Obama and Romney hit the final stretch

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Luigi_Daniele said:
Bah. It’s going to be a Romney landslide 😃
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I thought the most interesting scenario was this one:
  1. Tie in the electoral vote:
Numbers guru Nate Silver on Sunday gave this outcome only a 0.4 percent chance of occurring, but that’s more risk than a stable country ought to be running. If there is a tie, and neither side can flip a treacherous elector, the choice of the president would fall to the House. In that process, under Article II of the Constitution, each state – from mighty California to tiny Wyoming – would have one vote, determined by a majority of that state’s House delegation. An evenly divided House delegation casts no vote; the winner must receive the votes of 26 states. The choice will be made by the new Congress, which takes office in early January. The math of the current House suggests that the next one would likely produce 26 votes for Romney. In the meantime, the Senate would pick the vice president. Current political math gives an edge to Joe Biden in that count. That’s important because if the House doesn’t produce a winner by January 20, the vice president-elect “shall act as President until a President shall have qualified.”

So the most likely result of a tie is President Romney and Vice President Biden; but Acting President Biden is far from impossible. If neither house can produce a winner, then, under 3 U.S.C. 19, John Boehner is required to resign as speaker of the House and become acting president for the rest of the term. (Of course, if that result was clearly in the works, the Republican House at its first meeting could elect another speaker – even Mitt Romney, as the Constitution doesn’t require the speaker to be a member of the House. But if the situation were that calm, it’s hard to see how both houses would be paralyzed.) If for any reason the House is unable to elect a speaker, then the president pro tempore of the Senate (who is and will remain Senator Daniel Inouye, unless control of the Senate flips) becomes acting president.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
WKMG Orlando (Local Channel 6) reports the following at: clickorlando.com/news/Feds-to-probe-possible-voter-fraud-in-Florida/-/1637132/17086510/-/5x9wgrz/-/index.html

Feds to probe possible voter fraud targeting Republicans in Florida

ORLANDO, Fla. -

Officials in Florida have issued a statewide warning about a new trick trying to prevent voters from going to the polls.

Voters are getting letters that look like they are from local elections offices, questioning their citizenship. But Local 6 has learned the letters are fake, and they are going out across Central Florida and many other parts of the state.

**Officials on Monday said voters who had received the letters thus far are white, registered Republicans who consistently vote in elections.
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“This is a major concern,” said Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel, who received a letter from a voter mailed from Seattle with no return address. “You should not expect a letter from your elections office saying, ‘You’re not registered to vote, please don’t go to the polls.’ That’s ridiculous.”

On Tuesday, the state of Florida said there have been reports from more than 20 counties where voters have received fraudulent letters impersonating supervisors of elections.

“We are working with the state’s supervisors of elections as well as law enforcement to find the source of these letters and put a stop to them. We have provided all of the information we have received to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement,” said Chris Cate, communications director for the Florida Department of State. “We have no tolerance for voter fraud or intimidation, and any attempts at fraud or intimidation will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent possible.”

Inside the letter is the resident’s supervisor of election’s name, the resident’s name and address, and a warning that doubts the voter’s citizenship, saying the resident is not eligible to vote unless a letter is returned in an enclosed form within 15 days.

Some voters said it’s easy to be fooled.

“It looks official,” a Central Florida resident said.

“I would think they were full of it because I would ask for someone to prove it,” said another voter when showed a copy of the fraudulent letter.

East Naples resident Wayne Hoss said he received his letter on Saturday and immediately knew it was a hoax because he was born in the United States. Hoss says the letter included a form seeking personal information, including his Social Security and driver’s license numbers.
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Wait, I thought the ACLU and some other liberal groups has called in the UN election monitors to protect the vote from Republicans???

So who is participating in voter fraud again?
 
markomalley said:
From Breitbart:
’Dilbert’ Author Endorses Romney, Professional Left Freaks Out****Scott Adams, the creator of the popular comic strip “Dilbert,” endorsed Mitt Romney on his blog Wednesday. The reaction he received from liberal news sites was predictably outraged and, in Adams’ hands, hilarious. Adams chronicled the results of his announcement in a series of updates which point out just how absurd the professional left can be when someone goes off the liberal reservation for any reason.

Granted, Adams’ reasons for endorsing Romney aren’t the usual ones you’ll hear from conservatives about growing debt and a slow-speed economic recovery. The issue Adams takes exception to in his post is Obama’s tough stance on medical marijuana. Adams links to a story on the Huffington Post which outlines how the owner of a marijuana “dispensary” in California is facing ten years to life in prison. Adams suggests that Obama, who used pot frequently in high school as part of the “choom gang,” has taken a tough line purely for political expediency.
While Adams has no illusions that Romney plans to embrace marijuana legalization, he does believe Romney is more flexible, more of a political pragmatist. And since the issue in this case is California’s right to effectively legalize pot under the rubric of medical marijuana, Adams hopes Romney might be more open to this kind of states’ rights argument.

Adams’ blog entry is here. Go to the Breitbart article for links to the reactions of the left to that endorsement (incl., Politico, HuffPo, Kos)
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I have long considered Scott Adams as one of America’s most insightful thinkers … even though he admits he is given ideas for his strips from people actually dealing with the anomalies of corporate life and their day to day absurdist adventures.

If elected Romney should consider him for Secretary of Labor and move the office to Adams’ art studio. :dancing:
 
_Abyssinia said:
You know Obama is in trouble when they are falsely blaming racism
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Its disgusting how low they will go. How did Obama get elected if voters are so racist???

I say there is racism on the left for any person of color who does not toe the liberal line.
 
FOX News has learned @Mittromney is planning to run a 30-minute infomercial in TBD battleground states in the coming days
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Senior Romney aides confirm to Carl Cameron that they are planning to run a 30-minute infomercial in key battleground states
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Big deal RT @jonward11: great ? from @RonBrownstein forces Messina to acknowledge polls predicting lower enthusiasm among youth & minorities
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First on CNN: Romney super PAC buys TV time in …5. Maine
First early vote numbers in Colorado show GOP leading 43-34. bit.ly/VAzX2S
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Jeanne_S said:
Rich,you ARE kidding,aren’t you?:eek:
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You haven’t joined the ranks of the wholly humorless ones on the Forum, have you, Jeanne? I hope not. Conservatives with a sense of humor on the Forum are getting to be more and more rarae aves.
 
HansTrappist said:
I thought the most interesting scenario was this one:
  1. Tie in the electoral vote:
Numbers guru Nate Silver on Sunday gave this outcome only a 0.4 percent chance of occurring, but that’s more risk than a stable country ought to be running. If there is a tie, and neither side can flip a treacherous elector, the choice of the president would fall to the House. In that process, under Article II of the Constitution, each state – from mighty California to tiny Wyoming – would have one vote, determined by a majority of that state’s House delegation. An evenly divided House delegation casts no vote; the winner must receive the votes of 26 states. The choice will be made by the new Congress, which takes office in early January. The math of the current House suggests that the next one would likely produce 26 votes for Romney. In the meantime, the Senate would pick the vice president. Current political math gives an edge to Joe Biden in that count. That’s important because if the House doesn’t produce a winner by January 20, the vice president-elect “shall act as President until a President shall have qualified.”

So the most likely result of a tie is President Romney and Vice President Biden; but Acting President Biden is far from impossible. If neither house can produce a winner, then, under 3 U.S.C. 19, John Boehner is required to resign as speaker of the House and become acting president for the rest of the term. (Of course, if that result was clearly in the works, the Republican House at its first meeting could elect another speaker – even Mitt Romney, as the Constitution doesn’t require the speaker to be a member of the House. But if the situation were that calm, it’s hard to see how both houses would be paralyzed.) If for any reason the House is unable to elect a speaker, then the president pro tempore of the Senate (who is and will remain Senator Daniel Inouye, unless control of the Senate flips) becomes acting president.
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Nate Silver’s Flawed Model
 
Graubo3 said:
latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-debuts-plan-forward-20121023,0,1916743.story

After nearly 4 years we get 20 pages:confused:. Well done Barack Obama:thumbsup:
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Thanks for the comic relief. After watching “The One” during last night’s debate, I needed a good laugh. I am just surprised that he didn’t have it printed in a little red book format as did the ever popular Chairman Mao. 😃 Do you know that the slogan, “Forward” is of long standing usage by Communists? I hoped to see the end of communism when the the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union collapsed but am disappointed. It survives in mutated forms throughout the world and here in our American Democratic Party. Am I saying that Obama is a Communist? No. I have no direct knowledge permitting such a statement. His mentor, Frank Marshal Davis was a card carrying (#47544) Communist and a propagandist in Chicago and Hawaii. However, I do think Obama may be a neo-communist and that he is not alone in a mindset he shares with a great many who have come to infest our government and our institutions. These folks present a softer, gentler version of collectivism. They call it progressivism and it sounds so positive. They advance it not with violence but with subtle coercion and the passage of laws so voluminous they cannot be understood until it is too late. They deceive even themselves, however. Mere political correctness grows into censorship. Curtailing of individual liberties for the common good knows no limits and gradually becomes a totalitarian dictatorship. Any politician so bold as to demand we violate our conscience as part of a social program will eventually persecute us for practicing our religion. One who would advocate the premeditated murder of an innocent in the womb will likely go “Forward” with ruthlessness into a dark house. God puts before us life and death. Choose life. 🙂
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
You haven’t joined the ranks of the wholly humorless ones on the Forum, have you, Jeanne? I hope not. Conservatives with a sense of humor on the Forum are getting to be more and more rarae aves.
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Have you ever thought about that maybe you have a strange sense of humor? 😛
 
Rich_Olszewski said:
You haven’t joined the ranks of the wholly humorless ones on the Forum, have you, Jeanne? I hope not. Conservatives with a sense of humor on the Forum are getting to be more and more rarae aves.
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Rich, you’re probably a nice guy, but I find such a comment inappropriate for a joke. In 2007, my daughter, then a a freshman at Ohio State, was called a racist b*tch because she wouldn’t sign a petition at an Obama campaign table. She said nothing to the Obama supporters except “no thanks, I’m voting for McCain”. As an OSU senior, she received a similar but milder response a few weeks ago when she wouldn’t accept an Obama pin and campaign sticker at a campus event. So I don’t find implications of white racism funny.
 
Tampa_Dave said:
Rich, you’re probably a nice guy, but I find such a comment inappropriate for a joke. In 2007, my daughter, then a a freshman at Ohio State, was called a racist b*tch because she wouldn’t sign a petition at an Obama campaign table. She said nothing to the Obama supporters except “no thanks, I’m voting for McCain”. As an OSU senior, she received a similar but milder response a few weeks ago when she wouldn’t accept an Obama pin and campaign sticker at a campus event. So I don’t find implications of white racism funny.
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May God bless your daughter for her fortitude. Attagirl! 👍
 
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