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Title: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 19, 2012, 01:00:18 PM
https://uselectionatlas.org/MOCK/PRESIDENT/2012/mock.php

For the record, here (https://uselectionatlas.org/MOCK/index.php) are the results of the previous mock elections.

So, what do ya think? A close run thing between Obama and Johnson?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Simfan34 on September 19, 2012, 01:03:21 PM
Voted for Romney.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 19, 2012, 01:08:52 PM
This one is heading to the House, I think. :P


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: SUSAN CRUSHBONE on September 19, 2012, 01:34:19 PM
Write-in.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: mondale84 on September 19, 2012, 01:40:01 PM
For the record, here (https://uselectionatlas.org/MOCK/index.php) are the results of the previous mock elections.

...and people say this forum is left-wing... ::)


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Hatman 🍁 on September 19, 2012, 01:45:06 PM
Rocky Anderson now has all 100% of the votes in Canada.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Atlas Has Shrugged on September 19, 2012, 02:04:04 PM
Voted Johnson.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Fmr. Pres. Duke on September 19, 2012, 02:07:19 PM
For the record, here (https://uselectionatlas.org/MOCK/index.php) are the results of the previous mock elections.

...and people say this forum is left-wing... ::)

The mock draft was linked to some right winged website in 2008 and was flooded with McCain votes... hardly indicative of the user base of this site.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY on September 19, 2012, 02:28:55 PM
As of my vote, New York is tied between Obama and Johnson. Obama has a narrow lead in the EV.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Comrade Funk on September 19, 2012, 02:29:08 PM
Obama


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Fritz on September 19, 2012, 02:43:54 PM
Voted for Roseanne.  :)


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Maxwell on September 19, 2012, 02:44:47 PM
Who do you think?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Miles on September 19, 2012, 04:05:41 PM
Obama.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lambsbread on September 19, 2012, 04:17:45 PM


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on September 19, 2012, 04:54:04 PM

Now you're still voting for Romney, and you don't even have electability as a defense (note that Mr. Romney is currently losing to Roseanne Barr).



[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Andre Barnett
[4]Tom Stevens
[5]Write-in: Richard Duncan
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Barack Obama
[8]Jill Stein
[9]Roseanne Barr
[10]Stewart Alexander
[11]Write-in: Jill Reed
[12]Tom Hoefling
[13]Virgil Goode


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: tmthforu94 on September 19, 2012, 04:57:22 PM
For the record, here (https://uselectionatlas.org/MOCK/index.php) are the results of the previous mock elections.

...and people say this forum is left-wing... ::)
Look at the 2010 Senatorial and Gubernatorial endorsements for an accurate dipiction of where this forum stands.

As for me, I voted for Romney, and considering the couple Hoosiers we have on this forum, IN should be a Romney state unless trolls register fake accounts and take it over.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Vern on September 19, 2012, 04:59:05 PM
Voted for Romney


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: SPC on September 19, 2012, 05:06:04 PM
Voted for the (currently) most electable alternative to Obama.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Negusa Nagast 🚀 on September 19, 2012, 05:57:18 PM
Let's fill up that map!


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Hatman 🍁 on September 21, 2012, 11:15:24 AM
Hitler has 100% of the vote in Utah...


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 21, 2012, 01:19:42 PM
Hitler has 100% of the vote in Utah...


One of our other Utahan members should rectify that.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 30, 2012, 11:12:45 AM
Bump.

Only around a 5% turnout so far....more voters please! :)


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: HagridOfTheDeep on September 30, 2012, 11:51:20 AM
...How did McCain get so many votes in 2008?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 30, 2012, 12:29:30 PM
...How did McCain get so many votes in 2008?

A link to the election was posted on Free Republic (or some similar website).


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Averroës Nix on September 30, 2012, 04:47:20 PM
I've now changed my vote more times than my ex-gf switched college majors: Johnson-Anderson-Johnson-Anderson-Obama.

I'm unsatisfied with Johnson's campaign (e.g. "I'm Ron Paul"), but more important to my decision was a realization that it would be hypocritical and contrary to my understanding of American democracy to vote for third-party candidate. I've often argued that the best way to make a difference is by working from within one of the two major parties, and I really believe this argument. So I couldn't satisfy myself with a vote for third-party candidate. (And what else is voting really about?)

I'm more comfortable with my current support for Obama - and I suspect that this will remain stable through the election - despite some serious misgivings.

Yes, I'm taking this too seriously, but in light of a few of my posts, I think that my waffling deserves an explanation somewhere.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on September 30, 2012, 04:51:00 PM
Check out my write-in vote for PA. Soetero/bin Laden 2012!


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lambsbread on September 30, 2012, 04:56:54 PM
but more important to my decision was a realization that it would be hypocritical and contrary to my understanding of American democracy to vote for third-party candidate. I've often argued that the best way to make a difference is by working from within one of the two major parties, and I really believe this argument. So I couldn't satisfy myself with a vote for third-party candidate.

But I say this and I get torn apart and called a hypocrite and a traitor. Hooray!


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lambsbread on September 30, 2012, 04:57:53 PM
Check out my write-in vote for PA. Soetero/bin Laden 2012!

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Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Averroës Nix on September 30, 2012, 05:07:21 PM
but more important to my decision was a realization that it would be hypocritical and contrary to my understanding of American democracy to vote for third-party candidate. I've often argued that the best way to make a difference is by working from within one of the two major parties, and I really believe this argument. So I couldn't satisfy myself with a vote for third-party candidate.

But I say this and I get torn apart and called a hypocrite and a traitor. Hooray!

I can't remember whether I commented on that situation. I remember finding your positioning a bit ill-conceived and bizarre - the same could probably be said of me, to an extent. But you're a teenager; strange contortions of every kind are to be expected from you. Hell, when I was in high-school, I went from being a straight-A dork (R) to being a straight-A punk (A) to being a straight-A neckbeard (L) to being straight-A hipster (I) within the span of a couple of years. You're clearly putting thought into your choice, and for that you deserve respect. Or at the very least, a bit of understanding.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lambsbread on September 30, 2012, 05:10:29 PM
That actually made me feel a lot better about myself haha


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on September 30, 2012, 05:12:39 PM
So Nix has changed his vote about as many times as 20RP12 changes his avatar each day. :P


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on September 30, 2012, 05:23:17 PM
[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Andre Barnett
[4]Tom Stevens
[5]Write-in: Richard Duncan
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Barack Obama
[8]Jill Stein
[9]Roseanne Barr
[10]Stewart Alexander
[11]Write-in: Jill Reed
[12]Tom Hoefling
[13]Virgil Goode

This isn't accurate anymore. New rankings:

[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Tom Stevens
[4]Andre Barnett
[5]Tom Hoefling
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Jill Stein
[8]Barack Obama
[9]Stewart Alexander
[10]Roseanne Barr
[11]Virgil Goode

Eliminated write-ins, read a bit more about Stevens meeting with anti-government leaders in the RSA so he flipped with Barnett, Hoefling I researched more on and he seems like a basic paleocon, and that's objectionable but less objectionable than most others, so he jumps, Alexander is less of a joke than Barr, and there's an Obama drop cause of this (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=160380.0).


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Oakvale on September 30, 2012, 05:51:39 PM
[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Andre Barnett
[4]Tom Stevens
[5]Write-in: Richard Duncan
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Barack Obama
[8]Jill Stein
[9]Roseanne Barr
[10]Stewart Alexander
[11]Write-in: Jill Reed
[12]Tom Hoefling
[13]Virgil Goode

This isn't accurate anymore. New rankings:

[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Tom Stevens
[4]Andre Barnett
[5]Tom Hoefling
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Jill Stein
[8]Barack Obama
[9]Stewart Alexander
[10]Roseanne Barr
[11]Virgil Goode

Eliminated write-ins, read a bit more about Stevens meeting with anti-government leaders in the RSA so he flipped with Barnett, Hoefling I researched more on and he seems like a basic paleocon, and that's objectionable but less objectionable than most others, so he jumps, Alexander is less of a joke than Barr, and there's an Obama drop cause of this (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=160380.0).

You'd seriously put Romney ahead of Obama? ???


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on September 30, 2012, 06:07:23 PM
[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Andre Barnett
[4]Tom Stevens
[5]Write-in: Richard Duncan
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Barack Obama
[8]Jill Stein
[9]Roseanne Barr
[10]Stewart Alexander
[11]Write-in: Jill Reed
[12]Tom Hoefling
[13]Virgil Goode

This isn't accurate anymore. New rankings:

[1]Gary Johnson
[2]Rocky Anderson
[3]Tom Stevens
[4]Andre Barnett
[5]Tom Hoefling
[6]Mitt Romney
[7]Jill Stein
[8]Barack Obama
[9]Stewart Alexander
[10]Roseanne Barr
[11]Virgil Goode

Eliminated write-ins, read a bit more about Stevens meeting with anti-government leaders in the RSA so he flipped with Barnett, Hoefling I researched more on and he seems like a basic paleocon, and that's objectionable but less objectionable than most others, so he jumps, Alexander is less of a joke than Barr, and there's an Obama drop cause of this (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=160380.0).

You'd seriously put Romney ahead of Obama? ???

The only argument I see for putting Obama ahead is "devil you know", so yes. It's a gamble.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on September 30, 2012, 06:15:24 PM

I'm unsatisfied with Johnson's campaign (e.g. "I'm Ron Paul")

You do realize you are quoting a thread title rather than Gary Johnson?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Averroës Nix on September 30, 2012, 06:20:53 PM

I'm unsatisfied with Johnson's campaign (e.g. "I'm Ron Paul")

You do realize you are quoting a thread title rather than Gary Johnson?

That deserves clarification - I'm referring to the thread. I don't appreciate Johnson's attempts to appeal (I'd say "pander," but I don't think that term is quite deserved) to Ron Paul-style libertarians.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on September 30, 2012, 06:58:30 PM

I'm unsatisfied with Johnson's campaign (e.g. "I'm Ron Paul")

You do realize you are quoting a thread title rather than Gary Johnson?

That deserves clarification - I'm referring to the thread. I don't appreciate Johnson's attempts to appeal (I'd say "pander," but I don't think that term is quite deserved) to Ron Paul-style libertarians.

My thinking is that Johnson is simply trying to harness the energy of a large national movement that he has a good deal in common with, and by doing that also direct that energy into ideological patterns that are more in line with Johnson's views than Paul's specifically.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lambsbread on September 30, 2012, 07:54:42 PM
[1] Mitt Romney
[2] Gary Johnson
[3] Rocky Anderson
[4] Jill Stein
[5] Barack Obama
[6] Virgil Goode


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Lephead on October 01, 2012, 01:40:29 PM
I am voting for Obama as I will be next Tuesday.  And also for Steve Bullock for Governor and Jon Tester for US Senate.  This former republican is not amused by the antics that this party has taken the last few years!  I will not in any means support these bizarre, obstructionist and borderline fanatical philosophies!  If there is a time in the future when republicans return to supporting philosophies that help more than just a few rich people, a few fanatical religious zealots, and people who have political philosophies that out do the bad dictators of the past, I'll vote for them.  But that sure is not now!


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on October 01, 2012, 04:43:08 PM
Why is Johnson surging all of a sudden?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Comrade Funk on October 01, 2012, 05:29:36 PM
Why is Johnson surging all of a sudden?
Could've been posted on one of the libertarian sites where they skew EVERY internet poll with Ron Paul (Johnson to a lesser extent) in it.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on October 01, 2012, 05:46:23 PM
I hope it isn't posted on Stormfront....


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on October 01, 2012, 05:48:56 PM

Stormfront would cause a Goode surge. Based on current votes, it appears to be on something like the Liberty Forums of the Daily Paul.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on October 01, 2012, 08:07:03 PM
Turnout seems dreadful so far. We would be lucky to get half of 2008's votes, which were already 4 times less than 2004's votes.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on October 01, 2012, 09:46:51 PM
How is Roseanne Barr doing so well in West Virginia?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Wisconsin+17 on October 01, 2012, 09:52:59 PM
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Stormfront would cause a Goode surge.

That's a pretty big smear. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on October 01, 2012, 10:58:34 PM
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Stormfront would cause a Goode surge.

That's a pretty big smear. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

Of the candidates with enough ballot access to theoretically reach the 270 mark, Goode is the one whose platform would have the most appeal to Stormfront members, even tho he doesn't go anywhere near as far as they would with his nativism.  He might even be the candidate with the most appeal to them even including the ones who are only running in a couple of states, but I'm not certain of that.

However, I think Stormfront people would be most likely to vote for Obama.  Not because they like him, but the reverse.  They would hope that if he is reelected and does poorly, then white disgust would benefit them.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on October 01, 2012, 11:02:01 PM
Speaking of Goode, could some Rhode Islanders with half a brain please outweigh Mint's vote?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on October 02, 2012, 06:29:27 AM
Speaking of Goode, could some Rhode Islanders with half a brain please outweigh Mint's vote?

The only one still around is Winfield...


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY on October 05, 2012, 08:43:26 PM
I took the liberty of doing the coin-toss thing for all the currently tied states, and I got this:

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If there was a three-way tie (as in VT), I rolled a die to see who went last, and it was Mitt in that instance. Johnson beat Obama and lost to Romney in the second round.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on October 05, 2012, 09:51:24 PM
Yeah, it's frustrating to see so many States tied.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Antonio the Sixth on October 08, 2012, 05:31:54 PM
...and Obama just dropped under 270! Johson keeps gaining ground. That's really depressing.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on October 08, 2012, 06:44:42 PM
I'm liking this election a lot more than I'll like the real one. Johnson's in 2nd and Clinton is leading in Arkansas.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY on October 08, 2012, 07:01:58 PM
Obama seems to have pulled into a tie in FL.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Comrade Funk on October 09, 2012, 05:11:58 PM
Hilary's ahead in Arkansas. Lol.....


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY on October 09, 2012, 08:42:45 PM
Coin-toss again and it goes to the House:

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Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Donerail on October 21, 2012, 08:17:38 PM
Johnson ahead by enough to win outright.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Oakvale on October 22, 2012, 03:29:36 PM
Haha, did this get posted on some Paultard website?


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Wisconsin+17 on October 22, 2012, 03:52:40 PM
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Johnson ahead by enough to win outright.

Seems to me the Republicans all switched to the more electable person...


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Phony Moderate on October 29, 2012, 07:03:56 AM
Bump again.

Johnson leads the EV, Obama leads the PV.


Title: Re: Atlas Presidential Mock Election 2012 Discussion Thread
Post by: Wisconsin+17 on November 10, 2012, 10:56:31 AM
Johnson wins outright. 274 votes. :b: