Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.

Infrastructure week. at last.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

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  1. 1.

    Mark S.

    I haven’t watched, but some people were saying one of these idiots was talking about the Buddhists taking over or something?

  2. 2.

    ant

    it’s like rubberneckin a bad semi truck accident, this video.

    I drive around the block to see it again.

    My favorite is the interviewer. He is just sooooo concerned. lol.

  3. 3.

    lamh35

    Posted this in the last thread so posting it here too, just ’cause I think people should know that all the GOTV efforts they are doing are being used by OfA team in smart and amazing ways.

    seriously, y’all should checkout this memo from OfA on their GOTV apparatus. it def should strike fear in Romney & Roves hearts.

    https://secure.assets.bostatic.com/pdfs/gotv/113Memo.pdf

    “…teams registered 1,792,261 voters in key battleground states – nearly double the number of voters the Obama campaign registered in 2008…
    volunteers have made 125,646,479 personal phone calls or door knocks that resulted in conversations with voters – not counting robo calls on auto-dialers, mail, literature drops or any other non-volunteer, non-personal contacts…
    volunteers have signed up for 698,799 shifts to get out the vote over the final four days of this campaign”

    Damn! future Dem pols will be fighting over the OfA database win or lose for Obama.

  4. 4.

    RSA

    @Mark S.: Yes, Buddhists are the source of religious oppression in the U.S.

    Also, Communist Muslim atheists are the source of all evil.

  6. 6.

    danimal

    Sooooo…nutpicking at a Romney rally is not a terribly difficult assignment. Whocoodanode? What maroons.

  7. 7.

    Dee Loralei

    Sorry about your Eers John. Glad you didn’t have a heartattack!

    Booman has a link to a memo from #TeamObama today about GOTV for next few days.

    In order for Mitt to win he must get 65% of the votes in NC on Tuesday. 59% in Iowa and CO, 58% in Nevada, 55% in FL and Ohio and 52% in VA and Wisconsin!

    I feel like my years long work is actually happily paying off!

    Please continue volunteering and sending money! And don’t foreget to vote!

  8. 8.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    The best part for me starts at 4:25:
    “You talked about him going to Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years…”
    “Yes.”
    “But you also think he’s a Muslim.”
    “Well he is a Muslim; his father was a Muslim, his father was an atheist and his father was a communist.”
    “Was his father a Muslim or was his father an atheist?”
    “He’s all three!”

    That is some grade A stupid right there.

  12. 12.

    the Conster

    This is Exhibit A to Rick Santorum’s rant about Republicans not getting the smart people. That right there is an evolutionary dead end.

  13. 13.

    Publius39

    Good lord, these people are some of the dumbest people I’ve ever seen. I’m not in favor of disenfranchising these people, but I wouldn’t shed a tear if they were purged. People this uneducated should not be allowed to vote.

  14. 14.

    Hunter Gathers

    @Dee Loralei: There are going to be a LOT of pissed off white people Tuesday night. Those numbers are just brutal for Team Mittens. I wonder if he’ll bring up voter fraud in his non-concession speech.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne

    @Johnny Coelacanth:

    It all makes sense once you remember that the real problem conservatives had with all of those atheist commie pinkos was that those atheist commie pinkos were Jews. Communist=Jewish was the formula for decades, and it seems as though quite a few conservatives have done a simple search-and-replace to substitute “Muslim” for “Jew” in their fearmongering screeds.

  21. 21.

    PsiFighter37

    I just finished up a full day of canvassing here in Dayton. My friends and I combined to knock on nearly 200 doors or so, and we probably got 20-25% response rate who are definitely voting for the good guys. One thing I would say is that I did run into a couple disillusioned voters who are not voting at all or are a little disappointed, but I found no discernible enthusiasm at all for Mittens. It’s just a matter of convincing people that the choice is clear, and that THEIR VOTE COUNTS. The flyers here in Ohio make reference to 537 votes, so it should be damn well clear that even if you have hesitations, it is direly important that people haul their ass to the voting booth.

    Also, voting in OH closes at 7:30 PM. That feels pretty early for an Election Day close.

    Off my feet for the rest of the night, and doing one more shift before we hit the road to go back to NY tomorrow. I forgot how much I love doing this.

  23. 23.

    David Koch

    CBS’s Jan Crawford says the race is a “toss-up” with Romney holding the momentum.

    So clearly the corporate media is gonna do everything they can to drag mittens across the finish line.

  24. 24.

    Publius39

    I guess that real ‘Murricans don’t know what an atheist actually is, and that’s why they say stupid fucking things like Obama being an atheist and a Muslim AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME.

  26. 26.

    Violet

    @David Koch:

    So clearly the corporate media is gonna do everything they can to drag mittens across the finish line.

    That’s exactly what Rush Limbaugh said he was going to do–along with his listeners–to John McCain last time. That worked out so well.

    Listening to Limbaugh on Wednesday might be entertaining. Last time he became the de facto leader of the Republican party. He’s not in such a strong position this time Wonder how that’ll work out.

  29. 29.

    cathyx

    What’s so remarkable about that video is that every person interviewed contradicts what they just said in the next sentence. And they don’t even realize it.

  33. 33.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @PsiFighter37: I did an afternoon in York PA. Like last weekend, I’m getting either no one home or rabid Obama supporters.

    Except one, he said he didn’t like either candidate and wasn’t voting for President. Said no President’s done anything for him since Clinton. So I hauled out my flyer for the Dem House candidate and asked him to vote D for all the downticket races and leave the President blank. He seemed amenable to that.

    The kids on the street all wanted Obama stickers. I wish the campaign would’ve given me a few to hand out,

  34. 34.

    Chyron HR

    @Reason:

    It’s interesting how you’re willing to believe that every single poll is wrong–but the idea that maybe there isn’t a “white horse” prophecy that says Romney is destined to win the election? No, that’s unthinkable!

    I’m glad I got a real degree at a real school instead of majoring in Golden Plateology at BYU like you did.

  37. 37.

    PreservedKillick

    @Mark S.:

    I haven’t watched

    I’m not sure whether to tell you to watch it, because it’s important to understand your country.

    Or to say don’t watch, because it’s important to remain upbeat about your country.

    The stupidity in that video really does burn.

  38. 38.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @dmsilev: You bring up a good point. Let’s say he used the last paycheck to make a buy and restock his stash of Cheetos before mom saw what happened to the check.

  40. 40.

    PopeRatzo

    These people may seem pretty awful, but they also seem genuinely scared, and that makes my heart hurt.

    And that’s ultimately the thing that makes me really angry about today’s “conservatives” on the Right: that they are scaring these poor people half to death just because they cannot accept the fact of a black man as president.

    Jesus, how badly I want to see them lose on Tuesday…

  41. 41.

    quannlace

    it is, MITT ROMNEY WINS GOING AWAY

    Just keep hitting those ALL CAPS, babe, if it makes you feel better.

  42. 42.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    I got a robocall from Bill Clinton urging me to vote No on Proposition 32, which I plan on doing.

  45. 45.

    David Koch

    @dmsilev: She said (I’m not making this up) Obama going on the campaign trail and not staying home at the White House means his state leads are diminishing. See, you only campaign when you’re losing. Of course, IOKIYAR. She also said Bill Clinton’s cutting attacks on the trail is another empirical sign of losing.

  46. 46.

    chopper

    @Reason:

    yeah! what would the guy who just ran the census know about the racial make-up of this country? mittens is a shoo in.

  48. 48.

    Ash Can

    @Reason: Pssst – your persona is showing. You cracked on Chuck Todd in the last thread using this nym. Better get another one.

  49. 49.

    dmsilev

    @David Koch: Seriously? She thinks there’s something meaningful to be read in the fact that the President is on the campaign trail 3 days before the election?

    How can I get one of these punditizing jobs? It sounds easy.

  50. 50.

    Pinkamena Panic

    So people are once again feeding Dodgy McGee under his latest trollnym.

    How is it so many people can fail to learn a lesson? Just pie the little fucknut and move on.

  54. 54.

    andy

    @Reason: “Republicans are the Green Bay Packers” You’re comparing the GOP to the only Socialist pro ball team in the US of A?

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    Sam Wang has Willard +0.5 in NC, otherwise the table is a blue sweep. Sam Wang doesn’t strike me as an excitable guy.

    NV Obama +4% 100.0
    IA Obama +3% 62.0
    NH Obama +2% 61.3
    OH Obama +3% 58.3
    VA Obama +2% 44.0
    WI Obama +5% 33.4
    PA Obama +5% 28.1
    CO Obama +1% 26.5
    FL Obama +1% 26.0
    OR Obama +6% 20.8
    MI Obama +6% 15.0
    NC Romney +0.5% 9.6
    MN Obama +7% 7.4
    LA Romney +13% 0.5
    NM Obama +10% 0.2
    NJ Obama +14% 0.000014626

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Violet:

    Of course they’re all white.

    Yes, I was thinking this morning (cough when the video was first posted cough) what a wonderful illustration it was of diversity and multiculturalism and Big Tentedness.

  63. 63.

    dmsilev

    @Reason: Oh, snookums, your true self shines through no matter what name you pick. As Shakespeare would have written were he still alive,

    What’s in a name? That which we call a troll
    By any other word would smell as fetid;

  64. 64.

    some guy

    watched that video earlier at tbogg. the best was the guy who declaimed all the handouts and then couldn’t name any handouts.

  66. 66.

    guachi

    massive line of cars at the Obama Clinton rally in Virginia. and it doesn’t start for 2.5 hours.

  67. 67.

    mai naem

    Nate Silver’s got Rmoney at 16%. Also in other news, turtleman Jack Welch not says the recession started in 2009. Dumbass. Also too, somebody tell Rmoney calling Democratic leaders Democrat leaders is not going to win him any brownie points if gets the opportunity to negotiate with them. Dumbass 2.0

  68. 68.

    lamh35

    @jonathanhsinger
    Reuters/Ipsos Poll—Early Vote: VA O+10 (53-43) | OH O+28 (61-33) | FL O+5 (51-46) | CO O+7 (50-43)

  69. 69.

    PsiFighter37

    @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: At this point in t he game, I doubt you are going to be visiting people who are waffling. GOtV is about getting your core base out, not about changing minds.

    I feel good about what I’ve seen here. I feel better when I’m told that the OH early voting numbers are looking solid – in RECORD numbers – despite that asshole Husted doing his best to suppress the vote.

  71. 71.

    weaselone

    @Reason:

    Depends who those additional whites are, doesn’t it? If they show up in Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and South Carolina, it would have no impact on the electoral vote. If it’s in the northeast where white people support Obama it has no impact. Interestingly, the white vote in Ohio actually favors Obama slightly so an elevated white turnout could have no impact there. If the elevated turnout comes in the form of white women, it would be bad for Romney in the swing states as they favor Obama in those states.

  73. 73.

    Cermet

    @Reason: This asswipe troll should also have been featured in the video – the census data is somehow wrong and off by many millions; boy, thugs are breed stupid – I guess its the only way to keep them voting for the brain dead leaders they follow like sheep or rather, bend over as they are treated like sheep by their leaders.

  76. 76.

    Violet

    @SiubhanDuinne: When yet another jackass middle-aged white guy in a big pickup truck cut me off while racing to have the chance to run a red light, I decided that maybe it was time for middle-aged white guys to have a time out.

    Imagine what it would be like if white guys over, oh, I don’t know, 50? 45? 55? 60? couldn’t vote. I know there are plenty of nice, liberal middle-aged white guys. They could just take one for the team. Let everyone else whose group has been denied a vote at some point in time take on the responsibility of voting for awhile. White guys get a time out.

  79. 79.

    lamh35

    Ummm ok? Richard Nixon is the first name is thought of???

    ‏@ZekeJMiller
    Ryan on his son Sam’s two-handed V-for-Victory salute “A little Richard Nixon here.”

  82. 82.

    some guy

    after all this talk of “nail biters and “tight as a tick” the media shills are all gonna look pretty freaking stupid when the final results roll in across all those swing states.

  85. 85.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Violet:

    I just bought a new vehicle and haven’t yet put any Obama stickers on it — that’s for tomorrow — but today I am wearing my “FIRED UP Ready To Go!” tshirt. Have had a lot of people (AA and white) say “Love your shirt” but also had a guy in Barnes & Noble look daggers at me. He looked thisclose to spitting and giving me the finger, but I guess he thought better of it.

  86. 86.

    quannlace

    Is there any c-span or cable channel that carries the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade? Postponed to tonight.

  87. 87.

    MikeJ

    @Reason:

    The composition of the electorate for the 2012 presidential election is looking quite similar to what it was in 2008 as well as 2004, according to an analysis of the demographics of Gallup’s likely voter sample since Oct. 1. Thus, key elements of President Obama’s electoral coalition, such as racial minorities, women, young adults, and postgraduates will likely turn out at rates similar to those in 2008.

    Gallup

  89. 89.

    PsiFighter37

    @Baud: My fucking hotel doesn’t have C-Span. Maybe MSNBC will carry it?

    @Reason: I can almost taste the tears. Ann Romney’s were quite delicious today, but yours…cannot wait. As I said, ambrosia and nectar.

  90. 90.

    Violet

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’m in a solidly red state, but in a mixed area, so I see bumper stickers and yard signs for both Obama and Romney. A new house got built down the street and some folks just moved into it a week or so ago. I noticed today that they have Obama signs in several windows. Yay!

  93. 93.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @PopeRatzo:

    … today’s “conservatives” on the Right … are scaring these poor people half to death just because they cannot accept the fact of a black man as president.

    Um, no, those “conservatives” are doing this so that these “poor people” will hand over to them the power to loot the USA for the benefit of their plutocrat overlords. Anyone whose politics are determined by bigotry and fear is being played by the 0.01%.

  96. 96.

    Patricia Kayden

    “We simply can not let the people who spoonfeed these morons lies back in power.”

    Don’t worry, Cole. Plan to celebrate on Tuesday night when these idiots’ heads collectively explode.

    Looking forward to it!

  98. 98.

    Mary Brown

    @Violet: The cowardly thugs are stealing all our Obama yard signs around here. I’m taking that as a very good prognostication.

  99. 99.

    gnomedad

    @Chyron HR:
    Whoa. Whoa. I spent a while trying to decide whether this is someone’s idea of parody and decided “no”. If you take out the n-word, it reads like any winger site, which is to say Not Racist At All.

  102. 102.

    quannlace

    taste the tears. Ann Romney’s were quite delicious today,

    Ya know, I think the ultimate job-from-Hell is being a politician’s wife.

  103. 103.

    FlipYrWhig

    @Speculum Spatula: Let me guess. “Waah, waah, the Real Leftists like me are so put upon, and for such a bad reason, too: our negligible numbers and puerile notions of how to engage in politics. Hey, wait, let me explain why not being listened to is a good way to get yourself listened to!”

  104. 104.

    PsiFighter37

    @Baud: Yeah but does it stream on iPad? I guess I’ll find out.

    I am iPadding while iPodding. About to order room service, this is pretty much an ideal way to end the day.

  105. 105.

    Bostondreams

    Voted early here in the Raleigh area of North Carolina. The polling station was at an African-American church fellowship hall. There was a Republican handing out voter guides. As I stood in line and watched, I noticed that in 10 minutes, my wife and I were the only ones he approached with his voter guides, among the 30 or so people that strolled up…

    One wonders why…

    (I did take the guides, and voted oppositely of the recommendations, so I was glad he was there).

  106. 106.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh35:
    What I like most about the memo is the subtext more than the text. Obama’s team is saying that they have not just a sense of the way the election is going, but really detailed numbers that give them a strong picture of what’s going on. When Obama tells you he’s winning, he’s not just hand waving; he has the numbers to back it up. Also, too, don’t trust the likely voter models in the polls; we’re doing a better job than the other guy of getting out unlikely voters.

  110. 110.

    Cacti

    @Reason:

    Remember: If white voters are 74% of the electorate and not the 72% the Obambi campaign says it is, MITT ROMNEY WINS GOING AWAY! And if it’s 73%? Recount, baby! Just keep that in mind…just two percent…

    And as reality closes in, Political Derp becomes progressively unhinged.

    The white vote has dropped by 2-4% as a share of the electorate for 5 straight Presidential elections. But that changes this year because…

    VICTORY!

    That’s why.

  112. 112.

    MikeJ

    @PsiFighter37:

    About to order room service, this is pretty much an ideal way to end the day.

    The only thing I like anymore about travel. No, I don’t want to hang out with somebody I just spent all day in a server room with. People use up all your talk time[1] during the day and act insulted when you don’t want to spend all evening with them, and try to use “we’ll talk about the project at dinner!” thing. Bleh. Leave me alone and I’ll be ready to discuss the project in the morning when I’m being paid again.

    [1] I have a limited amount of tolerance for being around others. This is my talk time that gets used up during the day. Then I must recharge.

  114. 114.

    Patricia Kayden

    Sorry to sound racist, but thank God the White vote has decreased since 2008. At least I know who to thank if we’re saddled with a Romneybot administration (very unlikely though so I’m not worried in the least).

    Wonder how Repubs will win in the future as the White vote continues to decrease. Sounds like a losing proposition.

  115. 115.

    JPL

    @freelancer: Fulton County, GA is the same way. Although the northern counties are assholes, a lot of Fulton is democratic. Guess who has more polling machines.

  116. 116.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    Is Joe the (not) Plumber still running for something somewhere? Can one assume he’s down in the polls? I haven’t heard his name lately, but he’s the kind of guy who’d likely to appeal to the sad old woman in the picture above.

  118. 118.

    Reasonable 4ce

    “Obama’s father was an atheist AND a Muslim.”

    It’s a floorwax AND a dessert topping.

  119. 119.

    Warren Terra

    The damn shame about that clip is that you have to go almost to the very end for the best and by far the most original bit: the warning of the Malign Buddhist Agenda.

    The thing about Buddhists is that you just can’t beat them. Even if you kill them, they just come back as someone or something else.

  120. 120.

    Cacti

    After the President wins his second term Tuesday night, which red state will be the first to introduce articles of secession on Wednesday morning?

  123. 123.

    Cacti

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Wonder how Repubs will win in the future as the White vote continues to decrease. Sounds like a losing proposition.

    2012 is probably the last hurrah for the Southern Strategy. There will be a fratricidal knife fight for the future of the GOP over the next 4 years.

    We Dems should all do our best to pass out the stilettos and cheer on the blood-letting.

  126. 126.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    @lamh35: The CBS article linked in that piece is fucking terrible. I liked reading about Ann’s sad, though. Fuck her, Mitt, Ryan, and the lot of them.

  127. 127.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Wonder how Repubs will win in the future as the White vote continues to decrease. Sounds like a losing proposition.

    Unless they give up on the old “Southern Strategy”, they’ll never take the White House again. Embracing the racist fucks is the key to doom now.

  128. 128.

    Gin & Tonic

    @MikeJ: Wow. Are you me?

    My talk quota gets used up for the day before I’ve finished my first cup of coffee. Then it’s “shut up and leave me alone.” Hey, want to go out for dinner and a couple of beers? No, I’d rather stick pencils in my eyes.

    Actually, I love to eat. Alone.

  129. 129.

    CW in LA

    @Speculum Spatula:

    I’m the only Real Liberal here and that gives me the right to be an obnoxious dickheaded snot-mouth asshole, because that’s how you can tell I’m better than you and yammer yammer yammer blah blah frickin’ blah

    Fixed every single one of your posts.

  132. 132.

    Rosie Outlook

    I wonder if Mrs. Romney cost her husband some votes. (if so, I hope he doesn’t bri g it up in every family argument for the rest of their lives.). Liberals weren’t going to vote for him anyway, but we of no party or clique try to give a fair chance to all candidates. I feel the family can affect voters’ view of the candidate; Obama, for example, probably benefits from his wife’s graciousness. I have no idea how Mrs. Obama really feels about us peasants, but she’s gracious to everyone in public, even under tremendous provocation. Then comes Mrs. Romney telling “you people” what information their majesties would and would not allow us. When I heard that, I thought, “Well, fvck you and the horse you danced in on,” and she certainly didn’t earn her husband any points with me.

  133. 133.

    JPL

    @Rosie Outlook: Let’s hope she made a difference. Wednesday can not come soon enough. Romney was behind in Ohio but the jeep lie probably put a nail in his coffin.

  134. 134.

    Speculum Spatula

    @CW in LA:

    I’m the only Real Liberal here and that gives me the right to be an obnoxious dickheaded snot-mouth asshole, because that’s how you can tell I’m better than you and yammer yammer yammer blah blah frickin’ blah

    Your inferiority complex, and your heavy reliance on political tribalism as a source of personal affirmation are not really my problem.

    Seek help.

    P.S. There are a FEW other actual Libs who comment here.

  135. 135.

    West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)

    @Reasonable 4ce: That’s him, alright. Pretty sad — his voice is toast. Don’t care for his politics, but “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights” was a pretty cool song.

  139. 139.

    trollhattan

    @Rosie Outlook:
    Probably drawing a thin line here, but I think rather than losing Willard votes, Frau Willard failed to gain him any. She might have been a counterpoint to his personality and the inability to connect with folks on a personal level, but ultimately her Stepford wife persona made her his Doppelganger.

    She was his only hope to connect with undecided women, and I think the tally will show there was a complete failure there.

  141. 141.

    AA+ Bonds

    Can you listen to these people and imagine what would make you say the same thing – really envision it and say the words yourself, as though you believe them, and admit to yourself that in a world of information and power you, too, could be duped, and consider how this could be done to you

    If not, then you stand no chance of interdicting the flow of enemy propaganda

  142. 142.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Violet: Gutsy move on the newbies’ part. How many (if any) of those windows get broken in the next week will tell you something important about your neighborhood.

  143. 143.

    AA+ Bonds

    Given the relationship between information, power and history, a genius may well be a spoonfed moron, is what I’m saying; in many ways we are all spoonfed morons by necessity (any combination climatologist-economist-political-scientist-general-medical-practitioners in the audience? no?)

    If you don’t relate to the lies and the lying liars who tell them, and the spoonfed morons who believe them, you will never knock anyone’s spoons out of their hands

    This is one of those things Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, Jr. did and it is very hard for any of us to do them but it’s good to remind each other that we should

  144. 144.

    fuckwit

    I just got done with a day of calling Ohio.

    Ohio is a CLUSTERFUCK. “Early voting” there is way downtown in some place so inconvenient or scary or both, that nobody I talked to, from any walk of life or ethnic group, would even think about travelling there, even on a Sunday.

    Yes, polls are 7-7 in Ohio on election day. Law says that employers must grant time off to vote, but doesn’t say how much or when.

    Compare this to, say, Nevada, WHERE YOU CAN EARLY VOTE AT THE FUCKING SUPERMARKET. That is all kinds of awesome.

    Since Ohio isn’t one of the Southern former Confederate states, it doesn’t get including in the Voting Rights Act, which means the feds can’t step in to stop this insanity in the same way they can in say Texas or Florida.

    At least it appears Ohio doesn’t have voter ID.

    And the people there are the nicest, most thoughtful, most talkative, most polite, most informed, and most engaged people I’ve talked to in any of the states I’ve been calling. That is a real breath of fresh air.

    Still, I’m really worried about that state. I applaud everything everyone is doing there, and will do all I can to help from here (that means, tomorrow, more calls, goddammit, I hate making calls, but there’s just no other alternative).

  145. 145.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @PsiFighter37: And they could change the state motto to something more descriptive, e.g., Semper primus ex foederatio. (Anyone who actually knows Latin is invited to fix this.)

  148. 148.

    Steeplejack

    @MikeJ:

    I’m with you on this, but I can see the on-site person’s perspective: it’s a chance to go out to dinner on the company’s dime and talk to a new and knowledgeable person.

    For me, what was worse was trade shows, where all the people from my company would be overcome with herd mentality and want to go out together. Aside from the fact that I had just spent all day with them, it’s awful to walk into a restaurant at peak time and try to score a table for 8-12 people. Ugh. Not to mention getting those people to agree on what restaurant to go to in the first place.

  149. 149.

    Sherlock Hound

    @AA+ Bonds:
    If you don’t know who the patsy is, it’s you!
    If you think you can’t possibly join a cult, you just may.

    If I have the eyes and ears of a man 20 years older–and I think I won’t end up in a room with a blaring TV on Fox terrifying me, I’m stupid.

    I’m glad I’m too poor for cable TV.

  151. 151.

    Mart

    Video reminds me of a business meeting about a year ago where somehow the Iraq war and Bush came up; and all the old white guys like me were saying that the WMD’s were for real, war was good. I blurted that is crazy talk knowing what we know now (and that I researched it heavily at the time and it was crazy talk before the war). They responded by telling me the weapons were moved to Syria. I say that was a hell of a trick with satellites, drones and total air domination, not to mention why aren’t they being used in the civil war. They respond, he’s a liberal, what does he know. Fox & related does a great job of creating an alternate reality.

  153. 153.

    Another Halocene Human

    @freelancer: OMG, that Asian kid is either very uninformed or doing an amazingly subtle troll job. “After he made that comment he [Chik-Fil-A CEO Cathy] died, I don’t know of what.”

  156. 156.

    Another Halocene Human

    @freelancer: How are people in Florida not tarring and feathering the election officials and the Governor? I’d be pissed about this regardless of party.

    Hey, hold on now, Florida passed the FairDistricts ballot measure before 2010 and it’s not citizens’ faults that the Republican leadership is a bunch of crooks who perverted the process to sow confusion and retain as many ‘safe districts’ as possible.

    And we are working to try to winnow the extremists out of the state house and senate.

    Patience.

  158. 158.

    AxelFoley

    @PopeRatzo:

    These people may seem pretty awful, but they also seem genuinely scared, and that makes my heart hurt.

    Man, fuck them. I have no sympathy for those who let the GOP lie to them. In fact, they want the GOP to tell them that the black President is gonna screw them over, to justify their racism.

    I don’t feel sorry for them crackers at all. Because there’s more of them than any other group, they’ve help the GOP hold this country hostage.

  161. 161.

    Speculum Spatula

    @LD50:

    Wow. Your lack of self awareness is astonishing.

    Most FPers here do little BUT insult other people. Same goes times ten for the commenters.

    So take your tender fee fees and cradle them gently, dear.

  162. 162.

    LD50

    @Speculum Spatula: Seriously, if I was shown a part of my life where I spent hours and hours doing this routine of wandering in, dishing out the same tedious insults, copping the same utterly unfounded superior attitude, and acting like I was somehow CLEVER for doing it, I would quite honestly be ashamed. It would seem like the most pathetic no-life bullshit possible.

    But please, don’t flatter yourself into thinking you’ve hurt my feelings. Your behavior is frankly creepy, in a way where it honestly hurts to imagine being the same way. I can’t imagine what the rest of your personal life must be like for you to devote SO MUCH time and energy to being this way.

  163. 163.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Steeplejack: Plus, the whole point of the trade show is to talk to people OUTSIDE of your company for any number of reasons.

    I’ve seen (and been guilty of) this mentality myself. A lot.

  165. 165.

    AxelFoley

    @Cacti:

    After the President wins his second term Tuesday night, which red state will be the first to introduce articles of secession on Wednesday morning?

    South Carolina. It’s always South Carolina.

  166. 166.

    Ellyn

    Most of them don’t seem to have any idea what Romney’s plans for America are and they don’t seem to care. They are voting against Pres. Obama rather than for RMoney. I think it’s racism that motivates them. And the woman who said Obama went to Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years and was a muslim, socialist atheist might have been anencephalic.

  167. 167.

    Barbara

    It must be seen to be believed. The saddest thing, in my view, are these young guys who are completely inarticulate.
    Although I think the prize goes to the lady who said that Obama had a great opportunity to unite the country and he failed. It’s like they tell themselves these stories and narratives to give themselves a fig leaf of rational decision making.

  168. 168.

    Speculum Spatula

    @LD50:

    I can’t imagine what the rest of your personal life must be like for you to devote SO MUCH time and energy to being this way.

    No effort at all, sweetie. Glad to help!

    Now get out there and GOTV!

  169. 169.

    Phoenician in a time of Romans

    @ranchandsyrup:

    There were drones at the rally?

    You know those toy remote-controlled helicopters they sell these days, some with cameras in them? The ones kids like?

    Now, imagine you’re a really stupid, paranoid Tea Bagger – as they tend to be – and you see one of those outside without seeing the ten year old underneath it…

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