Salt or Pepper in the voting booth.

[BostonBeaneater]

I'm reading the Sunday paper and kicking around online on this lazy Sunday. I'm wondering if these polls showing Obama kicking ass are going to really be affected on election day. I was with my cousin yesterday and got a bad feeling. He's a working class guy with a civil service job who thinks Obama is untrustworthy and hiding something (in other words he's got dark skin and therefore scary). I wasted a little breath trying to tell him that the Republican angle would replace his job with a privatized one with lesser benefits, lower pay, and less security. I was hoping the working classes had learned their lesson that the GOP is not on their side.

I've had too much coffee and am rambling. I guess my question is this: Are we going to be sadly surprised on voting day?


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[Dr. Medulla]

I'm reading the Sunday paper and kicking around online on this lazy Sunday. I'm wondering if these polls showing Obama kicking ass are going to really be affected on election day. I was with my cousin yesterday and got a bad feeling. He's a working class guy with a civil service job who thinks Obama is untrustworthy and hiding something (in other words he's got dark skin and therefore scary). I wasted a little breath trying to tell him that the Republican angle would replace his job with a privatized one with lesser benefits, lower pay, and less security. I was hoping the working classes had learned their lesson that the GOP is not on their side.

I've had too much coffee and am rambling. I guess my question is this: Are we going to be sadly surprised on voting day?


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I doubt it. Even accounting for a Bradley Effect, I think it'll be sufficiently countered by increased turnout by blacks and young new voters. The McCain campaign is also doing such a piss poor job that I suspect a number of GOP voters won't bother turning up, especially if the polls continue to indicate a landslide.

[Marky Dread]

Thought this post was gonna be 'bout these ladies.

OOH BABY BABY.

[tepista]

Even accounting for a Bradley Effect,

If it happens, I'm thinking they'll change the name to the Obama Effect

[tepista]

I'm reading the Sunday paper and kicking around online on this lazy Sunday. I'm wondering if these polls showing Obama kicking ass are going to really be affected on election day. I was with my cousin yesterday and got a bad feeling. He's a working class guy with a civil service job who thinks Obama is untrustworthy and hiding something (in other words he's got dark skin and therefore scary). I wasted a little breath trying to tell him that the Republican angle would replace his job with a privatized one with lesser benefits, lower pay, and less security. I was hoping the working classes had learned their lesson that the GOP is not on their side.

My boss is a republican who's voting dem, and I saw a lady on an elevator with a "republicans for obama" button, so those are points in the right direction, but of course, I live in the land of jews and fags, who knows what people think east of me.

[101Walterton]

I'm reading the Sunday paper and kicking around online on this lazy Sunday. I'm wondering if these polls showing Obama kicking ass are going to really be affected on election day. I was with my cousin yesterday and got a bad feeling. He's a working class guy with a civil service job who thinks Obama is untrustworthy and hiding something (in other words he's got dark skin and therefore scary). I wasted a little breath trying to tell him that the Republican angle would replace his job with a privatized one with lesser benefits, lower pay, and less security. I was hoping the working classes had learned their lesson that the GOP is not on their side.

I've had too much coffee and am rambling. I guess my question is this: Are we going to be sadly surprised on voting day?


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weeki ... ref=slogin

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The scariest thing about your cousins racism is the fact that he believes McCain isnt untrustworthy.

[eumaas]

The scariest thing about your cousins racism is the fact that he believes McCain isnt untrustworthy.

Even his torturer trusts him:

The Endorsement:

Never heard of Tran Trong Duyet? I guarantee you John McCain remembers every detail of his pocked, scowling face. That’s because Mr. Duyet was the head guy at the “Hanoi Hotel,” the Vietnam prison camp where John McCain and many other American soldiers were held captive and (according to Duyet) NOT tortured at all.

What did they do with all their time not being tortured? Why, played volleyball, ate full meals, and discussed philosophy with their friendly, enlightened captors! Duyet says he considers McCain “an old war buddy” and would “definitely vote for him” in the election.

He also called McCain a man who is “very loyal to his beliefs and country” and who” never admitted that the Vietnam war was a mistake” during any of their “debates.” I’d wager an inordinate number of those debates were moderated by hot tongs and the phrase “di di mao!”

Still, there’s nothing quite like redemption to win over an American heart, and what could be more cathartic than a big on-stage hug between John McCain and his repentant torturer?

The Strings:

Oh wait, John McCain CAN’T hug. Because you fucking crippled him, you batshit crazy bastard. In a world this insufferably bizarre, I guess it’s not beyond shocking to imagine John McCain’s former torture-master backing him for President. No, wait, it is. It totally is. I’d be surprised if McCain could look at Duyet without vomiting fire, let alone graciously accept his endorsement.

It’s not that you can’t support McCain, Mr. Duyet. It’s just that he doesn’t want to hear about it, and no one wants to hear you claiming that soldiers in prison camps were having a dandy time eating Nik-L-Nips and Lik-M-Aid (I like hyphenated candies). Furthermore, your assertion that McCain made up the torture stories to get votes takes you from “delusional guy trying to live with guilt” to “fucker” in like, zero moves.

And even though we’re not as close as we used to be, I’m fairly sure John McCain doesn’t share your dream of “meeting with him again as two old friends” to “talk about the future, and…not talk about the past.” Because that dream is FUCKING CRAZY.

How He Handled It:

“…”

How He Should Have Handled It:

Yeah, that’s about right.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most- ... ng-mccain/