Is it not the Democrat focus, financed by super pacs, to take control of Repub controlled state houses by ousting Repub incumbents?

isn't that the goal of each party, to take control if the other is in power. besides the super pac democrats have been in power long enough. give someone else a try at doing a better job.

"give someone else a try at doing a better job."

Since Republicans have a history of spending us into huge deficits and Tea Partiers want us to do the same and also default on our financial obligations to our creditors, there really aren't enough Greens and Independents running to take a majority of either house of Congress. Deficit spending has been coming down (slightly) in the past four years and with increased revenues from raising taxes to past levels we have a better chance at getting our deficits down with Democrats.

"Deficit spending has been coming down (slightly) in the past four years "

What planet are you on? The deficit has increased by 5 trillion under Obama and goes up every day. Good grief!

What has Ben Cardin done feeding off of the public for the last 30 years? One thing that I know for certain, when he finally retires from "Public Service" he will have a pension and health benefits that no American citizen in the private sector will ever enjoy, compliments of the American Taxpayer. I know, he's "fighting for me and the rest of us" and laughing all the way to the bank. When will the "Sheeple" wake up!

" Tea Partiers want us to do the same and also default on our financial obligations to our creditors,"

What total unsupportable nonsense.
There were 2 people who could have defaulted on our obligations and ONLY 2. Obama and Geithner.

The fact is a default would have never happened. A default would only occur if the interest on US Treasuries were not paid. There was far more than enough cash flowing into the federal coffers to pay those debts.

Obama was responsible for the downgrade of US Debt no one else!

"Deficit spending has been coming down (slightly) in the past four years"
Where DO you people get these lies? How hard is it to look it up before you make an ass of yourself? http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals

Receipts Outlays Surplus/Deficit
2005 2,153,611 2,471,957 -318,346
2006 2,406,869 2,655,050 -248,181
2007 2,567,985 2,728,686 -160,701
2008 2,523,991 2,982,544 -458,553
2009 2,104,989 3,517,677 -1,412,688
2010 2,162,724 3,456,213 -1,293,489
2011 2,303,466 3,603,061 -1,299,595
2012 est 2,468,599 3,795,547 -1,326,948

PLEASE people, if you want to throw numbers around know what the hell you are talking about! The internet is full of information at your fricking fingertips.
Why sound so damn stupid when it is not necessary to do so?

Mike C, when did the Federal government take in RECORD revenue? What year?

Look at this link before you make an ass of yourself again with totally untrue comments.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals

And remember this record was after 2 tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

Half truths through the misleading use of statistics are for the simple minded. It may convince a lot of people, but on Tuesday it will not convince enough of them. What are you going to do then Joe?

actually it is high time the who state went republican look at the counties with job growth and better schools all republican areas!

sad that people like you do not understand balanced budget or lower taxes! democracts continue to raise taxes with reckless spending,a big cut to goverment jobs in maryland would spell bad news for alot of dems as they would not be able to find employment in the private sector!

I don't think you need to worry about your democrats in this one party state.

Yes P. Davis, please vote democrat and keep Maryland strongly democratic! We need increased spending, increased property taxes, increased sales taxes, gay marriage, illegal immigrants (illegal means they are criminals) getting all the benefits of a citizen, slots and casinos (with the prostitution, drugs, and crime that comes with it), higher salaries for state employees, and take home cars for all state employees! Then, when the Dems find out they can't afford to pay for it all, tax us again and spend us into oblivion.

John, what you miss is that ALL those things would get worse under a Republican government. The Republicans or Rethuglicans as I call them love to BS about "We will lower taxes, we will stop spending, etc." then spend just as much or more than Democrats AND give massive tax breaks ONLY or MAJORLY to the wealthy.

Vote for the best person for the job! Time to retire some of those lifers who forgot who they are representing.

Maryland is a one party state...period. No matter what ridiculous ideas they come up with down in Annapolis, and there's no shortage of those, the sheeple just go right in the polling booths and keep electing these people because they believe all of the drivel about how any opposition will be even worse. If liberalism and democrats have it all figured out, then Baltimore City should be a utopian society. Baltimore has been run by democrats for over 40 years. Everyone from the Mayor to the dog catcher is a democrat. What have they accomplished with 40 years of one party rule - outrageous property taxes, failing schools, and out of control crime. Baltimoreistan has now joined the other once proud and beautiful cities that dems have turned into third world countries. Face it, liberlism has failed. We need to get rid of both parties and get back to basics with a party that does not spend more money than they take in, rejects all the money from special interests, and speaks for the majority of the people.

Millions of dollars from Bush's architect Karl Rove's Super Pac and other Rep. super-pacs: i.o.w., dirty out of state money, is pouring into the state promoting Shobani, who claims to be an Independent who says he will be bi-partisan. DON'T BUY THE LINE THEY ARE SELLING. It is part of a massive strategy. Their goal is to 'back' Independents - who make no mistake - will be owned by the Rep Party and will fall in lock step with obstructionist Republicans. The goal being if Romney loses, the Republicans will overtake state legislatures and pass more anti-union, anti-woman, anti-middle-class, anti-environmental laws. THIS very thing has been going on for the past three years while we have all been caught up with the 'big picture'. They did this during the Obamacare debate summer, flooding the states town hall meetings with out of state rabble-rousers, and ushered in a wave of Tea Party extremists, who at the time claimed to be free-thinkers. WRONG! Tea-Party equals Republican Right wing extremists totally committed to moving the country backwards. We've come to far to go back. Stay strong!

The only thing I see Democratic controlled Maryland has given its citizens is higher taxes and corrupt government. Any Maryland citizen can see how Maryland government is in the pockets of big business and the citizens are on the hook for all these unnecessary expenses. I will do anything to get rid of these do nothing Democratic politicians.

The Democrats have done such an awesome job with this place right? All you need to do is look at Maryland for why Dems shouldn't be in charge.

Fred, Citizens United and Super PAC's have only been around since 2010.

As of this minute GOP Super PAC's have spent $435,028,395 on misleading and untruthful ads. Democrat Super PAC's have spent $86,686,313. The GOP is spending over FIVE TIMES the amount of Democrat Super PAC's to flood the airwaves with misleading ads. The voice of the individual voter is being drowned out by Super PAC's, which are the direct result of the Citizens United ruling.

Yea, watch out for those tax paying, hard working people. They'll get ya every time.

Can you explain what has changed 180 degrees from the historic election of 2010 that would turn around that momentum toward the democrat socialists?

What happened financially or nationally that would make the voters turn 180 degrees for 2010?

Regardless if the Tea Party is thrown out of Congress or not we need to have logic and reasoning in our government. Joe, the democrats are not socialists.
Here is a definition of Socialism from the Merriam-Webster dictionary:
1. any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2. a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property
b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3. a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
If the democrats were true socialist your property would be confiscated, big banks and oil companies would not have high recording breaking profits, and the wealth gap would be reduced. If Obama and the democrats are socialist, they sure suck at it.

But to ask for a photo ID to vote is considered suppressing someone's right to vote. Anyone that wants to excercise their right to vote can obtain a photo ID. All it takes is a little effort on their par to do it, and if they don't want to make the effort, then they shouldn't be able to vote. Sounds simple doesn't it? But there are people that want to complicate it.

John T., you make assumptions that it is easy everywhere which is simply not the truth. It affects the poor the most. Like I said, a solution in search of a problem that does not exist.

As I have said many times, your focus should be on the very few people who control the totaling of the computerized vote. You just assume that the totaling is protected from altering. Very naive.

It's somewhat contradictory that someone who calls themselves Voice of the Voiceless makes an argument that has been voiced countless times before.

The point is that getting an ID is not as simple as people claim for a good number of people who deserve the right to vote, and fraud is not rampant in the forms that IDs would prevent.

Here's an example of how it's not so easy to get ID: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2011/oct/05/marriage-certificate-required-bureaucrat-tells/

I cannot believe people still insist voter fraud " doesn't exist" in the face of the facts and truth. It is a case study in psychological denial and how the left brain works and blocks out things they do not want to see.

I find it amazing the right wing continues to see things that aren't there, hallucinations. Voter ID fraud has been proven by many studies not to "exist". Has it happened sure. Rarely.

Actually FIFA what doesn't exist is the slanderous allegation of you and others that republicans are trying to "suppress the vote". Maybe suppress the votes of the dead, illegals and things of that nature but no one is being denied the right to vote. This is an allegation that the democrats make every election in order to scare minorites into thinking that the republicans are out to get them. States that have passed voter ID laws have actually seen an increase in minority voting. This isn't Mississippi circa 1960 and it's time that you stop promoting a lie.

FIFA - Since you are all about not suppressing rights, why do I have to show 2 ID's, fill out a dozen forms and wait 7 days to exercise my right under the second amendment to legally buy a gun? Why do I have to show ID to get into a government building to exercise my right to visit the elected official that I do NOT have to show ID to vote for? Why must I show ID to board a train or plane to exercise my right of interstate travel, guaranteed under Supreme Court rulings.

The whole notion that requiring ID in order to vote has been a lie from the minute it was decided to be used. If this is truly the case, then even the requirement to register to vote should seem racist to the same groups who believe the lie of suppression. And that argument was used to push "Motor Voter" laws to require voter registration be done at Motor Vehicles Offices. It is used to divide this country along racial lines in order to secure votes from minorities for unscrupulous and despicable candidates. Not to mention giving "Sheepeople" the opportunity to parrot the party line on message boards

@Bob - the point of showing an ID to get a gun is that it has been shown that gun ownership probably shouldn't be a good idea for everyone. Thus reducing the chance someone who shouldn't have a gun gets one.

Showing an ID to enter a building is again attempting to solve a problem. It appears too many people have entered those building to shoot their representatives.

Showing an ID to get on a plane is again attempting to solve a problem. It seems 19 guys did that on 9/11/2001 and blew up a couple of buildings in New York I believe?

Republicans forcing people to get photo IDs is Republicans way of attempting to solve a problem, just not the problem you believe. Republicans believe too many people without IDs vote democratic and thus Republicans are attempting to reduce democratic turnout.

You and I disagree, respectfully. As I previously said, photo ID is nothing but background noise. How sure are you that the electronic vote totaling is secure? That the software programs do not have game changing features to alter the vote? That is what I am worried about. Corporations own that software, not the voters.

Hey FIFA it looks like you are admitting there is voter fraud. You said "there is any signifcant proof of voter ID fraud anywhere". Although I'm guessing that was a typo.

@amark - you are correct that was a typo which I am correcting now. I have never said that voter fraud doesn't exist, most of it is registration fraud though.

Photo IDs attempt to solve a problem that doesn't exist, which is the altering of elections through dead people, etc. Imagine the conspiracy necessary to get just 100 people to do it and not get caught. Someone will squeal and then go to jail for a felony.

Corrected

@amark, as I stated earlier, facts matter. There isn't any significant proof of voter ID fraud anywhere. That's just a fact. Prove your theory

FIFA I have one word for you: ACORN

@amark - is that the best you can do, ACORN? Since you said you were smart I presume that you know ACORN employees (people paid to get registrations) were involved in registration fraud, not voting fraud. You are smart right?

Agreed. The only reason I can see for this new emphasis on "MORE ID, MORE ID!" is to try to keep Democrat voters from voting, since it is ONLY Republicans who keep on whining about 'voter fraud' that is no infrequent as to be near unheard of.

Haha, please. Do you remember that the democrats controlled everything in '09 and '10? The republicans couldn't do anything and since they took control of the house, the only thing they've done is attempt to stop Obama from doing more damage. You speak of "progress"? It always amuses me how the left likes to use that word when the policies they promote represent anything but. Socialism has been tried all over the world for at least a century and has failed every time. Has Obama made any attempt to work across the aisle? Of course not. And he is not supposed to be some dictator who the Congress bows down to and agrees to everything he wants.

@amark - truth matters.

1. "Do you remember that the democrats controlled everything in '09 and '10?" Interesting stretch of the facts to fit your narrative. Does "control" mean they had a majority in the House and Senate or does "control" mean you get to do what ever you want? The democrats only had a super majority (60 votes) for about 4 months due to the late swearing in of Al Franken and the death of Ted Kennedy. As most people know it requires a super majority to get almost anything done in the Senate.

2. Socialism - I presume you mean Obamacare as I would welcome other examples of "socialism" by this President. Since Romney passed "Romneycare" I presume he is a socialist also in your way of thinking?

3. Obama did try to work across the aisle, did the Republicans try? Or was Mitch McConnell's statement that his first priority was to make Obama a "one term president" mean anything?

4. Dictator - that probably more closely fits GWB. He got two unnecessary sets of tax cuts passed and two wars started. There is a tin horn dictator if there ever was one. His quote was something to the effect, "I have political capital and I'm going to spend it".

FIFA, they had control of everything. I know you wish they probably had a 100-0 majority in the senate but 59 or 60 votes is overwhelming especially with a couple of liberal rep senators from Maine who voted for the "stimulus" btw. I do not support Romneycare but Romney is the only candidate who might repeal Obamacare. I love the way the democrats throw out the Mcconnell line all the time. What did you expect him to want Obama reelected? And when your president Obama says "if Congress will not act then I will" that should scare any decent American. He's saying he will ignore the Congress and the constitution and do what he wants. That's the definition of a dictator.

@amark - I presume you understand the 60 vote super majority required to end a filibuster?
At this chart you can see the number of times a vote was held to end a filibuster.

http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2012/05/15/senate-filibuster-makes-washington-unaccountable/

This chart does not count the number of times a filibuster was invoked but not voted on to break which is a much higher number.

@amark - here is the Webster definition for you, just in case you hadn't read it:

a : a person granted absolute emergency power; especially : one appointed by the senate of ancient Rome
b : one holding complete autocratic control
c : one ruling absolutely and often oppressively

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dictator

FIFA I actually am much smarter than you may imagine and I've been following politics since before I was old enough to vote which goes back to the Reagan years. Anyway of course I know what the filibuster is and that it's been used by both parties (often by your friends on the democrat side) but it's a pretty lame excuse to somehow blame the republicans in the senate when they had 41 votes instead of 40 for blocking Obama. Especially when 3 of them were Sens Snowe, Collins and the late Arlen Specter until he switched parties. Rarely does one party control 60 seats in the senate as I'm sure you are aware.

@amark - my apologies if you thought my comment was insulting. The chart clearly shows the major increase in filibusters since the democrats took charge of the Senate.

McConnell's ability to keep his 41 votes in lockstep is amazing. This chart shows the actual items acts/nominees blocked. It really is interesting. Most interesting is the sheer number of nominees that have been blocked by not allowing up/down votes.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

Yes of course, vote Democrat so you can have everything handed to you without having to lift a finger for it. Its ok, tax dollars will pay for it all.

Clearly John T. you have bought the Republican line hook and sinker. We agree to disagree on almost everything. Have a good day.

I'm registered democrat, but exercise my right to vote independently. FIFA, you are correct, we both agree to disagree respectfully.

John T. you have to remember Obama and his allies are making this an election about small things and in many cases non existent things. No one is threatening to take away women's birth control. George Stephanopolous raised that in a republican primary debate and the democrats latched onto it. Mitt Romney is a decent and very successful businessman, not some evil corporate executive who wants people to die of cancer. In fact he was such a success that he was asked to run the 2002 Olympics. Would anyone ever ask Obama to run the Olympics LOL. When you have a miserable record of failure and are taking this nation on the road to Europe, they really have no choice but to run a slash and burn campaign full of lies. If enough people fall for it, we are doomed come Tuesday. If not, we have a chance to recover.

>>" I love the people that want to attack Wall Street, without stopping to think that most everyone with a retirement account is dependent on the success of Wall Street."<<<
Had the greedy Wall Streeters NOT been playing games with our retirement money, - like drunks at a high stakes black-jack table - I'd have NOT suffered the losses I did; not only on my retirement account buT in add'l banking assets. WALL ST. EXECS, BANK CEOS AND OTHERS SHOULD BE SERVING JAIL TIME FOR THE DAMAGE THEY DID TO OUR ECONOMY & OUR DIRECT PERSONAL WEALTH!

John T. wrote: "The government cannot give anything to anyone until it takes it from someone else and there are some that think this should be the American way."<<<
So, tell me then: HOW IN BLAZES IS MITT LET-DETROIT-GO-BANKRUPT ROMNEY GOING TO PAY FOR THE 5 TRILLION DOLLAR TAX BREAK HE'S PROMISED TO HIS BUDDIES? He's going to take it from those w/o the political and monetary clout to fight it. Romney is a pathological liar. He is morally & ethically bankrupt. He goes against everything we have all been taught about loving your neighbor as yourself, caring for the disadvantaged: not telling lies. He should have been struck down from God for his dishonesty (LIES) and the truly heinous nature of his sins. Perhaps he will be so judged by the Electorate when we of good conscience REJECT him on Election Day!!!

"HOW IN BLAZES IS MITT LET-DETROIT-GO-BANKRUPT ROMNEY"

GM and Chrysler BOTH filed and went through bankruptcy! Obama and his gang continue to LIE about that as do so many others.
GM filed bankruptcy in 6-09 and Chrysler in 4-09.

"Romney is a pathological liar. He is morally & ethically bankrupt. "
What hyperbolic projection that line of BS is.

"WALL ST. EXECS, BANK CEOS AND OTHERS SHOULD BE SERVING JAIL TIME FOR THE DAMAGE THEY DID TO OUR ECONOMY & OUR DIRECT PERSONAL WEALTH!"

Exactly! Than why in the hell has Obama/Holder not CHARGED any of them including Obama bundler supporter and thief of $1.3 BILLION named Jon Corzine?
Why no charges form Obama/Holder?

Reading the replies to this, it is clear that some, including Obama, don't understand what "bankrupt" actually means in legal terms.

Ummm I am in the percentile that will be taxed more by Obama's policies and still support it.I come from a very right wing family that is extremely wealthy and all the family members have six figure salaries and none of us think Romney is, "Decent". Amark I was actually implying that Mitt Romney is far from being a "Decent" and successful businessman. People like him used to be called, "Snake Oil Salesmen" in old times. He will say anything to get your vote. You read right around my comments. Shoot they got the guy on video and still you think he is a good person. Man I have a bridge I can sell you.

The last thing on earth a businessman wants to do is hire. Are you nuts? Hire people at the current American wage rate? I am very well acquainted with Karl Marx' writings, though I am not familiar with his school, and think his writings are insightful and shrewd. One thing I take away from reading Marx is that the world does not exist in black and white, only in shades of gray.

Oh, and that the United States is the only industrialized country that fails to provide medical care for all of its citizens is revolting.

Bootlicking lackey.

amark wrote:" Wow I wonder why the economy is rotten and those wicked businessmen and women are not hiring?">>>
Actually, the economy is a heck of a lot better than when Bush left DC with his tail between his legs. Despite the best efforts of Big business who has purposely SAT ON TWO TRILLION DOLLARS and halted growth & expansion. THAT is treasonous, anti-American, unpatriotic; simply sinful and unforgivable!!
Do not forget, America got into this mess by over eight years of FAILED Right wing trickle-down nonsense. Wealth & prosperity NEVER trickles down in Republican economics. It takes and takes from the middle and bottom and deposits it up where profits are pocketed, reinvested in stocks, poured into companies set up in foreign countries where laborers are paid pennies to the dollar and hidden in off-shore tax havens. America is 'coming back' thanks to this Democrat President and in spite of massive Republican efforts to keep America down.

You know what 1ke, you made my point for me regarding Marxism, so there's really nothing left to say.

.>>>"What happened to the man who promised a "Post racial" America? What happened to the man who said "There are no red states or blue states just the United States." ">>>>>
He was rudely and sadly awakened to the fact that all his attempts would be met with a coldly calculated rejection! If anything the idealistic new president was naive in not recognizing the intensity of the lethal Republican opposition and vitriol. He needed to put the gloves on and present a battle-ready posture from the moment he assumed the title. Instead, the President invited the GOP to the White House for cocktails in an unprecedented display of bi-partisanship. Admirable indeed yet entirely too idealistic in respect to the visceral Repub hatred felt towards this newly inaugurated President. ~ first attempt at reaching across the isle saw cold rejection. The Republicans rejected Barack Obama's hospitality and have refused to give an inch consistently over the past four years of filibuster, spin and opposition.
They played a great game and guess what? Instead of raising up this country and healing it they smashed a foot on the hands of an earnest President & his administration & in so doing kept the country from a speedier recovery.

What in the (world) are you talking about? Obama never had any intention of being bi-partisan. He was trained on the streets of Chicago in the Saul Alinsky playbook, and he brought that to the White House with him. Remember when he said "if they bring a knife we bring a gun". That is the type of person he is. The persona that he ran on last time was a complete fraud. And P. Davis, you are obviously a kool aid drinking, MSDNC watching robot but the republicans have done nothing except try to oppose the type of disasterous legislation that this man has put forth. That is what an opposition party does for your information and what your democrat heroes have done to republican presidents every time they have been in. The only difference is we have never had someone as far to the left in the white house as we do today. Yeah Obama has been bipartisan, he has worked with the left and the far left but never across the aisle and you are putting out complete misinformation saying he has.

amark, you need to wake up. Obama was MORE than willing to be bipartisan, he just was NOT willing to keep on with the policies that we KNOW didn't work and lead to the stock market and housing market crash, such as:

1. Removing regulations that are necessary on companies.
2. Removing environmental regulations that keep companies from polluting to their hearts content.
3. Giving tax breaks to the wealthy, who have done NOTHING with the ones they were given in the Bush years.

Need I keep going on?

If the Republicans would have been willing to admit that those policies DID NOT WORK (bottom lining it here, they just didn't), he could have been bipartisan.

But no, the Republicans, earning their derisive nickname of Rethuglicans, kept on throwing walls up in front of Obama and throwing hissies when he refused to support those policies listed above.

I have not heard anyone use the nickname you mention here but you obviously think it's very clever so congratulations on your brilliance. You are really just spitting out democrat talking points (tax cuts for the wealthy, etc) that are untrue so I really have nothing more to say to you.

Again you are putting out more misinformation. The comment about the knife was not made 2 years ago it was made in 2008 when Mr. "post partisan" was running for president. Very easy to look up and learn but you just throw stuff out there without knowing what you are talking about.

Christie only did that because he knew if he didn't, he would be facing charges of dereliction of duty or facing impeachment.

amark says: "Again you are putting out more misinformation.">>>>>
No. You are Confused and clearly did not comprehend what I wrote.

"he would be facing charges of dereliction of duty or facing impeachment."

What uninformed idiocy .

Amen to that Carol. And if God forbid he is reelected, he will continue to divide it for another four years.

If he cares so much about "our Men and Women in Uniform" how come he didn't mention them, or the conflicts our country is engaged in, during the Republican convention acceptance speech.

Republicans are never afraid to send Americans to war, but they forget all about them when they get back home.

Sounds like that what we are heading for.

ya know there are special doctors and medicines that help.......

Remmy - Oh so uninformed, except by the right-wingnut media...

Does this group include the para-military groups and citizen militias?

They took the ad out in the Moonie paper. I don't think it's going to change very many minds of the paper's readers.

Retired Generals and Admirals my friends. Now you can slur them at will as idiots and whatever you please.
"Five hundred retired generals and admirals "We, the undersigned, proudly support Governor Mitt Romney as our nation's next president and commander-in-chief."

LOL I guess Colin Powell wasn't one of them....

"Jackson called it a “dangerous path” and noted it sets a poor example for active-duty military who are barred from engaging in partisan political activity."

Send all the old Goats to Gitmo.

Steve! I bet all those people along the coast of NJ and NY are happy as hell Sandy is all over as you stated last week eh?

Say it ain't so OctoName!!!!!!!!!!!

I, the great FIFA, Steve, 1ke, and numerous other names will put my money (from the dems to post multiple times with multiple accounts) on the tidal wave of voters from Nate Silver's mind that will magically turnout for this election.

My my kittens, do you have a defib machine close to OctoName's basement apartment? You may have to use it when the proverbial chickens come home to splatter the newspaper. 2, 4, 6, 8, how many names do I need to post with to make myself feel great????????????

Do you know that guy (Nate Silver) is a leftist? No one in their right mind could assign either Romney or the other guy such high odds. You must be on crack.

That's BS. NAte Silver isn't a "Leftist". He is a numbers Wonk and Statistician. He don't cares who wins or loses he just cares about the accuracy of his prediction which so far has been right on the money.

Steve you are wrong. The left loves him and he absolutely is liberal, I have heard him. He called 49 of 50 states in 2008, almost anyone could have gotten 47 or 48 right in that election. There are others (i.e. the University of Colorado study which has been right in every election since 1980: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/electoral-college-model-predicts-romney-will-win-even-bigger-than-previously-thought-in-2012/)
Michael Barone who is a conservative but knows the counties across this country inside and out is calling for Romney to get 315 electoral votes. My point is no one knows and for some blowhard like Silver to come up with such ridiculous odds the day before the election, you should even admit that.

Poor "Stank" whacked again. Nate Silver started his political fabrications at DailyKos.

Poor stevie gets whacked most times he posts.

No he's not (no matter what your Messiah Rush Limbaugh says). This is a great article about him.

http://updates.deadspin.com/post/34780905169/nate-silvers-braying-idiot-detractors-show-that-being

LOL " Nate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors" He hit the nail on the head with that one!

Let me set you straight Steve or whoever you are. Anyone saying the incumbent's odds are 85% is undoubtedly biased in favor of him. Your boy Silver is basing his entire prediction on polls that are presuming the dems will have the same turnout in 2008. This despite the fact that republican enthusiasm is higher then the dems. This despite Mitt Romney leading in virtually any poll among independents. This despite the fact that republicans are doing far far better in early voting then 4 years ago (they trail in some states like OH and FL, but it's much closer than 2008). This despite the fact that the incumbent has a worse record than Jimmy Carter. I'm not as optimistic as some on my side, but I would say it's 50/50 right now because I know there are plenty of people like you out there.

This discussion will end Wednesday morning and we will all see who was right.

"Sam Webb Via People’s World:

It is obvious that there is a growing feeling of frustration and even anger among supporters of the Democratic Party with its performance over the past two years.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, speaking for the labor movement, strongly expressed this unhappiness in some recent speeches.

I am disappointed too with some aspects of the Obama administration’s domestic and foreign policy.

But I don’t forget that this administration governs in a very hostile political environment in which the right is laboring overtime to wreck its initiatives at every step of the way.

In addition, there are the structural pressures of governing in a capitalist economy and state.

Then there are conservative pressures coming from some congressional Democrats and members of the administration.

Everything can’t be explained away by the objective context, however. The president and his administration can be faulted for a number of policy decisions."

http://azpundit.com/congrats-communist-party-usa-endorses-barack-obama-and-democrats-for-2012-election/

oh look, it's a neo-nutter in a glass house. How quaint :)

Fido, "Stank", Honeybucket, Chrissy? This is going to be fun. Brown noses for everyone. LOL

This is one of your better copy/pastes, Joe (in my view).
As someone who's effectively one of those "Blue Dogs" (it's the closest means of classifying myself I can find), seeing these olders guys, both parties, essentially quitting because (paraphrased)
"No one does any work. No compromises out of anyone, either side. That's not how this institution used to work back in my earlier years. We worked together, we gave up some things to get some other things from (other party) and we kept this nation moving forward. Now, things are a mess."

Again, paraphrased greatly, that's the generalized statements coming out of several retiring/soon to be retiring Congressman.

Although I am not convinced the Tea Party will make actual gains, it's a reasonable possibility. If they do, then it's going to bode poorly for the country, as the polarization of both sides (regardless of where one falls) is going to continue crippling the nation.

Just what the troll behind F/F/S has wanted all along - a chance to tell his real story, hidden behind the projection of false identity.

Good luck with that - you should look for therapist appointments now, before the rush of shell-shocked Republicans pushes them out to February.

I'm actually surprised the editors have allowed it happen Hal. I would have thought Emily or one of the other editors would have shut his account off.

False. Nice racism BTW. GM's billions is a drop in the bucket compared to a) the jobs it saved and b) the money we p***ed away in the Middle East.

Wars Obama is finally getting us out of. Worthless wars.

keep putting out the propoganda from the left.

He has a home to match each of his positions...

When you find more than 1 user name for me, please let me know. If it can be verified, I'll immediately make an appointment for schizophrenia. Until then, STFU.

Please, get a job/hobby/significant other. Your life is depressing the heck out of me.

LOL They are all Republicans trying to cheat the system....

Don't you even read stuff before you cut and paste it.

Yes Steve I do. I don;t care who they are, it happens and it must be investigated charged and prosecuted. You only care about it when it suits you. I care about it all.

I will post others Steve and then you can whine about the sources when they are Democrats.

"Why is that former Republican presidents graciously avoid the spotlight after their term"

You better believe that if a Bush showing his face somewhere would help the party then they'd be doing it. To think otherwise is just laughable.

I certainly hope Obama contributes as much to the world as Carter and Clinton have, post-presidency.

They hide Cheney behind the curtain as well. What a pair!

Bush endorsed Romney......sort of. He just didn't want to be seen with him.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/15/george-w-bush-gives-romney-the-least-enthusiastic-endorsement-of-all-time/

jag says "You better believe that if a Bush showing his face somewhere would help the party then they'd be doing it. To think otherwise is just laughable."

jag, can you name any of the ex Presidents other than Clinton that has been not just an active supporter but a surrogate and a headliner in the heat of the last few days of a campaign for an incumbent president?

Any? R or D is fine.

Steve, can you name any of the ex Presidents other than Clinton that has been not just an active supporter but a surrogate and a headliner in the heat of the last few days of a campaign for an incumbent president?

Any? R or D is fine.

Excuse me? Where did I ever post anything about "overthrowing the Tea Party"?

And I never mentioned Maryland either!

You'll love this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsSQtxrw7uU

That guy is a comedian. Look at some of his other videos.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Whateverhappentocomm

A comedian? Sort of like Joe Biden. LOL

More good news. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/11/04/11-papers-switch-to-Romney-1-to-Obama

FiveThirtyEight - Chance of Winning - Obama - 86.3% - Romney 13.7%. I'll put my money on Nate Silver versus the Slippery Willard

Intrade - Obama - 67.6% chance winning

Say it ain't so Ross.

Oops, late update: Intrade has Obama at 69.8% - late buyers to the table.

Clayton Bigsby was one of his better characters.

Fifa keeps regurgitating the only poll that favors the loser tomorrow and that is as High Priest Gore calls an "outlier".

That's how ignorant you are Joe, you don't even know what Nate Silver does! Silly boy, I had given you credit for a small amount of IQ. Daggum, I was wrong. Tomorrow night will be fun posting!

Fifa, give me any other poll or prediction anywhere near Silver's.
And look Fifa, never tell anyone what you believe they don't know, that's a fools game.

Too easy, http://www.electionprojection.com/index.php

Many more. I'm sure we will talk Wed morning. Hope your online, I will be.

FIFA "That's how ignorant you are Joe"

I am ignorant and you are a racist bigot who makes all things a race and age issue as your own words show. To separate the people is a sign of a loser. We will know in a few weeks. The lawyers will need to be satisfied but Obama will tell his defense lawyers to "stand down". Then he might say taking it any further is "beyond my pay grade".

PS when you call Silver a poll you are ignorant.

Fifa, your ignorance is apparent. Where did I call Silver a "poll"?
Why must you resort to making up form whole cloth something that was not stated?

So who the hell is ignorant Fifi?

Joe, are you really that stupid?

"Fifa keeps regurgitating the only poll that favors the loser tomorrow and that is as High Priest Gore calls an "outlier"."

Your post. I guess you will now deny it?

Most men apologize when they step in it, you are no different than Wiilard.

So wrong Remmy - the party supporting Romney is made up of a large contingent of older white males and people who still don't like people of color.. I don't care where you lived or your family history. My mother was German and lived through WWII as a teenager. I don't bring it up. I was born overseas and lived there for 10 years as well. Based on what you say you should be asking your questions of Joe and F/F/S and similar people and act like an expert. My opinions are 100% divergent from yours.

You don't own any right to anything over anyone else. We are not the world's police and do not need to institute our beliefs on anyone, contrary to what you believe.

WAKE-UP Remmy.

Remmy - 'fraid you got most of it wrong: age - not even close; attitude - generally positive, certainly not angry at the world; Nice house, nice cars, great wife (my first), good kids; Europe - twice, once while the Berlin Wall was still up, once after it fell; no Ivory Tower, grounded in reality - not Benghazi conspiracy theories.

So take your magazines and stick them where the sun don't shine - I've been around a bit, too.

HoneyGoHal is retired and most likely has a union pension.
Right HGH?

Not far behind you HGH! A few more years if R&R win, a few less if O&B win.
If O&B win I may become one of them. Free phone, help heating my abode, help paying my mortgage. Tax credits for kids I don't have. Etc etc etc ....

I may be able to live quite well on the taxpayers. Its what they want me to do no?

"Romney is made up of a large contingent of older white males and people who still don't like people of color.. "

That is as a racist bigoted comment as I have read on here. The generalizations are abhorrent.
That is no different than saying all blacks like fried chicken and watermelon FIFA. How despicable.

Look at the polls Joe, no racism, just facts. I like fried chicken and watermelon too. Most people do I believe.

Miss, I am not a world traveler or a military dependent. I grew up poor. I am approximately your age. I am well versed in occupational forces, abject poverty and social dislocation. I am well acquainted with death and violence in a third world country that you know nothing about. Your rigidity would make it dangerous for you to be there.

You make too many judgments and jump to too many conclusions. Your preachy know-it-all phrasing and silly anger are indicative of a controlling and self-important way of relating to others, strangers in this case.

1ke says to "Miss" "You make too many judgments and jump to too many conclusions."

Then you say...

"that you know nothing about. Your rigidity would make it dangerous for you to be there. Your preachy know-it-all phrasing and silly anger are indicative of a controlling and self-important way of relating to others..."

Don't you understand what you just did there?

Joe, you try, but you don't have it right either.

Never been a union member.

Technically not retired.

Still looking forward to tomorrow - literally.

So like, wait a second, and let me like get this like straight. You hate voter fraud but post using multiple names. I don't get it. Shirley, oh Shirley, can you like figure this out for me???????????

Wendy Rosen

Oh please baltimore observer. The second that the dems lose is the second that they quit paying people to post on sites likes these. Have you witnessed some of the internet traffic lately? But if you really want to help OctoName you might want to send them cheetos to their election night basement er ah warroom.

LOL Dude's responding to his own posts......

Bennet, you should have a voters registration card showing all the information you need to vote tomorrow. If you need more help go here.
http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/where.html

Another OctoName identity.

Good luck with that

Allegation of unions putting illegal immigrants on voter rolls clouds Nevada voting
"Just hours before voters go to the polls in the battleground state of Nevada, a national group has announced it plans to file a complaint regarding illegal immigrants purportedly being allowed to vote.

ALIPAC, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, based in Raleigh, N.C., sent the Nevada secretary of state an email outlining its intention.

"We want to stop the felonious thefts of American elections," says William Gheen, ALIPAC's president.

Gheen points to a commentary published in Sunday's Las Vegas Review Journal. In it, editorial writer Glenn Cook accuses the Culinary Union 226 of knowingly registering illegal immigrants and then pressured them to vote.

Cook quotes an unidentified illegal immigrant who is on the Clark County voter rolls. The person claims a union representative told them they were "in so much trouble" for refusing to vote.

Catherine Lu, a spokesperson for Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, said she could not comment on Cook's editorial or ALIPAC's official complaint.

Gheen says his group wants all non U.S. citizens removed from the voter rolls before Tuesday's election. He suggested the state could use Homeland Security databases such as E-verify to do the job."

Read more: http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/11/05/allegation-unions-putting-illegal-immigrants-voter-rolls-clouds-nevada-voting#ixzz2BRjUZwA4