Election Day, USA!

[Coito ergo sum]

Sam Wang nailed it - http://election.princeton.edu/

Round of applause.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[laklak]

Jeb will never run. 2016 is likely Rubio, if the GOP realizes they need the Hispanics. Some dunderheaded old white fart if they don't.

[Coito ergo sum]

Jeb will never run. 2016 is likely Rubio, if the GOP realizes they need the Hispanics. Some dunderheaded old white fart if they don't.

Hispanics are not homogeneous block. Rubio gives them Cubans, but they already have the Cubans.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Jeb will never run. 2016 is likely Rubio, if the GOP realizes they need the Hispanics. Some dunderheaded old white fart if they don't.

Hispanics are not homogeneous block. Rubio gives them Cubans, but they already have the Cubans.

~70% voted Democrat this year.

[Jason]

2016 GOP presidential candidate: Condy Rice - She's black, she has mountains of experience, she has a vagina.

Win.

[Coito ergo sum]

Jeb will never run. 2016 is likely Rubio, if the GOP realizes they need the Hispanics. Some dunderheaded old white fart if they don't.

Hispanics are not homogeneous block. Rubio gives them Cubans, but they already have the Cubans.

~70% voted Democrat this year.

That's Latinos overall. The Cubans lean Republican. Typically to the tune of around 60% (although I don't know what Romney got - it may have been less, for all I know, since he got less white male voters than expected before the election too). Cubans have a strong work ethic and are big on individual responsibility.

[Coito ergo sum]

Jeb will never run. 2016 is likely Rubio, if the GOP realizes they need the Hispanics. Some dunderheaded old white fart if they don't.

Jeb should have run in 2000.

[Svartalf]

Why did george jr run instead?

[Gerald McGrew]

Most accurate polls of 2012

http://www.businessinsider.com/most-acc ... z2BZJRhSFs

Here's the full list (polls with an asterisk were more favorable to Obama, and polls without were more favorable to Romney):
1. PPP (D)*
1. Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP*
3. YouGov*
4. Ipsos/Reuters*
5. Purple Strategies
6. NBC/WSJ
6. CBS/NYT
6. YouGov/Economist
9. UPI/CVOTER
10. IBD/TIPP
11. Angus-Reid*
12. ABC/WP*
13. Pew Research*
13. Hartford Courant/UConn*
15. CNN/ORC
15. Monmouth/SurveyUSA
15. Politico/GWU/Battleground
15. FOX News
15. Washington Times/JZ Analytics
15. Newsmax/JZ Analytics
15. American Research Group
15. Gravis Marketing
23. Democracy Corps (D)*
24. Rasmussen
24. Gallup
26. NPR
27. National Journal*
28. AP/GfK

Rasmussen and Gallup, the ones conservatives shouted from the rooftops, at the bottom of the list. Huh.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Election 2012
George Bush Accidently Votes For Obama
Nov. 06, 2012


Former U.S. president George W. Bush accidentally voted for Barack Obama today at a polling place near his Crawford, TX home.

According to local reports, the two-term Republican was confused by the instructions on his electronic voting machine and mistakenly cast a ballot he intended to discard.

Witnesses say Bush argued with poll workers for several minutes afterwards in a effort to redo his vote, but in accordance with state law they ultimately denied his request.

The embarrassing incident may have gone unnoticed if it weren't for a local newspaper reporter who happened to be voting in the next booth. Suzanna Everett, a politics correspondent for the Waco Times witnessed the entire ordeal and crafted a cunning scheme to make it public.

Left On Red

Barred by ethics rules from using knowledge gained within a polling station, Everett waited for Bush to leave the facility and ambushed him with a trick question designed to fool him into revealing the news himself:

"Mr. President Fox News is reporting that you've accidentally voted for Barack Obama. Would you care to comment?"

Thinking that his mistake had already been found out, Bush sought to minimize the damage:

"Yes unfortunately because of the incompetence of the folks who designed the ballot, my vote counted for the other guy," Bush responded. He then attempted to explain exactly how the mishap occurred:

"First of all, everything was very mismaladjusted on the screen. You shouldn't put the senators and the congresspeople and the presidents all jumbled together like that. It's too crowded. Just confuses folks."

Bush then explained that after marking the wrong candidate, he sought to correct his error by clicking the red "Cast Ballot" button, thinking that it was designed to 'cast away' the ballot and bring up a fresh one:

"Usually red means stop and green means go. I thought I was stopping"

A New Legacy

Bush is no stranger to election day controversy, having been pushed into office himself by the Florida fiasco of 2000. In that election hundreds of votes intended for Democratic rival Al Gore went to protest candidate Pat Buchanan instead due to poor ballot design.
In an official statement released shortly after the event, former President Bush said his experiences today have inspired him to make electoral reform the signature cause of his post-presidency:

"Laura and I will be dedicating the next few years to fixing our electoral system. Every American deserves a clear, simple ballot when they go to the polling place."

However, the system Bush used has been deployed successfully around the country with little incident. A spokesperson for the company that manufactures the machines says they stand by their product:

"Until today we have never had a single instance of someone confusing the "cast ballot" button for a "cast away ballot" button. This is a problem unique to Mr. Bush, and we have no plans to change our machines."

[Tero]

I wrote a story just for Ratzians. Nobody else will think much of it.
http://teroreport.blogspot.com/2012/11/ ... stand.html

[klr]

I wrote a story just for Ratzians. Nobody else will think much of it.
http://teroreport.blogspot.com/2012/11/ ... stand.html

That's the sort of gig I'd like to see Romney doing for the next few years. Teach him what life is really like down amongst the plebs.

[Ian]

148194_10151345703558132_657406340_n.jpg (38.77 KiB) Viewed 263 times

[klr]