2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[a completely inoffensive name]

Both Mayor Bloomberg of NYC and The Economist just endorsed Obama.

[Hooahguy]

Both Mayor Bloomberg of NYC and The Economist just endorsed Obama.

Shocker.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Shocker.

Bloomberg refused to endorse either of them until Obama's response to Sandy got his respect.

[Hooahguy]

True, but I think this was an excuse by Bloomberg to pick a side while looking bi-partisan. His political views mostly match up with Obama, at least to my understanding.

[Lemur]

From The Economist's endorsement:

Many of The Economist’s readers, especially those who run businesses in America, may well conclude that nothing could be worse than another four years of Mr Obama. We beg to differ. For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says. That is not a convincing pitch for a chief executive. And for all his shortcomings, Mr Obama has dragged America’s economy back from the brink of disaster, and has made a decent fist of foreign policy. So this newspaper would stick with the devil it knows, and re-elect him.

[Xiahou]

Both Mayor Bloomberg of NYC and The Economist just endorsed Obama.

I've said as much before, and I'll say it again- Bloomberg is an imbecile.

[Lemur]

Bloomberg is an imbecile.

How dare you speak of your betters a job creator in that way.

When in the presence of wealth you should be silent and respectful.

[Fragony]

http://video.elsevier.nl/#!clip/2080528 LOL

I kinda suspect a case of abuse though

[Lemur]

God hates Florida

What began Sunday morning as an attempt by the Miami-Dade elections department to let more people early vote devolved into chaos and confusion only days before the nation decides its next president.

Call it the debacle in Doral.

Elections officials, overwhelmed with voters, locked the doors to its Doral headquarters and temporarily shut down the operation, angering nearly 200 voters standing in line outside — only to resume the proceedings an hour later.

On the surface, officials blamed technical equipment and a lack of staff for the shutdown. But behind the scenes, there was another issue: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.

The Republican had never signed off on the additional in-person absentee voting hours in the first place.

“That was counter to what I said on Friday, which was we were not going to change the game mid-stream,” he said. “I said, ‘No, there’s no way we did this.’”

[Strike For The South]

The Redskins lost

[Lemur]

God also hates Ohio

A small fraction of Ohio voters’ absentee ballot requests may have been mistakenly rejected due to a recently discovered glitch in the transfer of change-of-address records.

Even though the deadline for voters to register or change their address was three weeks ago, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted just this week sent about 33,000 updated registration records to local elections officials. The local boards had to immediately process the records to ensure those voters could properly cast a ballot in the Nov. 6 election.

An unknown number of absentee ballot applications across the state have been rejected due to the delay because election officials did not have some voters’ current addresses.

Officials in Cuyahoga County said 71 such applications were rejected. Those voters now will be sent new absentee ballots. Figures for rejected absentee ballot applications in other counties were not immediately available.

The delay can be traced to a breakdown in the data-sharing partnership between the Secretary of State and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

Husted last year began working with the BMV to coordinate the agency’s online change-of-address system with the state’s voter registration rolls.

But, according to a directive Husted sent Monday to election officials across the state, "the vast majority of the records collected electronically through the BMV change of address system between July and Oct. 9, 2012 were transferred late last week."

Husted, a Republican, sent the updated data to county boards of elections in batches on Monday and Tuesday. He called the timing "unfortunate" in his directive.