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#1 Nov 14 2012 at 6:34 AM Rating: Good
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IMO, it's either going to be really close or it will be a blowout for Romney.


It wasn't as close as Dubya's re-election, so he's wrong.

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Hell, if the weighting issue is as significant as some conservatives are suggesting, Romney will easily win all the battleground states, and pick up several that are currently considered safe for Obama.


The weighting undersampled Democrats, no oversampled them. He was wrong about that, & very, very, wrong about Romney sweeping Battleground states.

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What this video shows is the sharp contrast between Obama and Romney on the issue of taxes and entitlements. Believe it or not, this plays better for Romney than Obama in the election. Hell. I wouldn't be surprised if the Romney camp arranged for this video to get "leaked".


More people in Fox's exit polls supported Obama's stance on taxation & entitlements.

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The GOP has a pretty significant enthusiasm advantage this time around


That didn't surpass the lazy 47%'s, woman, minorities, & more than 2/3rd's of the entire under 30 generation. Wrong again.

Anyhoo, he was wrong on just about all of his predictions regarding the 2012 election. But why was he wrong? I expect him to answer himself in this thread, but I think it'll be more fun if we "guess" beforehand why he thinks he was wrong.

Why was Gbaji Wrong about the 2012 Election?
Liberal Media!:4 (10.0%)
The Conservative newsertainment media lied to him!:1 (2.5%)
The Conservative newsertainment media lied to him but he didn't get his news from them!:3 (7.5%)
Voter fraud!:1 (2.5%)
A wall of text that touches upon all of these subjects but doesn't actually admit that he was wrong about anything.:31 (77.5%)
Total:40
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#2 Nov 14 2012 at 7:01 AM Rating: Excellent
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You're addicted to his contortions aren't you and you desperately want to see how he tries to get out of this?

You're a sick individual.
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#3 Nov 14 2012 at 7:26 AM Rating: Excellent
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#5 Nov 14 2012 at 7:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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You're addicted to his contortions aren't you and you desperately want to see how he tries to get out of this?

You're a sick individual.


Pretty much. The mental gymnastics one must do to deny reality, or rationalize that denial, never ceases to amaze me.
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#6 Nov 14 2012 at 7:42 AM Rating: Good
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Actually these are all carefully worded so as to be unfalsifiable. Poor choice of quotes.
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#7 Nov 14 2012 at 7:45 AM Rating: Excellent
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Gbaji was wrong because he decided to listen to a narrative that was soothing rather than one that was fact based. It's no surprise: present Gbaji with any study, poll or data that goes against his stance and he'll find a dozen reasons why it doesn't count. This wasn't really (in his case) the fault of Fox News or Unskewed Polls or Rush Limbaugh; it was just Gbaji being Gbaji. This time he just had more places to pat his head and tell him he was right.

**** Morris admitted yesterday that he was bullshitting when he was predicting the Romney blow-out because he wanted to keep conservative spirits up.
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#8 Nov 14 2012 at 7:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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**** Morris admitted yesterday that he was ************ when he was predicting the Romney blow-out because he wanted to keep conservative spirits up.

The sad part is that he wasn't, and is saving face by claiming to have been. The good news is that party of faith doesn't care about evidence of failure. Scott Rasmussen will be spewing out polls for the next 20 years that are reported at face value by media outlets. Because, you know, HORSERACE!
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The sad part is that he wasn't, and is saving face by claiming to have been.

You could very well be right. I remember him also predicting a Clinton comeback pretty much up until a week after the 2008 Democratic convention and McCain was going to win the race any minute now.

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Amen. Clinton is going to come back, it's going to be a brokered Democratic convention, McCain is surging in Pennsylvania, Santorum is going to come back, it's going to be a brokered Republican convention, Romney is surging in Pennsylvania...
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#10 Nov 14 2012 at 8:45 AM Rating: Excellent
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Jophiel wrote:
Gbaji was wrong because he decided to listen to a narrative that was soothing rather than one that was fact based.
Meh, not even that. He was just being on the opposite side of the argument because it makes him feel essential and needed and such.
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#11 Nov 14 2012 at 9:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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lolgaxe wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Gbaji was wrong because he decided to listen to a narrative that was soothing rather than one that was fact based.
Meh, not even that. He was just being on the opposite side of the argument because it makes him feel essential and needed and such.
He is essential. Do you think Var-socks intermittent ramblings produce enough conflict-energy to sustain this place?
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#12 Nov 14 2012 at 10:36 AM Rating: Good
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Considering none of them produce any conflict energy? All they do is nay-say. It doesn't produce conflict or discussion. At best mild amusement.
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#13 Nov 14 2012 at 10:38 AM Rating: Excellent
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They jiggle when you poke them with a pointy stick; that's a plus.
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#14 Nov 14 2012 at 11:20 AM Rating: Good
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I wonder when we will have a Gbaji is right thread. He seems to get it wrong an awful lot.
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He was right about Romney being the eventual GOP nominee. Not that you needed to be Nostradamus to call that one.
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#16 Nov 14 2012 at 11:39 AM Rating: Excellent
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He was right about Romney being the eventual GOP nominee. Not that you needed to be Nostradamus to call that one.

Who's turn is it now, though? Jeb, I'd assume if he wants it, but why give up being King of Florida for a real job.
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Jophiel wrote:
He was right about Romney being the eventual GOP nominee. Not that you needed to be Nostradamus to call that one.


Didn't he change his tune 2-3 times during that though?
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About Romney winning the nomination? No, he was solid on that one. Even through the media circus of "Gingrich is in the lead! Now Cain! Now Perry! Santorum! Bachm--- haha, just kidding..."
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I am actually surprised he didn't spin with the media...he is usually pretty consistent in parroting right wing crazy...even though he doesn't get his news from anywhere.
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Who's turn is it now, though? Jeb, I'd assume if he wants it, but why give up being King of Florida for a real job.


If not him I'm going for one of the new group from these past elections to distinguish themselves. Guessing Christie and Jindal have burned too many bridges with the right wingers for the near future at least.
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Not that you needed to be Nostradamus to call that one.
He was right about what everyone except the media outlets trying to get ratings was saying two years ago. Color me shocked.
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#22 Nov 15 2012 at 9:43 PM Rating: Default
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I honestly have been ridiculously busy over the last week, but since I don't want to disappoint you:

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Gbaji wrote:
IMO, it's either going to be really close or it will be a blowout for Romney.


It wasn't as close as Dubya's re-election, so he's wrong.


It was still "close" in practical terms. You have to remember that because of the electoral college system, a relatively tiny shift in 8 or 10 states equals 100 or so electoral college votes. You literally take a couple percentage points from Obama and shift them to Romney in those states and it goes the other way. Was it close in terms of EC votes? No. And to be fair, I did think that Romney would pick up more of the battleground states than he did. But it was a hell of a lot closer than you'd have thought looking at the polling (which was the point I was making at the time).

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Hell, if the weighting issue is as significant as some conservatives are suggesting, Romney will easily win all the battleground states, and pick up several that are currently considered safe for Obama.


The weighting undersampled Democrats, no oversampled them. He was wrong about that, & very, very, wrong about Romney sweeping Battleground states.


Um.. No. It didn't. Remember the list of local Ohio polls Joph posted just a day or so before the election? Remember how like 4 out of 5 of them had Obama up by 4-6 points? Obama won Ohio 50/48. So the polls were skewed in the Dems favor by only a 2-3 points instead of 4 or 5 points as I suspected.

Pay attention to what I wrote. You even quoted it. I said "if the weighting issue is as significant as some conservatives are suggesting, Romney will easily win all the battleground states...". If the weighting issue had been 4-6 points then he would have won pretty much all the battleground states. He certainly would have won Ohio, Florida, Virginia, with others being very close.

The point is there was a weighting skew in the polls. It just wasn't as large as some thought.

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Gbaji, on 47%ers wrote:
What this video shows is the sharp contrast between Obama and Romney on the issue of taxes and entitlements. Believe it or not, this plays better for Romney than Obama in the election. Hell. I wouldn't be surprised if the Romney camp arranged for this video to get "leaked".


More people in Fox's exit polls supported Obama's stance on taxation & entitlements.


Er? I'm not sure how the two are related. First: Exit polls. Second: That doesn't mean that it hurt him rather than helping him. You can't know what said exit poll results would have been if said video had not been leaked. Yes, I know that's doesn't prove anything. But that's the point, there's no proof either way. You're really grasping for something to "prove" I'm wrong about with this one. It's an opinion. We can't actually know the truth without a time machine to see what would have happened if things had gone differently.

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The GOP has a pretty significant enthusiasm advantage this time around


That didn't surpass the lazy 47%'s, woman, minorities, & more than 2/3rd's of the entire under 30 generation. Wrong again.


And? Doesn't disprove my point at all. Obama won this election 332 to 206. He beat McCain 365 to 173. Interestingly, looking at poplar vote, Romney got about the same number as McCain (59,134,475 versus 59,934,814), while Obama got far fewer this time around ( 62,611,250 versus 69,456,897). If we can correlate total number of voters to enthusiasm, you can absolutely say that Romney had an advantage this time compared to last.

It wasn't quite enough to win, but I think the fact that Obama got nearly 7 million fewer votes this time around represents a significant drop in enthusiasm for his re-election). The problem for Republicans was that they were hoping this would translate into people switching to voting Republican, while it appears that most of the folks who lost enthusiasm for Obama just stayed home instead.

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Anyhoo, he was wrong on just about all of his predictions regarding the 2012 election.


Only if one grossly misrepresents what I actually said. I never once predicted who would win btw. I was cautiously optimistic for Romney, but was very careful this time to couch my words in the form of merely examining possibilities. If the skew in the polls had been as large as some conservatives were suggesting, it would have been a big win for Romney. I didn't say that the polls were that skewed.

You'll note that I also didn't place any bets this time around. Not falling for that one again. Smiley: bah
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it was a hell of a lot closer than you'd have thought looking at the polling (which was the point I was making at the time).

Nope. It was pretty much exactly in line with the polling. If anything, the polls underrepresented the Obama vote.
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Um.. No. It didn't. Remember the list of local Ohio polls Joph posted just a day or so before the election? Remember how like 4 out of 5 of them had Obama up by 4-6 points? Obama won Ohio 50/48. So the polls were skewed in the Dems favor by only a 2-3 points instead of 4 or 5 points as I suspected.

That'd be a real trick of me since the RCP Ohio average before the election was +2.9

There were a couple +5 polls in there but nothing like "4 out of 5" and they were mitigated by others showing much slimmer leads.

Edit: I assume you meant this post. Besides the fact that it's not five polls, most of those weren't included in the RCP average for various reasons (mainly online polling and Zogby sucking in general).

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You literally take a couple percentage points from Obama and shift them to Romney in those states and it goes the other way.

This is wrong. The "tipping point" state for Obama's victory was Colorado which he won by 4.7 points. Ohio, Virginia and Florida were nice for running up the totals but they could have been lost and it wouldn't have changed the outcome as Colorado and the states won by bigger margins gave Obama 272 EVs.

So what you meant was "If you just changed states by giving Romney another four percent, Romney totally would have won. It's like literally practically a tie!"

Edited, Nov 16th 2012 12:30am by Jophiel
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#26 Nov 16 2012 at 6:19 AM Rating: Excellent
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Hah. I see you guys know me well.


If anything, you're predictable.
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