-Gore in 2008
-Hillary Clinton in 2004
-Powell in 1996
-Cuomo in 1992
-Ted Kennedy 1976/1988 (bigtime maybe)

Obama/Dems/GOP

I'm planning to be at an election night party with friends drinking and watching the returns on MSNBC from at least 7PM to 3AM.

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We'll see if there is a realigning election.  Some of the macro trends are pointing to it, but they are not hugely predictive. 

2010 may have been a "Precursor Election," but as I recently wrote:

"However, elections of similar magnitude predicted nine of the last two realignments over the last 100 years. "



There are some other indications, but they are not absolutely predictive.

Why are you Republicans going on about potential realignment as if we haven't already been "aligned" to your side for 30 years now? If anything trends are showing a demographic shift tword the Democrats.

Dick Morris posts here under the name AmericanNation.

John Lennon was a Reagan supporter by the time he died.

No, he wasn't. He just didn't like Carter.

Oh, so toppling a dictator named Q-Daffy was a good thing?

Don't you remember? You shouldn't question the President in a time of war. Why do you hate America and the troops?

Oh wait, that only applies when a Republican is President.

Bush didn't say the Dutch hit us on 9-11(2001) because we characterized Santa Claus in an offensive way for two weeks after the attacks.  The presidential lie about the rose garden press conference will dominate the news for the next few days.  I mean he lied to the American people for two weeks and than he still can't get it straight a month later, than he tells an insane lie in a presidential debate to top it off.  Foreign policy credibility in free fall.     

The desperation is palpable. You really are living in your own world. Did you even watch the debate.

Why are you all taking a troll at face value?

The answer is of course Romney.

I'll just go ahead and post on behalf of Politico and Winfield, they deserve a break:

Massive FF, of course. One may disagree with his agenda but I think there's no doubt he meant well and really thought he was doing right.

Chavez, obviously. Not a fan of right-wingers.

Affirmative action needs to be reworked to be focused on economic status, not race, so that those who are wealthy and don't need such assistance do not benefit from them but those who need it get it, and the whole racism element is removed.

Finally, someone gets it.

[they don't even like the country for that matter]

  Also, the polls are wrong - the dems don't have the enthusiasm, they don't have the anger, they don't have the need to save this country, they don't even like the country for that matter.

Christ you're a jackass.

The best President this country never had. He did what he had to do to stand up for the people. Anyone getting uppity about the "rule of law" stuff doesn't understand how real-life politics works.

Big win for Romney tonight. He came on as tough and in charge of the discussion whereas President Obama come off as disinterested and "tired". I suspect that Obama's advisers told him not to go on the offensive against Romney, and it backfired massively. Romney was more prepared it seemed and frankly talked circles around the President. The thing is Romney had to win this debate or else this campaign could very well have been over. He knew he had to win this or his attempt at succeeding where his father George Romney failed in 1968 would be lost forever.

I dare say this is perhaps the worst debate performance in Obama's political career. Sans maybe his debates where he was beaten by Hillary in 2008. Obama completely let Romney get away with attacking him and only responded in a dull voice going on about the details of his policies. Obama was playing defense big-time. He didn't even bring up the "47%" remarks. Romney was clearly much more energized and ready for this.

I suspect in the coming days we will see the polls tighten in the swing states and nationally. This really is a big flub for the President's campaign. It reminds me of how in 2004 the only time the Bush/Cheney people were really worried they might loose was after John Kerry creamed Bush in the first debate.

Obama is going to have to come out on top in the next debate between them or this could be over. They might be able to stop Mitt's momentum in the VP debate next Thursday however.

Neoliberalism is on track to triggering a coup.

God I hope so.

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So just to make sure, Ryan in fact did not refer to Romney as "stench"?

Continue to hold onto your "GALLUP IS GOLD EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS" fantasy, it will make your tears in November much more plentiful.

It's funny  because this "Gallup" narrative of his only very recently come about and solely because it was the only poll showing a vaguely pro-Romney result. I mean literally anyone into politics know it's about an overall trend and one individual poll is in and of itself meaningless.

"I'll have those nig**rs voting Democratic for the next 200 years." -Lyndon Johnson, after signng the 1964 Civil Rights Act. 

"Son, when I appoint a nig**r to the court, I want everyone to know he's a nig**r."-Lyndon Johnson on black court appointments

Citation. ing. Needed.

I notice Politico is absent from this thread....

*cough cough*

I notice Politico is absent from this thread....

New Dealer, easily.