Comments on: Reelection Watch: September 8, 2012

By: Logarchism » Reëlection Watch: September 22, 2012

Logarchism » Reëlection Watch: September 22, 2012 — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:02:47 +0000

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By: dawolf

dawolf — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:01:20 +0000

@DrFunguy

Great article. Extremely well written.

By: Monotreme

Monotreme — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:36:44 +0000

Beautiful article, Doc.

"It's the same f**king bill."

By: DrFunguy

DrFunguy — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:07:32 +0000

Quote of the day, from the inimitable Pierce, National Treasure:

"Mitt Romney has been elected to only one office in his lifetime. In that one office, he has one significant achievement. And to be nominated by his party, he has had to strangle rhetorically his darling."
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/life-under-romneycare-1012#ixzz26DWAVvCc

By: rgbact

rgbact — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:27:39 +0000

Interesting chart on Gallup that measures convention bounces. Obama's bounce wasn't that big, its just that Romney's is the only negative bounce besides John Kerry, so the net change was a tad bigger than recent history. The bigger bounce isn't very correlated to the eventual winner though.

By: turrboenvy

turrboenvy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:11:46 +0000

Voting should be as easy as picking a cup when you get your morning coffee. It would immensely increase turnout. Every voter gets a free card, every convenience store has a machine (like the lotto machine). Swipe the card, place your vote, buy a coffee and off you go. Security is obviously an issue, but the lotto seems to manage.

We could use fingerprint identification. We don't even need to validate that the person is who they say they are -- you only have one thumb print so you can only vote once. Your thumbprint goes in the system the first time you vote.

Anyway, the shocking thing at 7-election is that Vermont, of all places, is tied.

As an aside, I've got 2 problems in commenting. I'm using Chrome 21.
1) I have no reply button that I can find.
2) My linebreaks get screwed up (I hit enter once or twice) so I have to hit edit and edit the HTML manually.

By: Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:06:10 +0000

WA7th, I'd far prefer a mudslide. Yum.

By: WA7th

WA7th — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:18:51 +0000

The 7-Election is looking like a landslide.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:06:11 +0000

da, No, I’m assuming that SOME are partisan bettors who will let their ideology write a check that their bank will have to cover!

By: dawolf

dawolf — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:23:40 +0000

Max - you're assuming that people are partisan bettors. Some are. The best gamblers aren't.