the continuing story of the 2008 political election

[elpollodiablo]

Regardless of what y'all may think of Johnny M., you have to admit it's pretty awesome that the GOP candidate is going to be a guy that all of the right-wing pundits straight up despise.

[dieblucasdie]

exit polls show McCain not doing as well as expected.  Still probably enough to crush Romney though.

This is good because it means independents are voting in the Dem primary

[elpollodiablo]

Exit polls hardly ever show the front-runner to do as well as expected tho, right? I mean Romney's still fucked; that whole sordid business in Dub-V seems to demonstrate that fairly well.

[alexandra]

i love super tuesday.

[dieblucasdie]

Yeah, I know.  What I'm saying is that the difference is probably due to people who can vote in either primary choosing to vote in the closer Dem election.  But yeah, Romney's fucked, which is pretty funny, because he'd probably be the nominee were it not for Huckabee.  Thanks, religious nutjobs!

[elpollodiablo]

LOL

Yeah man I gotta say though I'm not much for democracy in general I think no matter what happens I'm gonna be happy come the end of this primary season. I mean, I prefer HC, but I will definitely get out and march for Obama if he comes out on top.

[guanajuato]

i am gonna be carryin signs for the whoever the winner of the dem contest is, but if clinton wins, i think she'll lose vs mccain.
she's to repubs like bush is for dems. she causes spittle-frothing rage and that hate will unify the repub party and further divide repubs and dems. obvs i am pro obama, but it's mostly because i think he'd be the juggernaut that would first batter the repubs back to the stone age, then unify the country because so many repubs 'disagree with his policy but like his personalty'. the repub leaders are fucking terrified of obama! because (as we all agreed i think) he is black and they don't wanna seem like racists, and more so because so many repubs (even fox repubs) can't help but like him. if obama wins the nomination, and if the repub nominee would fire of the slime machine on him, the huge amount of repubs who 'like his personality' would not be cool with this, and i think the republican hard drive would crash and need to be reformatted.

[dieblucasdie]

The local news is so overtly pro-Obama it's kind of hilarious.  I think his campaign writes their copy.  Cover the local races, douchebads!

[guanajuato]

i think obama is the producer behind the local news here, too.

[Thermofusion]

I honestly can't see the bias on CNN, but I've heard people some people say it's for Clinton and others for Obama. 

Fox is pretty clearly anti-Paul and anti-McCain, though.  O'Reilly seems to like Obama for whatever diabolical reason.

[dieblucasdie]

Jesus, it's been so long since I've watched TV news.  Fucking hell, these people are insufferable. 

[diesel_powered]

O'Reilly seems to like Obama for whatever diabolical reason.

It's all because of O'Reilly's recent discovery that black people don't swing from trees.

[Thermofusion]

O'Reilly seems to like Obama for whatever diabolical reason.

It's all because of O'Reilly's recent discovery that black people don't swing from trees.

That might explain why Juan Williams has been all over the O'Reilly Factor as of late.

Tonight the various news channels are rolling out the gimmicky technology.  NBC has some kind of "virtual reality" (their words, not mine) polling screen that just floats in place while the camera saunters around it in slow circles.  CNN has some kind of Minority Report interactive screen with "dynamic multitouch".  In both cases it's extremely distracting.

More tea, mfer

[dieblucasdie]

Seriously, I don't think my heart can take 8 months of this.  George Stephanopolous' "analysis" of the importance of the Latino vote makes me want to find him and murder him.

[slow west vultures]

fox news has these weird rotating graphic bars.  DID YOU KNOW: 73% of Jewish Voters in New York voted for Hillary Clinton.  i do now, because i watch fox news. 

[guanajuato]

O'Reilly seems to like Obama for whatever diabolical reason.

It's all because of O'Reilly's recent discovery that black people don't swing from trees.

That might explain why Juan Williams has been all over the O'Reilly Factor as of late.

Tonight the various news channels are rolling out the gimmicky technology.  NBC has some kind of "virtual reality" (their words, not mine) polling screen that just floats in place while the camera saunters around it in slow circles.  CNN has some kind of Minority Report interactive screen with "dynamic multitouch".  In both cases it's extremely distracting.

More tea, mfer

man, i noticed jaun has been all over fox news lately. i wonder if he is on his way to becoming a 'trusted contributor'

[Thermofusion]

Fox has the easiest-to-follow graphics package for the primary results.  That, and my amazement that Steve Carrell somehow beat out Chris Wallace for the role of Maxwell Smart are the only reasons I'm watching it right now.

And yeah, I don't know how the hell Juan does double-duty on NPR and Fox.  It's like being a Yankees and a BoSox fan at the same time.

[guanajuato]

yeah, but fox has the ugliest color scheme of the cable news stations (blood-red and insane asylum blue), but it's got delegate counts! i cannot believe i'm watching karl rove anchor super tuesday.

[alexandra]

omg. karl rove is anchoring?

[dieblucasdie]

CBS has delegate counts, too, thank God.  It's silly that the rest of the outlets are acting like it matters particularly who the overall winner is in any given state, when it's the delegate counts that matter.

I wonder if Mesmerize is gonna stay up late to see if Ron Paul can win AK.

Yeah, alexandra, Rove is going to be on Fox News a lot now, I think.

[Thermofusion]

i cannot believe i'm watching karl rove anchor super tuesday.

I was just thinking about how ridiculous this is; I'm still not used to him being out of the shadows, let alone appearing in a brightly lit studio casually offering election commentary on national television.

Brit Hume is fucking scary.  I can't put a finger on why, he just is.

I'm thinking about switching it up and just listening to NPR's coverage

[dieblucasdie]

Seeing Romney getting crushed like this is so fucking gratifying. 

[coldforge]

Until you begin to realize how many people would elect John McCain president of the USA.

[alexandra]

HAHAHA. I'm watching Cnn online, cause i don't have a tv. oh darn, no Rove-y.

I really love today.

[alexandra]

Until you begin to realize how many people would elect John McCain president of the USA.

don't be gross.