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This gets it just about right

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From the Taiwanese.

[With thanks to CL]

Written by Steve Kates

October 5th, 2012 at 9:35 am

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  1. Interesting the count of the debate (1:16 min mark) highlights the fact Romney got 38.5 min to speak where as the Sunk King got 43 min.

    Those pesky facts are going to destroy the lefty meme that Lehrer let Romney control the debate.

    Token

    5 Oct 12 at 9:39 am

  2. Breitbart breaking gaffe:

    Obama says he wants to export more jobs to China.

    Video.

    Rattled much?

    C.L.

    5 Oct 12 at 9:47 am

  3. Tonight, when I get home, I’m going to dig up my birth cert and enrol to vote in the US election.

    I’ve been threatening to do so for years, and it’s only one vote, but as I found out in Victoriastan in 1999, even one vote can count.

    Any Cats who are eligible to vote should enrol.

    nilk

    5 Oct 12 at 9:53 am

  4. I love the Gangnam.

    Ooh Honey Honey

    5 Oct 12 at 9:56 am

  5. Context on the threat to cut the PBS budget:

    Now comes the real numbers — the numbers the media will never reveal because they’re absolutely infuriating.

    According to Senator Jim DeMint:

    Shows like Sesame Street are multi-million dollar enterprises capable of thriving in the private market. According to the 990 tax form all nonprofits are required to file, Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell received $956,513 — nearly a million dollars — in compensation in 2008. And, from 2003 to 2006, “Sesame Street” made more than $211 million from toy and consumer product sales.

    If you break that down, it works out to over $50 million a year “Sesame Street” is taking in from all that merchandising.

    Yep, that one-percenter Big Bird makes about four times what Mitt Romney does annually and yet Barack Obama still wants you and I to still carry his freight

    Token

    5 Oct 12 at 10:10 am

  6. 67.2 million people watched Romney spank Obama like a hooker at an HSU party.

    58 million watched the debate in 2008.

    Infidel Tiger

    5 Oct 12 at 10:25 am

  7. Obama is ready for the next debate.

    Infidel Tiger

    5 Oct 12 at 10:27 am

  8. 67.2 million people watched Romney spank Obama

    Awesome news… was worried the performace might not matter if not enough people watched it. Obama really can’t cope without his teleprompter.

    Fleeced

    5 Oct 12 at 10:30 am

  9. Yes, The thought that the polls are being manipulated is just crap spouted by fools. Truly.

    For twenty years, all 50 states have been reported, but somehow this year the networks and AP are ignoring 19 of them. Now just how and why were those 19 states selected?

    The ostensible reason given is the rising cost of the surveys. Dan Merkle, director of elections for ABC News, and a member of the consortium that runs the polls, said the goal “is to still deliver a quality product in the most important states.”

    So just which states are being ignored? Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.

    The Washington Post tried to gloss over the scheme, noting “how carefully the exit poll planners allocated resources. All 19 of the states with no exit polls are classified as either “solid Obama” or “solid Romney.”

    Really? Of the nineteen states (including Washington, D.C.) exactly 4 are for Obama, with a total of 14 electoral votes. The fifteen Romney states add up to 135.

    It is utter hogwash that the exit polls were cut from these states because they were in the bag for one of the candidates. If Texas is cut, how about New York and California?

    Keep in mind the polls we’ve been seeing are weighted based upon the exit polls from the 2008 election.

    Token

    5 Oct 12 at 10:31 am

  10. I’ve heard numerous mentions that Obama’s debating coach was John Kerry, but thought it was a joke. Apparently, Kerry did indeed stand in as fake-Romney during Obama’s debate preparation. LOL.

    Fleeced

    5 Oct 12 at 10:35 am

  11. Token

    I refuse to believe in conspiracy theories when the stupidity and clownship is avialable.

    JC

    5 Oct 12 at 10:41 am

  12. oops Stupidity and….

    JC

    5 Oct 12 at 10:41 am

  13. John Kerry! A French mule would have provided better opposition.

    Infidel Tiger

    5 Oct 12 at 10:41 am

  14. I lol’ed at the grim reaper hovering over the aged moderator.

    Yobbo

    5 Oct 12 at 10:44 am

  15. IT, I’m still seeing $3.75 Romney/$1.25 Obama at Ladbrokes – slightly narrowed since $4.33/$1.20 yesterday, but still way out of whack in my book. Correct odds $$3.00/$1.60 for me, so Mittens big overs. Suggests bookies are framing their market on loaded polls. Money to be made. What think you?

    Tom

    5 Oct 12 at 10:46 am

  16. I must admit, the moderator did seem to be a pushover. Some lefties are complaining that Romney pushed him around, but they seem to forget that so did Obama.

    The Grim Reaper in that vid was pretty funny.

    Fleeced

    5 Oct 12 at 10:49 am

  17. The age spots were a bit brutal on Lehrer.

    .

    5 Oct 12 at 10:53 am

  18. $3.75 is still waaaaay over. Remember, this is payout (ie, inc. your initial $1 bet), not odds.

    Odds are actually: 2.75:1 vs 0.25:1. Better written as 11:4 vs 1:4. They’re offering 11 times the odds for Romney!

    Fleeced

    5 Oct 12 at 10:53 am

  19. In 2008 election I don’t think McCain blew out much over $2.80-$3. This one will be much closer.

    Infidel Tiger

    5 Oct 12 at 11:02 am

  20. Token

    I refuse to believe in conspiracy theories when the stupidity and clownship is avialable.

    I read through these detailed polling # last night from Politico. I can see there is a lot of good data which can be skewed based upon the way you present it.

    If you look at p69-74 you get a great demographic breakup and see why Romney & Obama are talking to the Middle Class (it is the biggest section and the lower & upper class are locked in for Obama) based upon voting preferences.

    Change the focus to a question as plain as will you re-elect Obama (p62-68) and the # for the democrats get worse.

    It doesn’t take much to change a definition and put in a convenient exclusion to change the #.

    Token

    5 Oct 12 at 11:05 am

  21. SPORTS REPORT: Sean Hannity on Fox News promising unseen new tapes of Obama behaving badly. On FNC now.

    Tom

    5 Oct 12 at 11:36 am

  22. Dick Morris: 1. Reckons Romney’s debate victory Wednesday was worth 4-5 points to Romney. 2. Reckons Romney is already leading because polling contains +8% D bias in the swing states. 3. Predicts a comfortable Romney victory by about the same as Obama’s over McCain. Good enough for me. Time to load up on the $3.75.

    Tom

    5 Oct 12 at 12:18 pm

  23. Liberals laugh at the fact that Mitt wears magic underwear.

    They’re wrong, they’re actually Superman jocks.

    Alex Pundit

    5 Oct 12 at 1:03 pm

  24. 2. Reckons Romney is already leading because polling contains +8% D bias in the swing states.

    If you have time read the poll # I linked to. It is clear when you look at the question whether the person will vote to re-elect Obama p62-68 the # reflect what Morris has been saying.

    In Battleground states:

    Will vote to reelect 45%
    Will vote to replace 44%
    Will consider someone else 8%
    Unsure/refused 4%

    That is 52% who will consider voting for someone else (they choose not to say unsure).

    That is what the toe-sucker has been saying for weeks.

    Token

    5 Oct 12 at 1:08 pm

  25. I’m not sure what’s been posted on the various threads but Sununu has been asked if Obama will be better prepped for the second debate:

    “When you’re not that bright you can’t get better prepared.”

    Ouch.

    Video.

    C.L.

    5 Oct 12 at 1:13 pm

  26. Again, Sununu can say that, being a member of the Mega Society.

    Alex Pundit

    5 Oct 12 at 1:16 pm

  27. Report: Huge Obama donor scandal about to blow…

    According to knowledgeable sources, a national magazine and a national web site are preparing a blockbuster donor scandal story.

    Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.

    DRUDGE.

    C.L.

    5 Oct 12 at 1:35 pm

  28. Vox Popoli frames it well:

    “While Republicans are quite reasonably celebrating the fact that Romney demolished a hapless Obama sans teleprompter in the debate – disproving once again the notion that Obama is a supergenius master of rhetoric – they don’t seem to be thinking through the obvious implications of what they are witnessing.

    Obama has never been more than a tool of those who have financially raped the nation. Romney is one of the financial rapists.”

    http://voxday.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/the-first-debate.html#comment-form

    Bartholemew

    5 Oct 12 at 2:22 pm

  29. Little does Big Al know it had nothing to do with altitude….
    The background radiation increases with altitude, I believe Oby has been brain irradiated out of it…..next time he’ll wear the standard issue leftoid tin foil hat as protection for his affirmative action brain.

    Alfonso

    5 Oct 12 at 3:20 pm

  30. Tin foil is actually aluminium and it is this which was for a little while blamed for Alzheimers disease, a terrible affliction. Much as I do not support O’Bama, I would not want him to risk the disease. Better he pulls out of the race now and saves us all a lot of money.

    WhaleHunt Fun

    5 Oct 12 at 4:35 pm

  31. Classic stuff. Asia goes martial arts biffo; this one’s for you, Obi. Mitt wins.

    Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.

    5 Oct 12 at 4:40 pm

  32. Obongo’s early onset Alzheimer’s is a relic of his membership of that esteemed secret society, da Choom Gang.

    Rabz

    5 Oct 12 at 5:10 pm

  33. Reality met the Myth.

    Reality owned his arse.

    Mark

    5 Oct 12 at 6:02 pm

  34. Still not as good as Tony Abbott laying waste to boat poeple with an assault rifle in their coverage of the 2010 Australian election

    brc

    5 Oct 12 at 6:14 pm

  35. Kevin obama unstuck without his media Promoters? Just like the krudster and jooLiAR giLIARd. , Shit Happens ! Especially when you are FULL OF IT!

    Borisgodunov

    5 Oct 12 at 6:31 pm

  36. Never used to associate Chings with humour but these people are just brilliant.

    Also the ching chong song is great.

    Chris M

    5 Oct 12 at 9:16 pm

  37. The Gangnam Style dance when he roundhouse-kicks Obama offstage is a nice touch, but it pales by comparison to the real thing.

    That said, this parody is also good for a laugh.

    perturbed

    6 Oct 12 at 12:48 am

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