Your vote can decide who will be the 44th President of the United States! If you are an American, don’t forget to VOTE today if you haven’t already!
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ACORN motto: Vote early and vote often! Go Obama!
This is a very funny political video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
Hey Susan!
Who are you going to vote for?
Ok – picky – so maybe he meant somewhere round 47.
Sounds like you’ll be voting for the book-burning, enemy of science, SP.
You have a choice between book burner and the man who loves “the little red book”.
Man, are we screwed or what?
I am moving to Hungary.
Don’t forget the other candidates besides Republicrats.
do not repeat the Bush mistake; enough with the neo-cons!
vote obama
I take it screwdriver is being sarcastic about the move to Hungary.
The USA toxic financial waste has bankrupted Hungary which is sleeping with the IMF now.
Don’t think Obama is in ‘little red book’ land, or anywhere near.
He wants more people in the USA to enjoy the benefits of a prosperous country. What puzzles me is why so many in the relatively unprosperous mid-West continue to vote Republican.
Is the flag Republican? Is God Republican?
Die-hard Republicans have my permission to forget to vote.
To “acorn”. The Republicans steal elections by making ridiculous accusations of voter fraud in order to eliminate many thousands of legitimate voters. For example Florida in 2000 was stolen by hiring a firm to eliminate felons from the rolls. They eliminated more than 100,000 non-felons in the process, mostly African-Americans thus successfully stealing the 2000 election.
The scandal involving Alberto Gonzalez firing U.S. attorneys was primarily due to his firing honest Republican Attorney Generals like David Iglesias, because they refused to go after so-called voter fraud because there was no evidence of it.
There has never been a petition to get propositions or candidates or registrations done, by Republicans or Democrats that has not had blatantly phony or otherwise invalid signatures. That is why those signatures are always checked before registrations or petition signatures are validated.
Acorn has a policy of pre-screening there registration signatures and submitting those they consider phony in separate envelopes with explanations of why they have questions. In most states it is actually illegal to NOT submit these signatures, even if they have obviously phony names like Mickey Mouse.
What happens is that Republican officials then take the registration forms that Acorn has flagged as probably phony and leaking them to the press, claiming that Acorn is trying to defraud.
The Republicans use these phony accusations to try to suppress legitimate vote in many states. This year in Ohio they tried to force people who had mismatches between their voter registrations and car registrations to be forced to cast provisional ballots. The huge majority of these cases involved clerks mispelling names or addresses or leaving out middle initials. Ironically Joe the Plumber would have been disqualified for voting as well because his name was mispelled on his car registration. Fortunately the courts decided against this attempt at disenfranchising voters
Obama FTW!
Democrats will try to steal the election, as they typically have.
Remember when Gore tried to disqualify the many thousands of Armed Forces votes coming from overseas to Florida? Such a patriot he is. Remember how the Dems stole the Gubernatorial election in Washington state? You have to watch them closely or they will steal everything that’s not nailed town.
Obama supporters blocking doors to voting sites in Philly. Shame on the Dems. SHAME !!!!!
Obama will win
Fortune Teller
I agree with fabrizio.
The video in comment 2/3 is of Obama saying last spring he’d visited “57 states…1 more to go…wasn’t allowed to visit Alaska or Hawaii.” He meant 47 states.
To be equal with the skewering, here’s a video from last month of McCain addressing Americans as “My Fellow Prisoners”. A similar brain-blip to Obama’s, I think.
Which brings me to my point: I have observed that the overwhelming majority of unprompted material in political comments here has been negative against Obama or Democrats/liberals in general. By “unprompted” I mean: not in reply to another comment or to Susan’s post or even in context. For example, last Saturday’s Open Forum led with two such unprompted negative posts, which then prompted some Obama supporters to reply. Can anyone even find me an article here whose comments lead off with a shot at McCain or Palin? (Actually, a professor and a recent PhD graduate and chess fan here tell me that our data-mining group has been automating similar tasks already.)
As a Math-CS-Stats person, this big a disparity—in a non-political blog—interests me as a phenomenon. I don’t know if all these anonymous postings have come from just a few sources, but if not, then they become part of a body of evidence for the following hypothesis:
Republicans/conservatives are more emotionally invested per-capita in their party identity than are Democrats/liberals.
One reason this strikes me is that growing up in the 1960s/1970s I had the opposite impression: that liberals were the party of emotion and personality/character, “Flower Power” and the like. But less so now—even Jerry Brown got serious. Where are the unilateral-disarmament lie-ins of yesteryear? OK, the left still has plenty of “green” emotion, but nothing like the charged atmosphere of right-wing talk radio. And what I was actually talking about with the two “senior colleagues” I mentioned here is my further belief that this negative emotion is actively stoked as a marketing campaign. I take a more economic/sociological view of the main substantive argument in my schoolmate David Brock’s book Blinded by the Right. (NB: I’d also be interested in a reply to the thesis of this book, as opposed to ad-hominem trashing of its author and egotistical style. And since Brock now heads Media Matters For America expressly as one side of the media-bias conversation, this is relevant to the discussion about bias I had starting here in the above thread.)
Conservatives retort that liberals are equally negative and venomous, and I certainly see the latter at places like Wonkette and DailyKos, but I find an important structural difference. Our liberals deprecate and deplore; our conservatives bash and belittle. The difference is that while the former says `I am superior to you‘—as well attested by cries of elitism and snobbery—the latter conveys that `you are superior to them.’ And this difference IMHO explains why “Rush/Rove-ism” markets well and “Frankenism” doesn’t.
Finally to revisit my discussion with Susan about Obama’s VP selection, I must concede and give Obama credit for making Virginia evidently more favorable than Florida or Ohio, even without my urge to choose VA Gov. Kaine as VP. If Obama wins VA on top of the Kerry states + IA,CO,NM,NV for 291 electoral votes, then he could even afford to lose Pennsylvania’s 21 votes. This also credits his “fifty-state strategy”. I think only FL, OH, and NC are true tossups, and my reading of early-voting #s and Monday’s polls tells me all 3 states will go narrowly to McCain. If Obama wins all 3 and wins or makes GA + IN whisper-close, then his “ground game” will really have made a difference too.
It’s so confusing the way the news media has got the red and blue states backwards.
You’ll find more information at the excellent election history site http://www.uselectionatlas.org, than you will in all today’s news reports put together. And they’ve always used blue for Republican, Red for Democrat. And were doing it that way before the news media started doing it backwards.