August 28, 2012

Qunnippiac: Linda McMahon Has 3-Point Edge in Connecticut
— Ace

@conartcritic and @laurww have been watching this one like hawks who don't like liberals.

Rasmussen put McMahon up by three last week. Quinnippiac now shows the same lead, 49-46.

In today's survey, McMahon's 54 - 42 percent lead among men swamps Murphy's small 50 - 46 percent lead among women. McMahon leads 88 - 10 percent among Republicans and 55 - 40 percent among independent voters, while Murphy takes Democrats 82 - 16 percent.

"Well it's great," you say, "that you can publish content that already appeared on Hot Air one hour ago; but can you publish content that appeared on Hot Air two hours ago?"

As a matter of fact, I can. Because a CBS-only (no NYT) poll of registered voters has Obama up by a single point, and only at 46.

Despite spending the summer attempting to demonize Romney, both men have nearly identical favorability gaps, -5 for Romney and -3 for Obama — and Romney has significantly more upside, with 32% undecided against 15% for Obama.

I don't think this favorability gap is predictive in the first place. All liberals love Obama (even if they think he's not done a good job) but in fact a lot of conservatives are planning to vote for Romney who don't like him at all. And yet, they will vote for him.

On this whole question of "Who likes who," which is very high-school, but whatever, it's the liberal talking point because no one's going to give Obama a solid rating on actual ability to do his job: Gabe is annoyed by liberals continuing to insist on something that just isn't true. The latest push is that Romney's likability is as low as Nixon's, but Gabe rebuts:

Maxwell [a liberal at Gabe's NYDN site] points to this February 2012 WaPo/ABC poll from the midst of the contentious GOP primary to draw her conclusions. Let's look at something a little more relevant -- say, CNN's most recent poll (PDF) on candidate favorability.

CNN found that registered voters didn't like Romney very much in February 2012, when only 36% viewed him favorably and 54% viewed him unfavorably. But then there's the latest data from August 22-23, when Romney's favorability rose to 48% among registered voters and the percentage viewing him unfavorably dropped to 46. That's a combined gain of 20% points in the right direction since February.

This is precisely the opposite of what Maxwell suggested. The more Americans have learned about Romney, the more they've come to like him. In the same time period, President Obama's favorability has simply hovered right around the same level. The President's numbers aren't sinking, but neither has he managed to move the electorate to view him more positively.

Partisans for either side are going to be partisan -- by definition -- but they ought not willfully assume that the wider public shares their fancies. On the liberal side of things, they cling to this fantasy that it's still October of 2008, and Hope and Change is still actually a thing.

It's not.

Speaking again of high school, it's like a bunch of gals who had a crush on the glib student body president, and who persist in this infatuation even twenty years later, even though he's a bit of a sad figure now. And compounding the pathos is their belief that you share in their infatuation as well.

Obama has not been popular since he passed ObamaCare. The polls said so, then we had a historic repudiation in the 2010 confirming that the polls were correct.

Let's update, huh? You sound like f***ing hippies who cannot ever shut up about Haight-Ashbury in 1968. The world's page has turned, and you should join us in the current chapter.

The Summer of Love is over, kids. I know you'd prefer to live in it always but that's just not possible, and the rest of us are starting to worry about you.


Posted by: Ace at 10:16 AM | Comments (239)
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1 Hmmm

Posted by: ersta mahnn at August 28, 2012 10:17 AM (QupBk)

2 Frist!

Posted by: Frist guy at August 28, 2012 10:19 AM (pcnpf)

3 I'll just repost something I wrote at HotAir re: the CT race for those looking to understand what's going on with the numbers there, both nationally and senate-wise:

Here in a nutshell is why McMahon is currently leading and Romney is competitive in CT: it breaks down into a regional thing. Western CT, largely composed of high-income bedroom communities for the NYC investor class, used to be traditionally moderate GOP (Chris Shays’ and Nancy Johnson’s old districts) but has gone over to the Dems as the national party became more Southern, evangelical, and socially conservative. These people have REALLY soured on Obama’s ‘soak the rich’ and ‘blame Wall Street’ rhetoric, they loathe Dodd-Frank, but normally they would still hold their noses and vote Dem because the GOP is now too perceived as too extreme and Southern for them.

However, the Romney/Ryan/McMahon ticket is uniquely positioned to appeal to these people. Romney is essentially the guy they all aspire to be (worldÂ’s greatest investor), Ryan is the guy they all want to hire and/or work with (super-smart likable alpha-male numbers wonk), and McMahon is the sort of woman who reminds them of their best and most impressive clients (successful, poised, no-nonsense businesswoman). The synergy between the national ticket and McMahonÂ’s profile accounts for pretty much ALL of the closeness in the Presidental numbers in CT.

Further east, the Romney/Ryan appeal has less appeal in the more middle-class/blue collar, trad-New England Eastern CT areas — this again is why Romney still trails by 7% or so and won’t actually win the state. But McMahon is still winning because 1.) Chris Murphy’s base is in northwestern CT, overlapping the same region that has turned against Obama (as noted above) for other reasons; 2.) the most interesting thing I’ve found is that in eastern CT lots of people don’t know Murphy and when they do, they literally don’t like his jerk face, Big Lebowski-style. All you need to do is watch his TV ads in conjunction with McMahon’s. She hits crisp, brutal, hard; he comes off as a simpering prat. It’s a weird sort of reverse Scott Brown-effect: he has negative charisma with a lot of blue-collar voters in the eastern half of the state.

Make no mistake: this race will be razor-close no matter what. But McMahon has a real chance of winning because of the structural factors in the race plus her ultra-professional operation. Her run in 2010 also turns out to have helped immensely: she made remarkably few mistakes in that campaign (to pretty much everybody’s surprise in the professional political class) but she’s learned from the few that she did (namely not suffocating the state with ads), and her worst issues — WWE scandal stuff — has already been well-aired at this point.


Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 10:20 AM (Z2wcK)

4 Bodyslam them libtards.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:20 AM (9TTOe)

5 The student body president is now a fat ass sad alcoholic, failed father of 3 unemployed 200000$ in debt loser who spends his days sucking cock for change. But he swears he will change if you just lend him 500 more dollars to buy a new suit to apply at this great job "downtown" where he knows "someone" who can get him hired. He will turn it all around and start working out again.

Posted by: Mr Pink at August 28, 2012 10:21 AM (4bxmV)

6 Could ~48% be Obama's ceiling?

Posted by: Gov. Douglas Wilder at August 28, 2012 10:21 AM (zrpqj)

7 If we win CT, then for sure we win CT.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 10:21 AM (05RcU)

8 There's going to be a whole lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Obamabots.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 10:22 AM (UOM48)

9 Flying elbow drop from the top of the turnbuckle!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2012 10:22 AM (BAS5M)

10 A lot of people may not like Romney but tons of people openly hate Obama. Don't underestimate the intensity factor.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2012 10:22 AM (TMB3S)

11 "Well it's great," you say, "that you can publish content that already appeared on Hot Air one hour ago; but can you publish content that appeared on Hot Air two hours ago?" As a matter of fact, I can. Because a CBS-only (no NYT) poll of registered voters has Obama up by a single point ______________________ Well you can do this, but you can't do it without reinforcing the Ace is Allah Pundit working hypothesis at the HQ--which is really manned by soothsayer and garrett.

Posted by: tasker at August 28, 2012 10:23 AM (r2PLg)

12 Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 02:20 PM (Z2wcK) Any comment longer than my penis? I just don' have enough attention span. BTW 6 1/4"

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:23 AM (9TTOe)

13 ACE:

SPELL CHECK

embrace the technology

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 28, 2012 10:23 AM (8sCoq)

14 LET'S GET READY TO RRRRRRRRRUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMBLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (wtvvX)

15

but they ought not willfully assume that the wider public shares their fancies.

The left has a hellava time discerning the difference between emotion and fact, so I'd be a lot less inclined to listen to their declaration of likability vs unlikability.

Besides, anyone in the public sphere that a lefty finds likable and intelligent has 87% chance of being a arrogant douchebag.

Posted by: Heralder at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (+xmn4)

16

 

Isn't Connecticut....broke?

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (5BAYg)

17 Can you smell what McMahon is cooking?

Posted by: cajun carrot at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (UZQM8)

18 Obama has not been popular since he passed ObamaCare. The polls said so, then we had a historic repudiation in the 2010 confirming that the polls were correct.

The 2010 elections said nothing of the sort.  They were a signal that I should be on my knees working in good faith with the most despicable, distrustworthy, un-American piece of shit who has ever sat even close to the Oval Office.  Americans told me in 2010 that they wanted me to be a leader who understood the Occupoopers and who worked hand-in-hand with the guy who singlehandedly demanded a downgrade of US debt, which I happily took the blame for and for which I signed off on every bit of insane spending and refused to do anything to actually try to repeal ObamaCare, which I think most Americans really like.  That's what 2010 said to me.

Posted by: Weeper of the House, Shithead Supreme at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (X3lox)

19 >>>Any comment longer than my penis? I just don' have enough attention span. BTW 6 1/4"

It's worth reading.

I mean, most of what I write around here ain't worth shit, let's be clear about that: you know it, I know it, we just politely avoid pointing it out because that would be uncouth.  But this?  Worth reading.

Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (Z2wcK)

20 But what about Governor Romney's gaffes? What about his gaffes?

Posted by: RoyalOil at August 28, 2012 10:25 AM (imtbm)

21 "Well it's great," you say, "that you can publish content that already appeared on Hot Air one hour ago; but can you publish content that appeared on Hot Air two hours ago?" I don't think you get how the time machine you don't have and won't let anyone use is supposed to work. You know, if you think the Horde's celebration when Romney wins is going to be epic, Vince's celebration when Linda wins is going to be Epic Elebenty!!111!!! I want it to happen just for that reason.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (VtjlW)

22 In a recent poll, 78% of Americans said that if the election were held today, they'd be really confused, because isn't it in November?

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (8sCoq)

23

Let's update, huh? You sound like f***ing hippies who cannot ever shut up about Haight-Ashbury in 1968. The world's page has turned, and you should join us in the current chapter.

 

 

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Wow, man.  That's heavy. 


Posted by: Old balding hippie with scraggly little gray ponytail at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (zrO2Q)

24 McMahon can put me in a submission hold at anytime.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (BAS5M)

25 Worth reading. Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 02:25 PM (Z2wcK) OK, I'll gird my loins and give it a shot.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (9TTOe)

26 Every month that goes by it looks more and more like we're going to see a reversal of 2008, for many of the same reasons. Arrogance, condescension, waste, refusing to listen to the voters, ramming through unpopular programs, generally behaving like tyrants. People just don't like that.
We'll see come November but it really looks like the Democrats are going to get pounded like a tent peg.
If that happens... the GOP has a chance to show real leadership and smarts, but who expects that to happen?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (r4wIV)

27 OT/Life-Coach What is a better job offer? $72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute? Or... $40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute?

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 28, 2012 10:26 AM (zrpqj)

28 20 But what about Governor Romney's gaffes? What about his gaffes? Posted by: RoyalOil at August 28, 2012 02:25 PM (imtbm) What about his Suplex?

Posted by: cajun carrot at August 28, 2012 10:27 AM (UZQM8)

29 Actually, I'm pretty sure LauraW is a Connecticut moron.  I'd be interested in hearing her take on this.  Pretty sure she'll buttress what I'm saying here, but I'm far away right now and she's living in the NYC suburbs of CT if I recall correctly, so she's got on-the-ground insight. 

Me?  I'm just the Electoral Spymaster General of AoSHQ: my shady low-level political connections span across the country, and provide me marginally more insight than the average internet junkie.

Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 10:28 AM (Z2wcK)

30 @27:

Is that you Barack?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 28, 2012 10:28 AM (wtvvX)

31
Been gone for a couple days..... miss me??


The DNC is a clique.... and very much behaves like spoiled 14 year old sophmoric girls.


O/T..... you will NEVER guess who's leading Prayers on the Friday of the DNC convention......  and who was denied.

http://tinyurl.com/9tlpe9u

As-salamu Alaykum

Posted by: fixerupper at August 28, 2012 10:28 AM (C8hzL)

32 I just get this feeling that a whole lot of Republicans all the way down the stack are going to win in November, and yet most people when surveyed will say they voted for the Democrats.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at August 28, 2012 10:29 AM (RZ8pf)

33 No, I'm serious cat.

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 28, 2012 10:29 AM (zrpqj)

34 His likability is as low as Nixon, huh?  That would be President Nixon, no?

QED

Posted by: Phelps at August 28, 2012 10:29 AM (A1EwI)

35
Let's update, huh? You sound like f***ing hippies who cannot ever shut up about Haight-Ashbury in 1968.







And that idyllic period in Haight-Ashbury history spanned what? 3-4 months? Then it became transients shitting on the sidewalk and heroin overdoses on the doorstep.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2012 10:29 AM (TIIx5)

36 Posted by: fixerupper at August 28, 2012 02:28 PM (C8hzL) You are correct, you have been gone. That was addressed many posts ago.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:29 AM (9TTOe)

37 we just politely avoid pointing it out because that would be uncouth. If there's one thing the Horde has, it's couth. We've got couth coming out our ass.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 10:30 AM (VtjlW)

38 If that happens... the GOP has a chance to show real leadership and smarts, but who expects that to happen? Baby steps, baby steps.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2012 10:30 AM (QF8uk)

39

#27

Take the full time

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 28, 2012 10:30 AM (R8hU8)

40 I swear give me one more chance. All my plans and designs on my new yogurt business are coming together. And in the next 4 years I will be that guy I was when we first met again. I just need another 8 trillion dollar loan and some more time for all my glorious plans to start working. If I hadn't been blocked by those evil far right wing republicans it would all be happening I woulda stopped drinking and spending all our money on cheap booze and gambling on my friends start up businesses. Please believe me, I love you and only you I won't cheat with those far left ideologues again. It will be all of us together working for our future I swear baby take me back.

Posted by: Barack "alcoholic boyfriend" Obama at August 28, 2012 10:30 AM (4bxmV)

41
You are correct, you have been gone. That was addressed many posts ago.

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Grrr......  

Posted by: fixerupper at August 28, 2012 10:30 AM (C8hzL)

42
What is a better job offer?

$72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute?

Or...

$40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute?

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 28, 2012 02:26 PM (zrpqj)



The one with the hotter women in the office.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (X3lox)

43 "And that idyllic period in Haight-Ashbury history spanned what? 3-4 months?"
Pretty much, one summer. But when you're stoned the whole time banging filthy hippy chicks, it probably seemed like a lifetime of bliss.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (r4wIV)

44 And that idyllic period in Haight-Ashbury history spanned what? 3-4 months? Then it became transients shitting on the sidewalk and heroin overdoses on the doorstep.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 28, 2012 02:29 PM (TIIx5)

And to think it only took Occupy about 2 weeks to get there.

Posted by: Heralder at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (+xmn4)

45 If there's one thing the Horde has, it's couth. We've got couth coming out our ass. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 02:30 PM (VtjlW) LMAO, yes we have greek couth.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (9TTOe)

46 If there's one thing the Horde has, it's couth. We've got couth coming out our ass. They make a Depends for that.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (QF8uk)

47 Can you smell what McMahon is cooking? Posted by: cajun carrot at August 28, 2012 02:25 PM (UZQM ---------------------------------------------- WHAT?

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (jucos)

48 OT/Life-Coach

What is a better job offer?

$72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute?

Or...

$40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute?

Pay is basically the same as you will be using the extra to make up the FICA and SSI for the employer you don't have, (presuming no OT).

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (wcP2i)

49 In order to really understand how CT voters who are only now just being introduced to Chris Murphy react to him on a visceral level when they see his TV ads and McMahon's TV ads, you really need to watch these 14 seconds from The Big Lebowski: http://tinyurl.com/8fxgrrc

Says it all.

Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 10:31 AM (Z2wcK)

50 "McMahon maneuvers for the figure-four ...  if she can get it locked ...  this match is OVER!"

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 28, 2012 10:32 AM (BAS5M)

51
The Summer of Love will never be over - it'll just smell that way!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 28, 2012 10:32 AM (7GfKM)

52 Well it's great," you say, "that you can publish content that already appeared on Hot Air one hour ago; but can you publish content that appeared on Hot Air two hours ago?"

As a matter of fact, I can<<<<<=

 

Damn  you.  Damn  you and your self-deprecating humor.

 

We WILL have our sport.  This is not over.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2012 10:32 AM (nHMBg)

53 If there's one thing the Horde has, it's couth. We've got couth coming out our ass.


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 02:30 PM (VtjlW)

 

 

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Fuckin' A we do.

Posted by: Old balding hippie with scraggly little gray ponytail at August 28, 2012 10:32 AM (zrO2Q)

54 Let's update, huh? You sound like f***ing hippies who cannot ever shut up about Haight-Ashbury in 1968.


LOL, I don't know about 68 ace, but I was there in 72 and it was a shit hole bum magnet that smelled like urine in 72.  I don't expect it was much different in 68.


When you think "hippies" think bums and winos instead because that is who hung out there.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:32 AM (YdQQY)

55 Any bets on which "blue state" Senate race suddenly becomes competitive?

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 28, 2012 10:33 AM (XvHmy)

56 You know, if you think the Horde's celebration when Romney wins is going to be epic, Vince's celebration when Linda wins is going to be Epic Elebenty!!111!!! I want it to happen just for that reason.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 02:26 PM (VtjlW)



Please please oh please let Linda win. The following Smackdown and Raw episodes will be AWESOME. I cannot even imagine the McMahon strut down the aisle if she wins. And his ego is so damn big that there's no way he won't make a big deal out of it.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 10:33 AM (da5Wo)

57 Can you smell what McMahon is cooking? Posted by: cajun carrot at August 28, 2012 02:25 PM (UZQM ---------------------------------------------- WHAT? Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 28, 2012 02:31 PM (jucos) Apparently you are not up on the three R's. Rasslin Racing Rock and Roll.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:33 AM (9TTOe)

58 Obama is not a likable person after 3 1/2 years. He has his fans in the way celebrities have fans, but this is adulation.

His personality is not the type that inspires a sense of "like"--which, at its root, means "similar to."

Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?

(I don't think Romney is like me, either, so I agree with Ace somewhat about the rating. But it's a more formal way of capturing the characteristic of, "Who would you rather have a beer with?" And that I can answer: Romney.)

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 10:33 AM (EAk6R)

59 I'd kiss her nipple whilst i came on her heel

Posted by: slick willy at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (zCojJ)

60 So, you're saying Obama is the guy that shows up to the football game in his letter jacket even though he's now in his 20's?

Posted by: Dave S. at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (M7Cfv)

61 There's a distinct difference between "Candidate Favorability" and "Job Favorability". POTUS' numbers for the former have stayed in the 48-50% range. Latter has consistenyly been at 43% for a month, across many polls. Jay Cost has been all over this.

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (XrGnJ)

62 You think we ain't got no class, shit

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (R8hU8)

63 27...the latter...and get a motorcycle for the commute.

Posted by: Max Wedge at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (Hh8ts)

64 Good to see Obama in Iowa campaigning during a hurricane instead of doing presidenting stuff. Nice to know how much he cares about himself.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2012 10:34 AM (TMB3S)

65

Obama has not been popular since he passed ObamaCare. The polls said so, then we had a historic repudiation in the 2010 confirming that the polls were correct.

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This is a point Dick Morris keeps making - pollsters are not listening to what voters are telling them.

SCOAMF is going to have a rough 1st week of November

Posted by: Jay at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (3LaGb)

66 So, you're saying Obama is the guy that shows up to the football game in his letter jacket even though he's now in his 20's?

Posted by: Dave S. at August 28, 2012 02:34 PM (M7Cfv)


Obama is the guy who shows up in his letter jacket at 50 and wants to shoot baskets with the 12 year olds.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (YdQQY)

67 What is a better job offer? $72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute? Or... $40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute? Contracts should pay twice as much as salary, i.e., $72/hr, because of benefits and taxes and ease of being let go. Take the full-time.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (FcR7P)

68 and the rest of us are starting to worry about you Not particularly. Loathe? Yes. Beat with own appendages? Yes. Leave on desert island w/o Mary Ann, Ginger or, for that matter, the Professor? Yes. ..and the correct answer is: Mary Ann, BTW. Carry on.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (Vr3cm)

69 Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?


Retards, America-haters, and foreigners.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (X3lox)

70 A little mood music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2VqNXF17sk

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 28, 2012 10:35 AM (XvHmy)

71 I have long wondered why it was that douchebags like Murtha, Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy and so on kept getting reelected. How could you spend five minutes with this turd and not think he's a loathesome or idiotic loser who shouldn't be allowed to run a vending machine let alone government.
I wonder if most of the time they got by on machine, word of mouth, party loyalty, and slogans. Because it seems like the Democrats are less and less able to get these kind of genetic malfunctions elected - and Republicans, too.
I think the Internet is exposing scum for what they are and the old way of getting elected by skating some easily manipulated piece of crap isn't working any more. And the Northeast, used to doing it for over a century, is caught completely off guard. 20 years ago, Coakley probably would have won just on the "Kennedy Seat" and party loyalty. Now she's a running joke.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:36 AM (r4wIV)

72 >We've got couth coming out our ass.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 02:30 PM (VtjlW)


I'm couth as a motherfucker

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 28, 2012 10:36 AM (8sCoq)

73 52 EoJ, For his next trick Ace will repost this in 2 hours thereby doubling his output..... Nothing up his sleeve PRESTO!

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 10:36 AM (LRFds)

74 When you think "hippies" think bums and winos instead because that is who hung out there.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 02:32 PM (YdQQY)

 

 

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A more timely comparison would be the OWSers. 

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 10:36 AM (zrO2Q)

75 Apparently you are not up on the three R's. Rasslin Racing Rock and Roll. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 02:33 PM (9TTOe) ------------------------------------------------------- Oh Yassir I am. WHAT? is the rejoinder recited to all of Stone Cold Steve Austin's rants. I oughta put you in the Camel Clutch!

Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (jucos)

76 Hey JeffB, you were correct. It is interesting.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (9TTOe)

77 But love... and drugs.... and nekkid Asian chicks......

Posted by: Lennon's rotting corpse at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (/YJYi)

78 Well plugging a revised CT probability of 50% into the Senate model we get:

The probability of the GOP taking the Senate is: 93.7%

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (32do8)

79 "Obama is the guy who shows up in his letter jacket at 50 and wants to shoot baskets with the 12 year olds. "
Obama is the guy that bought a letter jacket in the thrift store and shows up at 50 wanting to shoot baskets with 15 year olds, pretending it was his jacket and full of stories about his glory days scoring goal units with the squadron.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (r4wIV)

80 >Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?


he'd be like me if I were a foreign-born communist asswipe

Posted by: Jones in CO at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (8sCoq)

81 A more timely comparison would be the OWSers.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 02:36 PM (zrO2Q)



Nahh, the bums and winos were not trying to burn the world aka Trashcan.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (YdQQY)

82 Oh Yassir I am. WHAT? is the rejoinder recited to all of Stone Cold Steve Austin's rants. I oughta put you in the Camel Clutch! Posted by: Truck Monkey at August 28, 2012 02:37 PM (jucos) I stand corrected.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at August 28, 2012 10:37 AM (9TTOe)

83 The people of Brattleboro, VT will make sure she doesn't get elected. We are campaigning against her everyday and for Presadent Obama. We love President Obama and will do anything to get him re-elected.......

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (48wze)

84 Do you suppose delegates on the convention floors are given instruction on what to do and not do--you know, pick noses/teeth, pull underwear out of butt cracks, that sort of thing?

(For some Godforsaken reason, I have the RNC on C-Span right now, in case you're wondering . . .)

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (smvTK)

85

58....Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?

 

The people who hate America.



(I don't think Romney is like me, either, so I agree with Ace somewhat about the rating. But it's a more formal way of capturing the characteristic of, "Who would you rather have a beer with?" And that I can answer: Romney.)

 

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 02:33 PM (EAk6R)

 

That would have to be a....Rootbear.

Romney doesn't drink alcohol.

 

I think that whole thing about Barky's "White House Beer"...is a lead-in to talking about Romney being a tee-totaler.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (5BAYg)

86 "China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations." http://tinyurl.com/9rnts3z

Posted by: cynder ella at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (oZfic)

87 You know, if you think the Horde's celebration when Romney wins OBAMA LOSES is going to be epic, Vince's celebration when Linda wins is going to be Epic Elebenty!!111!!! I want it to happen just for that reason.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD/Whiteboard 2012 at August 28, 2012 02:26 PM (VtjlW)

 

FIFYNNTTMJDMP

Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (73P68)

88 The Summer of Love is over, kids. I know you'd prefer to live in it always but that's just not possible, and the rest of us are starting to worry about you.

Besides, nobody really got laid because of the Summer of Love.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 28, 2012 10:38 AM (wcP2i)

89 Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 02:33 PM (EAk6R)

 

I do!

Posted by: "Kenyan" foreign student aid fraudster at August 28, 2012 10:39 AM (ggRof)

90 So am I the only one watching the convention? Yeah I know,f-u too.

Posted by: wierd flunky at August 28, 2012 10:39 AM (tlhtD)

91 Fuckin' Nutmeggers, Dude.

Posted by: Walter K. Sobchek at August 28, 2012 10:39 AM (ncJgk)

92 32 PGiS, We don't tend to firebomb our wayward members, such festivities in the GOP are saved for Boxing Day as gifts to other Republicans.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 10:39 AM (LRFds)

93 This is a point Dick Morris keeps making - pollsters are not listening to what voters are telling them. SCOAMF is going to have a rough 1st week of November Posted by: Jay at August 28, 2012 02:35 PM (3LaGb) Yeah. You can hate Morris for his whole complicity in the national fiasco known as Clinton, but the dude knows the electorate and polling trends. I loved watching an ex-Clintonite get all excited about the 2010 midterms. I was getting Schadenboners all the time.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at August 28, 2012 10:39 AM (Vr3cm)

94 Somebody cue up Blue Öyster Cult's "This Ain't The Summer Of Love".

Oh, wait, here we go:

http://youtu.be/3WPStttiLX0

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 10:40 AM (smvTK)

95 You must have sucked at this.  It is soooooo easy.

Posted by: Romney to McCain at August 28, 2012 10:40 AM (NuPNl)

96 86 CE, I'm not seeing a problem....

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 10:40 AM (LRFds)

97 Where the hell is Gerg?  He should be all over this.

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 28, 2012 10:40 AM (aHR5E)

98

Listen Ace, I heard the Meteorologist in Chief telling me to get out of New Orleans (I'm not in New Orleans) because Hurricane Katrina II is coming!  If that's not love, I don't know what is. 

 

I could do without that tinny whistle he has in his voice though.  It doesn't sound very... in chargish. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (TOk1P)

99 "China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations."
China can be safely ignored. They wail and yell and wave their arms around any time nobody is obsequious enough to them, but they are meaningless in the long term. They cannot throw American debt or trade aside or threaten it in any way.
And honestly, the whole nation is run by corrupt murderous scumbags so who cares if they get mad?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (r4wIV)

100 I don't remember Haight-Ashbury having vagina-burkas in 68.

Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (SDkq3)

101 "the rest of us are starting to worry about you, Bless Your Hearts". That's better.

Posted by: MostlyRight at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (ZG8Ti)

102 LOL, I don't know about 68 ace, but I was there in 72 and it was a shit hole bum magnet that smelled like urine in 72. I don't expect it was much different in 68. Still was like that in 2003. I did try the odd self-cleaning pay toilet kiosk though. Which to prevent bum infestation, has the doors automatically open after 10 minutes and the toilet retract into the wall whether you're finished or not. The funniest part to me was that there was a Gap at Haight & Ashberry.

Posted by: toby928© at August 28, 2012 10:41 AM (QupBk)

103 Speaking now at the RNC:  Bob Buckhorn, Mayor of Tampa (D).

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 10:42 AM (smvTK)

104 So when Barry loses worse than I did, it will be official. 


I am going to be second?

Posted by: Jimmah, the second worst president evah at August 28, 2012 10:42 AM (3ZjAP)

105 I loved watching an ex-Clintonite get all excited about the 2010 midterms. I was getting Schadenboners all the time.

And when it drops, they blame everyone and everything but themselves nd their own message.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 28, 2012 10:42 AM (wcP2i)

106 I'm waiting for the disappointed, crestfallen news reporters standing in tepid rain and some wind in New Orleans when they find out this hurricane isn't going to destroy the city after all.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:42 AM (r4wIV)

107 The funniest part to me was that there was a Gap at Haight & Ashberry. Posted by: toby928© at August 28, 2012 02:41 PM (QupBk) Wasn't Gap's first store in SF?

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 28, 2012 10:42 AM (136wp)

108 90 Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"?
Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 02:33 PM (EAk6R)


This scrunt.



83 The people of Brattleboro, VT will make sure she doesn't get elected. We are campaigning against her everyday and for Presadent Obama. We love President Obama and will do anything to get him re-elected.......

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at August 28, 2012 02:38 PM (48wze)


Posted by: Lennon's rotting corpse at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (/YJYi)

109 When I heard Reggie Love stand up for President Obama, putting forth his deep, deep thoughts on Barry's competitive nature and basketball skillz, well, that just sealed the deal for me, folks.

The Magic Johnson ain't got no game, here.

Posted by: Fritz at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (RuVpG)

110 64 Good to see Obama in Iowa campaigning during a hurricane instead of doing presidenting stuff. Nice to know how much he cares about himself.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2012 02:34 PM (TMB3S)


He's a regular Paul Revere: "The rains are coming! The rains are coming!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (7GfKM)

111 They put in a pay toilet Kiosk?  LOL, did they expect bums to pay to piss away their cheap wine?

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (YdQQY)

112 Nahh, the bums and winos were not trying to burn the world aka Trashcan.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 02:37 PM (YdQQY)

 

 

-----------------------------------------

 

 

Many of ole' Charlie  Manson's followers had Haight Ashbury backgrounds.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (zrO2Q)

113 Damn I hate when I leave my rotting corpse socks on.  They smell funny.

Posted by: Adam at August 28, 2012 10:43 AM (/YJYi)

114  "China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations."
So wait, the murderous Marxist dictators don't like Romney?   Sold!

Posted by: mediumheadboy at August 28, 2012 10:44 AM (aHR5E)

115

90 -

 

I don't. 

Posted by: Dinesh D'Souza's buddy George O. at August 28, 2012 10:44 AM (TOk1P)

116 I've been arguing the likability with the libtards for months now, Ace.  It doesn't mean shit this yeah.. but they keep quoting it,, fucking retards.

People are going to vote for the guy who they think can do the job - move the economy and create jobs.

It's like saying you would vote for the class clown to run your failing company just because he's likable.  No.. you want the hard-ass who knows what he's doing to take the helm.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 28, 2012 10:44 AM (f9c2L)

117 I think Dick Morris a (lower case) moron. I heard him on what, Hannity(?) a few weeks ago talking about the UN Small Arms Treaty. He said that the Supreme Court had ruled that treaties have the same precedence in US law as constitutional amendments and so would overturn the 2nd Amendment. "Because the Supremacy Clause."

That's so fucking wrong I looked up a transcript later because I thought I misunderstood. I didn't. He's just grossly ignorant.

You'd think that if you were going to go on a national radio show and talk about a subject matter, you'd make sure you knew what you were talking about. Apparently not.

Posted by: dawnfire at August 28, 2012 10:44 AM (eEeH7)

118

I, for one, am certainly glad we have commentors from Connecticut that we can rely on for advise to win this election.

 

God knows that conservatives across the land look to Connecticut republicans to relay the impressions of voters with "boots on the ground" knowledge of what people are thinking. 

 

Let's all try to not say anything that would embarrass Jeff B. in front of his friends or ruin our chances of taking this state.

Posted by: jwest at August 28, 2012 10:45 AM (ZDsRL)

119 112 Vic, I like the ten minute timer, if we added a 60 minute Microwave burst timer it'd be entertaining as well.

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 10:45 AM (LRFds)

120 Schadenfreude requires Charlotte to be the target of next week's hurricane:


1. SHOWER ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE...LOCATED ABOUT 1425 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES...HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED TODAY. A TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD FORM AT ANY TIME TODAY OR TONIGHT... BEFORE UPPER-LEVEL WINDS BECOME UNFAVORABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. THIS SYSTEM HAS A MEDIUM CHANCE...50 PERCENT...OF BECOMING A TROPICAL CYCLONE DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS AS THE LOW MOVES TOWARD THE WEST-NORTHWEST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

/Don't really wish severe weather on anyone, even Democrat-Socialists, actually . . .

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 10:45 AM (smvTK)

121 The probability of the GOP taking the Senate is: 93.7% Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 28, 2012 02:37 PM (32do Ooooooo......!!!*sprong*

Posted by: Schadenboner at August 28, 2012 10:45 AM (Vr3cm)

122 I'm waiting for the disappointed, crestfallen news reporters standing in tepid rain and some wind in New Orleans when they find out this hurricane isn't going to destroy the city after all.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 02:42 PM (r4wIV)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

The faux disaster reporting should be hilarious though.  Remember the shit they tried to pull last year.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 10:46 AM (zrO2Q)

123 Many of ole' Charlie Manson's followers had Haight Ashbury backgrounds.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 02:43 PM (zrO2Q)


I doubt if they hung out much there.  As I said, it was all bums and winos in 72. I expect it wasn't much different in 68 except when they wanted to do a march in front of the movie/TV cameras. 


You know like the weirdos do now.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:46 AM (YdQQY)

124

 

If Romney wins....China knows that they will have a rough time  screwing us over.

Romney has called them "cheaters", several times.

 

Trump has already said that he would love to be Commerce Secretary.

It would be a hoot if that happened.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 10:46 AM (5BAYg)

125 wheatie: You get the idea, though. Let's say you had to share a cab ride with each when both guys are really old dudes. Sure, Romney is rich and successful, but I bet you could actually talk to him about *something*--and enjoy the conversation.

I bet Obama would either lecture you for the entire ride or stare out the window with his body language almost screaming he didn't want to have anything to do with you.

If Romney is an ex president someday, he'll be like the first Bush. When Obama is an ex president, he's going to be like...

I don't even have to say, because everyone here knows who.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 10:46 AM (EAk6R)

126 Who was it that recently said that the most unreported story of this election is that Obama is losing?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 28, 2012 10:46 AM (32do8)

127 117 I've been arguing the likability with the libtards for months now, Ace. It doesn't mean shit this yeah.. but they keep quoting it,, fucking retards. People are going to vote for the guy who they think can do the job - move the economy and create jobs. It's like saying you would vote for the class clown to run your failing company just because he's likable. No.. you want the hard-ass who knows what he's doing to take the helm. Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 28, 2012 02:44 PM (f9c2L) Simple question, if you wanted to hire someone for your business, would you hire someone who can make more or someone you "like"? That's all you have to ask.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (136wp)

128 They put in a pay toilet Kiosk? LOL, did they expect bums to pay to piss away their cheap wine? My guess would be tokens. But seriously, it was a techno-marvel. The toilet itself was just a porcelen bowl for you to leave your offering in. No drain hole, no seat. But after you paid your quarter and the door opened, it slid out of the wall for your sitting pleasure. Just don't waste any time. I will say that my business trip to SF was the most fun I've ever had. I had an adventure every freakin day and night.

Posted by: toby928© at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (QupBk)

129 Yeah. You can hate Morris for his whole complicity in the national fiasco known as Clinton, but the dude knows the electorate and polling trends.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC in Johnson County laughing at Cook County at August 28, 2012 02:39 PM (Vr3cm)



And people seem to forget that Dick Morris was warning people about Barky's intention with health scare way back even before the inauguration.  He wrote a book predicting the illegal fiasco the was allowed to unfold and was the toughest fighter against that piece of shit long before any "conservative" even thought to worry about it.

I understand that people don't like Dick Morris but for them to ignore and deny how he tried to help America during that whole episode and was one of this nation's strongest defenders and offered the clearest and most direct warnings for the longest time just baffles me.

Dick Morris has worked as hard for conservative values since Barky's sliming into office as anyone - and that's even while he admits that he is still a Democrat at heart but had to leave the America-hating, socialist scum that that party has become.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (X3lox)

130

@sven,

 

Yeah, ace is the Neville  Longbottom of the blogosphere.

 

"EXPELLERAMUS! 

 

Fuck.  Double post again."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (nHMBg)

131 Who really thinks after three and a half years "Obama is like me"? Oh, bite me. I was given a difficult umbrella...

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (FcR7P)

132 If someone has already pointed this out, apologies.

Don't want to make anyone hyperventilate, but...

Quac poll splits:

Dem 33%, Rep 22%, Ind 40%

D+11? Indies at 40% of the sample?

McMahon is +3 in a poll with D+11?

Believe this one is looking like it'll go in the win column.

Here's a particularly choice "question" from the poll:

"41. In order to reduce the federal budget deficit, do you support or oppose raising income taxes on households making more than $250,000 per year? "

Gosh, toadies for baraka much?


Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 28, 2012 10:47 AM (ksERZ)

133 I want that DNC to go on and be broadcast everywhere because its going to be a disaster of freaky leftist radicals. They're going to put their full hippie on display and its going to confirm a lot of what people suspect about Democrats. Let your freak flag fly, Dems. Put a Greenwich Village artiste up there to do her interpretive dance to a poem on the glorious of abortion. Get more Muslim prayers going and have a long speech on the meaning of the word rape, repeat that word a lot - people LOVE that. Go to it people. The Wellstone Memorial would have worked, they just didn't push hard enough.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:48 AM (r4wIV)

134 Western CT, largely composed of high-income bedroom communities for the NYC investor class, used to be traditionally moderate GOP (Chris ShaysÂ’ and Nancy JohnsonÂ’s old districts) but has gone over to the Dems as the national party became more Southern, evangelical, and socially conservative is anyone else old enough to remember when the GOP was the pro-Choice party and the Dems were the lifers?

Posted by: Avi at August 28, 2012 10:48 AM (51xVX)

135 Ewok Sighting! http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/little-bit-of-creepy-7.jpg

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 28, 2012 10:48 AM (136wp)

136 125 Wheatie, Mitt can use food and shale to undermine th trade deficit and offer tariff retribution if they get hard

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 10:48 AM (LRFds)

137 good Lord.... what the hayl just happened?

The point was McMahon is up 3 in a poll with a Dem +11 sample.

Sorry folks.

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (ksERZ)

138 @133.  That's one big post.

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (smvTK)

139

>>I doubt if they hung out much there. As I said, it was all bums and winos in 72.

 

Tra-la-la-la-la Spaghetti!

Posted by: Troutfishing in America Charlie at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (ncJgk)

Posted by: Just Testing at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (Vr3cm)

141
# 115

"China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations." So wait, the murderous Marxist dictators don't like Romney?

Sold!

It's kind of doubtful Romney is going to be bowing to any despots, or selling America's future away in the hopes that some deranged moonbat that steeps tea from his own socks will come out of his cave to vote for him.

So far....Chavez lurves him some JEF, as does Zombie Castro. And Putin. China, of course.

That's quite a distinguished stable of endorsements the jug-eared shitweasel has amassed, and all the more reason to send him and the Mooch packing come January.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (L7hol)

142 He said that the Supreme Court had ruled that treaties have the same precedence in US law as constitutional amendments and so would overturn the 2nd Amendment. "Because the Supremacy Clause."


BION, in the original ruling on the Migratory Bird Treaty the SOBs did rule that.  After the country went into an uproar and an effort was mounted for an amendment to kill that ruling they reversed on another case.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:49 AM (YdQQY)

143 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (8y9MW)

144

When Obama is an ex president, he's going to be like...

I don't even have to say, because everyone here knows who.

No. Obama is going to be his own, unique train-wreck.

Posted by: fluffy at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (O6q63)

145 I don't even have to say, because everyone here knows who.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 02:46 PM (EAk6R)



Well I for one certainly don't know who you speak of.  I do know that jooos are evil murderers and that when the current president is an ex president, he will make known his opinion is the same as mine.

Posted by: Jimmah Cartah at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (/YJYi)

146 Posted by: Chariots of Toast

Ok, your turn in the barrel. Now get.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (Q/1Jp)

147 139 "@133. That's one big post."

Yeah, apologies for that- no more cut n' paste fah me. Eeeeesh.

Posted by: Chariots of Toast at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (ksERZ)

148 I think Dick Morris a (lower case) moron. I heard him on what, Hannity(?) a few weeks ago talking about the UN Small Arms Treaty. He said that the Supreme Court had ruled that treaties have the same precedence in US law as constitutional amendments and so would overturn the 2nd Amendment. "Because the Supremacy Clause."

That's so fucking wrong I looked up a transcript later because I thought I misunderstood. I didn't. He's just grossly ignorant.

You'd think that if you were going to go on a national radio show and talk about a subject matter, you'd make sure you knew what you were talking about. Apparently not.

I think he's basing this on a law that was past in the early 20th Century relating to migratory birds; SCOTUS found it unconstitutional.  A treaty doing the same thing was signed by POTUS and approved by the Senate.  SCOTUS ruled that the treaty was constitutional (forgot their reasoning).  All of this was pre-FDR, I believe.

This may be where Morris is coming from.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (wcP2i)

149 @121

Thanks a lot, fuck up my beach trip and opening day dove season.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo-intellectual at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (3ZjAP)

150 Dick Morris is wrong so often I'm amazed he gets anyone to pay any attention to him at all. He's pretty good on just plain polling data but any interpretation or predictions and he's like 1 for 80.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:50 AM (r4wIV)

151
121 Schadenfreude requires Charlotte to be the target of next week's hurricane:
Don't really wish severe weather on anyone, even Democrat-Socialists, actually.
Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 02:45 PM (smvTK)


It would be named Hurricane Kenya, yes?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 28, 2012 10:51 AM (7GfKM)

152 DO.NOT.PASTE.DIRECTLY.FROM.WORD!

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:51 AM (YdQQY)

153 Gabe is full of it as usual. In February Romney was reeling because of the primaries. They rose somewhat after the primaries ended, but have remained rather low for months.

Posted by: Reality Check at August 28, 2012 10:51 AM (hvzWz)

154 The faux disaster reporting should be hilarious though. Remember the shit they tried to pull last year.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 02:46 PM (zrO2Q)



Isn't there a clip out there of some reporter in a canoe, talking about flooding, and a bystander walks through the clip in like ankle deep water?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (da5Wo)

155 "If Pluto aint a planet, CT aint a state, and Rhode Island is just too sad to contemplate."
Western states have COUNTIES bigger than most of the northeastern states combined.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (r4wIV)

156 So far....Chavez lurves him some JEF, as does Zombie Castro. And Putin. China, of course. The Muslim Brotherhood, too. They've got to be HUGE fans.

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (FcR7P)

157 I'm  already  in  NOLA  and  will  be  pointing  out  the  dead  bodies  floating  in  the   river. 

Posted by: Shepard Smith at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (msPO3)

158 The Rules Committee has voted to accept the compromise.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (YjDyJ)

159 Weeping vagina is here.

Posted by: toby928© at August 28, 2012 10:52 AM (QupBk)

160 Yeah don't use Word for HTML-ready posting or writing. It pukes just mountains of useless and annoying code on top of everything.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (r4wIV)

161 Oh, hey everyone REaliTy cHeck is here to keep it real!!

He's about to break us off some TROOF!

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (Q/1Jp)

162 152 Dick Morris is wrong so often I'm amazed he gets anyone to pay any attention to him at all. He's pretty good on just plain polling data but any interpretation or predictions and he's like 1 for 80. Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 02:50 PM (r4wIV) i think Morris knows what hes talking about, but he often massages the message to appeal to his audience.

Posted by: Avi at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (51xVX)

163 Contracts should pay twice as much as salary, i.e., $72/hr, because of benefits and taxes and ease of being let go. Take the full-time. Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 02:35 PM (FcR7P) Well, actually the contract offer is on. W2 basis through an IT recruiter, so the taxes will be the same. It could turn into a long term, or convert to full time, but all I'm guaranteed is 3-4 months. A big problem with the contract off is that the interview was over the phone, so I haven't been on locatin or met the people I'd be working with face to face, so I don't have a gut reaction to gauge off of. The contract is with UnitedHealthcare while the salary is with a small to medium sized real estate business. The salary offer's office-space were kinda dingy.

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (zrpqj)

164 obama is going down and going down hard. now our job is to step on him and make sure he and his ideology never get up again. Oh and buy guns, plenty of guns

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (05RcU)

165 Let's not dip each other's balls quite yet. I'm saving the pudding for election night.

Posted by: Hobojerky at August 28, 2012 10:53 AM (1QQfq)

166

>>Isn't there a clip out there of some reporter in a canoe, talking about flooding, and a bystander walks through the clip in like ankle deep water?

 

That was Good Morning America, I think.

Posted by: garrett at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (ncJgk)

167 And people seem to forget that Dick Morris was warning people about Barky's intention with health scare way back even before the inauguration. He wrote a book predicting the illegal fiasco the was allowed to unfold and was the toughest fighter against that piece of shit long before any "conservative" even thought to worry about it. I understand that people don't like Dick Morris but for them to ignore and deny how he tried to help America during that whole episode and was one of this nation's strongest defenders and offered the clearest and most direct warnings for the longest time just baffles me. Dick Morris has worked as hard for conservative values since Barky's sliming into office as anyone - and that's even while he admits that he is still a Democrat at heart but had to leave the America-hating, socialist scum that that party has become. Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 02:47 PM (X3lox) Agreed. That's why I was pretty flabbergasted when he came out so strongly knowing he was once a Clinton toady. Yes. He's a Scoop Jackson Democrat.

Posted by: Just Testing at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (Vr3cm)

168 27 OT/Life-Coach



Sweet jeebus.  One of my Obamabot SILs is a fucking "life coach."


And she's mean as hell and bat-shit crazy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (UOM48)

169 "China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations."

http://tinyurl.com/9rnts3z

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The Chinese media and Tom Friedman.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (Hx5uv)

170 "When Obama is an ex president, he's going to be like..."

He's going to be like a candidate, because his ego is going to guarantee that he will run again in 2016.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (32do8)

171 Isn't there a clip out there of some reporter in a canoe, talking about flooding, and a bystander walks through the clip in like ankle deep water?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 02:52 PM (da5Wo)



Michelle Kosinski:  http://newsbusters.org/node/2199

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 10:54 AM (X3lox)

172

137125 Wheatie,

Mitt can use food and shale to undermine th trade deficit and offer tariff retribution if they get hard

 

Posted by: sven10077 at August 28, 2012 02:48 PM (LRFds)

 

----------

 

Yep...among other things.

 

I would also hope to see China's status as a "Developing Nation"....removed.

They have a fucking Space Program!

It's outrageous that they keep getting classified as a 'Developing Nation'.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 10:55 AM (5BAYg)

173 Great minds Morons think alike Vic.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at August 28, 2012 10:55 AM (wcP2i)

174 you know who needs a life coach jane?

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at August 28, 2012 10:55 AM (0FuBj)

175 The, um, summer of love was 67, not 68. 68 was the summer of acid.
I was there in 66 because I'm just that much hipper than the restayaz.

Posted by: comatus at August 28, 2012 10:55 AM (qaVK+)

176 Sweet jeebus. One of my Obamabot SILs is a fucking "life coach."


And she's mean as hell and bat-shit crazy.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 02:54 PM (UOM4



Jane Lynch is your SIL????

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 10:56 AM (da5Wo)

177 They have a fucking Space Program! Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 02:55 PM (5BAYg) Wow, that brings new meaning to a "Mile High' club

Posted by: The Robot Devil at August 28, 2012 10:56 AM (136wp)

178 @TPCarney I spoke too soon. The dissidents are gathering signatures to force a floor vote on a minority report.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (YjDyJ)

179 Jeff B's analysis was quite interesting. Actually Connecticut isn't a "red" or "blue" state but "blue" in the Hartford/Bridgeport corridor and moderately red everywhere else. It's a country vs city thing. The most likely explanation for McMahon is her assiduously-bought name recognition vs the weakness of her non-entity opponent. As for Western Conn (where I live), I doubt they do that much analyzing. There aren't THAT many Romney types around here, even in Darien. A Reagan could carry this state in the right circumstances, much more so than Romney, who is all pastel.

Posted by: Cricket at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (DrC22)

180 China's state-controlled media lashed out at GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney Monday, warning that his policies would poison U.S.-China relations. . "By any standard, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's China policy, as outlined on his official campaign website, is an outdated manifestation of a Cold War mentality," read a commentary in Monday's China Daily. "It endorses the ‘China threat' theory and focuses on containing China's rise in the Asia-Pacific through bolstering the robust U.S. military presence in the region." The Chinese state-owned outlet said that Romney was "provoking" China by promising to supply Taiwan with aircraft and other military platforms and called his China approach "pugnacious." You can judge someone by who his friends and his enemies are

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (05RcU)

181 Somebody cue up Blue Öyster Cult's "This Ain't The Summer Of Love". Oh, wait, here we go: http://youtu.be/3WPStttiLX0 Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 02:40 PM (smvTK) That's one of the best anti-hippy songs!

Posted by: The Political Hat at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (XvHmy)

182 >>>Well plugging a revised CT probability of 50% into the Senate model we get

That's far too optimistic a number.  I would still put this at 60%/40% in favor of Murphy, and that's at best.  You have to remember that Murphy will be able to rely on the natural Dem tilt of the state plus the election year Obama effect.

What gives me real hope, however is the fact that there are so few undecideds in that Quinnipiac poll.  McMahon is already near 49%, not merely leading by something like 44% to 41%, where the undecideds could be expected to 'come home' to the Democrats come November.  Given that she's very near the crest of the wave, Murphy needs to drive her numbers DOWN with attack ads.  And Murphy doesn't have a chance in hell at competing with her in the airwave wars without a massive assist (that would drain beaucoup bucks from other races) from the DNC and its associated Super-PACs. 

You have to give a lot of credit to McMahon and her team, by the way.  I was upset when she won the nomination in 2010, thinking her an imminent disaster and embarrassment.  And indeed she was soundly defeated by Blumenthal, but you need to realize that despite his Vietnam issues he was still the most widely-loved politician in the history of the state, pretty much, running in a year where New England saw (if anything) a mild backlash to the O'Donnell/Angle Tea Party 'craziness' hurt the GOP.  But as a candidate McMahon was shockingly polished and professional.  She destroyed Blumenthal at the debate, never committed any gaffes, and did the best she could against the inevitable WWE-based attacks.

This time, she not only has already been introduced to the state and somewhat immunized from the anti-wrestling stuff, she has been amazingly well prepared.  She was BLANKETING New York City TV with positive ads during the Olympics and even before that -- that's mega-bucks expenditure in America's most expensive market, but hitting the most populous part of CT when Murphy was just some nobody running in a primary.  She's been laying the groundwork on a grassroots level since 2011 too, doing tons of in-person appearances.  Her TV experience has served her well.

Posted by: Jeff B. at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (Z2wcK)

183 Hurricane Sheppy coming up next. 

Should I make popcorn?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (UOM48)

184 The dissidents are gathering signatures to force a floor vote on a minority report.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 28, 2012 02:57 PM (YjDyJ)


Are dissidents = Paul Bots?

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 10:57 AM (YdQQY)

185

124 -

 

They called it the Summer of Love (in '6 precisely because for a few short months, it was.  It didn't last long.  Manson went there precisely because there were so many naive (and to some extent innocent) young hippie chicks who would listen to his b.s. and think him a prophet. 

 

So yeah, the area got ugly real fast, and by late summer kids were begging to get out of there.  Some of them made it.  Some didn't. 

Posted by: BurtTC at August 28, 2012 10:58 AM (TOk1P)

186 I would also hope to see China's status as a "Developing Nation"....removed.
They have a fucking Space Program!
It's outrageous that they keep getting classified as a 'Developing Nation'.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 02:55 PM (5BAYg)



I would reclassify them as a "Festering Boil".  Seriously.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 28, 2012 10:58 AM (X3lox)

187

like hawks who don't like liberals.

 

The best kind of hawks to have.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 28, 2012 10:58 AM (4df7R)

188

China even has their own....Space Station.

 

What other 'Developing Nation' has one of those?

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 10:59 AM (5BAYg)

189 Obama's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it people like him.

Posted by: Stuart Smalley at August 28, 2012 10:59 AM (QbKVX)

190 Well, actually the contract offer is on. W2 basis through an IT recruiter Damn, it's been so long, I'd forgotten contracts were all W-2's thru shells now. UnitedHealthCare sounds a lot more promising and with much more potential than a real-estate business. Good luck!

Posted by: t-bird at August 28, 2012 10:59 AM (FcR7P)

191 Sweet jeebus. One of my Obamabot SILs is a fucking "life coach."


It's more correct to refer them as Vagina Management Consultants.

Posted by: Naomi Wolf at August 28, 2012 11:00 AM (QKKT0)

192 Is that asshat shep on the same terrace as last time? Nice hat shit bird

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (05RcU)

193 I don't know how United Healthcare treats its workers, but as an Insurance Company they were so bad and had so many complaints my company dropped them as a service provider choice.


The Doctors and Hospitals in the area quit accepting them.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (YdQQY)

194

The Summer of Love is over, kids. I know you'd prefer to live in it always but that's just not possible, and the rest of us are starting to worry about you.

 

Actually I think we've gone past the "worrying about you" phase     and are now in the     "you had a chance, kid, now    sit down and shut up before I plant a fist in your     face"    stage.   It's therapeutic.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (4df7R)

195 Obama's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it people like him. that dog was good.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (da5Wo)

196 BREAKING!

MYSTERY SPEAKER IS


http://tinyurl.com/3xfy7ml


You heard it here first!

Posted by: jeremiah Gosh Darn Amerikkka Wright at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (ovpNn)

197 Isn't there a clip out there of some reporter in a canoe, talking about flooding, and a bystander walks through the clip in like ankle deep water?

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 02:52 PM (da5Wo)

 

 

--------------------------------------------

 

 

Yup.  Expect more of the same this year.  Speaking of.  Getting a first-hand, excited report, live from Sheppy right now.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 11:01 AM (zrO2Q)

198 I would also hope to see China's status as a "Developing Nation"....removed. They have a fucking Space Program! We can trade!

Posted by: Barry O, Muslim Outreach Coordinator at August 28, 2012 11:02 AM (FcR7P)

199 obama is going down and going down hard. now our job is to step on him and make sure he and his ideology never get up again. Oh and buy guns, plenty of guns

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My guess is that the lame duck period will be so ugly that the Obamas will have dug themselves a hole that they can never dig out of.

Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2012 11:02 AM (Hx5uv)

200 from a malkin commenter: "‏@DeanClancy #Rule12 & #Rule15/16 still have to be adopted by the full convention. Grassroots can force a floor fight over #RNCpowergrab."

Posted by: cynder ella at August 28, 2012 11:02 AM (oZfic)

201 My guess is that the lame duck period will be so ugly that the Obamas will have dug themselves a hole that they can never dig out of. Posted by: WalrusRex at August 28, 2012 03:02 PM (Hx5uv) I don't care if they can't dig out of it, just as long as America can dig out of it!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 28, 2012 11:03 AM (05RcU)

202 Actually I think we've gone past the "worrying about you" phase and are now in the "you had a chance, kid, bless your heart, now sit down and shut up before I plant a fist in your face" stage. It's therapeutic.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 11:03 AM (da5Wo)

203 China even has their own....Space Station.

What other 'Developing Nation' has one of those?

We have one, ignorant imperialist dog lackey!  And if heroic socialist peoples' dredging operations fail to recover it soon, certain people will be shot.

Posted by: Kim Jong Un at August 28, 2012 11:03 AM (QKKT0)

204 Remember the Katrina looter guy?

http://tinyurl.com/ydjb4xy

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 11:03 AM (UOM48)

205 183 "Murphy doesn't have a chance in hell at competing with her in the airwave wars without a massive assist (that would drain beaucoup bucks from other races) from the DNC and its associated Super-PACs"

I don't know about the PACs, but I thought I read somewhere that Obama had completely dominated the DNC and almost all of the available cash was going to him, to the detriment of the Senate candidates.

Posted by: The Q at August 28, 2012 11:03 AM (B/yDO)

206 186 Are dissidents = Paul Bots? I think some of them are but others are conservative activists concerned about the long-term consequences of the rules in question.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 28, 2012 11:04 AM (YjDyJ)

207 185 Hurricane Sheppy coming up next.

Should I make popcorn?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 02:57 PM (UOM4


Just get him on TV and off my ass.

Posted by: The Chicken at August 28, 2012 11:04 AM (3ZjAP)

208 Shep, you idiot.  Turn your silly hat around.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 28, 2012 11:05 AM (UOM48)

209 When you've lost Connecticut....

Posted by: Big T Party(on vacation) at August 28, 2012 11:05 AM (EhUTA)

210 z.. I would also hope to see China's status as a "Developing Nation"....removed. They have a fucking Space Program! North Korea. Of course, their per capita income is a fraction of China's buck 98.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 28, 2012 11:05 AM (TMB3S)

211 "Let's update, huh? You sound like f***ing hippies who cannot ever shut up about Haight-Ashbury in 1968. The world's page has turned, and you should join us in the current chapter.

The Summer of Love is over, kids. I know you'd prefer to live in it always but that's just not possible, and the rest of us are starting to worry about you."

 

If that isn't a rhetorical slap across the back of the old hat-rack then I don't know what is.

Posted by: Mikey NTH putting on the old hubris and stepping out at August 28, 2012 11:05 AM (hLRSq)

212 I don't care if they can't dig out of it, just as long as America can dig out of it! FILL IT IN!

Posted by: The Guy Who Would Like To Say "FINISH HIM!" at August 28, 2012 11:05 AM (FcR7P)

213 Actually I think we've gone past the "worrying about you" phase and are
now in the "you had a chance, kid,    bless your heart,    now sit down and shut up before I
plant a fist in your face" stage. It's therapeutic.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 28, 2012 03:03 PM (da5Wo)

 

Well remembered, BCochran.  Well remembered.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO Supporter [/i][/u][/b] at August 28, 2012 11:06 AM (4df7R)

214 Problem would be between three and five...looks like a CSPAN ratings grab... http://tinyurl.com/9ulhooc

Posted by: cynder ella at August 28, 2012 11:06 AM (oZfic)

215 New post up. Ace on fire.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 11:07 AM (YdQQY)

216

212 Shep, you idiot. Turn your silly hat around.

 

He must have heard you, Jane.....he turned it around.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 11:08 AM (5BAYg)

217 Obama is the arugula you used to put in your salad, because it impressed that cute coed   you wanted to lay. Now,  4 years later  she's not so hot and you decide to go for the french fries.

Posted by: Roy at August 28, 2012 11:08 AM (VndSC)

218

"And remember, come Thursday, Romney has a whole ton of money to unleash the Cracken with."

 

And even better than that. The Debates... 

Posted by: HH at August 28, 2012 11:08 AM (v+ExF)

219 "But Intrade has Murphy up 33%."

I know this is an AOSHQ meme, but if I'm ever rich, I'm setting some cash aside just for fleecing InTrade suckers.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 28, 2012 11:09 AM (32do8)

220 @ZekeJMiller It appears the rules folks have the signatures for a minority report to rule 12

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at August 28, 2012 11:09 AM (YjDyJ)

221 221 New post up. Ace on fire.

Posted by: Vic at August 28, 2012 03:07 PM (YdQQY)


Hmm . . . the Valu-Rite vodka, or the water . . . decisions, decisions . . .

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 11:10 AM (smvTK)

222 I don't know about the PACs, but I thought I read somewhere that Obama had completely dominated the DNC and almost all of the available cash was going to him, to the detriment of the Senate candidates.

Posted by: The Q at August 28, 2012 03:03 PM (B/yDO)

 

 

---------------------------------------------

 

 

You thought, correctly.

Posted by: Soona at August 28, 2012 11:10 AM (zrO2Q)

223 It's outrageous that they keep getting classified as a 'Developing Nation'.

Posted by: wheatie at August 28, 2012 02:55 PM (5BAYg)

When you hate the US enough, it is easy to classify China as a developing nation!

Posted by: Hrothgar (Dagny Aficionado ) at August 28, 2012 11:11 AM (Cnqmv)

224

What is a better job offer?
$72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute?
Or...
$40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute?

 

Take the full time job.  Unless there is garanteed overtime of 60-72 hrs a week, you will lose money on the contract job.  Remember contract work does not include benefits like VACATION AND SICK TIME.  You are responsible for all the taxes and paperwork too. 

Posted by: rd at August 28, 2012 11:11 AM (9sUlj)

225 Dave: If Obama loses, I think he's done--especially if Romney gets 300+ EV or puts Obama below 200. (I don't expect that to happen, but I believe Ace's preference cascade has more than a 10 percent, say, probability. With a less in-the-bag media, I would give it a greater chance.)

Being black in the Democratic Party is a tremendous advantage, but there's no way Obana comes back from that kind of loss to win in 2016. Losing at all will be hard to overcome.

I also don't think Obama will want to work that hard again. This go round he's had it easy in the primaries, and the fund-raising is still cutting into his leisure time. He'll have to campaign for more than two years with much less chance of getting anything for his efforts.

Posted by: Nicholas Kronos at August 28, 2012 11:13 AM (EAk6R)

226 The funniest part to me was that there was a Gap at Haight & Ashberry. With a sign that says “no trades”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 28, 2012 11:13 AM (QF8uk)

227 What is a better job offer?

$72k salary at a full time position that is 35 minute commute?

Or...

$40/h at an open ended contract that is 50 minute commute?

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 28, 2012 02:26 PM (zrpqj)

I'd go with the $72k position unless significant over-time is anticipated.  Fringe benefits and fuel savings would probably make up the difference because $40/hr is approximated $80k/year.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop at August 28, 2012 11:17 AM (3P3G8)

228 Best anti-hippie song, by the Meatmen:
http://youtu.be/WNRXEGzKa5s
Punk, nsfw.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at August 28, 2012 11:17 AM (r4wIV)

229 shep is wearing a hat because his toupee flew off during katrina.......

Posted by: phoenixgirl at work, team dagny at August 28, 2012 11:19 AM (0FuBj)

230 Well, maybe the media DO just love to talk about Obama's likability, but that doesn't mean it's not real. If you think it's such a farce, then how do you explain the fact that the polls still have him equal to or ahead of Romney? It can't be due to his competence!

Posted by: Cornfed at August 28, 2012 11:24 AM (Hoy9u)

231 Here's what I believe about "likeability."

Most people know the Media is completely in the tank for Obama.  The Media wants Obama reelected, along with all the other Dems.  

So, the Media calls the Voter for a poll.  "Do you like President Obama?"

The Voter remembers how Joe the Plumber was treated by the Media.  The Voter likely thinks that if he says, "No, I don't find him likeable," the Media will thank him, then move on to the next person to call.  If that person says he likes Obama, the Media can easily say, "Did you know your neighbor at 123 Main Street doesn't like Obama?  What do you think you can do about that?"

The Voter, having thought all that, says "Yeah, I like Obama."

It's not that big a mystery really.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 28, 2012 11:25 AM (P7hip)

232 ######BREAKING NEWS########

Posted by: Barack Obama is still a stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure at August 28, 2012 11:27 AM (qxcKC)

233 "BION, in the original ruling on the Migratory Bird Treaty the SOBs did rule that. After the country went into an uproar and an effort was mounted for an amendment to kill that ruling they reversed on another case."

You seem to be referring to Missouri v. Holland, 252 US 416 (1920). Without access to Westlaw or anything right now, here is part of the holding summary from Wiki: "Treaties made by the federal government are supreme over any state concerns about such treaties having abrogated any states' rights arising under the Tenth Amendment."

That's "when states' rights conflict with federal treaty-making power, the feds rule the day." That is NOT "treaties trump the constitution." (which was very firmly reiterated in Reid v. Covert, 354 US 1 (1957) ("There is nothing new or unique about what we say here. This Court has regularly and uniformly recognized the supremacy of the Constitution over a treaty." Followed by a footnote listing five other cases, including Marbury, and this even though the case at bench was about executive agreements and not treaties.)

Federal treaties (when self-executing, which most are not) have the same precedence as any other Act of Congress. When federal law conflicts with a treaty, the most recently enacted one controls. It's actually extremely simple.

But anyway, the guy's premise was completely, un-supportably, ridiculously false and he did nothing but rile up the ignorant (like my dad, who believed this absurdity because "it's Dick Morris!"), perpetuate a falsehood, and make himself look stupid to everyone else. And as someone else mentioned, he's very often wrong in his prognostications.

Not a winner in my book, and no one to quote for support.

Posted by: dawnfire at August 28, 2012 11:27 AM (eEeH7)

234 Cory Booker.

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 11:29 AM (smvTK)

235 240 Cory Booker.
Wrong thread.  Time to switch from caffeine to alcohol, obviously.

Posted by: filbert at August 28, 2012 11:30 AM (smvTK)

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

Posted by: steevy at August 28, 2012 11:56 AM (6o4Fb)

237 According to RCP, there's now THREE polls showing Obama up only 7-8 pts in CT, when he won by, what, 20+ last time?

Posted by: AussieMarcus at August 28, 2012 01:41 PM (RstsB)

238 Re: 243. Yes, Obama won CT 60-39 last time. As a CT resident living in a suburb of New Haven, I have seen very few Obama12 number stickers so far this election season. My career puts me in contact with a diverse cross-section of the electorate and I can tell you people are not happy with Obama. Last time, it was like the whole state was in a trance. Ironically, I've seen nearly as many pro-Romney and anti-Obama bumper stickers as well. Do I think Romney wins CT? Doubtful. I guessing it will end up low single digits though.

Posted by: Love Reggie at August 28, 2012 02:27 PM (JMt7S)

239 italics test

Posted by: John at August 30, 2012 11:03 AM (9196u)

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