Between the GOP and the Tea Party.
I’m not saying he’s running the Cobra Kai studio, I’m saying that his job is to instruct people on how to inflict damaging impacts on others via their feet. Nothing wrong with that. I took martial arts for years, and I enjoyed it. But you don’t have to be a intellectual giant to be pretty good. And as for moral development, I’d suggest that his beliefs make that unwise. Clothahump is as morally stunted as anyone you’re likely to find. He doesn’t possess nuance or subtle reasoning. He exists in a constant state of hyperbolic terror and anger.
I’m sure that Clothy’s ignorance and causal hate of everything left of Genghis Khan does roll over into his everyday life to some extent. But that said, he is probably harmless, except that he, and others similarly deficient, vote utter dipshits into power.
If the 2008 financial collapse didn’t convince those folks that trickle-down, gut regulation, stop taxing the rich economic policy doesn’t work - nothing is going to reach them.
Election day evening 2012. Dick Morris sort of still is saying that about Romney: https://twitter.com/DickMorrisTweet/status/265986482496495616
[QUOTE=Dick Morris on election day evening]
#election2012 so far I see nothing to disabuse me of the notion that Romney will win by a lot. Nothing to confirm it either
[/QUOTE]
Morris shifts his shtick around depending upon the audience. That’s all.
They were reporting on an interview that CBS News did on Oct. 16 but chose to release yesterday.
I am listening to Mitt Romney’s concession speech as I write this.
Lobohan is one of those Democrats that one hopes goes to the polls religiously to vote for the party and then never tells anyone else about it.
You wound me. But I’m pretty happy otherwise.
Woot.
As they say, reality has a liberal bias.
You don’t understand. This country is still solidly Republican; it’s just that the election oversampled Democrats.
Gallup was showing Romney with a slim lead last night, in a poll that accounted for turnout in its sampling. This from an organization that overestimated Obama’s margin in 2008 by 4 points.
Still, it is unfortunate you weren’t advising the Obama campaign. With your ironclad faith in certain polls, you would have told them to relax and just let things slide. Then you could all have taken in a football game and headed home at halftime, confident in the knowledge that the team winning at halftime was certain to win the game.
I think it should be fairly obvious that when the problem is epistemic closure, a dose of reality is an ineffective cure.
You still don’t understand how elections work. The popular vote is meaningless. Every single white person in the south could have voted for Romney and it wouldn’t have affected the outcome one iota.
Continue to believe Fox News and Unskewed Polls and Rush Limbaugh if you like, but you now know that they are full of shit and lie to you, while the New York Times was right all along.
Me, I prefer facts.
Seriously, Obama should have had you on board. He probably spent several million dollars campaigning last week, when the polls said it was totally unnecessary. All those ads, all that air travel - he could have been helping out with Sandy, or doing something productive. I am sure he would have welcomed someone of your talent and certitude.
Oh, it but it was productive…
Romney’s campaigning was also totally useless, as it turned out.
I take it Hyperelastic’s hopes for the Romney were grounded on the possibility that Obama would stop campaigning. :dubious: Seriously, how does, “Obama was winning during all of 2012”, imply, “Obama should have stopped campaigning at the last moment?”
That’s the problem with propaganda: you lose strategic focus once you start to believe in your own nonsense.
It doesn’t, unless you believe poll results have a perfect correlation with the election no matter what might happen between the poll and the election. Ask the OP about that.
Poll results could very well be a terrific predictor of the election, if historical patterns hold. Historical patterns imply that candidates don’t stop campaigning until the election is over.
The OP is fine. Conservatives are in a bubble. Mostly, they can hide and deny the outside world, but from time to time reality punches them in the nose.
Nate Silver is 99 out of 100 in his state predictions in the last two elections. He got every swing state right in this election. Not perfect, but I’ll take 99%.