Obama v McCain Polling

[Universal_001]

It hurts me to say it, but I think CNN might be right: the 12th Amendment says that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President" seems like it would kill Bill Clinton's chances for a 3rd term, but it doesn't. He is ineligible for election to a third term, but constitutionally he can succeed to the presidency after election to the vice presidency.

But it's an academic argument...it won't happen.

Thats an interesting loophole that Im sure would be open to challenge.
That would mean a President could run, get elected to two terms , have his VP run, win, then resign, and continue in such a loop.
It would be very similar to what Putin is doing in Russia, thus ridding the US of whatever shreds (and that's all that's left lets be honest) it has left of being a republic.

Also most importantly, Bill really doesn't like Obama..

[khavakoz]

seriously - take this nonsense to the foreign affairs forum or start a new thread. This thread is for polls and the discussion thereof, not sophomoric wang-measuring contests.

Oh, and as FT has somehow overlooked it:

Obama 328 avg
McCain 210 avg



Map actually shows an Obama EV of 355:183.

[Universal_001]

seriously - take this nonsense to the foreign affairs forum or start a new thread. This thread is for polls and the discussion thereof, not sophomoric wang-measuring contests.

Have you ever seen a thread on this site that DIDN'T go off topic?

[hiding behind a poster]

seriously - take this nonsense to the foreign affairs forum or start a new thread. This thread is for polls and the discussion thereof, not sophomoric wang-measuring contests.

Have you ever seen a thread on this site that DIDN'T go off topic?

Stay on topic please, Universal.....

[Universal_001]

[quote=hiding behind a poster]

seriously - take this nonsense to the foreign affairs forum or start a new thread. This thread is for polls and the discussion thereof, not sophomoric wang-measuring contests.

Have you ever seen a thread on this site that DIDN'T go off topic?

Stay on topic please, Universal..... [/quote:2tehdl35]

Where were you when there were 50 Lisbon treads on the same topic!

[FutureTaoiseach]

seriously - take this nonsense to the foreign affairs forum or start a new thread. This thread is for polls and the discussion thereof, not sophomoric wang-measuring contests.

Oh, and as FT has somehow overlooked it:

Obama 328 avg
McCain 210 avg



Map actually shows an Obama EV of 355:183.

Nebraska and Maine divide their delegations proportionately in certain circumstances.

[idaworldbeaters]

Err. Does that make CNN and me right then? I rather think it does. I think it all turns on the standing for election bit.

[Universal_001]

Err. Does that make CNN and me right then? I rather think it does. I think it all turns on the standing for election bit.

No I'd wager it's still unconstitutional in principle if not in word.
You see the thing with CNN is, like all 24 hour networks they have nothing to fill all that time when nothing is happening, so they fill it with crap.

[idaworldbeaters]

They also had an interesting feature on why all modern civilisations can be traced back to Korea. Marvelous stuff.

[gendjinn]

Hominid-Views is fine and all, I don't think their methodology is invalid nor their data but I think fivethirtyeight.com is far superior because they take the same data and run regression analysis to generate their predictions and without diverting into statistical analysis territory I think this is a superior process to the aggregative methodology of hominid-views.

The guy running the 538 site is a professional baseball statistician and outcome predictor, he had been anonymous for a long time and recently unmasked himself whereupon baseball fans made many complimentary comments on his baseball stats and predictions which indicated to me that at the least he understands statistics and mathematical analyses.

Barring the live girl/dead boy in the bed type of scandal Obama has this bitch sown up. Even though he's pissed off certain elements of the Dem base with his AIPAC speech on Israel and this weeks FISA behaviour - though he may address that during the Senate vote on the Telco immunity provisions of the Protect America Act (dubbed the Protect AT&T Act) - the spectre of President McCain does an amazing job of rallying the troops back into the fold.