Romney Closes In On A Landslide Victory
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Crow??????????? With all the yattering I think a couple of ravens would be more appropriate!
Lib advisor to Clinton throwing in towel.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/31/****_morris_romney_will_win_in_a_landslide.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/31/****_morris_romney_will_win_in_a_landslide.html
There's a great line in Citizen Kane about the character who acted a Kane's guardian by one of his cohorts..
something like.. it's not that big a trick to make a lot of money.. if all you want to do with your life is make a lot of money..
and from Kane himself
You know if I hadn't had great wealth thrust on me.. I might have become a truly Great Man.
Frankly Romney's wealth all emanated from a Vulture Fund.. that picked on the carcass of American industry done in by Free Market economics.. shipping jobs offshore.. firing people.. selling off assets.. that proliferated in the decline of the American economy over the last 40 years. I don't think that's much of a credential for President of the U.S.
He just strikes me as another rich Wall Street scumbag. The kind that makes you feel like you need to take a shower if you've been in the same room with them.
I don't consider a Obama a good President... just another in the litany of mediocrities.. without exception, and of both parties.. that have occupied the Oval Office for the last 40 years. I just think he's a smarter politician... but certainly NOT.. a Great President.
Sooner or later the U.S. is going to need someone of Franklin Roosevelt's character.. someone with the courage to use the power of his office to reverse the economic and social free fall the U.S. is in now. No Fee Market nitwit like Romney is going to do that.
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Teddy
Would Romney losing by 20 to 30 electoral votes be considered buried? As in covered by a landslide.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
Would Romney losing by 20 to 30 electoral votes be considered buried? As in covered by a landslide.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
A President losing the popular vote could bury the Challenger in the Electoral College...visa versa.
If that works out, then there really is no hope for the US. Voter intelligence is already at an all time low but I suppose it can get worse. Romney is a very dangerous clown.
Do you think the electoral system serves all Americans or should it be based upon total votes received.
There are a lot of things I like about the US governmental system but the electoral college isn't one of them. I would prefer a simple popular vote. The number of electoral college votes to each state hardly ever changes to reflect changing population which is why you get a president who doesn't win the popular vote.
Not that Canada is any better, we get PMs who cannot even garner 40% of the vote. At least down south a winner usually gets 48% or more.
Look at the states- some are always Red- some are always Blue- Each party panders to their base states and swing states. From the primaries to when they are in Office.
I suspect the number of electoral college votes for a state changes when the ratio of the states pop. to the total population changes. In recent years I would suspect Nevada, Arizona & Florida have probably had a substantial increase.
Of course you were right at the time ................
USA Today Drops Gallup As Its Pollster
USA Today has decided not to renew a polling contract with Gallup that dates back to 1992. We cannot say at this point why USA Today dropped Gallup, but one cannot help but wonder whether Gallup's poor track record has something to do with it.
In case you don't remember, Gallup continuously and incorrectly showed the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, leading during the final month of the 2012 election. Its final poll had Romney leading by a point – five points off the eventual margin of his defeat. The reasons for these errors can be traced back to too tight a likely voter model and an underestimation of minority share of the electorate.
If 2012 was Gallup's only error, I might be more willing to forgive. The fact is that Gallup has only pegged the correct winner in 60% of elections since 1976 – which is not much better than a coin flip. That record drops to 25% since 2000. In four elections since 1976 in which the election margin was less than five points, Gallup has not called the right winner.
Read more: USA Today drops Gallup as its pollster: what took so long? | Harry J Enten | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
