This will be an election you tell your kids about

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**Relapse**

The latest Gallup has Romney in a slight lead over Obama with who knows what next week will bring in this horse race. Who ever your for, I havn't seen a race like this in a few elections, and it is far from boring.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57536261/polls-gallup-still-has-romney-up-marist-shows-obama-leads-in-two-swing-states/

**Bromsy**

Nope... still pretty boring. The carousel goes around and around.

**Jag_Calle**

It's like Alien vs. Predator. Whoever wins, you lose....

**Cheesecat**

Honestly, the polls must be making gak up Romney's campaign is horrendous and his policies make little sense to me, I have nothing against conservatism and this is coming from a person who leans somewhere between liberalism and socialism, I mean a conservative party (Wintosn Churchill, Ted Roosevelt, etc) can do a good job under the right conditions but Romney is just laughably bad.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Jag_Calle wrote:
It's like Alien vs. Predator. Whoever wins, you lose....

This.

News flash 3 Nov: One rich donkey cave beats other rich donkey cave to be top rich donkey cave. All signs report the middle and lower classes are still completely fethed.

**Necroshea**

Jag_Calle wrote:
It's like Alien vs. Predator. Whoever wins, you lose....

This. I'll tell my kids this was the year when voting was akin to picking which bullet to shoot yourself in the foot with.

**Jihadin**

You all making it sound like its the end of the US as we currently know it when either Obama or Romeny take office.

**Kovnik Obama**

This kind of pessimistic outlook is usually linked with severe cases of 'libertarianism', teenage angst and other sorts of diseases.

**dogma**

If Obama wins the electoral vote, and Romney wins the popular vote, it will be an election I tell my children about.

I will also laugh derisively as conservatives gak themselves with angst, while liberals extol the virtues of the electoral college.

**SilverMK2**

Vote third party

**KalashnikovMarine**

Jihadin wrote:
You all making it sound like its the end of the US as we currently know it when either Obama or Romeny take office.

Nah that's when the fiscal cliff hits January 1st XD

**Relapse**

Some more polls:

http://www.politico.com/p/2012-election/polls/president

**Ensis Ferrae**

dogma wrote:
If Obama wins the electoral vote, and Romney wins the popular vote, it will be an election I tell my children about.

Wasn't that how Bush won, or was re-elected? I can't remember. But, either way, there was a big stink up when it was a Republican being voted in, so I imagine that if Obama wins the electoral vote, but Romney gets popular, then we'll hear the same thing, only reverse.

@Jihadin, I would think that this is choosing which bullet to shoot myself in the foot with, but ultimately, aren't a choosing between a blank, and another blank? I mean, neither one of these guys can do much without help from other branches of Gov't.

**Cheesecat**

dogma wrote:
If Obama wins the electoral vote, and Romney wins the popular vote, it will be an election I tell my children about.

I will also laugh derisively as conservatives gak themselves with angst, while liberals extol the virtues of the electoral college.

I thought you didn't want children.

**generalgrog**

You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke. They are in a dead heat now..it looks like it's going to come down to Ohio.

GG

**Ahtman**

generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

**Relapse**

generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke. They are in a dead heat now..it looks like it's going to come down to Ohio.

GG

The last time someone took a presidential election by catching up this close to voting time was Ronald Reagan.

**Squidmanlolz**

All hail Reagan. All hail Reagan.

**Relapse**

Ahtman wrote:
generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

I still remember Reagan's speech after the Challenger disaster. It had the tone of a father comforting his child while reminding us that exploration and learning carries with it a price. It was one of the most brilliant pieces of oratory for the people's mood at the time I have ever witnessed out side of watching Kennedy and Martin Luther King speak when I was a child.

**LoneLictor**

Ahtman wrote:
generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

Hey, us democrats have earned an undemocratic win. You republicans had one in 2000, now its our turn. Its only fair.

**Squidmanlolz**

LoneLictor wrote:
Ahtman wrote:
generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

Hey, us democrats have earned an undemocratic win. You republicans had one in 2000, now its our turn. Its only fair.

With Romney's son buying up the polling companies, this seems unlikely

**Kid_Kyoto**

This will be an election you tell your kids about

Wait, I thought we all swore never to speak of this election again?

**Squidmanlolz**

Kid_Kyoto wrote:
This will be an election you tell your kids about

Wait, I thought we all swore never to speak of this election again?

I had my fingers crossed...

**hotsauceman1**

When im 230 years old and telling telling my kids about this election, i wil be sure to mention the vampire apocalypse.

**LoneLictor**

Squidmanlolz wrote:
LoneLictor wrote:
Ahtman wrote:
generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

Hey, us democrats have earned an undemocratic win. You republicans had one in 2000, now its our turn. Its only fair.

With Romney's son buying up the polling companies, this seems unlikely

Our best hope is that Romney's son is going through a 'rebellious phase', though this is admittedly unlikely.

**generalgrog**

Ahtman wrote:
generalgrog wrote:
You know I'm no Romney fan..but he kind of reminded me a bit of Ronald Reagan when he spoke.

Is it that they both have fake black hair? I can not for the life of me see how one could think the two are anything alike, oratorically. Reagan was an amazingly charismatic presence that could move huge crowds whereas Romney barely gets his base to shrug and say "well, he isn't Obama so I guess I should go vote".

If Obama wins the electoral and Romney wins the popular it is going to be an amazing time on the OT board, and I guess America as well.

I just meant that the mannerisms and the "grandfatherly" way they both carry/carried themselves. He seemed to scold Obama the way that Reagan scolded Carter.

GG

p.s. I'm not saying that it endeared me more to Romney...but it may endear some voters.

**d-usa**

Gallup is an outlier right now, and should correct itself to get more in line with the other polls.

Obama is still showing a 67.9% chance of winning with a 50.0% to 48.9% result according to 538.

He does a really good job making sense of all the different numbers.

**Monster Rain**

Kovnik Obama wrote:
This kind of pessimistic outlook is usually linked with severe cases of 'libertarianism', teenage angst and other sorts of diseases.

It took me a while, but I've made up my mind.

I love you.

**whembly**

d-usa wrote:
Gallup is an outlier right now, and should correct itself to get more in line with the other polls.

Obama is still showing a 67.9% chance of winning with a 50.0% to 48.9% result according to 538.

He does a really good job making sense of all the different numbers.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Eh.. I wouldn't put too much faith in 538... it's just another polling service.

I honestly think the next debate is a "make or break" for the candidates... because it'll set the narrative till election day.

**d-usa**

whembly wrote:
d-usa wrote:
Gallup is an outlier right now, and should correct itself to get more in line with the other polls.

Obama is still showing a 67.9% chance of winning with a 50.0% to 48.9% result according to 538.

He does a really good job making sense of all the different numbers.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Eh.. I wouldn't put too much faith in 538... it's just another polling service.

Please, pray tell, what polling does 538 conduct?