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BattleHymn · « **on:** October 07, 2012, 09:31:20 PM »

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251125373

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Nebraska a swing state? Wha?

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If thats true, maybe Obama is doing okay.

   "Mitt Romney Endorsed By Two Swing State Newspapers:

   On Wednesday night, Nevadans watched Mr. Romney trounce the president," wrote the editors of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, applauding Romney's "pro-growth tax and regulatory" and calling President Barack Obama "openly hostile to free-market capitalism." The paper echoed a recent Romney campaign attack ad, citing Obama's "you didn't build that" comments. Many other news outlets have criticized Romney for taking the line out of context.

   The Omaha World-Herald, meanwhile, accused Obama of engaging in "class warfare" and of "lack the management skill necessary to run government.

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   While Nebraska is rarely included in the list of key swing states in the presidential election -- the overall state vote has been reliably Republican for decades -- the unusual way in which the state calculates its electoral votes makes it a viable play for Obama.

This story is about newspaper endorsements, but the way they report this stuff is bullshit...unless I'm missing something.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/07/mitt-romney-swing-states_n_1946330.html|

No other primitives at this campfire yet.

BattleHymn · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:35:56 PM »

Not sure if my browser screwed up, or what. Here are some of the replies showing up now:

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Sun Oct 7, 2012, 10:06 PM

Star Member Gore1FL (11,079 posts)
1. Obama got an elector from there in 2008.

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Sun Oct 7, 2012, 10:21 PM
karynnj (45,536 posts)
3. Swing state is pretty amazing

In case anyone wanted to know, both endorsed McCain in 2008 and Bush in 2004.

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Sun Oct 7, 2012, 10:22 PM

TexasCPA (119 posts)
4. Obama still might win NE2

The thread is running about 50/50, with half of the primitives appearing to think Obumbles might win something in NE, and the other half thinking the first half is nuts.

Mr Mannn · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:45:07 PM »

One by one, the states will fall away, and the truth will come out at last.

Skul · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:02:36 PM »

The Herald went liberal years ago.
DUmmies are dreaming.

I_B_Perky · « **Reply #4 on:** October 07, 2012, 10:49:27 PM »

The dummie cites the huffandpuffington post?

Big Dog · « **Reply #5 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:00:57 PM »

The Omaha World-Herald is the major newspaper for western Iowa.

RobJohnson · « **Reply #6 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:04:41 PM »

I would do the happy dance if Romney wins Nevada....

JakeStyle · « **Reply #7 on:** October 07, 2012, 11:27:14 PM »

Quote from: Mr Mannn on October 07, 2012, 09:45:07 PM

One by one, the states will fall away, and the truth will come out at last.

I really hope so but I am cynical to the point that I will not be surprised if the half-wit is reelected.

Lacarnut · « **Reply #8 on:** October 08, 2012, 12:54:27 AM »

Quote from: JakeStyle on October 07, 2012, 11:27:14 PM

I really hope so but I am cynical to the point that I will not be surprised if the half-wit is reelected.

Not a chance. Romney is going to blow the Magic Negro away.

franksolich · « **Reply #9 on:** October 08, 2012, 07:42:39 AM »

WTF?

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Barack Milhous has got no chance in Hell, not even in Omaha.

He carried Omaha in 2008, but that was fluke; people in Nebraska just weren't very excited about McCain and stayed home.

The (R) running for the House in the bluest part of Omaha is polling 58-41% over the (D).

And Barack Milhous is going to get a much lower percentage of the vote in Nebraska than he did in 2008.

This is just ****ing bullshit.

Undies · « **Reply #10 on:** October 08, 2012, 09:00:25 AM »

Quote from: franksolich on October 08, 2012, 07:42:39 AM

WTF?

Hell, not even in Omaha.

This is just ****ing bullshit.

Such language! The paint is peeling off the wall behind the computer.

RobJohnson · « **Reply #11 on:** October 08, 2012, 10:02:22 AM »

Quote from: franksolich on October 08, 2012, 07:42:39 AM

WTF?

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Barack Milhous has got no chance in Hell, not even in Omaha.

He carried Omaha in 2008, but that was fluke; people in Nebraska just weren't very excited about McCain and stayed home.

The (R) running for the House in the bluest part of Omaha is polling 58-41% over the (D).

And Barack Milhous is going to get a much lower percentage of the vote in Nebraska than he did in 2008.

This is just ****ing bullshit.

My sister tells me Omaha is much more liberal then the rest of Nebraska.

I know I have an old classmate, retired Navy, that now works for the SBA in Omaha. His posts on Facebook read like something I would see on DU....

AllosaursRus · « **Reply #12 on:** October 08, 2012, 11:48:38 AM »

Quote from: I_B_Perky on October 07, 2012, 10:49:27 PM

The dummie cites the huffandpuffington post?

According to DUmbShits, the Huffer is as accurate as NASA!

Quote from: franksolich on October 08, 2012, 07:42:39 AM

WTF?

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.

Barack Milhous has got no chance in Hell, not even in Omaha.

He carried Omaha in 2008, but that was fluke; people in Nebraska just weren't very excited about McCain and stayed home.

The (R) running for the House in the bluest part of Omaha is polling 58-41% over the (D).

And Barack Milhous is going to get a much lower percentage of the vote in Nebraska than he did in 2008.

This is just ****ing bullshit.

McCain was the worst candidate we have ever put up against a DimWit!

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #13 on:** October 08, 2012, 11:59:02 AM »

Quote from: AllosaursRus on October 08, 2012, 11:48:38 AM

According to DUmbShits, the Huffer is as accurate as NASA!

McCain was the worst candidate we have ever put up against a DimWit!

From what Rush was just saying about Mitt's foreign policy speech, Mitt is a heluva step up from McCain.

AllosaursRus · « **Reply #14 on:** October 08, 2012, 12:37:26 PM »

Quote from: BlueStateSaint on October 08, 2012, 11:59:02 AM

From what Rush was just saying about Mitt's foreign policy speech, Mitt is a heluva step up from McCain.

I don't think there's a comparison to that limp dick!

DumbAss Tanker · « **Reply #15 on:** October 08, 2012, 12:42:48 PM »

Quote from: I_B_Perky on October 07, 2012, 10:49:27 PM

The dummie cites the huffandpuffington post?

Anything that aligns with their delusional system is necessarily a 'Reliable source.'

Celtic Rose · « **Reply #16 on:** October 08, 2012, 04:18:39 PM »

I'm so happy my vote will actually probably count for something this year

franksolich · « **Reply #17 on:** October 08, 2012, 04:24:03 PM »

Quote from: Celtic Rose on October 08, 2012, 04:18:39 PM

I'm so happy my vote will actually probably count for something this year

Well, what you got is this:

The two (R) congressmen outside of Omaha pretty much locked up with 70% or more of the vote--and yes, even in Lincoln, which at times can be bluer than Omaha.

The (R) candidate for the U.S. Senate ahead of Kerrey by 10+% since the race started, and it's not narrowing any.

The (R) congressman in Omaha enjoying the widest, most-comfortable, lead he's ever had in his races, 58-41%; some of them have been real nail-biters, but not this one.

Nebraska is a "swing state," susceptible to the malignant charms of Barack Milhous?

Yeah, sure.

Airwolf · « **Reply #18 on:** October 08, 2012, 05:09:20 PM »

The only way Nebraska is a swing state is because they are still spinning from the defeat that Ohio State laid on them last week with a score of 63-38. Omaha and some small parts of the state might be blue the the ENTIRE state is as RED as it can get and that is not even taking into account the colors of the Husker football team. People out here are mostly Conservative and have always been that way. The is a saying in Nebraska, "Don't spook the cows" . If anything The Magic Negro has more then spooked the cows with his economic and foreign policies and one can bet that is more then enough to upset Jack and Jill Farmer who not only vote but will vote to get rid of Obama.

GOBUCKS · « **Reply #19 on:** October 08, 2012, 05:27:37 PM »

Quote from: Airwolf on October 08, 2012, 05:09:20 PM

The only way Nebraska is a swing state is because they are still spinning from the defeat that Ohio State laid on them last week with a score of 63-38.

There's no need to rub that in. We're at the beginning of a great rivalry.

It's great to have a civilized rival, as opposed to that place north of Toledo.

And while Coach Tressel would never have allowed his team to score again at 56-38, Coach Hayes would have scored it and gone for two.

AllosaursRus · « **Reply #20 on:** October 09, 2012, 02:25:38 PM »

Quote from: franksolich on October 08, 2012, 04:24:03 PM

Well, what you got is this:

The two (R) congressmen outside of Omaha pretty much locked up with 70% or more of the vote--and yes, even in Lincoln, which at times can be bluer than Omaha.

The (R) candidate for the U.S. Senate ahead of Kerrey by 10+% since the race started, and it's not narrowing any.

The (R) congressman in Omaha enjoying the widest, most-comfortable, lead he's ever had in his races, 58-41%; some of them have been real nail-biters, but not this one.

Nebraska is a "swing state," susceptible to the malignant charms of Barack Milhous?

Yeah, sure.

Anyone else remember when they switched colors on us?

I know when I was a younger lad, DimBulbs were Red, and we were Blue.

Reason I suppose, was that back in the day of the commie purge by McCarthy, all the stinkin' reds were demonRats! I'm thinkin' even though McCarthy was pretty much a little over the top, he sure seems to be right.

It hasn't been that many years since they switched colors. I'm thinkin' it was during the Clintoon fiasco!

I have ta tell ya, they're closer to Red than they have been in my lifetime!!!!!!!!!

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #21 on:** October 09, 2012, 03:14:05 PM »

Quote from: AllosaursRus on October 09, 2012, 02:25:38 PM

Anyone else remember when they switched colors on us?

I know when I was a younger lad, DimBulbs were Red, and we were Blue.

Reason I suppose, was that back in the day of the commie purge by McCarthy, all the stinkin' reds were demonRats! I'm thinkin' even though McCarthy was pretty much a little over the top, he sure seems to be right.

It hasn't been that many years since they switched colors. I'm thinkin' it was during the Clintoon fiasco!

I have ta tell ya, they're closer to Red than they have been in my lifetime!!!!!!!!!

IIRC, it was the election of 1992.

ChuckJ · « **Reply #22 on:** October 09, 2012, 03:19:11 PM »

I would just about bet you that the DUmmies that are thinking it may be a swing state doesn't realize that frank, the one they fear more than Chuck Norris, is from Nebraska.

franksolich · « **Reply #23 on:** October 09, 2012, 03:23:11 PM »

Quote from: BlueStateSaint on October 09, 2012, 03:14:05 PM

IIRC, it was the election of 1992.

Your memory might be better than mine, as you've probably watched more elections via television than I have.

From the first election I recall seeing on television, red signified the Democrats, blue the Republicans.

It seemed that way for the longest time, until 2000.

That year, I got greatly confused when Alphonse Capote Gore was inexplicably blue, and George Bush red.

I've heard it's because the mainstream media of course understands the implication of "red," and wishing to deflect any nefarious hints about the Democrats, switched them; that it was a subliminal thing, so the public wouldn't think of the Democrats negatively.

BlueStateSaint · « **Reply #24 on:** October 09, 2012, 03:28:58 PM »

Quote from: franksolich on October 09, 2012, 03:23:11 PM

Your memory might be better than mine, as you've probably watched more elections via television than I have.

From the first election I recall seeing on television, red signified the Democrats, blue the Republicans.

It seemed that way for the longest time, until 2000.

That year, I got greatly confused when Alphonse Capote Gore was inexplicably blue, and George Bush red.

I've heard it's because the mainstream media of course understands the implication of "red," and wishing to deflect any nefarious hints about the Democrats, switched them; that it was a subliminal thing, so the public wouldn't think of the Democrats negatively.

Yep, you've got the reasoning right. I thought it was a 2000 thing, too, but I saw not too long ago (I think it was here, actually) that the big switcheroo happened in 1992.

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