Official 2008 Election thread

[Phoenix Dark]

You're right, it was an unfair generalization. But the fact remains that there are a bunch of dumb asses out there who are voting for hillary because she is a women and for obama because he is black.

I agree, but just remember they don't make up the majority of either candidate's support

[Van Cruncheon]

and for ron paul because he is a racist

[FlameOfCallandor]

It has nothing to do with racism, and everything to do with generalizations; there are many Obama supporters - including my dad - who support him because they agree with him on the issues. I'm sure there's a bit of white guilt thrown in the pot, but to declare all his support as nothing more than race related is idiotic. Surprise, a lot of people disagree with you FoC!

Final predictions...eh

Hillary 30%
Edwards 25%
Obama 22%

Romney 35%
Huckabee 33%
Paul <15%

Paul will get third eh?

[FlameOfCallandor]

You're right, it was an unfair generalization. But the fact remains that there are a bunch of dumb asses out there who are voting for hillary because she is a women and for obama because he is black.

I agree, but just remember they don't make up the majority of either candidate's support

I know I know, i'm sorry, I make hyperboles too often on the internet.

[Phoenix Dark]

Nah Paul won't get third, I was just pointing out he'll get less than the required 15%. Honestly I dunno who will come in third on the repub side. Thompson?

[FlameOfCallandor]

It will be Paul. Paul will get the upset in third place, which will give him the momentum he needs.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I feel like this is a good thread to point out that I paid for my portion of a dinner in Seattle with a $20 I.O.U. from the government...and a $5 I.O.U. from Best Buy's RewardZone.

fiat currency

[Mandark]

It will be Paul. Paul will get the upset in third place, which will give him the momentum he needs.

The momentum he needs to do what?

[Phoenix Dark]

It will be Paul. Paul will get the upset in third place, which will give him the momentum he needs.

The momentum he needs to do what?

Host SNL

[FlameOfCallandor]

oh god Ron Paul on SNL would be Aaaaawesome.

[Mandark]

oh god Ron Paul on SNL would be Aaaaawesome.

I can think of at least two things wrong with that sentence.

[FlameOfCallandor]

http://sportsbook.com/

Place Your Bets! Ron Paul 5-1 shot at getting Republican Nomination..Big jump in odds

Odds for Republican Nomination

Tom Tancredo 100 - 1

Duncan Hunter 100 - 1

Fred Thompson 15 - 1

Rudy Giuliani 9 - 5

John McCain 4 - 1

Mike Huckabee 7 - 2

Mitt Romney 2 - 1

Ron Paul 5 - 1

[Phoenix Dark]

It will be Paul. Paul will get the upset in third place, which will give him the momentum he needs.

The momentum he needs to do what?

Host SNL

I was thinking a minute segment on VH1's I love the 2000s.

I'd love to see Paul on the Surreal Life 2009 with Kevin Federline, Sanjaya, Colt Brennan, and the Rutgers women basketball team

[FlameOfCallandor]

It will be Paul. Paul will get the upset in third place, which will give him the momentum he needs.

The momentum he needs to do what?

Host SNL

I was thinking a minute segment on VH1's I love the 2000s.

I'd love to see Paul on the Surreal Life 2009 with Kevin Federline, Sanjaya, Colt Brennan, and the Rutgers women basketball team

 

[brawndolicious]

the first primaries are tomorrow?

is that when foc gets banned?

[Gay Boy]

If Paul gets under 10%, yes

[Human Snorenado]

lolz, no one here is going to ban his stupid ass

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Racist.

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[Gay Boy]

It's going to be hilarious when McCain does better than Paul in Iowa. A State McCain has IGNORED. It will make FoC favorite little gif pretty embarrassing.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Nah Paul won't get third, I was just pointing out he'll get less than the required 15%. Honestly I dunno who will come in third on the repub side. Thompson?

C-span just said the republican caucus is different. There is no 15% thing. It's basically a straw poll.

[Fragamemnon]

That's correct-there's no bullshit second choice or viability-there's a secret ballot and the results are sent in and tallied.

[FlameOfCallandor]

Paul supporters wouldnt have picked a second candidate anyway.

[FlameOfCallandor]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5422816.html

For Paul, last day in Iowa is mixed

DES MOINES, IOWA — He's polling in the single digits and the pundits have written him off, but a defiant Ron Paul told more than 200 supporters here Wednesday he plans to confound the doubters.

"I have no idea what's going to happen," the Lake Jackson Republican said. "But I think we are going to do well, probably better than expected."

At several stops in Iowa the day before today's pivotal caucuses, the Texas congressman expressed wonderment at how far his campaign has come in the past year — from an off-beat notion to a fully staffed, well-funded political machine.

"As it turns out, the stories out there about a few spammers running our campaign aren't true," Paul told a rally of veterans and other supporters at a downtown hotel.

The crowds and cheers capped a day of good news and bad news for the Paul campaign. His handlers reported Paul raised $19 million in the last quarter of 2007, a noteworthy sum equal to what Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is expected to report in the same period.

But Paul also learned that, because of his lackluster showing in the polls, he will not be invited to participate in Sunday's Fox News/New Hampshire Republican Party debate, a key event before next week's New Hampshire primary.

"Given Ron Paul's support in New Hampshire and his recent historic fund-raising success, it is outrageous that Dr. Paul would be excluded," said campaign manager Kent Snyder.

A recent Des Moines Register poll found Paul had the support of about 9 percent of the state's likely caucus goers, or the same as Republican Fred Thompson, the former senator from Tennessee. Iowa front-runner Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, had 32 percent.

A recent poll of New Hampshire voters by CNN/WMUR found Paul with 7 percent, or three percentage points behind Huckabee in the state. Both Huckabee and Thompson are participating in the New Hampshire debate.

Even so, Paul's campaign has often refueled itself on adversity. For Paul, underdog status has proven a mantle of virtue, and these days he is making frequent mention of the news media and others who regard his campaign as a quirky oddity.

"I was reluctant to get into the race. I was talked into it by a number of people," Paul said. "This past year, I have removed the skepticism, believe me, and I am now a genuine true believer that this country is ready for a real change."

Paul, an anti-abortion Republican who is against the war in Iraq and favors an economic policy that includes a return to the gold standard, is still a long-shot in Iowa and beyond.

"He seems to attract a wide assortment of people with all different agendas," said Dennis Goldford, a political scientist at Drake University. "For example, he has got this Libertarian streak, and yet he combines it with an anti-abortion stance — he cuts across normal party division."

For Paul's Iowa supporters, a central theme of agreement is his America-first foreign policy, which calls for withdrawing the troops from Iraq and other places and refusing to get involved in the business of other countries.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

have you figured out how to spin his crushing loss yet

[FlameOfCallandor]

Ron Paul has officialy been elected President of the Internets

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/952729/

 Republican respondents selected Ron Paul, who led with 37% of the vote

[FlameOfCallandor]

have you figured out how to spin his crushing loss yet

define crushing loss.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

well, Al Gore is King of the Internets
so take a number, Pauly-boy

[FlameOfCallandor]

well, Al Gore is King of the Internets
so take a number, Pauly-boy

How is he king of the internet? Just because he claimed to have invented it? How does that make you king of something?

[Human Snorenado]

well, Al Gore is King of the Internets
so take a number, Pauly-boy

How is he king of the internet? Just because he claimed to have invented it? How does that make you king of something?

Well, according to your free market logic, since he invented it he can do whatever he wants with it since IT'S HIS PROPERTY.  Sell it off piece by piece, wholesale, rape it at night, murder it, whatever.

[Bloodwake]

Oh yeah, isn't today the Iowa caucus?

WILL OBAMA WIN?

[FlameOfCallandor]

Well, according to your free market logic, since he invented it he can do whatever he wants with it since IT'S HIS PROPERTY.  Sell it off piece by piece, wholesale, rape it at night, murder it, whatever.

Except he didnt invent it...

[Phoenix Dark]

Little Lupe is queen of the internet

[MrAngryFace]

Lol

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/7688_Page2.html

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Ron Paul (despite no media coverage) will win Iowa today while Mitt cries, Huck lies and lies, Rudy retreats South, Tancredo quits and Fred sleeps. Except for Dr. Paul, "[t]here's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, warrant-less wiretapping and the PATRIOT ACT. They are both guilty of treason. Time to take sides, fellow patriots, you're either for liberty and Support Dr. Ron Paul or you're against liberty and damn us all. Final link (before Stark County DIstrict Library bends to pressure and drops the book): http://www.iuniverse.com/books...

[MrAngryFace]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33878

[Phoenix Dark]

MSNBC/CNN is calling it: Huckabee wins Iowa

[Human Snorenado]

LOOKS LIKE RON PAUL IS ON TRACK FOR THAT 3RD PLACE FINISH OH SHIT WAIT

[Phoenix Dark]

Nah he's getting fourth

Edit: Christians boosted Huckabee. The religious right is back baby

[Phoenix Dark]

CNN will announce Obama as winner within half hour apparently 

Romney 

[Tauntaun]

I hope Paul whoops up in Iowa.   

[CajoleJuice]

OWNED

[Phoenix Dark]

60% of the republican caucus goers were evangelicals. Huckabee is going to steamroll through South Carolina

[Gay Boy]

Paul in dead last  :kylielaff :kylielaff :kylielaff :kylielaff :kylielaff :kylielaff :kylielaff

[Flannel Boy]

 

[Human Snorenado]

Nah he's getting fourth

Edit: Christians boosted Huckabee. The religious right is back baby

Yeah, hooray for people that don't believe in evolution controlling a political party, yay.

HOLY SHIT CNN CALLING IOWA FOR OBAMA OMG

*TWEAKS NIPPLES IN ANYONE BUT HILLARY JOYGASM*

[Flannel Boy]

Let me tweak those hairy nipples.

[Gay Boy]

Obama is going to win NH and the nomination.

McCain is going to win NH, Nevada, and MI and face Huckabee in SC. Who of those 2 wins SC gets the nom to take on Obama.

omg

[Mr. Gundam]

Huckabee frightens me.

[Phoenix Dark]

No, Romney is going to win at least one state. There's no way he loses Michigan. Huckabee is going to take SC, McCain could get NH but it's not in stone

Clinton is gonna pull out the knives in the upcoming NH debate, but if Obama brushes her off with some good counter punches he could very well take NH and the nomination. Amazing.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

PLEASE not Hillary PLEASE

btw, I expect the standard Paulite spin to be, of course Paul doesn't have a political machine in backwards Iowa, it's all about Super Tuesday!

[Gay Boy]

WINNER

[Human Snorenado]

Obama is going to win NH and the nomination.

McCain is going to win NH, Nevada, and MI and face Huckabee in SC. Who of those 2 wins SC gets the nom to take on Obama.

omg

What happened to OMG NO WAI OBAMA WINS TOO MANY COLLEGE KIDS LULZ

And PD's open dismissal of Obama and Huckabee is lulzworthy, too.

Face it, Michigan youngsters:  YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT SHIT.  Stop acting like you do, keep your heads down and shut the fuck up.  People might actually like you.

[Flannel Boy]

So did you elect your king yet America?

[Gay Boy]

I am happy to be wrong and excited. Its better than being dissapointed

[Human Snorenado]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

[Flannel Boy]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

I suppose a tyrant can be king too.

[Phoenix Dark]

I'm shocked - I didn't see this coming. Hillary in THIRD? Jeez

I never dismissed Huckabee though. He won't win MI but he could win a couple big states, who knows 

[Human Snorenado]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

I suppose a tyrant can be king too.

I am a BENEVOLENT tyrant, however.  In fact, I could possibly see my way to appointing a certain antisocial, nyquil swilling Canuck to my new Minister of Law post... after all, he would be easy to control what with the nyquil addiction...

[Flannel Boy]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

I suppose a tyrant can be king too.

I am a BENEVOLENT tyrant, however.  In fact, I could possibly see my way to appointing a certain antisocial, nyquil swilling Canuck to my new Minister of Law post... after all, he would be easy to control what with the nyquil addiction...

Minister of Law? So I will be the one setting up the camps?
I'm off nyquil and back to booze. Cheap vodka and I'm yours.

[Human Snorenado]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

I suppose a tyrant can be king too.

I am a BENEVOLENT tyrant, however.  In fact, I could possibly see my way to appointing a certain antisocial, nyquil swilling Canuck to my new Minister of Law post... after all, he would be easy to control what with the nyquil addiction...

Minister of Law? So I will be the one setting up the camps?
I'm off nyquil and back to booze. Cheap vodka and I'm yours.

Da, komrad.  The camps will be essential to rid the country of undesirables- the homeschooled, Libertopians, the overtly religious, people that watch reality television... many will be called and chosen for the ultimate sacrifice.  The vodka will get you through it, sir.

[Flannel Boy]

So did you elect your king yet America?

I'm not legally allowed to run until 2012, so the country shall have to wait until my divine providence leads them from the modern dark ages.

I suppose a tyrant can be king too.

I am a BENEVOLENT tyrant, however.  In fact, I could possibly see my way to appointing a certain antisocial, nyquil swilling Canuck to my new Minister of Law post... after all, he would be easy to control what with the nyquil addiction...

Minister of Law? So I will be the one setting up the camps?
I'm off nyquil and back to booze. Cheap vodka and I'm yours.

Da, komrad.  The camps will be essential to rid the country of undesirables- the homeschooled, Libertopians, the overtly religious, people that watch reality television... many will be called and chosen for the ultimate sacrifice.  The vodka will get you through it, sir.

Will there be anyone left?

[Human Snorenado]

Superior mutants only, sir.