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Webster Green

(13,905 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:07 AM Sep 2012

So, if everything keeps trending for Obama (including the exit polls Nov 6th).....

...and then we wake on Nov. 7th to learn that somehow they have installed Mittens as the winner?

Will y'all be joining me in the streets? Will it finally be too much to take?

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So, if everything keeps trending for Obama (including the exit polls Nov 6th)..... (Original Post) Webster Green Sep 2012 OP
FIRED UP! NCLefty Sep 2012 #1
'fraid so. barbtries Sep 2012 #2
Me neither. Webster Green Sep 2012 #4
Yeah, I wonder about that myself...... socialist_n_TN Sep 2012 #3
I think this will happen more in Congressional and Senate races... Blue Meany Sep 2012 #5
I've been wondering about that, myself. hamsterjill Sep 2012 #6

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
3. Yeah, I wonder about that myself......
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:10 AM
Sep 2012

At some point, in some election in the future, I expect this to happen. Maybe this election, maybe not, but at some time. A "No way in Hell did that happen" moment amd what do Democrats do about it?

 

Blue Meany

(1,947 posts)
5. I think this will happen more in Congressional and Senate races...
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:29 AM
Sep 2012

The presidential race is shaping up to be not close enought to steal.

Do the powers that be really want to deploy these tactics to install Romney over Obama? Romney is emerging as a loose cannon who may not be easily controlled. Obama has governed as a traditional conservative, and has not challenged the 1%, except rhetorically.

OTOH, I think they do want to make sure that they keep one house of Congress in order to prevent any progressive legislation.

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)
6. I've been wondering about that, myself.
Thu Sep 27, 2012, 10:31 AM
Sep 2012

Remember all of those exit polls when John Kerry ran against Bush? Yeah, me, too.

And if Romney has been installed on November 7th, I will be VERY suspicious at this point. There's still time for him to salvage his campaign at this point if Obama were to make some major mis-step or something. But it's going to be hard to convince someone like me, even at this point, that Mittster actually wins.

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