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Victoria Jackson Is Not Coming Back.

The Winner And Still...

President Of The United States...

Update by Mr. Brown: The folks over at Blogs For Victory are taking it well...

Update By The Count: Sorry for the lack of Live Blogging tonight but obviously it's been a great night. It looks like it will end up 332-206 For Obama. Though Florida won't be called until tomorrow. The final popular vote will be close but that is not the way we elect the President our system blows. However the President will also claim a small victory there.

Election Night In 'Merica

Barack "Hussein" Obama

VS

Willard "Mitt" Romney



All thoughts on the election go here. 

The Count 5:31 CT PM
Oh Nos! Romney has only written a victory speech.

The Count 5:39 CT PM
I am going with MSNBC tonight. as much as Madow can get on my nerves with her concern
trolling. Lords knows she's better than either Fox or Fox light.

The Count: 6:04  PM CT: Romney wins Indiana and Kentucky and Obama wins Vermont. 19-3 Romney. 

The Count 7:45 PM CT. Linda McMahon once again learns that you can not buy a political office. Still in love with her daughter but she has wasted millions. Oh well. 

The Count: 6:36 PM CT.  West Virginia and South Carolina go Romney 33-3 Romney. 

WE WENT OVER 100,000 PAGE VIEWS! Yeah Yeah I know in 6 years that is awful. :) but congratulations us!

Everything But The Scoreboard Says We Beat Ohio State!

Election 2012 The Prediction Thread

The Count:  I have faith in the majority of American people that they will do the right thing.I don't have nearly the faith in the vote counters. we are already seeing the bull shit being pulled in Ohio and Florida. I am the kind a person that feels very confident about about an event until it gets close then I get nervous. I am nervous about this election again from the stand point of who is counting the votes. I don't see any kind of a landslide in terms of national or electoral votes. If Romney wins it's razor thin. If Obama wins I think predictions of 332-206 are a little wide.

My prediction: I like Obama by 3 to 4% nationally and 290-248 electoral vote 2012 Presidential Election: Electoral Map: This map displays the projections of the sender and does not reflect the opinions of 270toWin.

Mr. Brown: Originally, I was going with 290, same as The Count, but maybe Obama can win both Colorado and Virginia, so i'm going to say 303 electoral votes, with Obama winning 2% nationally.

With friends like these...

By now you've heard about Richard Mourdock and his comments about abortion and rape, but for those who've just been awaking from a 24-hour slumber, here's the jist of what he said: at a debate in Indiana, Republican candidate Mourdock was asked his opinions on the issue of abortion, to which he basically said he was staunchly pro-life. If only he had left it at that....

Yeah, you heard that correctly: he said, and I quote: "The only exception I have to have an abortion is in the case is in the life of the mother. I struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize that life is a gift from God. I think that even in the horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."

What he basically just said was that if a woman is brutally forced upon another man and said result is an unwanted pregnancy, then that's just something God planned for the victim. Our God is a loving, caring sociopath, isn't he?

Of course, any sensible person within the GOP would distance themselves away from such a despicable comment, but this is the the GOP: they welcome back their chauvinistic pigs running for office (see: the party backing Todd Akin despite his comments on "legitimate rape" and not knowing a damn thing about a woman's reproductive system) . Today, members of the Right, from Senate Minority Leader McConnell to former Presidential candidate John McCain have stood behind their candidate to replace Dick Lugar's Senate seat. Enter Mark Noonan and the aslyum known as Blogs for Victory.com praising what Mourdock said last night. 

Game Changer!

The Face Of Today's Republican Party

Meatloaf Endorses Mitt Romney!!!!

Colin Powell Backs Obama, John McCain Loses It

The news story today:

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed President Barack Obama for a second term Thursday.
"You know, I voted for him in 2008 and I plan to stick with him in 2012, and I'll be voting for he and Vice President Joe Biden next month," he said on CBS' "This Morning."
Asked whether it was an endorsement, he said, "Yes."
Powell praised the president's handling of the economy and ending of the Iraq War.
"I think we ought to keep on the track we are on," he said.
Powell said he had the "utmost respect" for Mitt Romney, but criticized his tax plan.
He said Romney's foreign policy was a "moving target." "One day he has a certain strong view about staying in Afghanistan, but then on Monday night he agrees with the withdrawal. Same thing in Iraq. On every issue that was discussed on Monday night, Gov. Romney agreed with the president with some nuances. But this is quite a different set of foreign policy views than he had earlier in the campaign."

John McCain didn't take the news too well, telling Fox News that the decorated soldier/former member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had tarnished his legacy by endorsing Obama.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) ripped Colin Powell for endorsing President Obama again, saying the former Secretary of State had “harmed” his legacy by doing so.
“General Powell, you disappoint us and you have harmed your legacy even further by defending what is clearly the most feckless foreign policy in my lifetime,” McCain said Thursday on the Kilmeade and Friends radio program. 

Really? This coming from the man who picked an unprepared nitwit as his running mate four years ago, and had the campaign devolve into dog-whistling politics the last leg of the race? Please, Senator, you have no leg to stand on here.

Another GD Debate

All thoughts go here. Personally I know who I am voting for... Lourdes Stephen

Thank You Yoga Frog!

but feel free to discuss anyway. 

Mitt Romney "People Like Bristol Palin To Blame For Gun Violence"

And he keeps a binder filled with women...

The Count On Ms Dash

I think Stacey Dash is well entitled to vote for Mitt Romney with out taking any grief from anybody but why is this a story? I know for a damned fact, because I follow them, that celebrities on twitter who make left leaning statements also take untold amounts of grief for their tweets. The difference is they don't go crying to the media because A. they can handle it and B.  If you're a liberal the media doesn't care.  And for the record  just who the fuck is Stacey Dash

Fox & Friends: The Mainstream Media Are Fixing the Poll Numbers!

Breaking news: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt!

After a raft of new polls showed Obama opening up leads in swing states, the Friends flew in to full-blown conspiracy mode about what’s really behind the data.
Parroting the latest Republican meme that national polls oversample Democrats, host Steve Doocy threw in to the mix the possibility that pollsters are using voter turnout from 2008 to guide who they should be asking. And why would the “left-based mainstream media” do this? Doocy had an answer.
“Well, two reasons,” he said. “One, perhaps, to keep Mitt Romney’s donors from coughing up more cash. And two, to keep people from doing early voting.”
Co-host Gretchen Carlson had another theory: “I do think there’s a subliminal message in these daily polling things, which isn’t always great for the voter.”

That's right, folks: Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson believe that every pollster from NBC/Washington Post to Quinipiac are somehow deliberately inflating poll numbers to make President Obama  look like he's running away with the electoral college tally, and thus, the election itself. Does Pres-O have these guys on speed dial on his Blackberry or something? But Fox, being the right-wing propaganda machine "fair and balanced" news network that we all know they are, have the real numbers to bust the liberal media's gross distortion that the race isn't a blowout, but a close one that Mitt Romney is quick gaining ground-oh, wait....

So, by the duo's own logic, the company they work for must also be deliberately skewing poll numbers to make Obama look like he's going to win Election 2012, and in similar fashion as he did in 2008. The comedy, as they say, writes itself.

Big News in Ohio and Florida

And it isn't good news for the Romney/Ryan ticket.

A batch of new polls from two key battleground states produced some of the largest leads yet for President Barack Obama, drawing criticism from the campaign of Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
In Ohio and Florida, the new surveys from The Washington Post and the polling partnership of CBS News, The New York Times and Quinnipiac University show Obama leading by margins approaching double-digits.
While the margins produced by these and other surveys vary, they collectively point to a consistent underlying trend: Big gains in enthusiasm among Democratic partisans have helped boost Obama since the party conventions.
In Florida, a state widely considered a must-win for Romney, results ranged from a whopping 9 point Obama lead (53 to 43 percent) on the new CBS/Times/Quinnipiac poll, to a 4 point Obama advantage on the Washington Post poll (51 to 47 percent), to a much narrower 1 point edge for Obama (48 to 47 percent) on a Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald/Mason Dixon poll.

Of course, we have six weeks left to go until Election Day and anything can happen in that timespan, but i'm certain this is the last place the Romney campaign wanted to be in. Instead of closing the gap and keeping the race as air tight as possible, this is looking similar to 1996 all over again, where Bubba handed Bob Dole a electoral ass-kicking.

Of course, when faced with damning numbers like this in key battleground states, it only makes sense to try and put the best spin you can on the latest numbers: deny, deny, deny!

For the Romney campaign, Tuesday brought yet more bad news from the Buckeye state: a new Washington Post poll showed the Republican presidential nominee trailing President Barack Obama by eight points in this critical battleground state, with 52 percent of Ohio voters in favor of giving the incumbent another four years.
Before Mitt Romney's plane touched down at the Dayton airport today, two top aides were dispatched to the press cabin to put out possible fires the numbers might have sparked.
"The public polls are what the public polls are," Romney Political Director Rich Beeson told reporters. "I kind of hope the Obama campaign is basing their campaign on what the public polls say. We don’t. We have confidence in our data and our metrics."
What the Romney team’s data indicated about Ohio, Beeson wouldn't say. He argued that Romney was inside the margin of error here “by any stretch,” and dismissed the much-hyped Obama ground game in Ohio as activity confused with progress.

Translation: they've seen the numbers and done the math, and their boy is in deep shit.

On a more important note: Yesterday was National Voter Registration Day, and if you haven't yet: please, register to vote. I don't care who you vote for in the national election or what your views are. Just vote and let your voice be heard. Don't take this simple, yet powerful way of voicing your opinions on national, state, and local matters for granted.

Chaos On Bulls^*t Mountain!

Jon Stewart brilliantly takes on Fox News's spin doctoring over Romney's message of "let them eat cake" to almost half of Americans who are on some form of government assistance. 

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Mitt Romney Thinks Half of the Country Can Sod Off

What you currently hear right now is the last nail being directly hammered in the coffin of Mitt Romney quest to unseat Barack Obama for President of the United States.

During a private fundraiser earlier this year, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney told a small group of wealthy contributors what he truly thinks of all the voters who support President Barack Obama. He dismissed these Americans as freeloaders who pay no taxes, who don't assume responsibility for their lives, and who think government should take care of them. Fielding a question from a donor about how he could triumph in November, Romney replied:

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax.

Romney went on: "[M]y job is is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."

Yes, you really did read and hear that right: Mitt Romney thinks that half the country that supports President Obama are "dependent upon government, who believe the are victims, believe they are entitled to health care," and that if he's elected, he's not going to give a toss about half of the population that prefer Obama over him and his policies.

Now, faced with his own words, Mitt could have taken time to craft a deeply-felt apology and that his comments were wrong and that he would be a president for all Americans, even the ones that disagrees with his policies. But, as we have learned over the last 24 hours, a statement of this gravitas would require a deep recognition of his comments: how insulting they were and the depths of contempt said statement projected. Or he could have blamed the media for taking an entire statement out of context, the usual route to take when a candidate is faced with an oncoming 2-3 days of negative press in the news cycle. Any one of the solution outlined would have been a vast, vast improvement over the press conference Romney gave hours after the video leaked, in which be basically admitted that he wasn't sorry in the slightest for his reprehensible comments, or for the video capturing every thing he uttered in that private fundraising dinner! It was the equivalent of Chris Brown's infuriating and arrogant single "Deuces", in which Brown says bad things about a girl, then spends the rest of the song telling the ungrateful bitch to take a hike.There was no sense of remorse over his comments, or even the fact the tape was released.

Before the tape, I thought of Mitt Romney as a human chameleon: someone who changes frequently to adapt to his political surroundings and a businessman who cared more about how to keep his friends in the black than about middle and low-income Americans. Afterward, I think he's a spoiled, selfish son of privilege; a man born with a silver spoon in his mouth who only knows his lifestyle of luxury and doesn't really understand, much less care about the plight of ordinary people: the college student taking out student loans (i'm about to head into that process myself very soon) in order to pay for tuition, classes, books and housing among other things, the single mother working two jobs in order to provide for her baby girl, etc. To Mitt, they can go fuck themselves, plus, they're jut lazy mouth-breeders who expect the federal government to bail them out at the drop of a hat, and it's because of this "Let them eat cake," attitude that has the pundits from Bloomberg News to Politico all-but saying that this may have cost him the election.

I'm not saying he's an asshole, or that he's a cruddy human being. I'm sure he's a likable, business-savy person and that he's earned his vast sum of wealth though his venture at Bain Capital. He just doesn't have any business running for President of the United States.

Democratic National Convention - Day 3

Tonight's the grand finale, and all eyes are on the President. How does Obama top what Bill Clinton and Michelle Obama delivers on the convention floor over the last 48 hrs? More importantly: what kind of crazy shit will Grampa Joe say next?

Edit by Jonathan (4:14 pm PT) - One of rock's biggest acts, the Foo Fighters, warming up for tonight's festivities.

 

8:09 CT The Count: John Kerry with one of the finest speeches of his life. The man reminds me of Missouri football in the 1970's  When's he on he can beat anybody. When he's not he can lose to anybody. Tonight he was on. His best line: "Sarah Palin talks like she could see Russia from her window. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia from Rocky 4."Great stuff.

Edit by Jonathan (6:32 pm PT) - Finally, i'm done with the evening class. I should be home in time for the Big Speech.

9:10 CT The Count: Joe Biden had some Joe moments but did fine. Solid speech. I won't lie when he starts I hold my breath.

9:42 CT The Count: Come on Barack say watch you should have said 4 years ago. If you want to get on board and fix this thing get on board but if you don't get the fuck out of the way. You've fucked this thing up enough now let me fix it. 

Piss off Bob. Re-elect Barack Obama

Democratic Convention Day 2.

You know the routine.

Finish this phrase...Let Detroit Go...

Edit by Jonathan (4;00 pm PT) -Tonight, we'll hear Sandra Fluke, Elizabeth Warren, and then Bubba himself. This could get tricky, flipping back and forth between the Cowboys vs. Giants.

Edit by Jonathan (4:20 pm PT) - It looks like the plans to close out the convention at Bank of America Stadium has been scrapped, due to heavy rainfall tonight and continuing all day tomorrow.

Edit by Jonathan (7:02 pm PT) - And here's Sandra Fluke.

Edit by Jonathan (7:25 pm PT) - The only thing missing from Fluke's speech was her dropping the mic. Ballsy and verbally brutal.

And here comes Bill!

Edit by Jonathan: ..................damn, Bubba!

Edit The Count 10:35 PM CT:

Republican Party Here Is Your Ass.

Democratic Convention Day 1.

 

All thoughts go here from all of you great sane people and yes you to Ralph provided you can do better than you did yesterday.

4:55 CT: From The Count OK. I'll say it. When the Democratic party says "we make ending poverty a national priority" That falls on deaf ears to me. The Democratic party which I am a proud member of doesn't do near enough to claim they make "ending poverty a national priority. 

I can almost read the mind of a RWNJ watching this video. "Lose weight fat asses I think I'll re-listen to Rush"

3:57 PT: From Jonathan - Sandra Fluke will be a speaker tonight, along with First Lady Michelle Obama. The keynote speaker will be Julian Castro, the Mayor from San Antonio, Texas and the first time a Latino delivers the keynote address to the DNC.

5:04 CT: Count: Great speech from Cory Booker is so far the highlight of  early day 1. Lot's of let Detroit go bankrupt.

Hear comes Harry Reid!...Slowly.

Harry Reid the first to mention teabaggers. If they won't stand up to Rush or Grover Norquist what would make you think they would stand up for you? Now he's going after Mitt's Taxes. SOLID!

4:40 PT: From Jonathan - In non-DNC converge news...I meant to post this on Saturday, but I forgot, so here it is now: 4 minutes of pitch-perfect, biting satire from Jon Stewart on Clint Eatwood's improvised speech/standup routine.

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8:02 CT: The Count: This is an American Hero





8:56 CT From The Count: Deval Patrick with a powerful speech! The best line... "It's time for Democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe." Afuckingmen!

9:33 CT. From The Count: Julian Castro was fantastic. Up next is the first lady with the final speech of a strong first night. I am in the minority on this I thought Kal Penn was unfunny and unsuccessful. The only real #fail of the night. 

10:11 CT: From The Count Very strong first night capped off with a great speech from the first lady. I'd give the entire night an A-. Great start,

We Are Going To Have BullCra...Democratic National Convention.

It's our turn to spread it around now bitches! Starting Tuesday we will have coverage. I will be watching this one and sharing thoughts from time to time. Of course should anyone else want to join please feel free. Again I want to Thank Mr. Jonathan Holmes for his great RNC coverage.