# I can hardly stand the suspense!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [November 5, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943 "2012-11-05T09:58:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_nice_guy_with_an_opinion)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/1 "2012-11-05T09:58:58Z")
Knowing Romney wants to attack women’s lady parts like they are unholy creations of the devil, and destroy the good bond between the parties that has BIPARTISAN bills flowing through smooth as silk, how can anyone not vote for Obama and revenge?
We owe it to all the uppity 1% and their 53% friends.
Dang…I can’t believe how I would feel if I was an Obamaniac and this was out platform.
Fail!
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/2 "2012-11-05T11:36:28Z")
> [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](#):
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> Fail!
You saved me the time.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/3 "2012-11-05T11:47:15Z")
Rants–even rants with an election them–go in The BBQ Pit.
So moved.
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/4 "2012-11-05T11:58:14Z")
Now that it’s here, could someone explain who or what he’s ranting about?
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/5 "2012-11-05T11:58:31Z")
> [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](#):
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> Dang…I can’t believe how I would feel if I was an Obamaniac and this was out platform.
What, war crimes, attacking the Sixth Amendment and protecting torturers isn’t enough for you to question voting for Obama?
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/6 "2012-11-05T12:19:20Z")
> [@Grumman](#):
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> What, war crimes, attacking the Sixth Amendment and protecting torturers isn’t enough for you to question voting for Obama?
In the United States, we have a choice between two (major party) candidates. I choose the one who I agree with more often, and who I believe will leave the country in better shape then his opponent. It doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything or support everything he does.
It’s not that complicated.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/7 "2012-11-05T12:30:14Z")
> [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](#):
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> Dang…I can’t believe how I would feel if I was an Obamaniac and this was out platform.
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> Fail!
Dude, if you sincerly believe that voting for Romney will fix every little thing for you, then knock yourself out. The incessant taunting, however, does not become you.
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### Author:  [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/8 "2012-11-05T12:53:54Z")
I’m not sure what \*would \*become him. Maybe some finger casts.
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/9 "2012-11-05T12:55:08Z")
Wouldn’t it be 52% friends? I mean it is technically accurate that the 1% are a subset of the 53%, but then your sentence is a little redundant.
In fact, assuming that corporations are people, quite a few of the top 1% income earners are in the 47% of Americans that don’t have net liabilities to the fed.
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### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/10 "2012-11-05T13:30:55Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#):
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> Wouldn’t it be 52% friends? I mean it is technically accurate that the 1% are a subset of the 53%, but then your sentence is a little redundant.
There was rounding involved.
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/11 "2012-11-05T13:42:50Z")
> [@A\_nice\_guy\_with\_an\_opinion](#):
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> Knowing Romney wants to attack women’s lady parts like they are unholy creations of the devil, and destroy the good bond between the parties that has BIPARTISAN bills flowing through smooth as silk, how can anyone not vote for Obama and revenge?
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> We owe it to all the uppity 1% and their 53% friends.
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> Dang…I can’t believe how I would feel if I was an Obamaniac and this was out platform.
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> Fail!
Yes, so much better to [take the high road](http://news.yahoo.com/paul-ryan-says-obama-compromise-judeo-christian-western-045635969--abc-news-politics.html), like Paul Ryan.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/12 "2012-11-05T13:50:02Z")
I find the whole last-minute “revenge” motif that Romney is running with pretty bizarre. Is this really motivating the right-wing to vote? The fact that Obama used the word revenge in relatively benign off-the-cuff comments?
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/13 "2012-11-05T13:52:17Z")
You use what you have.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/14 "2012-11-05T13:55:02Z")
> [@Revtim](#):
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> You use what you have.
And my question is why they think this is the best they have. Even recycled Benghazi fables would seem to be more visceral and effective.
But maybe the notion that Obama wants revenge is so vague and threatening that every crazy reads his own nutjob fantasy onto it?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/15 "2012-11-05T13:57:46Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Dude, if you sincerly believe that voting for Romney will fix every little thing for you, then knock yourself out. The incessant taunting, however, does not become you.
Actually, it becomes him quite well. It’s a step up, in fact.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/16 "2012-11-05T13:58:26Z")
Its all in the Magic Box. Prosperity for everybody! World peace because everybody will shut up and do what we tell them, or else. Sorry, can’t tell you what’s inside the Magic Box, because the other guys will tell you its not true. Trust me, I’m Mitt Isuzu, and you have my word on it!
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/17 "2012-11-05T14:13:08Z")
> [@Richard\_Parker](#):
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> I find the whole last-minute “revenge” motif that Romney is running with pretty bizarre. Is this really motivating the right-wing to vote? The fact that Obama used the word revenge in relatively benign off-the-cuff comments?
Hell, he was telling people not to boo Romney when he said that. Mitt should be thanking him.
😃
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Its all in the Magic Box. Prosperity for everybody! World peace because everybody will shut up and do what we tell them, or else. Sorry, can’t tell you what’s inside the Magic Box, because the other guys will tell you its not true. Trust me, I’m Mitt Isuzu, and you have my word on it!
That’s OK; we already know it’s either a live or dead cat.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/18 "2012-11-05T14:15:15Z")
I’m really glad to be working the polls tomorrow. Anybody tries to discuss various candidates or issues all day, I get to tell them it is against the law to solicit votes in the precinct. I even get to tell people they have to turn their Obama or Romney T-shirts inside out before coming in. Blessed, blessed anti-campaigning rules.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/19 "2012-11-05T14:16:39Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> That’s OK; we already know it’s either a live or dead cat.
That depends on whether it’s been burnt or not.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-can-hardly-stand-the-suspense/639943/20 "2012-11-05T14:39:28Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> Now that it’s here, could someone explain who or what he’s ranting about?
I think it’s one of the new shows, called _Revenge_. I haven’t seen it, but IIRC, there’s some chick on Long Island killing people. Maybe her name is Sandy or something.
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