This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Age of Aquarius…
According to the research of compiled state polls by Karl Rove & Co., the hypothetical electoral college numbers suggest an Obama win over the Republican ticket of John McCain and Sarah Palin of 338 electoral votes to 200.
Aquarius!
Aquarius…!
Somewhere, the Fifth Dimension and the Hillside singers are dusting off their ponchos, and Cher is off to Sweden to have her vagina re-tightened.
Of course, on the glass half full side, I wouldn’t bang any Obamamamas with Professor Caric’s withered gerkin — so I don’t think I’ll be missing much from the whole neo-free love movement.
Well. Except for the smell. Because you just can’t hide that.
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related: National Journal’s Blogger poll is now live. If you’re interested in such things, go check out what a sampling of political bloggers from both sides of the aisle think will happen tomorrow — as well as what role they believe blogs and the mainstream press plaid in this election cycle.
Comment by JHoward on 11/3 @ 5:49 pm #
“re” as in again?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/3 @ 6:02 pm #
States that Rove has listed for Obama that will go McCain:
Iowa
Ohio
Nevada
Florida
Virginia
States that Rove has for Obama that could go McCain:
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Colorado
New Mexico
Long-shots for McCain:
Minnesota
Michigan
I think McCain gets at least one of Maine’s separable electoral votes, as well.
Comment by MC on 11/3 @ 6:02 pm #
Your PW Visualization of the Day.TM
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 6:13 pm #
Yeah well High School Musical is still gay.
Comment by Lisa on 11/3 @ 6:21 pm #
You are such a damned fool, Perf. This post made me laugh for about 15 minutes. Now I can’t get that crappy song out of my head.
Comment by Timstigator on 11/3 @ 7:10 pm #
The song is hopeyful and happiful. Open you your minds!
Comment by Timstigator on 11/3 @ 7:11 pm #
you = up
Comment by Mikey NTH on 11/3 @ 7:12 pm #
We’ll see tommorrow night/Wednesday morning.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/3 @ 7:39 pm #
Well, shit it gets even worse. I just finished off a bottle of 10 year old Laphroig (mmmm…the peaty stuff) and now all that I have left is one fourth of a bottle of Isle of Jura. That shit is whack, yo. Oh well, time to stock up.
Comment by dre on 11/3 @ 7:47 pm #
Yea “The Whiskey Rebellion Now”!
Comment by cynn on 11/3 @ 7:55 pm #
Agreed — the blogs and mainstream press are extremely plaid. Better than chintz, but nevertheless.
Comment by J. Peden on 11/3 @ 8:07 pm #
Cher is off to Sweden to have her vagina re-tightened.
Ha, so that’s her little secret to life after love, eh.
I’m already getting my money’s worth.
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 11/3 @ 8:20 pm #
Yeah and Kerry was gonna win according to the electoral map last time out. Heh…
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 11/3 @ 8:22 pm #
Dre, in this case, it’s the Whisky rebellion. The Scottish are alright by me. Well, as long as they keep supplying me with single malt goodness.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/3 @ 8:27 pm #
Today I saw a guy drive by the South Orlando Obama headquarters, whose lawn was littered with “Obama” and “Change” sign, and hurl a handful of quarters into the thicket of Change signs through his sunroof window.
Made me smile, that did.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/3 @ 8:28 pm #
I don’t think so, Christopher.
But whatever. I like potatoes. And toilet paper is overrated.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/3 @ 8:34 pm #
The toilet paper would interfere with using your own feces as fertilizer for a subsistence-level potato patch, anyway.
So, we’ll be better off without it.
Comment by cynn on 11/3 @ 8:35 pm #
Sincere question: What is really at stake for you guys if Obama wins? I personally can’t see him overhauling much of society, given the possible economic collapse. So where does that leave him, since so much of your grievances hinge on economic issues?
Comment by guinsPen on 11/3 @ 8:39 pm #
So we’ll need buttons or something so we know who’s a lefty or a righty, then.
Comment by cynn on 11/3 @ 8:53 pm #
What do you mean by that?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 8:55 pm #
Where is buttons anyway?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 8:56 pm #
Potatoes! You know who do amazing potato thingers? Norwegian girls.
Comment by guinsPen on 11/3 @ 8:56 pm #
Sorry, Cynn.
I was following-on to SBP’s comment.
Comment by guinsPen on 11/3 @ 8:57 pm #
As far as shaking hands, and whatnot.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 11/3 @ 9:00 pm #
Quit whining. McCain wins with 300 EV’s.
Just shut up and go vote. Grab that slacker next door and take him with ya.
Last time, Zogby called it for Kerry with over 300 EV’s. Real Clear Politics? Where’d they have Bush/Kerry in 2004? Do ya remember? I’ll give ya a hint: Bush wasn’t supposed to win.
Shut up, quit yer bitchin’ and moanin’ and groanin’ …and get off yer whiney little ass and go vote.
Besides. Rush’s ‘Operation Chaos’ screwed up the pollsters this year.
I dunno wtf Rove thinks he’s up to, anyway. Suppressing the Obama vote, mebbe…
Comment by lee on 11/3 @ 9:01 pm #
cynn, are you that chick from 50 First Dates?
Every morning you awake with a freshly scrubbed memory?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 9:04 pm #
Yes. McCain wins. Baracky loses. I have seen it.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 9:06 pm #
Come Wednesday we can all begin a great national conversation on mitigating if not solving the heartbreak of wrap rage.
Comment by cynn on 11/3 @ 9:07 pm #
Lee, you are funny as hell and I’ve already voted. Not that it counts. If you were real I’d love to get with your replicant.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/3 @ 9:12 pm #
A nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The idea of a society of equal opportunity, rather than equal outcome.
Ever more of the limited time I have on this planet sucked away to enrich government bureaucrats under the guise of “helping the needy”.
The silencing of a large portion of the population’s political views under the guise of “fairness” and/or “local control”.
The abandonment of the progress we’ve made against the jihadis. The abandonment of allies such as Colombia. The emboldening of enemies such as Iran and Venezuela.
The empowerment of people such as those behind the “ResLife” program at the University of Delaware.
Comment by lee on 11/3 @ 9:22 pm #
If you were real I’d love to get with your replicant.
We’re both real cynn, but my replicant says you’re already screwed.
Comment by cynn on 11/3 @ 9:43 pm #
Wouldn’t be the first time!
Comment by JimK on 11/3 @ 10:15 pm #
Rove, wasn’t he the guy that predicted that the Republicans would hold the House and Senate in 2006?
Comment by Christopher Taylor on 11/3 @ 10:27 pm #
I don’t think so, Christopher.
Gallup and several other major agencies had Kerry winning, gathering as many 311 electoral college votes just before the election. Several major polls had Kerry up right before the election. They were wrong. Why on earth everyone can see the bias in the reporting but think polls are the voice of the living God I do not understand. It’s some kind of mental illness with political pundits.
Bradley Effect. Obama Girl Effect. Say it after me. And watch.
Comment by geoffb on 11/3 @ 10:33 pm #
What is “wrap rage”? Does it have anything to do with Christmas presents?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/3 @ 10:54 pm #
Mr. Instapundit did a post on it. It’s one of his leiter motifs really. Badly packaged thingers. I’m just grumpy cause there are some other badly packaged thingers what we need to be more concerned with just right now I think.
Comment by geoffb on 11/3 @ 10:57 pm #
Thanks hf.
Comment by bmeuppls on 11/3 @ 11:34 pm #
Rove did this based on the averages of the available polls… it’s not based on any Rovian brilliance from the past.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/4 @ 12:41 am #
I saw a link somewhere yesterday that showed that the polls weren’t favoring Kerry in ‘04. Not sure where, though. Some law chat board or some such.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 12:45 am #
well, there’s RealClearPolitics, here
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 12:48 am #
The polls this year are total garbage.
Iowahawk’s take is well worth reading.
Comment by Warren Bonesteel on 11/4 @ 1:01 am #
Pollsters are presuming that Dem turn-out will be 3% to 8% higher than it was in 2006. No hard numbers, to speak of, just a presumption.
One of those presumptions was based upon the number of people who were newly registered Dems during the primaries. That was due in no small part to Rush’s “Operation Chaos.” A significant percentage of Rush listeners registered as Dems in order to vote against Obama in the primaries. The pollsters took those new Dem registrations and used them in their models, skewing the poll results even further than they normally do.
If Obama isn’t up by at least ten points in any of the polls, he won’t win. He can’t win. Plus, almost every report on the ‘undecideds’ has them ‘leaning’ McCain by anything from 2-1 to 4-1.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 11/4 @ 6:24 am #
So…you’re saying Obama won’t in fact be able to effect the Change that he’s advertising? How disappointing.
Comment by J. Peden on 11/4 @ 6:57 am #
I’ve heard about the large preponderance of early dem voters vs repub and assumed it was just because more repubs tend to have jobs, but then also about a Fox Poll which claimed the early voters polled totalled about equal for each candidate. If so, down goes Obama – unless those “chaos” voters are coming out in droves early, which would be just like them, the cheaters!
Comment by BJTexs on 11/4 @ 7:25 am #
I have no idea what this means but I got up early this morning and arrived at my local polling place right at 7:00AM. There were already over 150 people in line so I’ll have to go back. Chester County, PA is pretty solidly Republican.
Again, no idea what it means.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:28 am #
I’m taking the morning off — gonna try to hit the polls shortly after 9:00 to avoid the before-work crowd.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/4 @ 11:23 am #
5th dimension?
i prefer “up with people”
preferably on a hillside
throwing away their empty coke bottles..
then a quick cut to that indian with a tear in his eye
standing next to that polluted river
my second place winner would be smokey the bear
driving a bitchin’ 66 impala/ throwing a lit cigarette out the window
pick your own soundtrack
probably some boomer bullshit
i voted[in quincy mass]
little longer than usual
lot’s of old peeps
except that girl who looked liked the catcher on the college softbal team
but i don’t want to be mean
no campaign workers outside