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    It's a wrap, folks

    A new narrative is taking shape just over 40 days before Election Day: Mitt Romney is losing. That's expected as well as premature, but it's easy to see why so many on the left and right are calling this a wrap.
    Romney's polling numbers stayed essentially flat after the Republican convention. Ditto after he picked US Representative and self-styled "fiscal hawk" Paul Ryan as his running mate. Romney looked like an craven opportunist after the ambassador to Libya was killed. And a video showing him despising and dismissing half of America as victims, moochers and ne'er-do-wells inspired one Bloomberg columnist to write this headline: "Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election." New Statesman
    Romney is also losing in most of the swing states.

    The only matter that is left of any interest is how the House and Senate will be arranged.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post

    The only matter that is left of any interest is how the House and Senate will be arranged.
    That was the only matter of interest to begin with, if you ask me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kathaariancode View Post
    That was the only matter of interest to begin with, if you ask me.
    Yes. Romney's writing was on the wall some time ago. In hieroglyphics.

    But if the Republicans get majorities in both the House and Senate, how long will it be before they return the US to the Dark Ages?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
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    But if the Republicans get majorities in both the House and Senate, how long will it be before they return the US to the Dark Ages?
    In the American system a bare majority in the House or just forty seats in the Senate permits stalemate and paralysis. The way things are right now is the way things are going to remain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by URF8 View Post
    In the American system a bare majority in the House or just forty seats in the Senate permits stalemate and paralysis. The way things are right now is the way things are going to remain.

    Then how are you going to declare war on anyone?

    Will there be 4 years of world peace?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Awryly View Post
    Then how are you going to declare war on anyone?

    Will there be 4 years of world peace?
    Four years? America's paralysis is permanent, not temporary. You obviously don't get it.

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    These polls are not looking good for Romney but I wonder how many will get turned away with the new voter ID laws. That could be a huge factor, another reason I'm not taking these polls too seriously

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    Quote Originally Posted by Conley View Post
    These polls are not looking good for Romney but I wonder how many will get turned away with the new voter ID laws. That could be a huge factor, another reason I'm not taking these polls too seriously
    I am surprised the US Supreme Court (for what it is worth) has not stepped in to disallow these forms of discrimination.

    But then, that's the outfit that has decreed corporations are persons and money is free speech.

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    There is still Romney Plan B

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    Quote Originally Posted by GrumpyDog View Post
    There is still Romney Plan B
    Plan B, of course is the opposite of Romney Plan A, which won him the Rep nomination. After Plan B is implemented, Romney Plan C will refute Plan B, to reassure conservatives that Plan A was the real plan all along.

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