Languish Presidential Election!

[derspiess]

My local rag endorsed Romney!  But that's not exactly a shock, given past endorsements.  I wonder if they actually have GOP-leaning journos/editors or they're just placating the locals here in a GOP stronghold.

[derspiess]

Agreed. If the unemployment rate bumped back up the psychological 8% barrier, it could tilt the election into a clear Romney win.

That may turn out to be a "tree falls in the woods" thing: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/10/29/labor-department-may-delay-jobs-report/

Wouldn't it be funny if the numbers showed 8% and we didn't know about it until Nov. 7th? 

[MadImmortalMan]

The financial boosting effects of Quantitative Easing 3 are currently keeping the President afloat.

What effects? QE stopped working two years ago in the US. The poor Japanese haven't been able to make it work for decades. They're on QE9 for the Yen.

[CountDeMoney]

My local rag endorsed Romney!

Which one, the Whitey Times-Picayune?

I wonder if they actually have GOP-leaning journos/editors or they're just placating the locals here in a GOP stronghold.

Contrary to popular belief and the fevered masturbatory conspiracy fantasies of you GOPtards, not every newspaper editorial board is filled with bleeding heart WoodSteins straight out of 1972.

[derspiess]

Which one, the Whitey Times-Picayune?

The respected and still somehow profitable Cincinnati Enquirer.  But you knew that.

Contrary to popular belief and the fevered masturbatory conspiracy fantasies of you GOPtards, not every newspaper editorial board is filled with bleeding heart WoodSteins straight out of 1972.

Even my journo friends share my skepticism.  Btw both those guys are absolutely deified in J-schools everwhere.

[derspiess]

What effects? QE stopped working two years ago in the US. The poor Japanese haven't been able to make it work for decades. They're on QE9 for the Yen.

I wouldn't say it stopped working.  Diminishing returns, yes.  But QE3 had at least a small momentary effect.

And by working, I'm speaking in terms of short-term.  I don't have any faith that it works on a larger scale.

[Phillip V]

What effects? QE stopped working two years ago in the US. The poor Japanese haven't been able to make it work for decades. They're on QE9 for the Yen.

I wouldn't say it stopped working.  Diminishing returns, yes.  But QE3 had at least a small momentary effect.

And by working, I'm speaking in terms of short-term.  I don't have any faith that it works on a larger scale.

Agreed. QE3 immediately raised the stock market to new highs the day it was announced, boosted consumer sentiment in September, and probably influenced the several hundred thousand hiring of part-timers that boosted jobs numbers. An employed part-timer is defined as working one (1) to thirty (30) hours per week.

[CountDeMoney]

Which one, the Whitey Times-Picayune?

The respected and still somehow profitable Cincinnati Enquirer.  But you knew that.

I don't know what secondary reading sources you use.  One can only read The Turner Diaries so many times.

Contrary to popular belief and the fevered masturbatory conspiracy fantasies of you GOPtards, not every newspaper editorial board is filled with bleeding heart WoodSteins straight out of 1972.

Even my journo friends share my skepticism.  Btw both those guys are absolutely deified in J-schools everwhere.

Of course they are, much in the same way the Founding Fathers have completely distorted in modern Political Science.   Modern American journalism is now for retards with no frontal lobe activity.

[Phillip V]

Agreed. If the unemployment rate bumped back up the psychological 8% barrier, it could tilt the election into a clear Romney win.

That may turn out to be a "tree falls in the woods" thing: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2012/10/29/labor-department-may-delay-jobs-report/

Wouldn't it be funny if the numbers showed 8% and we didn't know about it until Nov. 7th? 

[merithyn]

 

Romney's camp said he was going to suspend all campaigning during the storm, but he went to a high school in Cleveland right after that announcement was made. He ended the speech by saying that this was a time for everyone to come together and work as one unit to get through this. Then his people load up his big "ROMNEY" bus with emergency supplies to distribute while he heads to Iowa for another event.

I suppose it's all he can do, really, since this is going to end up the Obama Show during and after the storm.

[derspiess]

Well the last time a GOP presidential candidate suspended his campaign due to a disaster it didn't work out too well

[derspiess]

So Politico's Battleground poll has Obama up by 1 point, 49 to 48.  Yet when they feed the numbers into their "vote election model" it somehow turns into 52 to 47 Romney advantage

[The Larch]

Has this one already been posted? 

[Syt]

Classical Archives have under their new releases these two CDs:
- Music for Republicans
- Music for Democrats

Both have the exact same collection of patriotic songs.

[Phillip V]

Romney currently leads Obama by 6 points (52%-46%) among voters who already cast their ballots: http://www.gallup.com/poll/158420/registered-voters-already-cast-ballots.aspx

Bill Clinton will start campaigning in Minnesota tomorrow: http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/10/clinton-to-minnesota-147642.html