A Bunch of Dummfuccs Dummfuccing All Over Themselves

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

Jim Lehrer "Topic! How do you differ?"

Every topic!

I actually think both guys look kinda shabby tonight - this format definitely lends itself to more detail, but each of these guys seems to be wandering through the time allotments - stream of consciousness style. It's clumsy, and Lehrer is doing a shitty job.

[Geeheeb]

fffffffffffffffffffffffflllllrrrrrr ddddddddd ffffllllllll ppppprrrrrrpppp

[riley-o]

Lehrer is doing a shitty job.

understatement. This should be a career ending performance. He's the equivalent of a football player trying to play as a paraplegic.

[Geeheeb]

bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Zerohero]

I had a salad, with some black olives from a can, wegmanns brand... the spensive kind 1.39 a can.. livin' up (oLIVIN it up) with upgrade on the 89 cent big lots ones.

fettachiniee (big lots) with vodka sauce( big lots) and some $4.99 shrimps from wall mart.

[monsterod]

Cold cut combo. still hungry.

[Geeheeb]

black eyed pea soup with collards and maters from das garden...

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

Romney wins this debate on points and style, though he was dickish, jumpy and hysterical. Obama most likely wins on facts for what that's worth. In pure rhetorical terms this was an old school R v. D debate which was not good for Obama.

D: I will do overly detailed thing which has a distinct probability of working to resolve the problem (adjusts glasses and pocket protector).

R: I WILL SOLVE PROBLEM AND MAKE THINGS GREAT! NO PLAN NECESSARY! OTHER GUY SUCKS!!!

Romney needed this and got it.

[Raw Ting]

yeah but what about Israel

[Geeheeb]

yeah but what about Israel

hhhhhhhhmmmmmmm

[Hossana]

yeah but what about Israel

Foreign policy is another debate. Tonight was about the Economy, and I believe the last one is about the fisting cam at the airports.

[Spooky Apparition]

the only memorable part tonight was when romney said he'd cut jim lerer's funding. granted he won't, and he shouldn't, but it was still more memorable than everything else in that pathetically boring non-debate.

[altars of radness]

I liked Democracy Now's coverage where they cut away from the main debate to give the Green and Justice party candidates a chance to speak. Also from DN, a decent little story on how much of a load of shit the debates are.

http://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/3/a ... ney_debate

[right over there]

downloading this to check it out for myself...

but reading about it today, it is being painted as an outright disaster for obama. (?)

i'm actually embarrassed by my interest.

[Blair]

I don't think I could handle seeing Romney's evil robot head on the news on a regular basis, douchechill hypothermia.

[badgevvrecker]

has anyone read this wonderful article on western politics?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_heuristic

[badgevvrecker]

Weren't the Nazis and Fascists both third parties?

Werent they the status quo after they achieved political dominance?

[Chevalier Mal Fet]

Werent they the status quo after they achieved political dominance?

Actually neither held power for all that long relative to the history of either their countries or ours, and can much more credibly be called an aberration rather than the status quo. Once both of these outside, non-status quo idealistic radical parties became established of course, there were no real elections to contest their rule and so no real "political" dominance was ever achieved. Just naked dominance.

[badgevvrecker]

perhaps you should look up the definition of "de-facto". fascism becomes the POLITICAL (mr. pedant) status quo by default under fascism, because it precludes any other options.

anyway

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... 19-states/

Networks, AP cancel exit polls in 19 states

Breaking from two decades of tradition, this year’s election exit poll is set to include surveys of voters in 31 states, not all 50 as it has for the past five presidential elections, according to multiple people involved in the planning.

Dan Merkle, director of elections for ABC News, and a member of the consortium that runs the exit poll, confirmed the shift Thursday. The aim, he said, “is to still deliver a quality product in the most important states,” in the face of mounting survey costs.
The decision by the National Election Pool — a joint venture of the major television networks and The Associated Press — is sure to cause some pain to election watchers across the country. (For a full list of the states that won’t have exit polls scroll to the bottom of this post.)
Voters in the excluded states will still be interviewed as part of a national exit poll, but state-level estimates of the partisan, age or racial makeups of electorates won’t be available as they have been since 1992. The lack of data may hamper election night analyses in some states, and it will almost certainly limit post-election research for years to come.
A growing number of voters casting early ballots has added to the complexity of carrying out surveys in 50 states, the District of Columbia and nationally. In more and more states it has become crucial to supplement in-person precinct polling with relatively costly telephone interviews in order to achieve representative samples.
In 2008, only 18 states included interviews with early voters, with notable absences in Indiana (24 percent of voters casting early ballots), Wisconsin (21 percent) and Virginia (14 percent), according to early voting estimates by United States Elections Project.
This year, exit pollsters are set to carry out phone polls in 15 states, about half of all states covered, and increase the sample sizes of those polls by 32 percent, according to Merkle. Moreover, the continued rise in the number of voters using cellphones also bumps up the price of phone surveys, another challenge motivating the changes for 2012.
(The Washington Post and other media organizations are subscribers to the exit poll, but not primary sponsors.)
With the inevitable, intense focus on sub-group analysis in the exit poll (e.g., percent of Hispanics voting Democratic and Republican), the consortium also made the decision to increase the number of interviews in the national poll by bumping up the number of randomly selected sampling precincts from 300 in 2008 to 350 this year.
Slicing the number of state surveys for more representative surveys may be a reasonable trade-off — but it will hit hard.
Here is a list of the states that will be excluded from coverage: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
Comparing this list with the election map, reveals how carefully the exit poll planners allocated resources. All 19 of the states with no exit polls are classified as either “solid Obama” or “solid Romney,” and there is only one “toss-up” gubernatorial or U.S. Senate race not on the list: the competitive North Dakota match-up of Heidi Heitkamp and Rick Berg.
Two other contests in the “leaning” Democratic category aren’t on the list: the U.S. Senate race in Hawaii and the governor’s race in West Virginia.

[Necrometer]

Shut the fuck up.

[soiled depends]

shut the fuck up, asshole

[BUNGVOX]

not reading any of that.

my vote is going to sweet lord hitler this year.

[Cryptoplasty]

His sole purpose here now is to get support PMs from The Pope Of Chili Town.

[soiled depends]

I love how he was so proud to get that support pm...

see? see? someone out there likes me!!

[Sharad Amtey]

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