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Why Hurricane Sandy might cost Obama
the popular vote—but not the presidency
Yahoo! News, by Jeff Greenfield
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Posted By:NorthernDog, 10/31/2012 10:58:14 AM
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| This year’s black swan arrived on a rush of wind. Once again, a highly unlikely, unanticipated event has roiled the waters—literally—late in the campaign cycle. Twelve years ago, it was the revelation of George W. Bush’s long-ago drunk driving arrest that likely cost him the popular vote and almost cost him the White House. Four years ago, the September collapse of Lehman Brothers and the near-collapse of the global financial universe turned a likely Obama victory into a certain one. And this year, the impact of Hurricane Sandy makes it more likely that we’ll see a presidential election where
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As I've said elsewhere, libs seem to be conceding the popular vote to Romney, and pinning their hopes on a never-before-happened election where the incumbent wins only the electoral college.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pgvoisin, 10/31/2012 11:00:20 AM (No. 8976715)
What else can they say?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Msctex1, 10/31/2012 11:02:33 AM (No. 8976724)
Like reading someone writing while biting their lip.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/31/2012 11:05:53 AM (No. 8976734)
badly reasoned and badly written article.
I expect more from Jeff, who is not stupid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
pickle1, 10/31/2012 11:07:09 AM (No. 8976737)
They are at the end.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FenwayFrank, 10/31/2012 11:11:08 AM (No. 8976754)
What a contrast between this word jumble and Michael Barone's piece posted above.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
HicksvilleKid59, 10/31/2012 11:12:33 AM (No. 8976757)
Just trying to help your boy out, eh, Jeff?
Won't help, Jeff. We have brains here. Go talk to your base.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Malia2012, 10/31/2012 11:12:49 AM (No. 8976758)
What OP said. In your dreams, Jeff. BTW, sorry to disagree, but IMHO Jeff Greenfield IS stupid and that's why he can't get a job with "news" organizations. Hence his appearance at "yahoo news"!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena, 10/31/2012 11:14:07 AM (No. 8976765)
In 2000, a once in over one hundred year event happened when Gore (allegedly) won the popular vote but lost the electoral vote. It didn't happen in 2004, despite the close popular vote. It didn't happen in 1976--also a very close vote--or 1960, when Kennedy won the popular vote by just 100,000 votes. But now the (liberal) pundits are acting like it is a frequent occurrence and a serious possibility this year. Even if the remotely possible actually happened, it is far more likely that the Democrat would win the popular vote and lose the electoral vote than the Republican. This is because there are a big concentrations of Democrat votes in big cities, which always deliver big Democrat majorities, legitimate or not.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
cb, 10/31/2012 11:26:22 AM (No. 8976804)
Okay, so now if Obama wins the electoral vote but not the popular vote, the meme will be that the poor dem voters couldn't get to the polls because of Hurricane Sandy!--not that the 'will of the people' has been thwarted (as when GWB was elected). Got to have all the bases covered ahead of time!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
snapper451, 10/31/2012 11:27:45 AM (No. 8976808)
Greenfield is a "has been" who worships at the feet of Imus and Obama. Romney will win the electoral college by a wide margin and the popular vote by an equally wide margin. It's over boys!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TexasHillCountry, 10/31/2012 11:30:07 AM (No. 8976815)
This is Jeff Greenfield for pity's sake!. I once attended an event where he was also present covering it for ABC and from what he reported you'd have thought we had been in separate countries!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
spinpilot, 10/31/2012 11:34:10 AM (No. 8976827)
Huh!? NOT!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
snewb098, 10/31/2012 11:35:31 AM (No. 8976832)
I thought Jeff retired years ago..
Oh well, now might be the time Mr Greenfield.
Greenfield = Green pasture.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 10/31/2012 11:50:11 AM (No. 8976863)
Jeff, we are so much smarter than that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 10/31/2012 12:05:30 PM (No. 8976909)
second post apologies, but JFK didn't win the popular vote. The Alabama distribution of votes and electors somehow overstated his vote in that state.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff, 10/31/2012 12:06:17 PM (No. 8976911)
A Jeff Greenfield article is always good for a laugh. Such tortured pretzel logic is hard to come by, even in the LSM. And to think I respected him when I was a teenager. Older and wiser ...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/31/2012 12:33:36 PM (No. 8976983)
Jeff, look at the percentage of white voters your boy is collecting. 37% and going south. Unless that is over 41% - even in 2012 - you cannot cross 270. Thats the bottom line.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skillsss, 10/31/2012 1:20:47 PM (No. 8977102)
Only a JournOlist would pizz in your ear and tell you it is raining. This journOlism from the party that took a vote THREE TIMES to take God out of their platform then in another despicable act denied aid and support to our courageous patriots on the front lines of Libya 3X would have you believe the storm's implications are a function of "Romney's Global Warming" but It appears more like an act of God. It is difficult to fathom how the selective Blue storm and the crippling of the Huffington Compost would be beneficial to Obama given he was on the campaign trail and missing in action during the Benghazi Outrage. Somebody needs to tell this JournOlist to stop polishing turds and telling us it is gold.
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A few hours after Margaret Thatcher´s death on Monday, the snarling deadbeats of the British underclass were gleefully rampaging through the streets of Brixton in South London, scaling the marquee of the local fleapit and hanging a banner announcing, "THE B@&$! IS DEAD." Amazingly, they managed to spell all four words correctly. By Friday, "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead," from "The Wizard of Oz," was the No. 1 download at Amazon UK. Mrs. Thatcher would have enjoyed all this. Her former speechwriter John O´Sullivan recalls how, some years after leaving office, she
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