For those not sick of election discussion yet:
Mitt Romney's disastrous ground game and 7 other behind-the-scenes revelations - The Week
...burning baby fish swimming all round your head.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2012 11:40:41 am PST #140 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
meara - Nov 09, 2012 11:41:51 am PST #141 of 30001
Or like the Seattle area transit cards. Of course, since they are ORCA cards as "one regional card for all" I always think of them in my head as "one card to rule them all", even if that would be OCRA instead.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2012 11:45:24 am PST #142 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
A look at Orca from a techie perspective: [link]
billytea - Nov 09, 2012 11:46:52 am PST #143 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link]
tommyrot - Nov 09, 2012 11:56:18 am PST #144 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link].
Me too.
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2012 12:52:44 pm PST #145 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And Obama won Hispanic voters by 44 percent -- 72 percent Obama to 28 percent Romney
Does anyone know what the Hispanic numbers were like in 2008?
askye - Nov 09, 2012 12:57:14 pm PST #146 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I found this about the Hispanic voting numbers in 2008 [link]
§ ita § - Nov 09, 2012 1:15:52 pm PST #147 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Interesting. I'm curious about what might have changed between now and then--obviously people have had a chance to see what Obama's like in office, but I'm also curious about demographics that might have been increasingly alienated over the past year by GOP shenanigans--are Hispanics feeling more uncomfortable? Are women clenching their knees and telling them to get away from their uteruses?
le nubian - Nov 09, 2012 1:18:11 pm PST #148 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita,
yes. What is interesting too is that in Missouri, Akin was polling below McCaskill, but he lost in a bigger landslide than was anticipated. A polling specialist seemed to think that some women on the phone said they were voting for Akin and changed their minds at the polls.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2012 1:19:12 pm PST #149 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
“One of the least commented-upon aspects of the election returns is that well over fifty per cent of Caucasian females voted for Romney, too. Not as many of them as white men, of course, but a solid majority. Indeed, as a proportion of the total, more white women voted for Romney on Tuesday than voted for George W. Bush, in 2004, or for John McCain, in 2008.”