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By RubberMallet
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Humble_Opinion wrote:
RubberMallet wrote:what kind of abag holds 5 million dollars to charities hostage unless he gets this that and the other?
Come onnnn you know he's going to give it regardless. It is almost tax season after all.
of course he will but its still total sleezeball move.
By TDDance234
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LUconn wrote:Does anybody really think the hurricane gave Obama a boost? That just doesn't make any sense.
Does it surprise you? Honestly? There are people that believe the storm was government created to help one candidate over the other; with both sides saying the other candidate produced it.

The idiocy of some people no longer surprises me.
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By NotAJerry
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4everfsu wrote:
TH Spangler wrote:Megyn Kelly just reported that Larry Sabato says Obama wins.

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crysta ... cond-term/

I will take the track records of the two college professors from U of Colorado prediction based off their economic model vs Larry Sabato.
I'm still surprised that anyone takes the Colorado method seriously as it has never predicted anything. Let's see it get something right, instead of just having past info entered in, before trusting it too much. It may prove to work, but it's never been put to the test.
By 4everfsu
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NotAJerry wrote:
4everfsu wrote:
TH Spangler wrote:Megyn Kelly just reported that Larry Sabato says Obama wins.

http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crysta ... cond-term/

I will take the track records of the two college professors from U of Colorado prediction based off their economic model vs Larry Sabato.
I'm still surprised that anyone takes the Colorado method seriously as it has never predicted anything. Let's see it get something right, instead of just having past info entered in, before trusting it too much. It may prove to work, but it's never been put to the test.
Their predictions have been accurate in every presidential election since 1980.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/23/unive ... omney-win/
By LUconn
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Word of advice: Go to bed tomorrow evening. If anybody has the nerve to declare a winner, they're jumping the gun and it's going to be 10 days of recounting. Ohio's absentee/provisional balloting sounds like a mess.
By Humble_Opinion
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With a slight, unexpected lift provided by Hurricane Sandy, Mother Nature’s October surprise, President Barack Obama appears poised to win his second term tomorrow.
The fact that Sabato's prediction starts off with that line tells me everything I need to know about him and what he thinks about the electorate. To use that as the justification as to why Obama wins is stupid. If a person hasn't made up their mind by this point and they are able to be swayed by such an event as 'Sandy', then they likely won't even show up to vote tomorrow anyways, and if they were they were probably leaning Obama anyways. Besides the press out of the area has not been all that stellar for the Federal Government at this point. I suppose the photo-op with Christy was good for Obama, but I don't think that would actually change anyones votes anywhere.
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By NotAJerry
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4everfsu wrote:
Their predictions have been accurate in every presidential election since 1980.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/23/unive ... omney-win/
Amazing feat for something that has existed for just a few years. They've NEVER PREDICTED an election beforehand, they've simply entered past information and tried to find the common themes to make a prediction this time around.

Bickers didn't even join the Colorado faculty until 2003. Berry didn't even earn his Ph.D. until 2008. The model is NEW. It has retroactively predicted the elections back to 1980, which is when much of the information they use first became available, but it hasn't predicted anything ahead of time yet. It may work, and truly become the new standard bearer in electoral analysis, but lets let is actually predict an election before it happens before giving it that kind of position.
By ballah09
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:vomit at Liberty posting an opinion piece on FB and deleting pro obama comments or people questioning them posting it. I have to say they really stepped up their partisan politics this year. pathetic (I'm not a Obama supporter btw)
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By jbock13
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Yeah honestly I'm not sure what happened there. It would seem to me someone had access that wasn't authorized? I've never seen them go that far.

But don't feel bad, my comment mocking liberal trolls got deleted too :cry:
By ballah09
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no kidding, i hope it was someone with no authorization that just got on LU Facebook, that post has no business on any university page and the censorship is out of control. If not they are sure flirting with the possibility of losing their tax status, im sure AU is all over it already :roll: seriously the politics here is getting worse and its harder and harder for me to keep defending them
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By adam42381
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Pretty sickening that they're allowing this type of post on their Facebook page. Hopefully it was a rogue poster, but it's been up for a couple hours now. Time for a PM, BJ?
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