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Plinko

Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Aaron Strife said:
PoliGAF 2012 |OT| Community threads are people, my friend
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Speaking of this, I know the interview is like a week old, but I have to give props to McCain for standing up and giving Romney heat about taking that Adelson money. Also, hearing him say "Corporations are not people" was refreshing from a GOP member.
 
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Diablos

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RustyNails said:
Generic titles suck. Lets do a quick poll. Title with the most likes/quotes is the winner. We'll wait for another 50 or so posts

PoliGAF |OT| Douche v. Turd Sandwich II: You decide who's which. - Invisible_Insane
PoliGAF |OT| Campaign Mode! because the country can probably run itself for 5 months. - Chichikov
PoliGAF |OT| This Thread Is Doing Just Fine Without Cops and Firefighters - eznark
PoliGAF 2012 |OT| Romney vs Romney vs Obama - RustyNails
PoliGAF |OT| How's that hope n change working out for ya - PhoenixDark
PoliGAF |OT| Butthurt Hillary fans still exist in 2012 - Glorified G
PoliGAF |OT| PD's Super happy fun time Jamboree - Piecake
PoliGAF |OT| 2012 Presidential Erection - PantherLotus
PoliGAF |OT2| PD Wins Either Way -AlteredBeast
PoliGAF |OT| Tax Cuts and Odious Debts - RDreamer
PoliGAF |OT| Obama will be Drudged harshly - RDreamer
PoliGAF |OT| Tax Debts and Odious Cuts - Cyan
PoliGAF |OT| Reply if you disagree - SouthernDragon
PoliGAF 2012: Your daily trolling brought to you by PD and Fox News - TacticalFox88
PoliGAF |OT| We Let Our Chads Hang - Dave Inc.
PoliGAF |OT| Shitty Real Life Westeros - Dave Inc.
PoliGAF 2012: You can't spell SCOTUS without |OT| - Some stranger
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My vote.
 
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PhoenixDark

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RustyNails said:
Generic titles suck. Lets do a quick poll. Title with the most likes/quotes is the winner. We'll wait for another 50 or so posts

PoliGAF |OT| Douche v. Turd Sandwich II: You decide who's which. - Invisible_Insane
PoliGAF |OT| Campaign Mode! because the country can probably run itself for 5 months. - Chichikov
PoliGAF |OT| This Thread Is Doing Just Fine Without Cops and Firefighters - eznark
PoliGAF 2012 |OT| Romney vs Romney vs Obama - RustyNails
PoliGAF |OT| How's that hope n change working out for ya - PhoenixDark
PoliGAF |OT| Butthurt Hillary fans still exist in 2012 - Glorified G
PoliGAF |OT| PD's Super happy fun time Jamboree - Piecake
PoliGAF |OT| 2012 Presidential Erection - PantherLotus
PoliGAF |OT2| PD Wins Either Way -AlteredBeast
PoliGAF |OT| Tax Cuts and Odious Debts - RDreamer
PoliGAF |OT| Obama will be Drudged harshly - RDreamer
PoliGAF |OT| Tax Debts and Odious Cuts - Cyan
PoliGAF |OT| Reply if you disagree - SouthernDragon
PoliGAF 2012: Your daily trolling brought to you by PD and Fox News - TacticalFox88
PoliGAF |OT| We Let Our Chads Hang - Dave Inc.
PoliGAF |OT| Shitty Real Life Westeros - Dave Inc.
PoliGAF 2012: You can't spell SCOTUS without |OT| - Some stranger
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The Hillary options aren't particularly impressive so I'll choose this one
 
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ToxicAdam

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Another thread title done in by liberal bias. Looks like Kosmo and I need to create our own thread to bring fairness and balance to poligaf.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
ToxicAdam said:
Another thread title done in by liberal bias. Looks like Kosmo and I need to create our own thread to bring fairness and balance to poligaf.
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Just like republicans to create an inferior alternate that only pampers only to the right.
 
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Orbis Tabula

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I think it would make sense if the OT count was incremented to OT2, but keep the 2012 in the thread title. And then every year we can just start the OT count over and change the year.
 
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Clevinger

Member
Sounds like Rubio is out of the VP vetting process. Good luck in 16 (or 20), you twerp.

It's going to be Portman. Bland white male from Ohio.
 
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PhoenixDark

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Romney Camp Seriously Vetting Portman, Pawlenty, Advisers Say

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty are among a select number of vice presidential contenders being more intensively vetted by the Romney campaign, according to two Romney advisers, reports the Washington Post. The post also named Rep. Paul Ryan from Wisconsin and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal as two others getting a more serious look.

The Post reports that Portman is the favorite:

But many Republicans close to Romney consider Portman to be the front-runner for the nod. The outside adviser to Romney said that as Romney’s team looks deeper into Portman, they find more appeal – including, the source added, that Portman speaks fluent Spanish.

“Anybody that scratches the surface a little bit on Portman starts liking him more and more the deeper they go,” the source said.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, despite being buzzed about as a top contender, has not received more than a preliminary review, nor has New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte or New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, according to the Post.
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http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.c...riously-vetting-portman-pawlenty-advisers-say

Why in the hell would a republican leak news that Rubio isn't being seriously vetted, especially after Obama's DREAM Act news? Pure stupidity
 
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ToxicAdam

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Here's a very nice summation of what Romney is up against to get 270:


Romney began his tour in New Hampshire and has made subsequent stops in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa, Ohio and, today, Michigan. (Worth noting: Romney has drawn largely favorable press out of the bus tour; he and his team have to be happy with the “Mitt Romney receives newfound enthusiasm from Republicans” in today’s Washington Post, for example.)

Those six states were all carried by President Obama in 2008. In fact Obama averaged nearly 55 percent of the vote in the six states combined. Those six states award 72 electoral votes, roughly 25 percent of the total either Romney or Obama need to be elected president.

As we have written before, President Obama starts with an edge in the map with 196 electoral votes solidly in his camp as opposed to 170 solidly for Romney. (That disparity is largely due to the fact that major population states like California, New York and Illinois are all heavily tilting toward Obama).

What’s clear from this bus tour — and, make no mistake, these six states were not chosen at random by the Romney campaign — is that the former Massachusetts governor and his team believe that their path to the presidency goes through this sextet of states.

Let’s follow the Romney map — and the math.

Start Romney at 170 solid electoral votes. Add in North Carolina, which we currently rate as a “toss up” but where nothing seems to be going right for the Obama team of late, and he is at 185. Add Florida, a state that still looks like a toss up but where Republicans are quite confident of their chances and he is at 214 electoral votes.

That’s where the six states Romney is currently touring on a bus (and a plane) come in.

Win 56 of the 72 electoral votes offered by those six states and Romney is the next president of the United States. That is by no means an easy task — but neither is it unimaginable.

The must-have-state for Romney — as expertly explained by the Post’s Dan Balz on Monday — is Ohio (and its 18 electoral votes). President George W. Bush won the state twice and Republicans scored across-the-board victories in the Buckeye State in 2010, winning the governorship and an open U.S. Senate seat.

Iowa and New Hampshire seem the two next most likely to fall for Romney as Bush won Iowa in 2004 and New Hampshire in 2000. (He might well have won New Hampshire in 2004 as well but Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry had a geographic connection to the Granite State.)

Give Romney Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire and he is at 240 electoral votes — still 30 shy of the mark.

The three remaining states — Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — award 46 electoral votes but none of them are easy sledding for Romney. No Republican presidential candidate has carried any of the three states since 1988 and since that time the GOP nominee has averaged 42 percent (Michigan), 43 percent (Pennsylvania) and 44 percent (Wisconsin).

Of the three, Wisconsin seems like Romney’s best chance as Bush came within .4 percent of winning the Badger State in 2004 and the recall victory of Gov. Scott Walker last month has emboldened conservatives nationwide.

Pennsylvania would be next on that list — although Democrats roll their eyes when Republicans talk about winning the Keystone State. (The comparison of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football and Lucy pulling it away is often cited.) Still both sides are spending money in the state — and no campaign or outside group spends money if they don’t think that a state is at least marginally up for grabs.

While Michigan is Romney’s home state — his father served as the governor — it is a very tough state for Republicans to win. Yes, Rick Snyder was elected governor in 2010 but that was in reaction to eight years of an unpopular Democratic governor and a Democratic state party in shambles (or close to it).

Running the table of these six states is very unlikely for Romney — and his people would almost certainly acknowledge that. But, if Romney can win Ohio, New Hampshire and Iowa and then maybe steal a Wisconsin, for example, it gives him more wiggle room in the other competitive states. Rather than needing to sweep the nine swing states — as we currently rank them — Romney could win Virginia and Nevada and crest 270. Or Colorado and Virginia.

To be clear: Obama still has more paths to 270 electoral votes than does Romney. But, if — and it’s a big if — Romney can win three of the states he has spent time in this week (Ohio, Iowa and New Hampshire) and pick off at least one of the other three (Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania), his potential paths to victory would multiply.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs.../06/19/gJQAucj9nV_blog.html?wprss=rss_the-fix

tl;dr - (Assume that Romney wins NC and Florida) Must haves - Ohio, Iowa, NH / Needs 1: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania

This opens up many more paths for Romney to get to 270.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
ToxicAdam said:
Here's a very nice summation of what Romney's up against to get 270:




http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs.../06/19/gJQAucj9nV_blog.html?wprss=rss_the-fix

tl;dr - (Assume that Romney wins NC and Florida) Must haves - Ohio, Iowa, NH / Needs 1: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania

This opens up many more paths for Romney to get to 270.
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I like how that article is going back to 2000 and 2004 to determine what Romney's chances of winning those states are. Ridiculous.
 
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