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March 16, 2012

March 2012 Presidential Projection
— CAC

Since I know you can't get enough of those sweet, sweet maps, and I feel like a giver today, here's this month's edition of the AOSHQ Presidential Projection.
Map courtesy (as always) of JohnE.

Since I have plans this evening, I will keep my comments brief. I used Mitt Romney as the Republican candidate as he looks likely to win the nomination. He was flying high before the ritual beating-about-each-others-testicles-until-sterile we call a primary. Not so much anymore. Behold, the last of this week's big maps (and yes, before the gnashing of teeth begins, it is a big map. So no whining. It's a special day today. Jerry Lewis turns 100):

Posted by: CAC at 04:08 PM | Comments (192)
Post contains 119 words, total size 1 kb.

Kids don't know formatting, now-a-days.

Damn punks!

Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2012 04:31 PM (4pSIn)

2 I do not like this giant map
It does not make me want to fap

Posted by: Waterseuss at March 16, 2012 04:32 PM (b85s+)

3 Boned.

Posted by: that guy that always thinks we're boned at March 16, 2012 04:32 PM (GTbGH)

4 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at March 16, 2012 04:33 PM (7W3wI)

5 Neither Romney nor Santorum are our closest and strongest allies.

Posted by: President Pants on Fire at March 16, 2012 04:36 PM (eHIJJ)

6 Virginia: It's the new Ohio.

...which itself was the new Florida.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at March 16, 2012 04:38 PM (QxGmu)

7 Not this shit again!

Posted by: Tami at March 16, 2012 04:38 PM (X6akg)

8 the professional pubbies are going to fuck it up again, mark my words.

Posted by: The Deej at March 16, 2012 04:40 PM (do/nJ)

9 There are 538 voters in the electoral college. You may now continue.

Posted by: @SOEarpiece at March 16, 2012 04:40 PM (GTbGH)

10 "CAC's Current Projections." What good is a projection that changes all the time?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:41 PM (niZvt)

11 Jerry Lewis is 100? Are you kidding?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 16, 2012 04:41 PM (USOfC)

12 CAC....you mappy headed bro.

Posted by: Tami at March 16, 2012 04:41 PM (X6akg)

13 I actually think this is very good news. Sure, it would be better if Romney were ahead by a wide margin, but given that the only politics most people see right now is Republicans badmouthing each other, I'll take Romney basically even with Obama and be happy.

Don't forget that the more people see of Obama, the less they like him. That'a a big change from 2008. He can't hide on vacation during the fall.

Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 04:42 PM (6TB1Z)

14 Yeah, I get my state of Arkansas, and the surrounding states, but somebody explain Alaska to me.

Posted by: maddogg at March 16, 2012 04:42 PM (bIH06)

15 What good is a projection that changes all the time? Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 08:41 PM (niZvt) Because... you're old.

Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 04:42 PM (rWpx8)

16 Try 86

Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 16, 2012 04:42 PM (USOfC)

17 Our current projection is 5 mA.

Posted by: 5 Volts and a 1 kOhm resistor at March 16, 2012 04:43 PM (b85s+)

18 Obama will not win. Not that I am cheering from the rafters for Mitt or anything, but I think that a win will still happen, just not a Taco Bell the morning after a night of heavy drinking blowout.

Shame really, as I think a blowout would have sent a nice message, but knocking the bum out will have to suffice, even if Mitt is less than a dimes worth of difference from Obama...

Posted by: Ravendark at March 16, 2012 04:43 PM (T6sAm)

19 Jerry Lewis was born March 16, 1926; he's 86.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:44 PM (niZvt)

20 Florida and NC are darker red that you sez. Ditto Indiana.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 16, 2012 04:44 PM (Dll6b)

21 *buries head in sand until November*

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 04:44 PM (/izg2)

22 Happy Birthday CAC

! ! ! ! !

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 04:44 PM (P6QsQ)

23 I would like to take the opportunity to note to you damn Yankees that there are NO ZERO states in the South. Suck on that bitches!

Posted by: maddogg at March 16, 2012 04:45 PM (bIH06)

somebody explain Alaska to me

Alaska is our northernmost state, bordering Canada on the east, with Aleutian Islands extending to the international date line.

You may continue.

Posted by: the Soledad O'Brien Experience at March 16, 2012 04:45 PM (4pSIn)

25 My current projection is Reagan defeats Carter in a landslide.

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:45 PM (niZvt)

26 Well, looks like we lose our freedoms permanently. I've been packing up my stuff just in case anyway. It'll make abandoning everything come November much easier.

Posted by: Inspector Asshole at March 16, 2012 04:46 PM (AGhD+)

27 I don't think Wisconsin is as blue as you think it is.

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 04:46 PM (P6QsQ)

28 26 I would like to take the opportunity to note to you damn Yankees that there are NO ZERO states in the South.

What? You mean Virginia isn't in the south? Damn!

Posted by: The Army of Northern Virginia at March 16, 2012 04:46 PM (6TB1Z)

29 Oh my!

Posted by: Larry Craig at March 16, 2012 04:46 PM (/izg2)

30 I think Romney can take Virginia, Nevada, Hew Hampshire and Wisconsin.

Posted by: lowandslow at March 16, 2012 04:47 PM (GZitp)

31 uh oh, it's big again.

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:47 PM (TomZ9)

32 Minnesota morons, I wanna ask, WTF is wrong up there? I've been there many times on business. Everyone I've dealt with seems coherent and not given to a radical left view. Why do you insist on sending the US down the crapper?

Posted by: dogfish at March 16, 2012 04:47 PM (N2yhW)

33 Obama will lose by a significant margin.

Posted by: steevy at March 16, 2012 04:47 PM (7W3wI)

34 Alaska is our northernmost state,bordering Canada on the east, with Aleutian Islands extending to the international date line.

Her principle exports are hot governor's, crabs, and for some reason, Discovery film crews.

Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 04:48 PM (6TB1Z)

35

The only presidential projection I can make with any confidence for 2012 is that Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: His Royal Assholiness at March 16, 2012 04:48 PM (M+UUq)

36 Probably shouldn't have had that apostrophe in the word governor's and before crabs.

Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 04:48 PM (6TB1Z)

37 Another TROLOLOLmap, I see

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (QTHTd)

38 So it all comes down to Virginia?
Urgh.

Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (VE1KN)

39 34 uh oh, it's big again. Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 08:47 PM (TomZ9) Yes, just like being with a Chinese girl. 30 minutes later...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (niZvt)

40 cac, young swell, now get of my lawn.

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (TomZ9)

41 The DC power grab is/has turned Virginia blue. Which is very hard to overcome.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (ZPrif)

42 Minnesota morons, I wanna ask, WTF is wrong up there? I've been there many times on business. Everyone I've dealt with seems coherent and not given to a radical left view. Why do you insist on sending the US down the crapper?
Posted by: dogfish at March 16, 2012 08:47 PM

It's the Skandis. They're basically socialists. And those damn farmers.

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (P6QsQ)

43 Jerry Lewis, Mitt Romney and me are all Pisces. We are sensitive souls in a world of insensitive f'ers...

Posted by: @ParisParamus at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (e3MsJ)

44 Polls now are useless. I know this, because I am very old, and have seen It All

In Aug 99, Bush was leading Gore by twenty points. Twenty. The CW is that an incumbent below 50% among registered voters is in Deep Sh-t, because all of the undecided will either not vote or vote against him

in a Crap Economy, this is especially true; ask Jimmy Carter

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at March 16, 2012 04:49 PM (Dll6b)

>>*buries head in sand until November*

I'm annoyed that the primaries aren't totally decided by the time I get to vote on 3/24.

*lifts head out of sand briefly to glare*

Posted by: Mama AJ at March 16, 2012 04:50 PM (XdlcF)

Posted by: The Army of Northern Virginia at March 16, 2012 08:46 PM (6TB1Z)

DC has ruined Virginia, so no, not part of the South anymore. You can have em.

Posted by: maddogg at March 16, 2012 04:50 PM (bIH06)

47 37 Alaska is our northernmost state,bordering Canada on the east, with Aleutian Islands extending to the international date line. Her principle exports are hot governor's, crabs, and for some reason, Discovery film crews. Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 08:48 PM (6TB1Z) Hot goverors with crabs?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:50 PM (niZvt)

48 46 Jerry Lewis, Mitt Romney and me are all Pisces. We are sensitive souls in a world of insensitive f'ers...

Posted by: @ParisParamus at March 16, 2012 08:49 PM (e3MsJ)

And I should give shit, why?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2012 04:51 PM (xKC/c)

49 You think THIS one's bad? You shoulda seen last night's.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 04:51 PM (gre5a)

50 Obama will lose by a significant margin.

Posted by: steevy at March 16, 2012 08:47 PM (7W3wI)

from your lips...

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:51 PM (TomZ9)

51 @50
see my 39. One of my lesser moments.

Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 04:52 PM (6TB1Z)

Posted by: Georgetown U Law Tarts at March 16, 2012 08:51 PM (vbh31)

I don't know, but I been told: Eskimo pussy is mighty cold.....

Posted by: maddogg at March 16, 2012 04:53 PM (bIH06)

53 OMG that map is fucking huge

Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 04:53 PM (VE1KN)

54 How the hell is Conn only lean D?

Posted by: Ryan at March 16, 2012 04:53 PM (O1yJZ)

55 This so-called map is bullshit. Looks like it came from DU.

Posted by: Barbed Wire Wrapped Pineapple at March 16, 2012 04:53 PM (EL+OC)

56 I really cannot forsee how Obama can be reelected. If he is, I guess Presidential performance no longer matters. Except, I suppose, to Michelle when her head is banging the bedboard...

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 04:54 PM (niZvt)

57 OT but the new South Park TSA episode comes on at 9.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 16, 2012 04:54 PM (piMMO)

58 usually I lean forwards

Posted by: Conn at March 16, 2012 04:54 PM (Dll6b)

59 Skandis, huh? You'd think MN would be all over the R party. We love global warming and that makes MN the next sunshine state. Move over FL.

Posted by: dogfish at March 16, 2012 04:54 PM (N2yhW)

60 Wait - it's little.

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 04:54 PM (P6QsQ)

61 DC has ruined Virginia, so no, not part of the South anymore. You can have em.

We elected McDonnell, so don't give up on us yet.

Posted by: pep at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (6TB1Z)

62 omgoodness i missed a great post!
Michelle Obama: My Husband Barack Really, Really Loves You, So Much So That If You Send Him Money You'll Have a Chance To Have Dinner With Him

why didn't anyone tell me, I needed that laugh!

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (TomZ9)

63 Wait - it's little. Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 08:54 PM (P6QsQ) What the devil are you talking about?

Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (rWpx8)

64 last night's map shot my dog, drank my liquor, and took liberties with the Missus

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (Dll6b)

65 alright cac is playing around again.

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (TomZ9)

66 okay I think CAC is now having fun with the map dimensions
is that your birthday gift to yourself?

Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 04:55 PM (VE1KN)

67 Man, that sucker's huge!

Posted by: TinyE at March 16, 2012 04:56 PM (GTbGH)

68 The Dems and Team Evil are on the march in the mid-atlantic and southwest. Repubs are making progress in the midwest and the rust belt. Long term the most worrisome state might be Texas. If Dems can ride the Mexican vote there and flip Texas. Well we're good and screwed for a long time.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 04:56 PM (ZPrif)

69 maybe we should allow cac to play on the lawn if he behaves?

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 04:56 PM (TomZ9)

70 hey CAC, how do the other candidates look vs. Obama?

Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 04:56 PM (VE1KN)

71 67 Wait - it's little.
Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 08:54 PM (P6QsQ)
What the devil are you talking about? Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 08:55 PM (rWpx8

She found the pictures my old girlfriend said she'd never share with anyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2012 04:56 PM (xKC/c)

72 What the devil are you talking about? Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 08:55 PM

didn't your map shrink?

Ohhh now it's big again.

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 04:57 PM (P6QsQ)

73 sometimes my map is small, and sometimes my map is much larger, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 16, 2012 04:57 PM (Dll6b)

74 okay I think CAC is now having fun with the map dimensions is that your birthday gift to yourself? Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 08:55 PM (VE1KN) I still don't understand what you guys are getting at. It's like that ad I posted a few weeks ago where the housewife had two plumbers come over to double impact her drain. Ya'll went nuts.

Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 04:57 PM (rWpx8)

75 Well of course I'm losing the California Homo's Republic. I'm not ever gonna bend over for 'em.

Posted by: Rick Santorum at March 16, 2012 04:57 PM (8HhF2)

76 Ahh, just right.

Posted by: Baby Bear at March 16, 2012 04:57 PM (N2yhW)

77 it would be nice to see WI go red
I'd like to see IL be this fully isolated bastion of liberal suckitude surrounded by right-thinking people

Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 04:58 PM (VE1KN)

78 Just got back home from Bethesda/Chevy Chase. Looks like The Mocha Messiah is a winner down there. It is a different world. Unbelievable.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 04:58 PM (jucos)

79

It's just big, that's all I'm sayin'

Don't mean nuthin' by it.

Posted by: TinyE at March 16, 2012 04:58 PM (GTbGH)

80
259 vs 262 - not quite half of 538.

Think of how much fun a Presidential election thrown into the House would be.

I don't think there is enough popcorn in the world to cover that.

Yeah, not likely, but fun to think about.

Mike

Posted by: Mike in CFL at March 16, 2012 04:58 PM (motsG)

81 sometimes my map is small, and sometimes my map is much larger, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 16, 2012 08:57 PM (Dll6b)

go ask alice?

i think i'm repeating myself.

Posted by: willow at March 16, 2012 05:00 PM (TomZ9)

82 78 okay I think CAC is now having fun with the map dimensions is that your birthday gift to yourself? Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 08:55 PM (VE1KN) I still don't understand what you guys are getting at. It's like that ad I posted a few weeks ago where the housewife had two plumbers come over to double impact her drain. Ya'll went nuts. Posted by: CAC at March 16, 2012 08:57 PM (rWpx Hey, that drain needed some plugging!

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 05:00 PM (niZvt)

83 I'm still confident that much of the country is just biding their time until they see who the GOP nominee is, then will with gritted teeth and steely determination vote for him just to end the nightmare.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 16, 2012 05:00 PM (r4wIV)

84 Virginia's not South. Virginia is border - more like Kentucky, or Maryland. That's why it was such an event when (most of) it went for the rebels in '61.

I recall a recent book which noted that, although both Virginia and South Carolina were founded by English aristocrats, they were different English aristocrats. South Carolina (and, thence, the Deep South) were founded by slavelords from Barbados and Jamaica. Virginia was more of a pre-Australia, collecting mainly (white) criminals at first.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 16, 2012 05:00 PM (QTHTd)

85 I'd like to see IL be this fully isolated bastion of liberal suckitude surrounded by right-thinking people
Posted by: chemjeff at March 16, 2012 08:58 PM

If Illinois could get Chicago to secede , it would be a different picture totally.

Posted by: mama winger at March 16, 2012 05:01 PM (P6QsQ)

86 I think I just crapped in my pants a little.

Posted by: red speck at March 16, 2012 05:01 PM (9Xu0X)

87 Agree that NC should be darker red. Probably VA too. Saw a "Who is John Galt?" bumper sticker today, that made me smile. Folks are motivated to go out and vote AGAINST Obama. Join the fun.

*buries head in sand again*

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 05:01 PM (/izg2)

88 #87. Yep, me too.

Posted by: dogfish at March 16, 2012 05:01 PM (N2yhW)

Heheehehe...CAC Attack!

Posted by: Meremortal at March 16, 2012 05:02 PM (qjH4X)

90 CAC: Turn in your card.

Posted by: American Society of Cartographers at March 16, 2012 05:02 PM (gre5a)

91 someone's been reading "Albion's Seed"

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, lighting his hair on FIRE at March 16, 2012 05:02 PM (Dll6b)

92 When did Krauthammer get bit by a zombie?

Posted by: Hydrocarbon Liberation Front at March 16, 2012 05:03 PM (NVu2l)

93 @87: again, if Obama can get reelected with his record, then my God, why bother having future elections ever again?

Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 05:03 PM (niZvt)

94 "I'm still confident that much of the country is just biding their time until they see who the GOP nominee is, then will with gritted teeth and steely determination vote for him just to end the nightmare." don't get over-optimistic. that's not "we can't win," but still. especially if the economy improves this year, the media will be in even more full blown "He Is Vindicated!" mode and the GOP nominee's gonna have to be able to articulate well why this is wrong

Posted by: JDP at March 16, 2012 05:03 PM (8HhF2)

95 CAC: UIXKK INMQW YCOIPA QREBV ZXSWI

Posted by: American Society of Cryptographers at March 16, 2012 05:04 PM (b85s+)

96
http://tinyurl.com/89gubjl

Sunny's this week in the news.

Posted by: sTevo at March 16, 2012 05:07 PM (VMcEw)

UIXKK INMQW YCOIPA QREBV ZXSWI

Pretty sure this doesn't decipher to "You magnificent bastard!"

Posted by: fluffy North, Decoder at March 16, 2012 05:08 PM (4pSIn)

98 Well this sucks.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 05:08 PM (YBivr)

99 UIXKK INMQW YCOIPA QREBV ZXSWI

Unlock code for map software?

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 05:10 PM (gre5a)

100

CAC, what's this based on- polls? Your gut feel? No complaints, just curious.

After 2008, a lot of folks have buyer's remorse. If the Republican nominee runs a decent campaign I could see NV, COLO, NM, WI, MICH, PA and VA going red.

Heck, in March 1980 nobody figured Reagan would win in a landslide.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 16, 2012 05:12 PM (tF7/2)

101 At the risk of being repetitive, I will again posit that if the Supremes overturn Obamacare, every enterprise in the nation will being hiring again. That tsunami of job creation will propel OCrapFuck's re-election. Unless, the high cost of gasoline derails that.

Posted by: Jimbo at March 16, 2012 05:12 PM (O3R/2)

102 Has SoS posted an update today?

Posted by: Leonidas Hoptep at March 16, 2012 05:12 PM (vroI0)

103 I don't quite get the Jerry Lewis turns 100 joke. He does turn 86 though. Which is impressive. What % of his life did he chain smoke? Most of it? And he was a big drinker, too, right? And has been heavy-set from middle aged onward - although skinny through his 20s and 30s. And also a workaholic. And pretty sure he had about a million chicks. So Jerry Lewis seems to have done the exact opposite of modern medical advice on how to live to the age of 86.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:13 PM (ZPrif)

104 UIXKK INMQW YCOIPA QREBV ZXSWI

Drink more Ovaltine?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 16, 2012 05:13 PM (xKC/c)

105 Happy Birthday CAC. Get off my lawn.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 16, 2012 05:14 PM (DGIjM)

106 damn that "let's go Devils" cheer is really annoying. At least Dick Valvano isn't working ~~Coach K's cock~~ this game too.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 05:15 PM (/izg2)

107 if Obama can get reelected with his record, then my God, why bother having future elections ever again? Posted by: CoolCzech at March 16, 2012 09:03 PM (niZvt) my thoughts, exactly.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 16, 2012 05:16 PM (DGIjM)

108 82 Just got back home from Bethesda/Chevy Chase. Looks like The Mocha Messiah is a winner down there. It is a different world. Unbelievable. Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 08:58 PM (jucos) Montgomery County has been liberal since the 70s; the closer to DC, the more liberal.

Posted by: joncelli at March 16, 2012 05:16 PM (+MbqG)

109 Dick Vitale, you mean? The only Valvano I know died 20 years ago.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:17 PM (ZPrif)

110 Dick Vitale. I suck. Beer is kicking in, plus I'm happy State won. So sorry to Valvanos everywhere.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 05:18 PM (/izg2)

111 Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 16, 2012 09:16 PM (DGIjM)

I have a plan for that!

Posted by: Barky O at March 16, 2012 05:18 PM (i3+c5)

112 What the hell is wrong with Michigan? Havent they seen enough democrat BS to turn them around?

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 16, 2012 05:19 PM (DGIjM)

113 Leonidas Hoptep @107

Nothing yet from SOS.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 05:21 PM (gre5a)

114 Well, doesn't life just suck ass.

Just had a nice dinner with husband and friends.

Pardon me while I stick my head in a plastic bag. Better dead than Red (Commie for you younguns).

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 16, 2012 05:22 PM (UOM48)

115 At least Dick Valvano isn't working Coach K's cock this game too.

Are you guys talking about Coach Krezewski? There ain't no fucking way that is Shishefski. The fucking Polocks ain't even that bad of spellers.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 05:22 PM (YBivr)

116 SOS has posted on the other thread but not an update...yet.

Posted by: Tami at March 16, 2012 05:22 PM (X6akg)

117 We have a good chance in washington, we have a good candidate for gov that is ahead and Obama is only polling at 42%. Unless we ban porn. Then all bets are off. It rains a lot here. Porn is important to us.

Posted by: robtr at March 16, 2012 05:23 PM (MtwBb)

118 I met Vitale once. He was exactly the same in person as he is on TV. I don't like his schtick but it's made him millions. In his defense, I met him on one of his book tours so I guess he was in motivational speaker mode. I just happened to be visiting a friend at UNC and stopped in the campus bookstore and Vitale was there. He signed books and then gave an impromptu motivational speech about how much he loves young people. Work hard, do what you love, be nice. Can't argue with his message, of course. But his style just annoys me.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:24 PM (ZPrif)

119 The major problem in mn and mi is 150 of rabid indoctrination of class envy (even tho most of the people are fairly well to do). Coupled with the fact that the professional pubbies do the best to alienate the base and then expect people to crawl back and vote gop (which happens less and less frequently). Add in a soupcon of inner city voter fraud and you've got the formula.

Posted by: The Deej at March 16, 2012 05:24 PM (do/nJ)

120 Duke going down.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:25 PM (ZPrif)

121 Obama's doing well enough in the swing states to worry me a lot.

Posted by: JonathanEllis at March 16, 2012 05:25 PM (BdzEV)

122 This is funny (or maybe not). A woman I know said she unknowingly said something anti-Obama to a woman she doesn't know well who is a true Obamabot.

The Obamabot snarled, "You need to get off politics and get your head in the Bible."

I don't even know where to go with that story. It's ironic, stupid, retarded, funny, sad, scary......

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 16, 2012 05:26 PM (UOM48)

123 Everyone I've ever met from Minnesota has been nearly a full-on commie. Like, volunteer at the local marxist co-op bookshop level leftard.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:27 PM (ZPrif)

124 I'm sure Mr. Vitale is great to his friends and family. And damn if I don't respect the career he's built for himself. I just can. Not. Listen to the guy without feeling like someone is running their fingernails down a chalkboard.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 05:27 PM (/izg2)

125 Is there a school more hated by it's surrounding community than Duke? Duke = rich white and asian kids from NYC, Jersey, and Conn. Durham = poor, southern blacks.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:30 PM (ZPrif)

126 Damn, 2nd #2 going down baby! That's what you get you brick laying motherfuckers. Live by the three, die by the three.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 05:31 PM (YBivr)

127 The number of Presidents elected in March is surprisingly small.

Posted by: nickless at March 16, 2012 05:31 PM (MMC8r)

128 Two 15 upsets in a day. Has it ever happened?

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:31 PM (ZPrif)

129 @121

Ah! Thanks, Tami. Er, which other thread.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 05:32 PM (gre5a)

130 Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 09:31 PM (ZPrif)

Never. Hope KU is watching.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 05:32 PM (YBivr)

131 Ah! Thanks, Tami. Er, which other thread.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 09:32 PM (gre5a)

One below this one.

Posted by: Tami at March 16, 2012 05:34 PM (X6akg)

132 I supported some software for a distribution company once. The company sent me to Massachusetts (where I used to live) and, later, to Minneapolis and also Jackson, Mississippi. It might be worthwhile discussing Minneapolis. It's still to date the only times I've ever visited Minneapolis and Jackson.

One of the sites which bought our product was a halfway house - criminals on probation would go there, learn to be productive members of society, etc, or so they told their probation officers. Anyway. It had a parking lot. On the other side was the brick wall of some other building. That wall had a massive mural devoted to Assata Shakur.

The unrepentant criminal, Assata Shakur. Google that if ya wanna.

Minnesotans are suicidally insane.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 16, 2012 05:34 PM (QTHTd)

133 I actually like Duke. I think my brother went to a Coach K summer camp once.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:34 PM (ZPrif)

134 I recently re-read the Gospels to answer the question "Is God a Socialist?"

The three synoptics vary slightly. The most extreme is: "If you would be perfect, sell everything and give the money to poor. Then come follow me."

Then I re-read the Gospel according to John. Sublime. None of the class-warfare. Otherworldly.

Democrats want you to give everything to the poor, without worshiping God, without living holy lives. (Understand that Sandra Fluke?)

Posted by: Jimbo at March 16, 2012 05:35 PM (O3R/2)

135 The number of Presidents elected in March is surprisingly small.

April on the other hand . . .

Posted by: John Tyler at March 16, 2012 05:36 PM (QTHTd)

136 Jimbo, I believe that liberals lack empathy. They know they are flawed and project their own inability to love on to others.

Posted by: madamex at March 16, 2012 05:39 PM (SEOs4)

137 They know they are flawed and project their own inability to love on to others. Posted by: madamex at March 16, 2012 09:39 PM (SEOs4) either that or they are just freakin retarded.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at March 16, 2012 05:40 PM (DGIjM)

138 JJS, SOS is on the other thread.

Posted by: madamex at March 16, 2012 05:41 PM (SEOs4)

139 The number of Presidents elected in March is surprisingly small.

I gave a speech once in March. Didn't work out too well.

Posted by: Zombie Harrison at March 16, 2012 05:41 PM (YBivr)

140 After the Duke Lacrosse deal I lost most of my respect for the institution and its people. Their hospital rocks though.

Posted by: NC Ref at March 16, 2012 05:41 PM (/izg2)

141 The upper midwest has the biggest discrepancy in social deviancy btw whites and blacks. They seem to have above avg whites, but below avg blacks. As the south boomed the last 20 yrs, hard-working blacks moved back to the South for job opportunities. the criminal and welfare class decided to stay in Minnesota. Hawaii has the smallest black-white deviancy gap. Blacks in hawaii are a self-selected group of ex-military -- responsible, hard-working, etc.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:42 PM (ZPrif)

142 Montgomery County has been liberal since the 70s; the closer to DC, the more liberal. Posted by: joncelli at March 16, 2012 09:16 PM (+MbqG) ----------------------------------------------------------- I am in Frederick County MD. 20 miles and light years away from Montgomery County. We might as well be in WV.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 05:43 PM (jucos)

143 Down goes Duke. Down goes Duke.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:43 PM (ZPrif)

144 I'm noticing fights on all kinds of blogs between the romneybots and the Santorum Supporters. The Santorum Supporters seem to have a new mantra, they say in capital letters "I PICK RICK". wonder if it will be effective. Oh and on the same blogs have noticed a proliferation of Christians discussing Mormonism. I know, I know, you guys said that would never come up so I guess you should go on all these little sites and argue that they aren't supposed to discuss this.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 05:44 PM (oZfic)

145 PG County, MD is interesting. It was supposed to be the new upper-middle class black suburb. Get good govt job with the Feds, settle in PG County. Seemed to work for a while.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:45 PM (ZPrif)

146 Have I been banned? My posts are not showing. What did I do wrong?

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 16, 2012 05:45 PM (2Gb0y)

147 As the south boomed the last 20 yrs, hard-working blacks moved back to the South for job opportunities. the criminal and welfare class decided to stay in Minnesota. --------------------------------------------------------- MN has some pretty decent welfare benefits that would actually draw people in from places like Chicago and Milwaukee and Detroit. I have first hand experience with people who moved to Mpls from those places.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 05:45 PM (jucos)

148 Isn't BO fund raising in the south tonight?

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 05:46 PM (oZfic)

149 "SOS has posted on the other thread but not an update...yet." Giving my fingers a bit of a rest - Sadly when I was changing tires and trying to get the driver side door open I managed to get a lot of really tiny cuts on my fingers and palms from all the glass everywhere. So their fairly sore yet, for those of you waiting not to worry, it was a fairly uneventful day overall so not much to report. Did find out something interesting but I'll wait for the ONT - I've got part of it typed already and I'll finish the rest in a few.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 16, 2012 05:46 PM (R5yLq)

150 151 Have I been banned? My posts are not showing. What did I do wrong?

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 16, 2012 09:45 PM (2Gb0y)

I see your post.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 05:46 PM (oZfic)

151 SOS, I have a question for you. Background: I've been telling my son your story. He doesn't understand why you didn't ignore the shirt. I do, of course, but I can't seem to explain it to him. Would you try, please?

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 05:47 PM (gre5a)

152

Where is everyone tonight? Can't you morons watch four basketball games and blog simultaneously?

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 16, 2012 05:48 PM (tF7/2)

153 155. Thanks. I tried to weigh in about roses twice. I have no idea what happened.

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 16, 2012 05:48 PM (2Gb0y)

154 159 155. Thanks. I tried to weigh in about roses twice. I have no idea what happened.

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 16, 2012 09:48 PM (2Gb0y)

I think the map is huge, so that changes how you read the comments. maybe if you minimize you too can see your comments.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 05:49 PM (oZfic)

155 Yeah, if you know you are pretty likely to commit some crimes and go on welfare in the future ... much better to be in Minneapolis than, say, Atlanta. Atlanta has benefited from getting many of the hardest working, honest, productive blacks from the midwest to move back to the South. The South has one of the lower black-white social deviancy gaps -- but that's mainly cause Southern whites are more violent and criminal than whites in the rest of the country. Upper midwest and new england have the least criminal/violent class of whites.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:49 PM (ZPrif)

156

And I move on!!! Had Legigh on the bracket board. Didn't even need the 12.5!!

Posted by: No Sniveling at March 16, 2012 05:49 PM (XmOd/)

157 I ended up filling out 4 different brackets. And they aren't all the same. Hope I win something this year.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 05:49 PM (oZfic)

158 Oh sorry.....forgot this was a smart military blog and we are talking about politics.

Posted by: No Sniveling at March 16, 2012 05:50 PM (XmOd/)

159 Again I call BS on this so-called map. Where did he dig up these numbers? Tea leaves? Crystal ball? Toast imagine?

Posted by: Barbed Wire Wrapped Pineapple at March 16, 2012 05:52 PM (EL+OC)

160 I believe that liberals lack empathy.

I worked with liberals in Boulder last year. They don't lack empathy. And they certainly don't lack love. They also have families and are very good to those families. What they lack is experience dealing with the lower classes.

I'm not talking about race (for once), or education, or innate intelligence or whatever. I'm talking about living for many years in some place cheap. Some place where all around you is diversity. Some place where, sure, most people around are great people; but that there's the Element which will fuck up your life if you ever let down your ground.

I've been called "paranoid" and "obsessive" more than once for noticing this. But you deal with the neighbours you have, you deal with the human race as it is. And when you live in a low-income neighbourhood for very long, you learn VERY quickly that distrust of people will save your life.

That's why that atheist Thomas Hobbes became the authoritarian he became, because he saw the same shit in England when the law broke down.

Re, Boulder: "It's easy to be a saint in Paradise" -- Captain Benjamin Sisko. New Orleans isn't Paradise; Houston isn't Paradise. The Eloi living in Boulder need to understand that.

Posted by: Boulder Toilet Hobo at March 16, 2012 05:53 PM (QTHTd)

161 Minnesota and upper midwest also have the phenomenon of low vitamin D being rampant among anyone with slightly dark skin, and childhood vitamin D deficiency seems to lower IQ, increase violence levels, and have large #s of ill effects. If they are gonna have such a generous welfare system they really should hand out free Vitamin D supplements or sun lamps to anybody non pale faces.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:54 PM (ZPrif)

162 Where is everyone tonight? Can't you morons watch four basketball games and blog simultaneously?

Am on my 8th Sam Adams and still talking shit about Missery.

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 05:56 PM (YBivr)

163 Minnesota in March is depressing. In usual winters it is a tease for spring that usually doesn't come until May.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 05:56 PM (jucos)

164 "SOS, I have a question for you. Background: I've been telling my son your story. He doesn't understand why you didn't ignore the shirt. I do, of course, but I can't seem to explain it to him. Would you try, please?" Found this in the previous thread and responded there, if that doesn't help I guess I can try to rephrase. I must admit it is a little hard to explain

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at March 16, 2012 05:58 PM (R5yLq)

165 Thanks, SOS. Heading over there.

Posted by: creeper at March 16, 2012 05:59 PM (gre5a)

166 I agree with Boulder. The ruling class progressives spend their lives surrounded by people with IQs above 120. Which is why when they come up with programs to help the poor, they come up with complicated things you have to apply for and fill out form X, etc, etc. People with an IQ of 80 find it hard and complicated to fill out form X by date Y and deliver it to room Z. The poor are more violent because they are dumber and can't think of other ways to get what they want. Planning a few weeks ahead for rent is genuinely difficult and confusing for them. Unfortunately for everybody with an IQ of 120 in America, we also have somebody with an 80 IQ.

Posted by: Clubber Lang at March 16, 2012 05:59 PM (ZPrif)

167 I worked with liberals in Boulder last year. They don't lack empathy. And they certainly don't lack love. They also have families and are very good to those families. What they lack is experience dealing with the lower classes. I see them all the time in my line of work. I also think about how, Hillary Clinton's mom was in a nursing home for 10 plus years and it would have been nothing for her to have her in her home with private care. It is rare for me to see them walk the walk, usually just talk the talk. They are not role models in the least. Obama's blood relatives take an apartment from a citizen while he has empty mansion in Chicago. I have seen big time, news people relatives and they are dumped while their talking head relative cries out for others to be compassionate. Many, many times over in my years in my work.

Posted by: madamex at March 16, 2012 06:00 PM (SEOs4)

168
Something for everyone:

Mitt Romney is taking a pass on filling out a bracket for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, saying Tuesday in Missouri that he's "not plugged in well enough to do that."

Mitt Romney: Chick

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 16, 2012 06:02 PM (kdS6q)

169 Mitt Romney is taking a pass on filling out a bracket for the NCAA men's basketball tournament, saying Tuesday in Missouri that he's "not plugged in well enough to do that."

Missouri's not plugged in either. Hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha!

Posted by: Samuel Adams at March 16, 2012 06:03 PM (YBivr)

170 Adios Duke. Please let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 16, 2012 06:04 PM (jucos)

171 "At the risk of being repetitive, I will again posit that if the Supremes overturn Obamacare, every enterprise in the nation will being hiring again. That tsunami of job creation will propel OCrapFuck's re-election. Unless, the high cost of gasoline derails that."
While I agree that having the Government Health Insurance Takeover Act would be a huge boon for business, I don't see any real turnaround until they see Obama on his way out. Should he be voted out of office, then we'll see things pick up.
Conversely, if he's reelected by some horror... the bottom is gonna drop out. We're bouncing along the bottom of the barrel right now, waiting for the verdict, how things will go.
That's how I see it, at least.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 16, 2012 06:05 PM (r4wIV)

172 Whatever your using for Virginia is wrong.

Posted by: Jean at March 16, 2012 06:07 PM (elbGQ)

173 173, I've been visiting a friend in a nursing home lately. It is a hell hole. I'm thinking about ditching my Sat phone and letting the wildlife have at me instead.

Posted by: Pecos, still yearning for Perry at March 16, 2012 06:08 PM (2Gb0y)

174

150 PG County, MD is interesting

Most of the DC suburbs have had a good government tradition for the last fifty years. It veers into nanny state territory in Montgomery County, but in both Virginia and Maryland the suburbs are pretty well governed. Taxes are high but services are good, and politicians rarely wind up in jail.

Prince Georges County has a culture of corruption going back fifty years or more. It went from being badly governed by white southern Democrats in the fifties and sixties, to being badly governed by liberal black Democrats for the last twenty years. There are very poor neighborhoods close to DC, and very wealthy, predominantly black neighborhoods; but the schools and services in both areas are awful. The outgoing county executive and his wife went to jail this winter on influence peddling charges. His wife was hiding $100K in her bra when the FBI busted down the door. There's a PhD thesis waiting to be written on why PG government has been so bad for so long.

Posted by: Jim in Virginia at March 16, 2012 06:08 PM (tF7/2)

175 People with an IQ of 80 find it hard and complicated to fill out form X by date Y and deliver it to room Z. My co-worker said to me once when I got frustrated, "they're just simple people, they don't really get what you mean." I try to remember that.

Posted by: madamex at March 16, 2012 06:11 PM (SEOs4)

176
Rick Santorum said this week he does not have time to predict who will make the Final Four playoffs in the NCAA basketball tournaments.

Rick Santorum: Chick

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 16, 2012 06:15 PM (kdS6q)

177 Â“'Well he was wearing two pairs of glasses, one with a red beam coming out of the lens, and he had three or four Â‘man pursesÂ’ on and he had Superman socks on,Â” she recalled." http://tinyurl.com/7ru7w29

You literally cannot make this stuff up!

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 06:48 PM (oZfic)

178 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at March 16, 2012 10:15 PM (kdS6q)

He's very serious. But I don't think any of them showed their picks, they are contrasting themselves to the current holder of the office. Just as well, don't need any more people picking teams that ultimately lose.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 06:49 PM (oZfic)

179 "$8.354 billion. This is how much net US tax revenues (net of refunds of course) are lower in fiscal 2012 to date compared to the same period in 2011. In this Bizarro world, economic recovery is apparently based on weaker numbers (source: http://tinyurl.com/7hqjpe6)." http://tinyurl.com/74ptbbr

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 06:55 PM (oZfic)

180 We need a Brokered Convention Fantasy Map where Paul Ryan is running for President.

That'll learn 'em!

Posted by: Arcadehero at March 16, 2012 06:55 PM (mmHDH)

181 186 We need a Brokered Convention Fantasy Map where Paul Ryan is running for President.

That'll learn 'em!

Posted by: Arcadehero at March 16, 2012 10:55 PM (mmHDH)

I think there are an awful lot of folks who think "they'll be chosen" in a brokered convention. It's getting funny.

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 06:57 PM (oZfic)

182 Saw an interview of the Governor of Puerto Rico the other night. It was a scary interview since he repeated that he would do anything to deliver his state for romney. I think it was wolfie interviewing him and wolfie gave him a chance to walk it back cause it probably set off the same thoughts it set off in the audience and since the paul people are sniffing out voter fraud all over the place, the governor was sort of putting himself in not such a great position by unabashedly declaring he would do anything to deliver the state for romney. Anyway, big tip off that BO wants to be able to run against romney cause the interview is out there except most of it is cut out and all that remains was the docile discussion of whether or not the governor would be the VP. So the press must have buried the full interview.

Oddly enough, my friend in puerto rico has told me that romney is holding himself out as hispanic????

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 07:14 PM (oZfic)

183 I do not trust the GOP convention to pick a good candidate in any sense. They'd probably pick John McCain again given half a chance.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 16, 2012 07:18 PM (r4wIV)

184 "Fed Acknowledges Error in CitiÂ’s Stress Test"http://tinyurl.com/8axdnaz

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 07:22 PM (oZfic)

185 "Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness" http://tinyurl.com/7ev8jgj

Could this be why they changed their tactics with the Supreme Court concerning the obamacare case?

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 07:31 PM (oZfic)

186

Forget Romney or Santorum. Doesn't matter which gets the nomination.

All of the independents and undecided want to know:

WHO IS GOING TO BE THE VP ?

The election will be won or lost on this one choice alone....

Posted by: The ??? That Nobody Answers at March 16, 2012 07:43 PM (1kwr2)

187 WHO IS GOING TO BE THE VP ?
The election will be won or lost on this one choice alone....

Posted by: The ??? That Nobody Answers at March 16, 2012 11:43 PM (1kwr2)

Odd that the MSM never asks that question. If it's romney he's probably promised that t paw guy, and the Governor of Puerto Rico, and Bob McDonald from Virginia. He seems like the type to give you a wink wink and in the end it will be suzannah martinez.

rush today said that Florida and Virginia and North Carolina are the states that will matter. "Theory: Election Hinges on North Carolina" http://tinyurl.com/7c5suma It's long but interesting.

If Gingrich gets the nomination, owing to the states that will truly matter, I think he will pick Rick Perry or Fred Thompson. Yeah, I know two southerners but hey the election appears to hinge on Southern states so why not southerners?

Santorum has been so tight lipped about VP, does anyone have a clue?

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 08:42 PM (oZfic)

188 http://tinyurl.com/77n2ygq

Inmate Locator - Locate Federal inmates from 1982 to present
Name Register # Age-Race-Sex Release Date
Location
1. ROD BLAGOJEVICH 40892-424 55-White-M 05-23-2024 ENGLEWOOD FCI

amazing what you find on twitter

Posted by: sleepy at March 16, 2012 08:49 PM (oZfic)

189 so campaign like hell in Virginia come August/November, Rick!

Posted by: ms. docweasel at March 16, 2012 09:34 PM (beBtw)

190 hey take it easy on VA

. I live in the Shenandoah Valley, very conservative here, as it is in most parts of the state except the unfortunate DC suburbs. Those people get tons of free government money and all work for the government or firms that work with the government.

Posted by: jmp at March 17, 2012 04:47 AM (mzAX+)

191

The big problem is that the Republicans have to be perfect to win an electoral victory nowadays. Way too many big states out of play.

The GOP needs to look back at the Reagan coalition. Reagan was able to win over economic conservatives, social conservatives, and WORKING CLASS DEMOCRATS.

Clinton was smart enough to win back the Reagan Democrats by branding himself as a New Democrat who was pro-business but who cared about people who "worked hard and played by the rules."

The GOP needs a movement of New Republicans who will fight for the values of the middle / working class and will not stand for and support the expansion of gigantic, life-sucking bureaucracies at every level of government.

The fact that we're about to nominate a guy who was the creator of OBamacare, a supporter of TARP, and amazingly, is STILL a believer in NCLB, is mind-boggling.

How in the hell can the Republican party reform itself if a guy like Romney wins?

Posted by: stickety at March 17, 2012 12:14 PM (+Vm+w)

192

Not that Republicn candidates have helped, but...

When most conservatives are attacking each and every one of the candidates - and one another - for 'non-compliance' to ideological 'purity'...

...and attacking the 40% of the population who describe themselves as Independents... For being 'wishy-washy' when they're really, seriously, sick and tired of the lies and the vitriol...

...and attacking that eight to twenty percent of Libertarians vote for Paul... You're not doing much to 'sell' yourselves to the public.

iow, When you're alienating as much as 60% of your potential voter base, depending on state and region...is it any wonder that you keep losing the policy debates... or is it really any suprise when you only win the big campaigns when the other side totally fucks it all up?

Time to smell the coffee...buy a vowel...something...

Posted by: Warren Bonesteel at March 17, 2012 12:59 PM (MpJXw)

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