Languish Presidential Election!

[Phillip V]

Yeah, your system election system is a bit better.  I'm tired of Presidential campaigns lasting two years.

I find American Presidential elections boring and really not very nice.  But I love the primaries.

But we've really the same problem traditionally.  Everyone knows roughly when the PM'll call an election (this may change with the fixed term Parliaments introduced by this government) so there's a good year or so when everyone's effectively electioneering but not really.  It is nice only having 4-6 weeks of active campaigning though.

American campaigns have a fairly bitter tone.  Not usually from candidates themselves, but from their flunkies.  It's kinda sad because a lot of these people would be friends (and sometimes are).  George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, though they never ran against one another and are reportedly good friends these days. 

They're both rich and have their cocks sucked by the American people. Of course they're friends.

[mongers]

Well the issue of polls will be settle in a few days anyway.  Hopefully.  I'd really rather not have a repeat of 2000.

Thankfully we can now count down the hours to go; when do polls open on the East Coast Tuesday ?

Certainly less than 48 hours to the end of campaigning and another 12-15 hours to probably find out who the next POTUS is. ` 

[Ed Anger]

Should be around 6 or 7am.

[Phillip V]

'New York Times' Bully Knocks Stack Of Polls From Nate Silver's Hands

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-york-times-bully-knocks-stack-of-polls-from-na,30218/

[DGuller]

You have to admire Nate Silver on some level.  He got famous for being a statistician who crunched a lot of numbers.  How often does that happen in US?

[Neil]

Also I learned something through all this.  Dguller is a Jew.  I had no idea.  I thought he was just a Russian.  I guess he's up a peg in the grand scheme of things.

I wouldn't be so sure.  Lots of Russians are 'Jewish' when it is an excuse to get out of Russia.

[The Brain]

I don't know what's worse.

[Razgovory]

Also I learned something through all this.  Dguller is a Jew.  I had no idea.  I thought he was just a Russian.  I guess he's up a peg in the grand scheme of things.

I wouldn't be so sure.  Lots of Russians are 'Jewish' when it is an excuse to get out of Russia.

I trust him.

[Phillip V]

Obama campaign centers have "comfort captains," assigned to tend to coffee, meals, and sore feet. I wonder if they are attractive females.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/us/politics/in-ohio-2-campaigns-offer-a-study-in-contrasts.html

[Ed Anger]

I was reading a Guardian article on Ohio (for the laughs) and they didn't mention Operation Clark County once. I guess they knew they fucked up back in '04.

Stupid furrigners.

[jimmy olsen]

My election prediction. Obama 281EV - Romney 257EV

Romney may win the popular vote, but the geography is stacked against him. Obama wins reelection. Hopefully such a scenario would lead to a constitutional amendment abolishing the electoral college, now that both parties have been burned in recent times.

[katmai]

My election prediction. Obama 281EV - Romney 257EV

Romney may win the popular vote, but the geography is stacked against him. Obama wins reelection. Hopefully such a scenario would lead to a constitutional amendment abolishing the electoral college, now that both parties have been burned in recent times.

[jimmy olsen]

What?

If it harms both parties they're more likely to cooperate.

The 17th amendment was a more radical restructuring of the government and that got passed.

[merithyn]

What?

If it harms both parties they're more likely to cooperate.

The 17th amendment was passed was a more radical restructuring of the government and that got passed.

You're just the 17th person on Languish to say exactly that, and it's been pretty much shot down all 17 times.

[jimmy olsen]

Well you must know the argument by heart then, lay it on me.