I thought it might be interesting to get a sense of the basic current view of Internet prognosticators of the Electoral College outcomes. Three Blue Dudes provides an overview to 84 sites on the web that use various methods to project trends in the Electoral College. Twenty-one of those web sites updated their projections yesterday, September 22. Of those 21 sites, 17 gave Obama the advantage in the Electoral College, two gave the advantage to McCain, and two projected a tie. Neither of the sites that saw an advantage for McCain projected he had enough electoral votes to claim the presidency: just that he had an advantage among the states they felt they could project. The average Electoral College projections for the 21 sites that updated their projections yesterday were these:
Obama 262.5
McCain 234.8
Ten of the 21 sites included estimates of toss-ups in their projections. Those 10 sites had an average 83.7 toss-up electoral votes.
Dear Debbie Downers, Chicken Littles, and Concern Trolls:
Ah! The Golden Age! The gist of it is that our economy and housing markets are so ridiculous that we have the largest proportion of middle class AND employed homeless in our nation’s history. Lose your house while having a job! Single mothers and retirees sleeping in their cars, going back to work just to pay for cell phone service so they can talk to their children.
All of the glorious trappings you’d think would go along with living in the greatest nation on Earth during its “Golden Age”.
Yeah.
(cough, cough, cough)
Right.
It’s no secret that China and the U.S. of A have been in a bit of a pissing contest for global domination since the fall of “Mapofsomecountryonhisbaldhead-land”. Both nations have their pros and cons, and history will show whether America, with its freedom of the spineless press, “non-intrusive” goverment, and erotic “Battlestar Galactica” fan-fiction….
…. will triumph over our competitors to the east, with their cheap labor, epic game shows, and unquestioned dumpling superiority.
We’re in serious shit here.
China owns us.
Hell, they paid for our “war”.
This isn’t about me. Nor is it about you.
It’s about our country. It’s about the times we live in.
I’m not going to beg nor can you get me to pay you off with kindness and serious ass kissing.
Sorry boyzzz, but I’m not a whore. Attention or other. If I was, I’d be elsewhere having indiscriminate sex on a regular basis, instead of visiting here in my spare time so as to avoid mundane chores like washing dishes, mowing the lawn and trying to raise a family. I will always think fondly of you as the people who doggedly broke the concern troll record in the liberal blogosphere while displaying the crappiest political instincts and analysis this side of Flowbee. At least he doesn’t take himself seriously.
Look at that bowl haircut of his.
No hard feelings. I’m sure you’re proud of yourselves.
It’s not that hard really. If you give a fuck, you pick a candidate and work like hell to help him get elected.
If you say you’re a Democrat well then, the choice is easy.
You go to the voting booth. You pull the lever for Obama/Biden.
This is not hard.
It’s a little thing called…
…voting for the candidate you believe to be best for our country!
Ta-daaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Or choose the other guy and leave us the fuck alone to while we try to save this place from disaster. Let the “cult of personality” be the deciding factor when choosing a candidate. I don’t give a fuck. But stop pretending to care about our party when you only care about yourself.
I didn’t make the G.E. rules up! Hell if it was up to me we’d settle it with a combination dance-fight. It’s the only sensible way. We’ll need an enclosed arena and a very short rope. Like Westside Story ( P.R. represent!), only with plastic light sabers and “luchador” masks.
The weapons should be limited to these plastic light sabers. If a candidate kills the other one with one of those, it shows how bad they want it (I really like the plastic light sabers idea).
We can’t have the VP’s slug it out though.
No way.
Palin fucking scares me.
She DID Teach Daniel-San The Crane Kick.
“If we lose that would pretty much destroy the whole ‘2 party’ system right away. The UN would have to send in peacekeepers to intervene, but the Republicans would just mount their blue-helmeted heads right next to their many, many Democrat trophies.”
Yeah, I get it chicken little chicken shit troll.
We suck at winning elections.
Stop whining about it and let’s do something about it.
I leave you with one of spacemanspiff’s epic analogies :
Have you ever been fucked violently in the ear?
And then your friend comes in and, instead of helping, starts telling you what the guy’s balls look like?
That’s you.
You’re that friend.
I want you to protect me from getting fucked, and all you’re saying is “Balls, balls balls.”
This is as close to an official statement as we will get on the VP issue between now and November. In an appearance today on The View, former President Bill Clinton revealed that Hillary never really wanted to be vice-president, but would have accepted the job out of a sense of duty.
Though to my credit Jerome was saying someone was mentally ill and that isn’t cool by any means.
So I am swamped like usual and my coordinator is expecting me to be a genius in calculating changes in conductance, I hate my life and am taking an hour break.
This is not like SmS’s Epic diary, but is a means for me to be happy
Watching Barack Obama talking about the economy right now, has suddenly made it very clear what we must do. Obama is laying it out in his speech. I will link it when I can find it.
My first impression of the speech is very positive, and gives me the hope that Obama now has the issue he will win on. He needs to hammer this issue every possible moment. He needs to articulate how he will fix the economy, show the country how the republican brand is wholly responsible for the current crisis, and get Congressional Democrats (and any republicans who want to keep their jobs) to support a comprehensive, thoughtful, and fair solution to our economic woes.
In order to make this happen, we must make Congress reject the bush/Paulson ‘good old rich boy bail out’ they have currently proposed and work with Obama to come up with the afore mentioned plan.
Back when I was still home, I used to love getting into primary battles with the girl I used to work with. Me for Obama, her for Hillary. It was all in jest. Everyone knew in the end we’d vote for the same candidate, no matter which Democrat is was.
At least that’s what I thought. Sarah Palin has become the shiny new object in front of every stupid person’s eyes, even this girl I used to work with apparently, because she is “such an inspiration”, she has inspired her to not only hate Obama, but hate the other Democrat she used to support too.
An utterly amazing five minutes of slice and dice, and not from the usual cast of Democratic characters. Note how Donna wisely sits back and basks in the conservative outrage.
I believe what we have happening is a new Big Lifeboat Party as the economic tsunami threatens to swamp all boats and even the George Wills of the world don’t want a mad man at the helm.
You almost have to laugh watching this much outrage coming out of Hollywood. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to the sleazy tabloids or the innumerable useless factoids about celebrities, but I have to admit, I’m enjoying the smackdown they’re giving Sarah Palin. Since the primaries ended, Hollywood has remained relatively quiet about the presidential race — until, of course, John McCain decided to put Palin in the spotlight. She is anathema to everything our liberal stars hold dear: her political ideology is positively prehistoric, the sort of positions born of nightmares. So naturally, our stars are reacting accordingly.
Here we have Gina Gershon toting a gun and wearing some kind of bathing suit. Clearly a devastating blow to the McCain campaign.
