Election 2012 Predictions

[Fpqxz]

Romney is so bourgeois he makes David Cameron look like a commoner.

This made me LOL, mainly because it is true.

Anyway, I'm not terribly impressed with election predictions.  Mathematical models are only as good as the assumptions and variables they include.  Besides, the election is still more than two months away, and a lot can happen in two months.

[m52nickerson]

Sandman's allegory reminded me of this article for some reason.  Andrew Sullivan picks apart Obama's critics on both sides.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html

[Old Viking]

The government is totally dysfunctional.  It makes no goddamned difference who wins.  The game is over, folks. Go home.

[Barbarella]

If we show the world the 2012 GOP Platform, that'll really tilt things in Obama's favor! That's some scary stuff, right, there!

[cheese007]

I'm almost certain Romney will win, because there are far more crazies in this country then we like to admit. That, and they all vote.

[nickiknack]

I'm not worried. At this point I really don't care who wins. This country is on a path of destruction, if "the people" want to screw themselves over let them, they get what they deserve.

[Rabbit of Caerbannog]

I'm not worried. At this point I really don't care who wins. This country is on a path of destruction, if "the people" want to screw themselves over let them, they get what they deserve.

I'm also in the cynical "We're Fucked Department", but I'll save that for another thread.

[nickiknack]

You know the funny thing is that I used to be a wide eyed optimist, even so that I have a degree in American Politics, now I'm like "Fuck this shit". I still believe in progressive politics, but not like I used to.

[Stormwarden]

I know we're screwed no matter who wins, but I'm gonna keep fighting anyway, fuck it. It's an infinitesimal chance that it might change things, but it's still a chance.

[RavynousHunter]

I'm not worried. At this point I really don't care who wins. This country is on a path of destruction, if "the people" want to screw themselves over let them, they get what they deserve.

So...I, a person that hasn't voted in the 4 years he's been able to, deserve to be fucked because of other people's poor decision-making abilities?  You seem to forget that this shit doesn't just affect the people who vote, but every-fucking-body in the nation, including you.

My question to you is this: what have I, myself, done to deserve being metaphorically fucked in the ass dry by my own government?

[nickiknack]

Hey, I haven't voted in 4 years also, but if people want to to destroy the country, let them.You want to try to stop them, get out and vote. I'm tired of worrying over who will win. Personally, I would love for them to put their money where their mouth is for once and secede from the union. I'm at the point that I feel they should be barred from recieving any type of social safety net, given that they're extremely ungrateful fuckwits.

[VirtualStranger]

Here's a question... which does the religious right hate more?  Mormonism, or Islam?

Mormons are white. Muslims are brown.

Take a guess.

[Witchyjoshy]

Here's a question... which does the religious right hate more?  Mormonism, or Islam?

Mormons are white. Muslims are brown.

Take a guess.

It was more so a rhetorical question to confirm what all of us already knew

[largeham]

Romney being a stereotypical capitalist isn't a bad thing for the (both really) party's base: business owners, small and large.

I don't see where they favor small businesses.  Actually, I don't see whom they favor aside from super-rich males.

They don't, but small business owners think they do. They think that tax breaks for the rich and attacking worker's rights will help them (the former won't, the latter will).

[RinellaWasHere]

I still haven't reached "We're all fucked" levels of cynicism. In a couple years, after I graduate, if liberalism really does fail, then I'll run to the slightly greener pastures of the UK or Canada. Hell, if Scotland is independent then I might even move there if I agree with the politics.

(Note- I'm not saying I support Scottish independence: I don't know enough about the issue to really decide. I just know there's a chance of it occurring or at least getting a referendum soon.)