002-2006; the federal government grew to awesome new proportions.

So?

Well, if Obama is elected, it will likely be because Virginia went Democrat for the first time in more than half a century. And if Virginia goes Democrat, it will be because of a massively disproportionate number of Democratic votes in Northern Virginia -- an area whose large and growing population is almost wholly dependent upon the ever-swelling federal bureaucracy.

Memo to the GOP: next time, a little more follow-through might help you guys out.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

In Montana, Ron Paul is on the ballot as the Montana Constitution Party Nominee.

Poll - Montana State U., 10/13-10/20

Obama: 44
McCain: 40
Paul: 4

[Barnabas]

Wan't Arizona democrat with Clinton? Why do they seem to prefer McCain?

[Q Classic]

It's his home state.

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Audience members escorted out of Sen. John McCain’s, R-Ariz., campaign event in Cedar Falls questioned why they were asked to leave Sunday’s rally even though they were not protesting.

David Zarifis, director of public safety for the University of Northern Iowa, said McCain staffers requested UNI police assist in escorting out “about four or five” people from the rally prior to McCain’s speech.

Zarifis said while the people who were taken out weren’t protesting or causing problems, McCain’s staff were worried they would during the speech.

“Apparently, they had been identified by those staffers as potential protesters within the event,” Zarifis said. “The facility was rented by the RNC for the McCain campaign, so it’s really a private facility for them. We assisted in their desires to have those people removed.”

Lara Elborno, a student at the University of Iowa, said she was approached by a police officer and a McCain staffer and was told she had to leave or she would be arrested for trespassing.

“It was a very confusing, very frustrating situation,” Elborno said. “I said that I had a right to be there, I wasn’t doing anything disruptive — I was sitting, waiting for the rally to start.”

She said McCain staffers wouldn’t tell her why she was being asked to leave and when she got outside, she saw “a group of about 20 people” who had all been asked to leave.

Elborno said after seeing the people who were asked to leave, she was concerned that McCain’s staffers were profiling people on appearance to determine who might be a potential protester.

“When I started talking to them, it kind of became clear that they were kind of just telling people to leave that they thought maybe would be disruptive, but based on what? Based on how they looked,” Elborno said. “It was pretty much all young people, the college demographic.”

Elborno said even McCain supporters were among those being asked to leave.

“I saw a couple that had been escorted out and they were confused as well, and the girl was crying, so I said ‘Why are you crying? and she said ‘I already voted for McCain, I’m a Republican, and they said we had to leave because we didn’t look right,’” Elborno said. “They were handpicking these people and they had nothing to go off of, besides the way the people looked.”

Elborno said while she has protested at events before, no plans were discussed beforehand for a protest and she shouldn’t have been taken out because she was not causing a disturbance.

“If I had been disruptive, then I would have deserved to be taken out,” Elborno said. “But at the time I was asked to leave, I wasn’t doing anything.”

Elborno said she’s stunned at how the situation was handled, especially McCain’s staffers’ refusal to discuss the matter.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” she said.

Despite repeated attempts, McCain’s campaign could not be reached for comment.

[Q Classic]

McCain/Palin '08

[Ecthy]

Oh come on TEF, who's to say you didn't just write that down all by yourself?

[Boris Godunov]

Is Louisiana now in play?

http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=9267259&ClientType=Printable

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (LOUISIANA)

MCCAIN: 43%
OBAMA: 40%
UNDECIDED/WON'T SAY: 17%
MARGIN OF ERROR: +/- 4.5%

Okay, I'm getting greedy.

[KrazyHorse]