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[mainiac]

Romney is doing the apology tour angle.  Strikes me as a move of desperation.  He has been trying in the first two debates to sound moderate and sensible.  The apology tour language is a strong move towards the extreme.

[Aqizzar]

So we now know Romney's forign policy plan... Pick Obama as his Forign advisor.

And do a lot of chest thumping.

I was pondering how my conservative acquaintances will read these arguments, and I think it can genuinely be said that there is a nearly-all encompassing divide in politics.  It is a divide between people who think running the most powerful country in the world is easy, and people who understand it is hard.

[Seamas]

Oof.  Sharp retort by Romney.  Looks like this is becoming personal now...

[Seamas]

So we now know Romney's forign policy plan... Pick Obama as his Forign advisor.

And do a lot of chest thumping.

I was pondering how my conservative acquaintances will read these arguments, and I think it can genuinely be said that there is a nearly-all encompassing divide in politics.  It is a divide between people who think running the most powerful country in the world is easy, and people who understand it is hard.

Seems like both sides have a lot of constituents who don't realize how difficult it is.  Having a president figure really makes politics easier for Americans; someone to blame for everything.  (Especially when the economic policies of one president probably don't manifest for several years- enough to shadow the successor's term.)

[SealyStar]

So we now know Romney's forign policy plan... Pick Obama as his Forign advisor.

+1

Make that two.

It looks to me like Romney has lost his debate advantage, and now he's just trying to hold Obama back with a robotic face.

[GlyphGryph]

Man, polls seem to be indicating that Obama blew Romney away this time. o_o

Romney was pretty... blah, this time around.

[FearfulJesuit]

Two weeks...


I have such a love-hate relationship with the American election cycle being dragged out like this. It always unfolds like a novel- alliances, intrigue, figures popping out of nowhere, nominees soaring to the top of the polls only to fall as quickly as they rose, lies, betrayals, gaffes, and at the very end, a great battle between armies millions strong.

At the same time, can we just get the damn thing over with, already?

[RedKing]

Have to say, I made it through this cycle without seeing any of the debates or conventions (other than tuning in for a few awkward minutes of Clint Eastwood talking to a chair).

Dunno if I should proud or ashamed of that.

[darkrider2]

I almost rolled out of my chair with the aircraft carrier comments.

[Sheb]

What comment?

[Osmosis Jones]

I almost rolled out of my chair with the aircraft carrier comments.

The one about the horses and bayonets? Cropped up in the Aussie news even. Nice smacktalk, 'Bamarama!

[RedKing]

Jesus....looking at the pundit headlines this morning just reveals how completely and utterly disconnected the two rival noospheres are:

In the Obama Sphere:
President Pummels Peacenik Romney - Greg Sargent, Washington Post
Obama Reasserts Command in Boca - Alec MacGillis, The New Republic
3rd Debate: Obama Outpoints Romney - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post
Simon: Obama Schooled Him

In the Romney Sphere:
Romney Passes the Test and Marches Onward - Toby Harnden, Daily Mail
Romney Won Unequivocally - Charles Krauthammer, FOX News
Obama Foreign Policy: The Truth Isn't Pretty - Dimitri Simes, Nat'l Interest
Levin: Romney Achieved His Aim, Obama Clearly Did Not


It's like a childhood game of cops and robbers.
"BANG! I got you!"
"Nuh-uh! You missed!"
"Nuh-uh! I didn't!"
"Well, I was wearing my invisible ninja deflector suit so it bounced off!"
"Oh, well I using my special anti-ninja gun so it went right through your suit!"


EDIT: According to Nate Silver's Monte Carlo simulations....It all boils down to Ohio.

We are now running about 40,000 Electoral College simulations each day. In the simulations that we ran on Monday, the candidate who won Ohio won the election roughly 38,000 times, or in about 95 percent of the cases.

There's a lot of possible permutations that could allow either candidate to lose Ohio and still win the Electoral College, but the math is stacked against them.

Okay Ohio....DON'T FUCK THIS UP. 

[Karnewarrior]

All men are secretly five years old, but only in america do men of power get to act like it.

Or maybe also in Great Britain and France and Canada and Germany and Israel and...

[Snowblind]

I dunno why they don't just get that World-Cup predicting octopus to just tell us who will win before hand so we don't have to waste our votes.

[RedKing]

I dunno why they don't just get that World-Cup predicting octopus to just tell us who will win before hand so we don't have to waste our votes.

Probably because it died two years ago this week. And because the maintaining the illusion of "the power of the people" is crucial to law and order.