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The U.S. Midterm Elections!; Oh you knew this thread was coming.
Topic Started: Mar 17 2010, 08:54 AM (1,681 Views)
mousebumples
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I'm actually voting Republican for my State Senator - but he's one of those non-crazy types from what I have seen and heard, and he's done a good job over his past 2 terms. I'm voting for Feingold for Senate, and I don't think I'll have an option for House Rep - although I may do a write-in out of protest. Not sure on my Governor vote yet - the Milwaukee (Dem) paper endorsed the Republican, so I need to do more research there ...
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I haven't a clue how your election will come out, but here's what an Australian living there thinks about it (she's on a research fellowship there): http://inside.org.au/down-to-the-wire-with...merican-voters/.

(The Menzies Centre mentioned in her bio is named after one of our dottier conservative PMs; a complete Anglophile, he was appointed a Warden of the Cinque Ports and made a Knight of the Thistle, and recited to Queen Elizabeth II the words of the poet Robert Herrick: "I did but see her passing by/And yet I'll love her till I die".)
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Antarctic Kawaiians,Oct 27 2010
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Retired WerePenguins,Oct 25 2010
08:52 AM
The only news more shocking is something I read that said that there is going to be a bumper crop of grapes this year for English wine.  (THEY MAKE WINE IN THE UK?)

English wine was common in the Middle Ages. It's only been in the past few centuries that the climate's been too cold for it. Oh wait, we're supposed to blame global warming for that, right?

In other news, Obama is now writing Republican campaign ads.

Yes, the Medieval Warming period. Of course England (and thus all of Europe) is really odd because it gets a significant amount of warmth from the way the gulf stream operates. (Spain is basically at the same latitude as New York, France as that of the major Canadian cities and England is north of the Gulf of St. Laurence.) There were those who said that the gulf stream would be completely ruined by a strong flowing of melting fresh water, so Global Warming in England would reqult in a relative Ice Age as the weather would eualize with that of Newfoundland.

Remember there are two things that are real and one thing that is not.

You have Global Warming / and Global Cooling
You have Atmospheric and Ocenaic CO2 levels

These are real, the thing that is not is the relationship between the two.

Atmospheric CO2 does get absorbed into the oceans and that can impact the acidity of the oceans and that can put massive stress on live coral. But even then the cause and effect is not clear. Global Warming may cause oceanic warming which in turn allows more CO2 to be absorbed in the first place.
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Iron Felix,Oct 27 2010
06:51 PM
I've already voted, for Boozman.

Ha, I knew it.

Anyway, looking over the RCP map of toss-up races (in dark gray), I think I can predict that Angle will win in Nevada, Buck in Colorado, Kirk in Illinois, Toomey in Pennsylvania, and Raese in West Virginia--with Murray in Washington being the only Democrat to win--meaning a nine-seat pickup for the Republicans and a 50-50 Democratic Senate. The only one I'm unsure about is WV, where Manchin is surging, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's actually a 51-49 majority.

As for the House, let's say R+60 seats, which is about 240-195. Republican governorships, about 30.

Sadly, in California, it will be a Democratic sweep, which will mean more union control, and more fiscal crises to come. And with the pot-legalization ballot measure losing, we'll have few (legal) opportunities to forget about it all. :dumbass:
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Pal, I'm glad to hear that you're probably going to vote for Manchin. Because, I just saw this ... and it's just awesome and hilarious, I think.

(Okay, the special effects are kind of terrible, but when's the last time you saw a Star Wars reference in politics? And, no, I don't mean the space defense idea that was proposed late-80s, early 90s.)
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Now I just have to work it on myself: I'm voting Libertarian for Congress.


Hey man can you pass the bong and the munchies? Far out man. :P
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Kenny,Oct 28 2010
04:30 PM
Anyway, looking over the RCP map of toss-up races (in dark gray), ...

They have Chucky Schumer as a "safe race." We're going to take down that demonic doll once and for all. Take him down I tell you! Oh and his "bride" Gillibrand is going down also! NY WILL TURN RED!

Edit: Here is Schumer and Gillibrand doing their election plotting ...
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mousebumples,Oct 27 2010
07:16 PM
the Milwaukee (Dem) paper endorsed the Republican, so I need to do more research there ...

Holy crap. I thought Wisconsin ran out all the Republicans on a rail.
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The Evil Smurfs,Oct 29 2010
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mousebumples,Oct 27 2010
07:16 PM
the Milwaukee (Dem) paper endorsed the Republican, so I need to do more research there ...

Holy crap. I thought Wisconsin ran out all the Republicans on a rail.

Depends where you live. My (hometown, growing up) city/county was hard-core Republican. Like, for example, my dad votes down the ballot Republican. Doesn't matter if Mr. McCrazyPants was running on the ballot - he'd vote for him.

Also, we've turned blue over the past few cycles, but we had Tommy Thompson as our governor for over a decade. Of course, he was then appointed to Dubya's cabinet where he F'ed up the office of HHS.

I read somewhere that two of the Congressional districts in Wisconsin have the highest turnout nationwide. One is Tammy Baldwin's district (Madison-area - super-blue) ... the other is Jim Sensenbrenner's district (suburbs NW of Milwaukee - super-red). [/random]

But anyhow, yes, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel almost always endorses the Democrat in a race. Since they didn't go that route for the governor's race, I need to really do some thinking about who is best to vote for.
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Ah, that tracks. I'm used to tales of Madison and Milwaukee. Then again, if you only heard about Chicago, you'd assume the whole state was blue. If you went by counties, we'd be blood red, but Chicago has more people than the rest of the state combined. Which... now that I think about it... seems to be the case pretty much everywhere in the nation. The major cities are like gigantic blue... um... things... in a sea of red.


Today's analogy fail brought to you by my current lack of coffee.
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The Evil Smurfs,Oct 30 2010
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Which... now that I think about it... seems to be the case pretty much everywhere in the nation.  The major cities are like gigantic blue... um... things... in a sea of red.

I mean, it makes sense, considering the general policies of the different areas. For example, Democrats tend to have more "social assistance" programs as a part of their agenda (health care, food stamps, etc.), which tends to affect those in metro areas.

Smaller cities and villages likely tend to prefer the concept of "smaller/limited government" since they don't want The Man interfering in their everyday lives. Or, at least, that's an approximation of my dad's beliefs. *shrugs*

Re: Illinois ... Yeah, I remember being surprised when I heard that Kirk has a decent chance of winning the Senate seat - I mean, Illinois is BLUE! But then I remembered that Chicago can skew everything else. So, uh, whoops?
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The Palentine,Oct 27 2010
08:21 AM
After listening and reading the transcripts of the debates, and looking up information on both canidates, I've decided to support Governor Joe for Sheet's old seat. It turns out that Raese is another damned carpetbagger. We already have one of those in Rockefeller, WV doesn't need another one. Besides the local republican Paper also endorsed Manchin. They pointed out that becaue of his public proclaimations there is no way he can go back on then in D.C. If he does, the voters of WV can make him pay for it in 2 years. :)

Hey, Palentine: who do you think's a better shot, Governor Joe or Ted Nugent? :lol:
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mousebumples,Oct 30 2010
08:25 PM
Re: Illinois ... Yeah, I remember being surprised when I heard that Kirk has a decent chance of winning the Senate seat - I mean, Illinois is BLUE!  But then I remembered that Chicago can skew everything else.  So, uh, whoops?

That's cool; L.A. and San Francisco skew everything out here too; apart from them the rest of the state is really quite sensible. :P

edit: God I miss Jenster...fewer opportunities to zing Northern California. :(
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One would think that the 2004 and 2008 elections made no difference...
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*sniff* ... over here, the conservatives are blue and the, um, less conservatives are red. As in Britain. Is it any wonder we find US politics confusing?

It's even worse now the Greens have become a political force. The country conservatives -- Nationals -- have been traditionally green. But now the Greens are ... well, greenier. Some awful TV graphs show them brown (possibly for the good earth, or possibly because their leader is Bob Brown). Meanwhile the Nats are trying to edge into green-and-gold without blatantly politicising, shock-horror, our national sporting colours.

Anyone wanna do a thesis on the effects of colour television on political perceptions of the voting public?
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