The Final US Election Thread

[Crazed Rabbit]

Crazed Rabbit, DA, Drudge has posted more stories since that one. I expect you to copy and paste in a timely manner, friends.

I didn't get it from Drudge. Try to keep up.

Anyway, here's an article from an anti-NRA, anti-free market capitalism author about how Obama's coal hating will hurt the poor:

Obama isn't cutting taxes for the poor, because they don't pay any.

Instead, he's planning to make it so expensive to generate electricity that only the rich can afford to use their appliances whenever they want.

Why? It's all in the name of Obama's True Belief in Global Warming. He says it himself -- he'll take coal off the table as an "ideological matter." Even if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, he's opposed to pursuing it.

He wants to put a huge penalty on companies that emit carbon -- which means that starting up new coal-powered electrical plants will be prohibitively expensive. In Obama's own words, "It will bankrupt them."

"Cap and trade" plans have already been tried, and they don't work -- they cost too much, and people find ways to get around them. But Obama promises us that he'll take that failed idea and be "as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's" plan.

In other words, if it doesn't work, let's do more of it!

This is Obama the New Puritan. We've found his real religion: Political and Environmental Correctness.

CR

[LittleGrizzly]

Anyway, here's an article from an anti-NRA, anti-free market capitalism

You missed out McCain supporter, he's also a member of the global warming is a lie religion, hardly an unbiased source..

Real intellectuals are skeptical and look for evidence before they embrace an idea; global warming, like the rest of the dogmas of the extreme Left, are believed without proof, by faith alone

For the New Puritans, Global Warming is the vengeful god that must be placated. Our economy is the sacrifice to that deity. In the name of Global Warming, we must destroy our quality of life -- and, like sales tax, it will hurt the poorest people first and most.

He does seem above the partisan bickering of most... but anyway it should be obvious to anyone reading the article that he is every bit the rabid partisan attack dog, that rush or the other guy are.... onto the actual claims of the article (the bits inbetween all the attacks)

Instead, he's planning to make it so expensive to generate electricity that only the rich can afford to use their appliances whenever they want.

So is this a stated policy position, i think not, many poor britons have still managed to have electricity and we are probably infront of america in our weaning off fossil fuels, so 1 claim 1 lie so far....

• Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families

One of obama's stated positions... poor americans everywhere will have a grands worth of energy...

He says it himself -- he'll take coal off the table as an "ideological matter." Even if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, he's opposed to pursuing it.

From barackobama.com, does this guy just make stuff up off the top of his head or is there a place where mccain supporters collect all these lies... im not even going to bother with the rest of the article, the fact that someone like me can debunk the crap he wrote so easily means he really isn't worth reading..

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Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. Carbon capture and storage technologies hold
enormous potential to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as we power our economy with
domestically produced and secure energy. As a U.S. Senator, Obama has worked tirelessly to
ensure that clean coal technology becomes commercialized. An Obama administration will
provide incentives to accelerate private sector investment in commercial scale zero‐carbon coal
facilities. In order to maximize the speed with which we advance this critical technology, Barack
Obama and Joe Biden will instruct DOE to enter into public private partnerships to develop 5

“irst‐of‐a‐kind”commercial scale coal‐fired plants with carbon capture and sequestration.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

How do absentee ballots work in the USA? I don't believe that there are any electors representing voters living abroad, so do they just tally your vote in the state you were born in? Lived in last?

[CountArach]

How do absentee ballots work in the USA? I don't believe that there are any electors representing voters living abroad, so do they just tally your vote in the state you were born in? Lived in last?

From the people I have talked to it is all about where you last were registered to vote.

[CountArach]

A useful tool I just found. This map on Pollster.com will update each time a news network calls the race for a candidate.

[Gregoshi]

How do absentee ballots work in the USA? I don't believe that there are any electors representing voters living abroad, so do they just tally your vote in the state you were born in? Lived in last?

EMFM, you get a ballot for the location where you are registered to vote, so you vote for the same national, state and local races as if you were at home and going to your polling place. That's how I voted when I was away at uni as I was registered at home, not at uni.