Jump to content

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 474
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Posted
My dorm is already bracing for Nov. 2. We're collecting vodka and beer.

I'm already stocking up on canned goods and shotgun shells myself...

 

 

Short of a decisive (5-10% OR 80-electoral vote) victory, NO ONE will be happy with the results of this election.

 

The question is what people will do if they feel that they got screwed.

 

EDIT-

 

WHOOPS... those are my November 3 supplies.

 

My November 2 supplies include a blender, ice, two large bottles of Hurricane mix, and a large assortment of alcohol.

Posted

Election-related wagers!

 

Will Kerry win a county in any of the following states:

 

Alaska

Utah

Wyoming

Nebraska

 

Will Bush win any counties in Massachusetts?

 

Which state will have the largest "ticket-splitting"?

 

my picks

 

Oklahoma (Carson/Coburn)

Illinois (Keyes/Obama)

Alaska (Knowles/Murkowski)

Ohio (Voinovich has no real struggle for re-election)

 

Which third party candidates will finish with over 1%? (In the Pres. race, and Senate races)

 

here's the Election Night Timeline:

 

http://uselectionatlas.org/INFORMATION/ART...ecnighttime.php

 

I predict they call Utah for Bush about 5 minutes after the polls close

 

and Iowa closing the polls at 9pm is very odd, considering the polls close here at 7pm

Posted
I think Bush will win  I think Bush will win comfortably, I do not begin to believe he has an 8 point lead.

Man, you have your head up your ass even more than the other talking points issue-spouting right-wing Internet Partisans do. They're at least strongly considering the possibility of another neck and neck race.

 

But then again, Gallup paints an even rosier picture than you do, so I have to give you credit for that.

Just checking --- do you ever have a FUCKING POINT to your bitchy blathering?

-=Mike

Posted

from the Pew poll:

 

229-4.gif

 

16 concerns of the swing voters are closer to the concerns of the Kerry voters by a 12-2 margin

 

the "unsure" voters leaning closer to the POVs of the Kerry voters isn't a great sign for Bush.

 

the average concerns of all 3 groups

 

Economy - 78%

Terrorism - 77%

Jobs - 76%

Education - 76%

Health Care - 73%

 

--

 

maybe there's an inner workings or a sign with the swing. Maybe we'll drink ourselves into a stupor

 

12 campaign days left

 

anything is possible

 

and 11 days left until we can stop hearing the phrase "October Surprise"

Posted
Which state will have the largest "ticket-splitting"?

Don't forget PA -- that is if you count Wacky Arlen as a Republican...

Aren't there Kerry/Specter signs in places around PA?

 

Why on Earth did Bush campaign for that douche?

-=Mike

...Toomey would've been a MUCH better choice than the RINO...

Posted
Aren't there Kerry/Specter signs in places around PA?

Philadelphia Daily News, 10/20/04

 

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/l.../9963962.htm?1c

 

The mystery of the John Kerry-Arlen Specter lawn signs in Northeast Philadelphia is solved.

 

They're indeed the work of national Republican consultant Roger Stone, who has worked with Specter in the past. Specter campaign manager Christopher Nicholas said yesterday that he called Stone last weekend and asked him to put an end to the campaign.

 

"I made the call Saturday morning," Nicholas said. "We asked him to stop and he agreed."

 

Nicholas said that Specter opposes independent advocacy organizations - so-called 527 groups - and that the campaign knew nothing of the controversial signs until it got calls from the media. Nicholas said he learned of Stone's involvement from the Daily News.

 

The signs appeared in Northeast Philadelphia about a week ago, apparently linking Specter, Pennsylvania's Republican incumbent U.S. senator, with Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee.

 

The signs read "Kerry & Specter for Working Families."

 

A notation on the signs said they were paid for by the Philadelphia Education Project, a political group registered three weeks ago to Carla Bartz, a woman associated with Republican attacks in a Florida election, and Gary Parenti, a Democratic operative from New York with ties to Stone.

 

Stone is a former business partner of Craig Snyder, a former Specter aide who formed an independent group last spring to place ads on Christian radio in central Pennsylvania attacking Specter's primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Pat Toomey, as being soft on abortion.

 

Nicholas said the Specter campaign had known nothing of that effort either, and Snyder said yesterday he had been unaware of Stone's work on the Kerry-Specter signs until he saw media reports.

 

Snyder said he and Stone, who were partners in Washington-based IKON Public Relations, haven't worked together for about three years.

 

Specter's primary opponent, U.S. Rep. Joe Hoeffel, said it was insufficient for Specter to quietly request that Stone desist.

 

"When these signs appeared a week ago, he should have publicly stood up and disowned it," Hoeffel said yesterday. "This is campaign trickery. He's not supporting John Kerry for president. He's trying to have it both ways, and get the benefit of these signs."

 

*shrug*

 

it's one of those weird deals.

 

Why on Earth did Bush campaign for that douche?

 

Because he was more likely to win than Toomey.

 

Moderate Republicans in the Northeast are very hard to beat.

 

Toomey would've been a MUCH better choice than the RINO

 

Especially if you want Hoeffel to win the election.

 

Feel free to gut the moderate wing of the party and replace them with Conservatives. Those four Senate seats (Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Spector) weren't being used much anyways, so they'll be much better in the hands of the Democratic party. :lol:

Posted

Going with realclearpolitics.com's state poll averages:

 

Bush is up in FL, not Kerry.

Bush is up in WI, not Kerry.

Kerry's lead in NM is less than a point.

OH is a tie.

-=Mike

Posted
Going with realclearpolitics.com's state poll averages:

 

Bush is up in FL, not Kerry.

Bush is up in WI, not Kerry.

Kerry's lead in NM is less than a point.

OH is a tie.

-=Mike

RCP has FL and WI as tossups on their map. Basically, neither man is officially up

 

A one point lead for the incumbent right now is not that secure.

Posted

Go Favre! :D

 

(nah.. that thing is a weird coincidence)

 

Won't RCP drop the polls which started last Thursday when they update tomorrow?

 

if so, that drops at least some of the following polls

 

Newsweek (10/14-10/15): 50-44 Bush

Time (10/14-10/15): 48-47 Bush

Gallup (10/14-10/16): 52-44 Bush

CBS News (10/14-10/17): 47-45 Bush

Harris (10/14-10/17): 49.5-44.5 Bush

 

Without those 5 polls, the RCP is 47.8-46 Bush, instead of 48.5-44.5 Bush

 

But we'll see how the daily trackers swing and so on

Posted

As for E-V..

 

that's very unstable

 

but I've used the EV spreadsheet to estimate the national popular vote

 

Each state has a percentage of the popular vote.

 

I'm using the 2000 percentage (which is very similar to the 1992 and 1996 percentages)

 

I multiply the candidate's state number by the percentage

 

Example:

 

According to the poll they have up (a Survey USA poll)

 

Kerry has 50 percent in Florida

Bush has 49 percent in Florida

 

Multiply that by 0.056566734

 

Which comes out as follows

 

Kerry: 2.8283367

Bush: 2.77177

 

those are the percentages of their popular vote from Florida

 

You add all those up and you get a national percentage

 

The current percentage using this formula is

 

Kerry: 47.15%

Bush: 46.88%

Nader: 0.53%

Undecided/Other: 5.43%

Posted

Can John Kerry technically be the most consistently liberal senator and yet not consistent at all?

Posted

I'm dropping this in here

 

http://slate.msn.com/id/2108379

 

and the sound file: http://img.slate.msn.com/media/52/jkhaiti.asf

 

Kerry Speaks French

But does anyone know what he said?

By Chris Suellentrop

Updated Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004, at 12:24 PM PT

 

ORLANDO—Let's see: Your opponent is characterizing you as an effete internationalist willing to "turn America's national security decisions over to international bodies or leaders of other countries." In particular, he suggests, in all seriousness, that you want to call up Jacques Chirac for permission before deploying the military. At the Republican National Convention, you were portrayed as a beret-wearing poodle named "Fifi Kerry." How should you defend yourself against these slanders?

 

By speaking French on the stump, of course. Click here to hear John Kerry's foray into the language of Paris during a Monday rally here. I wasn't watching Kerry on stage when he made his remarks, but from the context he appears to have seen someone from Haiti and decided to acknowledge the person in his or her native tongue.

 

What does Kerry say? My knowledge of French is limited to the lyrics to "Lady Marmalade," so I consulted my friend John Wilkerson, a Washington journalist and French speaker. He translates the first part as, "You're Haitian? OK," but says the rest sounded like gibberish. "I think at that point he was just a character on Saturday Night Live," Wilkerson says.

 

Readers? Can anyone make it out? Post your explanations, serious or otherwise, in the Fray. Slug them "Kerry's French translation."

 

Scotland's Sunday Herald called Kerry's French fluency a "campaign secret" yesterday. Looks like the secret is out. Here's some suggested spin for the Kerry campaign: He wasn't speaking French. He was speaking Freedom.

 

Update, 10/19/04: According to the New York Times, Agence France-Presse, and bazillions of readers, Kerry said, "Je vais aider les Haitiens," which means, "I will help the Haitians." Sticklers say Kerry mispronounced both "Haiti" and "Haitians," which caused several people to think he said, "I will help the states." Canadians said they had the easiest time understanding Kerry, since they're used to listening to American-accented French.

 

Assessments of Kerry's accent ranged from "impeccable" to "good" to "mediocre" to "abominable" to "better than Bush's Texas-twinged Spanglish." One correspondent wrote, "It sounds more like, 'I'm going to help the Chechens!' "

 

My favorite fanciful translation: "I have a plan to learn French."

Posted

Ah, a Gallup is in Bush's family lineage.

 

Explains that away. :)

-=Mike

Posted

How is a 3 point Kerry lead considered a deadlock?

 

That's like being someone saying you are involved in a traffic jam when the jam is behind you.

 

With the pro-challenger split of undecided voters, a Kerry lead is not good for Bush

 

AP Poll: Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat

Reuters Poll: Bush Grabs One-Point Lead on Kerry

 

Somebody needs to get a standard for headlines. But that would require the media change their templates.

Please sign in to comment

You will be able to leave a comment after signing in



Sign In Now

×
×
  • Create New...