Obama Wins By Landslide

[TotallyOz]

That is what the newspaper headlines will read on the morning of November 7th. That is barring an unforeseen catastrophe or external event imposing itself in the intervening days before the election. This cake is baked!

 

My friend Tampa Yankee wrote a great summary of what he thinks will happen. It is worth a read!

 

http://www.maleescortreview.com/forum/index.php?/topic/11838-obama-wins-by-landslide/

[Guest fountainhall]

Shouldn't someone mention Dewey?? Or Gene Wojciechowski?

 

Gene who?

 

Well, our Gene is (or maybe now 'was' ) a sports journalist who wrote on ESPN’s website on Saturday evening under the heading –

 

RYDER CUP ALL BUT LOCKED UP FOR US

 

With the US leading Europe by 10 to 6 and its team, packed with many winners of Majors and the recent US$10 million Fedex Cup, requiring a measly 4½ more points out of 12 in the singles matches on Sunday, Gene had no doubt. Our Gene already knew the result. The veteran sports writer claimed the only way the European team could win was if US team captain “David Love III inserts George W. Bush and the Rev. Jess Jackson into the singles lineup.”

 

He went further. "It is as close to insurmountable as trying to climb Mt. Everest wearing a T-shirt, cargo shorts and flip-flops!" Funny old Gene!

 

For the record, Europe won 14½ to 13½ - the biggest fight-back ever on foreign soil in the 86-year history of the Cup! Mind you, Davis Love III no doubt did his team a massive disservice by having George W give the team pep talk before the singles matches. You can almost hear it. "Now, just follow my example, boys. All you need do is go out there with your guns gunnin' and your howizters howitzin', just like I did in lil' ol' Eye-rak!"

 

And what about poor Gene? His wikipedia entry now says –

 

"He is best known for his shocking and stupid article written the day before a brilliant European comeback in the Ryder Cup 2012. It was brash incoherent and utterly regardless of an understanding for sport."

 

RIP (reporter in purgatory)?

 

http://espn.go.com/g...p-all-locked-us

http://www.mirror.co...ns-gene-1353620

[TotallyOz]

Not sure what the Dewey Decimal System has to do with this FH but I guess Brit's don't really understand American politics. After all, it was the Americans who invented democracy. Right?

[Guest fountainhall]

I was thinking of a certain headline in the Chicago Tribune . As for democracy, what you say is all Greek to me!

[Rogie]

Shouldn't someone mention Dewey?? Or Gene Wojciechowski?

 

Gene who?

 

He went further. "It is as close to insurmountable as trying to climb Mt. Everest wearing a T-shirt, cargo shorts and flip-flops!" Funny old Gene!

 

Occasionally someone will get caught out like that, especially now the number of sports commentators has mushroomed in recent years.

 

At one time if you wanted to know about the result of a sports game you either had to go to the game yourself, listen to the live commentary on the radio, read about it in the newspaper the next day, or if you were very lucky it'd be on TV later that evening. In Britain we had Match of the Day (Football = soccer) but that only featured one game as TV cameras were not present at the majority of games. Before 'Match of the Day' unless you were present yourself at a football match, the only time it was shown live on TV was the Cup Final, or once every four years, the World Cup. Golf was on British TV and the BBC had a wonderful commentator, Henry Longhurst, but in general sport coverage on British TV was very patchy.

 

Newpapers and on-line sites are now full of journalists of all shapes and sizes who write what I call column-fillers, they just spout their opinions about all and sundry, so many of them are really just pseudo-journalists IMO. But most sports journalists who write for the traditional press by and large know what they are writing about and don't take silly risks. Not so the on-line sites. This Gene guy took a silly risk, one he'd calculated was a small one. Unfortunately he allowed his journalistic instincts to be overrun by hyperbole of the worst kind, with nasty cynical turns of phrase. That Everest comment, and others he made were just plain puerile. You can get away with those kinds of fancy phrases on message boards like this, read by hundreds at the most, but not on a dedicated sports website read by how many? hundreds of thousands? millions even?

 

There is now so much money in sport, and so many TV channels, on-line sites etc all clammouring for you to sign up in order to feed their ever-increasing greed (to be fair it's not just sport). There are now so many wannabe sports commentators all wanting a slice of the sports action pie, inevitably most will struggle to make a name for themselves. Hence some will take risks. Some will be idiosyncratic, ultra-opinated, others will be sober and only write or say things in the manner of a true professional. Or, to use the example quoted as a metaphor - some may dress conservatively, and some may wear T-shirts, cargo shorts and flip-flops.

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[Bob]

I don't know what you're smoking, Michael, but unless something radically happens in the next 4 weeks, there's no possible way for either candidate to win by a landslide. Some external event (Israel hitting Iran?) or internal event (Romney puking on the debate stage?) could change things a bit but still a landslide is really impossible under current circumstances.

 

P.S. I and Khun Khortose have already signed our ballots and sent them off. Michael, have you done so yet?

[TotallyOz]

A landslide is possible with the electoral college. It is a possibility. But, it is also possible for it to be an absolute tie. In either case, the EC is something outdated and needs to be removed from USA.

 

I have voted in 3 states already so I am set.

[Bob]

Good job (voting three times, that is). You must be related to Richard Daley, Sr. (prior mayor of Chicago who allegedly had many dead people vote for him on election day).

[Guest thaiworthy]

A landslide is possible with the electoral college.

 

I don't think very many of our elected officials ever went to college.

 

And Michael you are right, if Dewey was smart enough to organize an entire library system, he should have been smart enough to win as president.

[Guest fountainhall]

Landslide? Having just watched Romney wipe the floor with Obama in the first televised debate (and I HATE to say that), the President missed a massive opportunity to press home his advantage. He just blew it, as far as I could see. If he doesn't prepare better for the coming debates and make 100% sure he gets all his punchlines across, the race looks like it will be a lot tighter.

[kokopelli]

Yes, a disappointing performance by the President; all the more reason to vote for Kokopelli.

[TotallyOz]

I agree it was disappointing but he has stated his distaste for the process of BS and lies. I agree he should have fought harder or hell, at least taken off the gloves. But, he didn't. It was not for a lack of knowledge or being prepared. IMHO

[Bob]

I could be wrong but my guess is the polls just might show a dead heat in this race by the weekend. The "landslide" is likely postponed.

[Guest thaiworthy]

I could be wrong but my guess is the polls just might show a dead heat in this race by the weekend. The "landslide" is likely postponed.

 

More like a mudslide, if punchlines and witty comebacks are all that matter.

[Gaybutton]

More like a mudslide, if punchlines and witty comebacks are all that matter.

 

Unfortunately, in my opinion, that is what American presidential politics has become - who's got the most money. Who's got the most and the best commercials. Who looks best on TV. Who's got the wittiest one liners and sound bytes.

 

I don't pay attention to polls or news "analysis" to predict who's going to win. Here's why:

 

 

[Rogie]

Look what the wind blew in . . .

[Guest fountainhall]

The longer this interminable race goes on, a landslide seems far less inevitable. Will Obama wake up on November 7 out of office and with the realisation that his non-appearance at the first debate kick-started the Romney come-back?

 

As a non-American, I watch with interest because what happens in the US affects the rest of the world. One point about this and other US elections (bar one) mystifies me, however. When Ross Perot was running against Bill Clinton, he made hugely effective use of charts to illustrate his points whenever he appeared on TV. Perot, let's recall, won a staggering 19.7 million of the popular vote.

 

Just one chart showing the effect of the economic legacy Obama was left by Bush would surely be worth thousands of speeches on the subject. Indeed, one chart sticks in the mind. Endless repetition just becomes boring and less effective each time it is trotted out - no matter how true or otherwise it might be.

 

We live in a visual world. Why is it that those contending for high office fail to realise that?

[TotallyOz]

The election is very close and IMHO, a true toss up. I have predicted Romney would win with my friends as I know how much big money he has behind him but I also know both camps have spent near 1 billion each on this election. INSANE. It kills me to see this.

 

I am hoping for an Electoral tie and a Constitutional crisis so we can get enough support to do away with the Electoral College. And, this is possible with the make up of this election.

 

As an American, my vote is not important as I don't live in one of the few swing states.

[TotallyOz]

But, my friend was right. It was a landslide. The EC votes is without a doubt a landslide!

[Bob]

But, my friend was right. It was a landslide. The EC votes is without a doubt a landslide!

 

Well.....sorta. Obama won 26 states (plus DC) and about 62 million votes. Romney won 24 states and 58.7 million votes. Calling the election a landslide is a bit goofy in my view. And only considering the electoral college vote (which, by the way, hasn't happened yet) is a bit irrelevant to me. Consider that if a given candidate won 1 more vote in each of the states that awards all electoral votes to the winner, he/she would win the biggest "electoral college" landslide in history even though most of us might consider such a race as "razor thin" at best.

[Guest fountainhall]

I read this – and had to read it again! Mitt Romney never wanted to run for President this year – and that according to his son, Tagg Romney!

 

In a lengthy Boston Globe article, the Romney campaign’s failures are dissected. One of the key problems was Romney’s aversion to ‘open up’ and define himself as a person.

a reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romney’s problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.

 

One of the gravest errors, many say, was the Romney team’s failure, until too late in the campaign, to sell voters on the candidate’s personal qualities and leadership gifts. The effect was to open the way for Obama to define Romney through an early blitz of negative advertising. Election Day polls showed that the vast majority of voters concluded that Romney did not really care about average people . . .

 

Haunted by his 2008 loss, he initially told his family he would not do it. While candidates often try to portray themselves as reluctant, Tagg insisted his father’s stance was genuine.

 

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run,” said Tagg, who worked with his mother, Ann, to persuade his father to seek the presidency. “If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention.”

 

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/president/2012/12/23/the-story-behind-mitt-romney-loss-the-presidential-campaign-president-obama/2QWkUB9pJgVIi1mAcIhQjL/story.html

 

Jeez! What might have happened if he’d actually won!

[KhorTose]

 

 

Jeez! What might have happened if he’d actually won!

 

The Mayan prediction of 12/21/12 probably would have come true.