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The U.S. Midterm Elections!; Oh you knew this thread was coming.
Topic Started: Mar 17 2010, 08:54 AM (1,680 Views)
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artichokeville,Oct 31 2010
07:10 PM
Meanwhile the Nats are trying to edge into green-and-gold without blatantly politicising, shock-horror, our national sporting colours.

Green and gold, you say? That sounds just like PACKER colors to me - I support the Nats! (And apparently Australians)

(sorry - on a football Sunday high after our shutout of the Jets, and I'm watching my DVR of the game as I type this ... )

And, ya know, it's easier to not thinking about the Congressional/Gubernatorial drubbing that the Dems are likely to take on Tuesday. I'm holding out hope that since so many of the polls don't include cell phones, they will have under-sampled Democrats. Not likely, but ... yeah. *fingers crossed*
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artichokeville,Oct 31 2010
04:10 PM
*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?

Heh. It used to be that way here, too. The GOP was blue and the Dems were red. Then, pretty much randomly, it flipped for the 2000 election (I think), and it kinda stuck. Apparently something big happened in 2000... :P
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Yeah, the TV networks are the ones who came up with the backward color scheme. It's not like the parties ever had official colors, like in Britain. The network people just picked red and blue because it made the electoral map look so patriotic.

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And, ya know, it's easier to not thinking about the Congressional/Gubernatorial drubbing that the Dems are likely to take on Tuesday. I'm holding out hope that since so many of the polls don't include cell phones, they will have under-sampled Democrats. Not likely, but ... yeah. *fingers crossed*

But the Senate and the governor races are where Democrats are supposed to fare better. They will keep the Senate (just barely), and possibly hold on to the governerships in key states to maintain their organizational strength and have a hand in redistricting. It's just the House where it will be a total bloodbath.
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Ah, the hell with this silly democracy stuff -- [align=center]THE MELBOURNE CUP IS ON TODAY!
STOP THE NATION!
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You shot who in the what now?
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artichokeville,Oct 31 2010
04:10 PM
*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?

That annoys me, too. I seem to remember that the TV networks would alternate party colors between elections, so one Presidential election the Dems were blue and the Reps were red, and the next election, the Reps were blue and the Dems were red. Somehow over the past decade or so it got stuck, and unfortunately stuck on the wrong (IMHO) color setting.
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Kenny
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uselectionatlas.org might suit you better, then. It uses an inverted color scheme.
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Kenny,Nov 1 2010
03:09 PM
You shot who in the what now?

Mr. Boddy in the Conservatory. :P
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Okay, you can go back to being democratic. My horse didn't even place. :(
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Kenny,Oct 31 2010
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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:

Its no contest....Sweaty Teddy is a better shot. Hell I wish he was a West Virginian so we could send him to Congress. He'd scare the F**k outta them. :)
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Personally I like the current US color scheme. And it's not because as an RPI graduate my favorite color is the school color RED. Nor is it because as a Former District Deputy for the Knights of Columbus and as an active member of the Harbormen's Chorus, I have to wear a BRIGHT RED jacket. No the real reason is that having lived these years in the most Democratic controlled state of New York I know the depths of what they stand for and ...

"I guess that's why they call it 'the blues.'"

Today, I'm hoping to paint the town, the county, the state, heck even the nation RED.
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I went to vote in my precinct after work and was the 265th person to do so. I'm a bit curious to see how this will turn out, specifically the Senate and 2nd Congressional District race. I have a feeling that Bob Ethridge's recent run in with a couple of college students after he'd just finished getting himself smashed has done the damage needed to oust him, and all I can say is its about time.
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voted in my home precinct this morning, not just for the free meal my parents bought me the night before but also to provide a confusing leftist outlier to the poll statistics.
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Retired WerePenguins,Nov 2 2010
08:19 AM
Today, I'm hoping to paint the town, the county, the state, heck even the nation RED.

Nyahh, I hope the wheels fall off your little red wagon! :D

(I hope that means what I think it means. It's an insult I heard from a new kid in childhood that made no sense at all to the kids in our neighbourhood, because none of us had little red wagons, we had billy-carts. But it sounded mild.)
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I voted shortly after 8 this morning - before work - and I was the 84th voter. I've heard that turnout - in Wisconsin, at least - is really impressive for a midterm election. (Possibly approaching 50% from some projections I've read, but we'll see what the actual numbers are.)

Polls don't close for another hour (8pm CST), but I'm still holding out a glimmer of hope that at least *some* of our races will turn out like I want them to.

For anyone who's interested in watching as races are called across the country, 538 has a live blog running tonight - if you don't want to deal with the newspeople's speculation, etc., as the night goes on.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2...ight/#more-3235
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