Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Sometimes the world just tells you your cat is here.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The revolution will be supervised.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

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  5. 5.

    Boudica

    Between Error Establishing Database Connection and the Comments Off in the previous thread, I’m getting the feeling you don’t like us very much…..

  9. 9.

    Soonergrunt

    @Boudica: Well, I LOVE you guys. I don’t know why the comments in the post debate threads were turned off, but I assume that the db kept crashing so DougJ turned comments off to slow down traffic.
    I could be wrong, though.

  10. 10.

    mai naem

    I love me some Stephanie Cutter. I hope she gets some cool show somewhere and makes a shitload of money.

  11. 11.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    I realize the whole “one problem at a time” thing, but you really ought to reach out to DougJ about that headline downstairs. I know several people in the thread mentioned it before it died, but, really. Not cool.

    Cue Maude to come and tell me to die in a fire now …

  14. 14.

    max

    The website hamsters seem to have taken a break from the big shiny wheel.

    They got into Cole’s pants drawer again.

    max
    [‘Chariots of Mitt!’]

  15. 15.

    The Other Chuck

    Obama picked up a very high profile endorsement tonight: Mitt Romney

    Also, whatever you’re paying your webhost, demand a fucking refund. I have seen FREE hosts stand up to a bigger user base.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    Romney totally forgot to mention that there are fewer states in both the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires under Obama than there were in 19-teens.

  18. 18.

    Political Observer

    HALPERIN’S TAKE:

    Romney B+

    Obama B+

    Pretty much a draw, which doesn’t change the dynamics of this race.

    The Romney Surge continues!

    P.S. Only FIFTEEN DAYS LEFT until President-Elect Romney!

  19. 19.

    CW in LA

    @zmullls: Nixon. Dude sweated through everything.

    Couldn’t watch the debate ’cause Rethugs angry up the blood. But I’m hearing the Prez sank Willard’s battleship.

  22. 22.

    zmullls

    @Wag That was sort of my point, dude. ;-)

    Seriously, I was starting to get worried for him. I thought he might be having some gastric distress or something.

    I won’t mind if we start hearing “Romney” and “Nixon” in the same sentences tomorrow. (Bonus if we hear more about how Nixon clobbered George Romney on the “brainwashing” comment…)

  24. 24.

    Anya

    Horses and bayonets is the most popular thing that came out of the debate with my friends on facebook (which includes a large segment of Brown U’s Class of 2008).

  26. 26.

    Andrew

    @mikefromArlington: Hopefully there is an Obama bounce like the Romney bounce after the first debate. God, undecided voters are fucking glue sniffing, lead paint chip eating microcephalics aren’t they?

  27. 27.

    Arclite

    Sweet. Obama kicked some ass tonight.

    @Soonergrunt. No “off-mic” not for public consumption comments a la dick whisperer?

  28. 28.

    SenyorDave

    I live in the DC area, and one of the local cable stations had Mike Allen of Politico on for analysis. He said that Romney won the debate because if you turned off the sound he looked more presidential. He also mentioned that Obama looked annoyed. In other words, Obama was an angry balck man.

    In other words, screw content. God, what a pathetic jackass.

  31. 31.

    The Other Chuck

    Obama picked up a very high profile endorsement tonight: Mitt Romney

    Also, whatever you’re paying your webhost, demand a fucking refund. I have seen sites hosted on LAPTOPS that scaled better

  32. 32.

    JoyceH

    Glenn Beck just tweeted: “I am glad to know that mitt agrees with Obama so much. No, really. Why vote? ”

    You hear that, Beckians? Why vote?

  33. 33.

    The Other Chuck

    Obama picked up a very high profile endorsement tonight: Mitt Romney

    Also, whatever you’re paying your webhost, demand a fucking refund. I have seen sites hosted on LAPTOPS that scaled better

  34. 34.

    Hill Dweller

    @geg6: Obama won the CBS snap poll by a larger margin for this debate than Romney did after the first, but you’ll never hear the MSM react the way they did after the first debate.

  36. 36.

    Signifyingmnky

    The president knocked Mitt to the canvas and didn’t let him up all night.

    And with all of that “agreeing” with President Obama, I think Mitt’s flipped his last flop. I get the feeling that the right wingers who have been so sure of Obama’s “failures” aren’t too pleased seeing their candidate adopt all those “failures”…

    Every one else just saw Romney as the empty suit he is. You can BS your way through domestic debates by saying “I know how to create jobs”, but when your foreign policy is “Me too, but ‘stronger'”, it’s pretty clear you’re out of your depth.

  38. 38.

    SuperHrefna

    I swear the stress of this election may just finish me off. Two afternoons a week I’m in charge of a local food pantry (we give emergency food to everyone & weekly food to vets & families of serving military, and don’t get me started on the fact that serving military aren’t paid enough to provide meals for their families, it’s a national disgrace) and the number of undecided voters that we get COLLECTING FOOD BECAUSE THEY CAN’T AFFORD TO FEED THEMSELVES is unbelievable. Typical comments are things like “Obama is better for social things but my NRA list says that he will get rid of the second amendment”. And then they’ll ask me if I know of any health insurance that covers pre-existing conditions. It’s not my place to get into political arguments with customers but I’m not sure how long I can keep it together. I’m trying so hard to keep my blood pressure down to a healthy level in these last weeks. I just want this to be over so bad. As long as Obama wins of course. Even this purgatory of stress is better than the hell of a Romney win. The Mittbot can’t possibly pull this off though, can he?

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    Obama crushed his ass. Fuck CNN and their intentionally skewed polls (heck, they even disclose it!!!)

    My buddies and I decided we’re going to Dayton, Ohio the weekend before Election Day. We’re fucking fired up, and we’re ready to go. I’ll donate another $250 tonight if people on BJ respond to this message and match me up to it. I dare you.

    FUCK YEAH BITCHES. FOUR MORE YEARS

    PF37 +5

  42. 42.

    YellowJournalism

    Hannity and the Alaskan Grifter spewing a lot of projection (Obama liar), falling back on the angry ad arrogant black man meme, and not even touching the actual content of the debate. They’re freaked the fuck out.

  43. 43.

    Delia

    @Evolving Deep Southerner:

    you really ought to reach out to DougJ about that headline downstairs. I know several people in the thread mentioned it before it died, but, really. Not cool.

    I know it sucks if you have to explain the pun, but there’s “Obama killed” in the passive voice which everybody first thinks about and says is not cool. And then there’s “Obama killed” in the active voice and the theatrical sense. Which is the joke.

  44. 44.

    stinger

    If I’d started a drinking game whenever someone said “tumult”, I’d be blitzed now. BTW, when did too-mult become tummult?

  45. 45.

    Arm The Homeless

    “Governor Romney, I know what goes on in Area 51. It’s some heavy shit. I don’t think you’re ready to deal with these sorts of issues. Please turn the lights off when you leave.”

  46. 46.

    joes527

    Snap polls are worthless.

    But I believe more comprehensive polls in the next few days will bear out what the snap polls suggest.

    That David Brooks is more full of shit than any commentator in the history of the spoken word.

    … a tie my ass…

  47. 47.

    slightly_peeved

    @geg6:

    It’s looking like this debate was an even clearer win to Obama than the last one.

    Nate Silver’s tweet:
    “Polls show Obama won, but Dick Morris did also, so it kind of cancels out. “

  48. 48.

    Linda

    @SenyorDave:
    See, this is points out a point of difference between libs and conservatives. When Obama got shellacked a couple of weeks ago, libs called it a loss, refusing to put whipped cream on poop. OTOH, conservatives have simply said that Romney passed “the presidential bar,” meaning, I guess, that he didn’t drool on his shoes.

    Libs might freak out over reality, but at least they acknowledge it.

  49. 49.

    Soonergrunt

    @SenyorDave: So he’s saying that if you watch the debate in a way that NOBODY EVER WATCHES the debate, then Mitt Romney won.
    Well, bless his heart.

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    Terrific debate. Obama owned it.

    This election should not be as close, popular vote, as it is. NYTimes has some Jeff Zeleny whingefest about how Obama’s in trouble as Romney is surging. Go find it yourself.

    Obama’s a great commander in chief of the Confederate states too, rebels! Take that!

  51. 51.

    Liquid

    Somebody mentioned Colonel Chamberlain at Little Round Top what with the fixing of bayonets. No horses though.

  52. 52.

    Jerzy Russian

    @raven:

    Not if you ask Ari Fliesher and George Pataki.

    If I ask them a question, I will take the exact opposite of what they say, so if they say Romney won, then I will take it to mean that actually Obama did.

    I know the answer to this already, but why does anyone listen to Ari Fleisher?

  54. 54.

    Exurban Mom

    OMG Ann Coulter on twitter: @AnnCoulter: I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

  56. 56.

    geg6

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    What puzzles me is he keeps thinking people here think Halperin is some sort of authority on this stuff. This is the same guy that gave McCain the win the week Wall Street went belly up and kinda sorta suspended his campaign. And we all know how well that worked out, right?

  61. 61.

    JGabriel

    @Mnemosyne:

    I wore my (still unwashed) lucky debate socks again today.

    (In nasal tone, because I’m holding my nose due to dirty-sock-feet-smell:)

    Thangz. Yoo can dake dem dirty thocks off dow.

    .

  62. 62.

    SenyorDave

    @Linda: The thing is optics can matter. Obama lost the first debate on optics, and I have no problem admitting that. I believe Obama couldn’t belive that Romney was such a lying sack of crap, but he didn’t handle it well.

    This debate there was no optics gap, but Obama clearly had Romney backpedalling a few times, but a dishonest hack like Allen spins it his own way.

  64. 64.

    GregB

    I am shocked that the guy who called Obama a dick has the inability to see that he kicked Romney’s sweaty, stiff ass all over the stage tonight.

    I am also shocked that Iran needs to fly to Syria in order to access the sea.

  65. 65.

    Andrew

    The media has blood on its hands if Romney wins. And I will never take American media seriously again (I was hanging on by a thread anyway). I haven’t forgotten about 2000. Or 2003.

    And SuperHrefna, you’re a braver man/woman than I. I’ve long given up on undecideds. No sympathy whatsoever for any ill that befalls a Romney voter.

    Also, too, I wish there were some way of verifying votes. I love an anonymous system, but fuck me, Romney voters should be forced to the back of the line of a food pantry if he wins. I am not fucking joking.

  69. 69.

    TooManyJens

    @Delia:

    And then there’s “Obama killed” in the active voice and the theatrical sense. Which is the joke.

    Given how much of the debate was about killing, I’m not nuts about using it in any sense, not triumphantly. But I sense that’s a losing position tonight.

  70. 70.

    PsiFighter37

    Just so people don’t lose it. I’ll match up to $250 the people who respond to my messages. Let’s fuckin’ get our wallets out for the President. He absolutely smoked that dust-turd of a human being.

    So fucking fired up right now.

  71. 71.

    Soonergrunt

    CNN, with their flash poll skewed to an Republican-heavy sample–who won?
    Obama–48%
    Romney–40%

  73. 73.

    Davis X. Machina

    @SuperHrefna:

    The Mittbot can’t possibly pull this off though, can he?

    Sure, why not? Any political party predicated on an appeal to the worst in people begins each election cycle half-a-lap ahead.

    Take the fundamental depravity of mankind, and the points. It may not always win, but the fundamental depravity of mankind always covers the spread.

  74. 74.

    max

    @PsiFighter37: I’ll donate another $250 tonight if people on BJ respond to this message and match me up to it. I dare you.

    I shoved in 10 bucks this afternoon since they were talking ad deadline. Post debate I went and helped out the DCCC and Jim Graves and Alan Lowenthal. So does that 10 count?

    max
    [‘Need the house back so the President doesn’t have to put up with those R nutbars.’]

  75. 75.

    cckids

    @Anya:

    Horses and bayonets is the most popular thing that came out of the debate with my friends on facebook (which includes a large segment of Brown U’s Class of 2008).

    Of course, Anderson Cooper had to mention that, tho dissed by Obama, the MARINES still use bayonets.

    Ooookay.

  79. 79.

    NotMax

    I am also shocked that Iran needs to fly to Syria in order to access the sea.

    Well, Mitt being befuddled on Middle eastern cartography not too much of a surprise.

    After all, he can only see Europe and the Caribbean from his banks.

  80. 80.

    Can't Be Bothered

    I am so turned upside down I couldn’t tell if he killed it or not, b/c I can’t tell when people are going to like and buy Romney’s bullshit. It all blends together to one long crass bullshit sales job. So I was worried. Good to see the narrative was set. And MSNBC is killing it right now. Maddow’s righteous indignation (almost to tears) about the Afghanistan backtrack was a thing of fucking beauty. This fits the Romnesia narrative perfectly. I really think Americans are just fed up with his lying fucking soulless sack of shit used car salesman routine. It’s just too much. And the narrative has got to be that he doesn’t mean anything he says.

  88. 88.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Elizabelle:

    NYTimes has some Jeff Zeleny whingefest about how Obama’s in trouble as Romney is surging. Go find it yourself.

    Call it the farce-race — the Village desire for a horse-race no matter what. It’s all about GOTV now.

  89. 89.

    Jay C

    Not a knockout, IMO, but Battling Barry outscored The Mighty Mitt in just about every round: not least because at least about 40% of Romney’s FP “positions” were basically “me-too!” to whatever President Obama is already doing: with most of the rest consisting of cliched campaign boilerplate. Not that The Pres could resist firing up his own Cliche-O-Matic all too g*DD*m often: but stuff like the “horses and bayonets” quip will probably the the stuff that’s remembered. My off-the cuff grade:

    Obama: B
    Romney: C

    Make that a C- for Mitt: Iran “needs Syria for access to the sea”?? So calling that body of water the “Persian Gulf” is a misnomer? Who knew?

  90. 90.

    rikyrah

    utaustinliberal @utaustinliberal

    CBS Poll of Uncommitted Voters: Who Would Do A Better Job On National Security?: 64% say Pres. Obama wins, 36% say Romney. #Debate

  92. 92.

    kay

    PPP polled swing states and Obama won it by ten. It’s 55/40 with swing state Independents.

    Why pick Obama’s chattering, sweaty mimic on foreign policy when you could have the real thing?

  93. 93.

    Liquid

    @Cacti: I thought the whole problem with Russia not intervening was that Syria was their only warm-water port in the Med, or some such.

    Or maybe it’s just all the vodka.

  95. 95.

    Bobby Thomson

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    THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!
    UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH! VICTORY!
    THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!
    THE GIANTS WON THE PENNANT!
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  98. 98.

    jwb

    @Andrew: Short term, the boss guys at the media companies all want Mitt’s tax policies and they see the green from the ad dollars with a close race regardless. Long term they are killing off their business since no one under 45 gets news from cable or TV.

  101. 101.

    YellowJournalism

    Ooo…CNN’s focus group didn’t like Obama’s tone on the “whopper” line. And oh, look! The gender gap is back. WTF?

  102. 102.

    jl

    I went to an Obama debate party. It went over well there.

    I loved ‘we have boats that go underwater, they’re called submarines’. A couple of other lines like that too.

    Damn, I learned something from that debate.

    And that old hack Schiefer did at least as well any of the others, better than Lehrer. That surprised me a little. But then McCain, Bob’s main TV squeeze hates you know who, so maybe that is it, enough to equalize. But then M_tt was so atrocious at times, any suck up or help out would destroy any reporters credibility.

  103. 103.

    PsiFighter37

    @SuperHre@ColleenMary: fna: @Andrew: That adds up to $145, people. I’ll up it to $300 now. COME ON. Bring it for the MBAL tonight.

    I promise I will also send out ground reports from Ohio, the day before the election, for consumption at Balloon Juice. PF37 is back in the game like it’s 2006 and 2008. COME ON!!!

  105. 105.

    rikyrah

    @Can’t Be Bothered:

    Maddow’s righteous indignation (almost to tears) about the Afghanistan backtrack was a thing of fucking beauty. This fits the Romnesia narrative perfectly.

    It truly was. ..because, she nailed it as the character issue it has always been.

  106. 106.

    pseudonymous in nc

    @Can’t Be Bothered:

    Maddow’s righteous indignation (almost to tears) about the Afghanistan backtrack was a thing of fucking beauty.

    Maddow has forgotten more foreign and military policy than Mittens has ever learned. Unfortunately, most voters don’t get exposed to that in the news, and a few of them will consider “leader! strong! strong! leader” the equivalent. But Rmoney makes Bush in 2000 look prepped for the world stage.

  107. 107.

    Donald G

    CBS NEWS INSTANT POLL Who won the #Debate? OBAMA: 53%; ROMNEY: 23%, TIE: 24% (Margin of Error: 4%; Sample Size: 521)

    Public Policy Polling: “Swing state voters say Obama won the debate 53-42, and are planning to vote for him 51-45”

    Additional Comments from Public Policy Polling: “Most eye catching cross tab to me- even white voters think Obama won the debate by a 49/45 margin: publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/1022P…”

    And: “Both women (57/39) and men (48/45) in swing states think Obama won tonight: publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/1022P…”

  108. 108.

    Karmus

    @JGabriel:

    @Mnemosyne:

    I wore my (still unwashed) lucky debate socks again today.

    (In nasal tone, because I’m holding my nose due to dirty-sock-feet-smell:)

    Thangz. Yoo can dake dem dirty thocks off dow.

    Are you shure? There’s still November 6th, ya know.

  112. 112.

    @VividBlueDotty

    @Mnemosyne: Haven’t read past this comment, but stopping to say, “Thank You” in case no one else has yet. Or even if they have for that matter.

    Recap of Debate:
    Romney: I get the last word on everything, all the time.
    Obama: Since you’re just gonna agree with me anyway, guess that’ll be OK. Just don’t say anything stupid or I’ll have to school ya.

  113. 113.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @PsiFighter37: 10 bucks from me. I’d like to see you $250 poorer tonight. And good move on Dayton. Knock on a bunch of doors!

    PS The card they gave me last weekend has lines to fill in when they’ll vote, who they’ll take with them, and where they’re going. Apparently face-to-face discussion of all these items increases the odds that they’ll follow through.

    Seems like we’re past persuasion, we’re on to “flushing” voters.

    BSoSR +2 bourbon sours

  114. 114.

    Can't Be Bothered

    @Andrew:

    We just need enough media shitheads to stop talking about ROMNEY SURGE!! for awhile and pick up a different shiny object of Romney being full of shit all the time.

  115. 115.

    PeakVT

    Syria is Iran’s path to the sea.

    Wait, Mitt actually said that? (No, I didn’t watch. Doctor’s orders.)

    Bwahaha. I’d add a few more hahas but the media will undoubtedly spin it as: “The Mediterranean Sea is a sea, and the Persian Gulf isn’t. We rate this mostly true because Mitt is white.” Okay, maybe they won’t say that last bit.

  116. 116.

    chopper

    @GregB:

    it’s amazing, since iran doesn’t share a border with syria yet a third of iran’s border includes the persian gulf or the arabian sea.

    this romney guy is just a straight-up buffoon.

  117. 117.

    celticdragonchick

    @Liquid:

    Romney is reliving the Battle of Cowpens, methinks. Moar horses and bayonets…just the ticket for Colonel William Washington and General Daniel Morgan. :)

  118. 118.

    PsiFighter37

    @Tom Levenson: @Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Up to $205 now. Come on Juicers – I know you can do this!!

    And I’m booking my flight to Cincy tomorrow. Not sure if we’re stay there or go to Dayton, but we’re heading to SW Ohio to crush some GOP. I’ve gotta get my canvassing shoes out of the closet and dust them off. I’m back, bitches.

  126. 126.

    Exurban Mom

    @PsiFighter37: I am seriously tapped out right now, but here’s a protip: there are some nice hotels to be had via Priceline in Cincy. Go for the 4 stars and $50 or $60 to start, and you should get something nice.

  127. 127.

    mai naem

    Chuckie Cheese Todd is pissing me off. Just wonderin’ if Chuckie ever described the Obama first debate as strategery on the Obama campaign’s part to let Mittman get all his best shots out? I am betting he didn’t but he buys Mittman
    s campaign crap about how they’re on a winning trajectory and they didn’t want to screw it up and furthermore, Obama had to be aggressive because well because.

  129. 129.

    Cacti

    @PeakVT:

    Wait, Mitt actually said that? (No, I didn’t watch. Doctor’s orders.)

    Yep, he actually said that.

    And apparently, it’s not the first time. I guess he’s said it as far back the GOP primary debates.

    Even the WaPo fact checker can’t make sense of it, since Iran already borders the Caspian and Arabian Seas.

  130. 130.

    Original Lee

    @Soonergrunt: Sadly, the wingnuts on FB are all “Romney won!” and “I’m voting for Romney!” Happily, the ones saying they will vote libertarian haven’t changed their minds.

  133. 133.

    Davis X. Machina

    What’s the line about Ginger Rogers? She did everything Fred did, but backwards, and in high heels?

    Romney will do everything Obama does, but he’ll be all CEO-ey, and white, while he does it.

  134. 134.

    Tone In DC

    Obama: (sounding a lot like Richard Pryor) I killed every G00per in the hose.

    G00pers: WHY???

    Obama: They was home.

  135. 135.

    GxB

    @Exurban Mom:

    AnnCoulter: I highly approve of Romney’s decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

    Mitt’s a suckup to all the moderators – I didn’t see anything different this time.

    The fact that there’s even a question as to who should be president given the two choices really has me at a loss. No matter the outcome, we should have a shit-ton of soul searching in this country – but, knowing our culture, we’ll shrug it off and carry on as if nothing out of sorts has happened. We’re truly a post-factual nation.

  136. 136.

    max

    @Boudica: Those weren’t hamsters, they were gnomes.

    Wait! They’re underpants gnomes, and it looks like they stole Mitt’s golden underwear tonight.

    These are Pants Hamsters!

    max
    [‘Speaking of which, has anybody actually seen Cole with pants on since the convention? Just wonderin’.’]

  137. 137.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Obama killed it. Checking out the various online polls had Obama winning everywhere except Yahoo (what do you expect from a bunch of Yahoos?). Obama was winning the polling even at Faux! At Telemundo he was killing it at 95/5…lol!

    @mikefromArlington:

    After the second debate Wolfie gave his analysis of similar CNN polling results with an above normal sampling of Repubs and opined that…

    it was a tie, breaking towards a Rmoney win.

  138. 138.

    PsiFighter37

    @tam: Jeebus that crushed through my deadline. But for you, I’ll donate an even $400 right now. Makes my total donation for the day $500.

    Thank you, BJers. I just hit the donate button. I might be a little poorer personally now, but we’re all going to be richer in 2 weeks.

    FUCK YEAH!

  139. 139.

    mai naem

    I don’t want to jink anything but if Obama wins and John Kerry gets the SOS job and there’s a special election in Mass, I think Rachel Maddow should run. It’ll make the wingers’ brains explode.

  142. 142.

    Cacti

    And to quote the Book of Mormon for Bishop Romney:

    “Woe unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to hell.”

    2 Nephi 9:34

  143. 143.

    rikyrah

    I hope someone can find the video post debate on MSNBC where Rachel Maddow goes into great detail about why it’s offensive, not that WILLARD changed his positions on Afghanistan and so many other things tonight, but that he denies that he had held those previous positions. Maddow’s rant was righteous and just so on point at the heart of it is Willard’s lack of character.

  145. 145.

    WaterGirl

    @PsiFighter37: Just want to say that I really appreciate you and others who are able to make bigger donations. I maxed out in 2008, but I could barely do half of that this time. Thank you thank you to all are giving everything you can.

  146. 146.

    ranchandsyrup

    Losers tonight:
    Poland. Horses and bayonets and Dude where’s my missle shield?
    Neoconservatives.

    Only one of those groups deserves it. Both do skywriting at night.

  147. 147.

    SuperHrefna

    @PsiFighter37: Thank you for matching & thank you even more for your GOTVing! Tomorrow morning you may have a hangover & your bank balance may be a smoking ruin, but you will have the satisfaction of knowing it is for a very good cause. The best cause I can think of right now. I mean, yeah, there are a lot of issues that need attention, but dealing with them well is all predicated on continuing to have a sane, sensible grownup in the White House instead of that plutocratic, offshoring Ken doll the Republicans call a candidate.

  148. 148.

    normal liberal

    @PsiFighter37: I’ve been telling myself I have to stop ( I realized yesterday that I’m one of the top OFA donors in my county), but I’m going to break out the plastic and kick in another $500. I must be out of my mind.

    Thanks for the nudge, PsiFighter37.

  149. 149.

    PurpleGirl

    @Marmot: I went to Yahoo and voted for President Obama. Yahoo does have a core constituency that is conservative idiots. You just have to read their comments to know what they are.

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    Can't Be Bothered

    @Exurban Mom:

    Exactly. I live in TN. I’m going to Cincy this weekend and getting the vote out. This is going to be won in the trenches now, not in the air. I strongly encourage anyone within striking distance of a battleground state to go and drive some people to polls.

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    Mnemosyne

    @YellowJournalism:

    Of course! They are going back on top of my dresser (still unwashed) until Election Day, when I break them out again.

    I’ll have to remember to wear some of my longer pants that day so the poll workers don’t see them and kick me out for electioneering at the polling place.

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    PsiFighter37

    @WaterGirl: Doing my part. When I was in school, I pounded the pavement. I can’t do it now, but I do what I can.

    But I’m going to break out the shoes in a couple weekends in Ohio. This time, I’m going to be on the winning side of a close election. Wash away the painful memories of 2004.

  159. 159.

    PsiFighter37

    @normal liberal: @Joel: Okay, now it’s over double my limit. But I’m glad I inspired a BJ spree.

    Friends – let’s do our best to put the official BJ counter via ActBlue over their targeted $100k counter in a week. Provide all the resources that we can to fight the wingtards, block by block, state by state, until we win this fucking thing.

  160. 160.

    WaterGirl

    @normal liberal: Same thing happened to me in 2008. I got a call from some reporter who said I was the top donor in my county or in central illinois or something. I had no idea! Just me, not having a ton of money, doing stuff like selling my silk rug to get money to donate to Obama.

    It made me kind of mad, really, that someone like me without a lot of money could be the top donor.

  162. 162.

    Hungry Joe

    @PsiFighter37: I’m in for $25. Was going to be $50 but a picture of Elizabeth Warren flashed before my eyes, so she gets the other $25. Come on guys — PsyFighter37 has some serious momentum going here. And this ain’t no party/This ain’t no disco/This ain’t no foolin’ around.

  164. 164.

    DCLaw1

    I really don’t get how pundits can continue to assert that Romney is still experiencing “momentum.” The polls – both national and state – have shown a stable Obama slight lead for nearly two weeks now, no further Romney advances. That’s true of 538 as well; in fact, Obama’s odds have gradually risen since his low ten or so days ago. So not only has Romney’s momentum stopped, but Obama has still emerged the favorite, slowly climbing back up.

    Damn you liberal media!

  165. 165.

    normal liberal

    @WaterGirl: Odd – I’m in central Illinois. And I’m frankly a little pissed that a number of far more affluent local Democrats are sitting back and letting me do the work.

    But hey, it’s a other four years of White House Christmas cards, and my mom gets a kick out of those.

  167. 167.

    DCLaw1

    Oh, I left out Sam Wang at Princeton. He also shows Romney’s momentum stopped and reversed quite a while ago (in campaign terms), with Obama’s reelection a 90% probability.

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    Cacti

    @DCLaw1:

    That’s true of 538 as well; in fact, Obama’s odds have gradually risen since his low ten or so days ago. So not only has Romney’s momentum stopped, but Obama has still emerged the favorite, slowly climbing back up.

    Romney’s high water mark at 538 was 37% more than a week ago.

    Obama basically took Rmoney’s last haymaker, absorbed it, and never went to the mat.

  174. 174.

    Jake

    Two weeks out and Nate still has Obama ahead. Barring a cataclysmic terrorist attack or Republican criminality, we should probably chill, no? Obviously make calls and pound the pavement, but not panic.

  175. 175.

    DCLaw1

    @Jake: He’s not as well known but his model has a great track record. His biggest mistake was in 2004 when he predicted Kerry would win, but that was because he made the erroneous assumption that undecideds would overwhelmingly break for the challenger. The model itself was actually highly accurate that election (as with other elections) and he no longer makes that assumption about undecided voters.

  177. 177.

    Cacti

    @Jake:

    is Sam Wang at Nate Silvers level in terms of reliability? I know he’s affiliated with Princeton but I dunno.

    Sam Wang was dead on in his 2004 Electoral College predictions, and off by 1 electoral vote in 2008.

    Nate was off by 17.5 in McCain’s favor in 2008.

  179. 179.

    DCLaw1

    @Cacti: Nate Silver tends to be supremely cautious (a good thing, overall), which likely explains his low-balling Obama in 2008. Could also be the reason why his probability of an Obama victory, while decently high at 70% currently, is lower than Sam Wang’s 90%. But Silver’s caution is also good reason to give credence in his consistently rating Obama the favorite in this election. He has more than established his objectivity.

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    Joel

    @Jake: Yes, Sam Wang is as good as Silver. His method is much more Occam-friendly, which I prefer, since Silver’s model has been tweaked beyond recognition.

    I like the both, however, they just give you different takes on the same data. Wang doesn’t try to make house effect adjustments or anything like that, he just uses medians to throw out outliers.

  182. 182.

    Anne Laurie

    @TooManyJens:

    Wow, she is really desperate for attention.

    Coulter’s ex Dinesh is parading a 27-year-old “intellectual conquest” around. That’s always a trying situation for someone who used to be considered “hot”, at least by fReichtard standards of hotness.

  185. 185.

    ruemara

    @SuperHrefna: Here’s your answer, I hope you get to read it since this is probably dead. NRA types: Obama has an “F” grade from the Brady foundation, and expanded your carrying rights. businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-21/obama-romney-views-have-evolved-toward-gun-rights

    Healthcare questioners: Say this: “It would depend on whether Obama is re-elected. The Affordable Healthcare Act prevents insurers from dropping you for pre-existing conditions and the insurance exchanges each state is working to set up will have a high-risk insurance pool just for people like you. Just like Mitt Romney’s plan in Massachusetts, but he does not believe in extending that plan nationwide, like Obamacare does. And he has promised to reinstate the insurance practice of denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

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    Central Planning

    @PsiFighter37:

    Just so people don’t lose it. I’ll match up to $250 the people who respond to my messages. Let’s fuckin’ get our wallets out for the President. He absolutely smoked that dust-turd of a human being.

    I threw in $50 last night via Doug’s ActBlue link last night.

  190. 190.

    Bokonon

    Trouble is … in the aftermath of the debate, the news media seems to be going out of its way to give Romney a pass, and claim that he “won” or tied just by showing up and moving his lips.

    What’s up with that?

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