Daily Archives: November 6, 2012

9 posts

Election Night Live Blog: Which Half of the Country Will Hate Tonight’s Outcome?

Rich but Empty Calories Always Give Me HeartburnTwelve months of campaigning, billions of dollars in campaign spending and enough enough hacktastic advertising to shame even the slimiest local used car dealer finally comes to a head tonight. Based on the stories already coming out of the several states, fraught with reports of broken down voting machines and attempts at disenfranchisement, this is shaping up to be a long, painful night for all those involved.

As your intrepid live-blogger is a full-on masochist (he is a Cleveland Browns fan, after all), he will bring you all of tonight’s punditry, pontification and premature fapping at Florida going for Romney.

The polls start closing down at 7:30, but it seems plausible that many states will have voters going well past that based on them getting in line ahead of poll closings. We’ll start the party around 8:30, but feel free to bathe in your own vodka-glow in the comments before that.  Continue reading →

Your Swing Through the Swing States Post

If you have the misfortune of living in a swing state your life has been turned into a living hell for the past few months by ceaseless political advertising. If you have the misfortune of not living in a swing state your life has been turned into a living hell for the past few months by endless commentary about the importance of swing states. Here is an insider’s view of three of those hot beds of divisiveness.  Continue reading →

Campaign of Eldritch Horror: Twitter and #RomneyDeathRally

A Mitt Romney rally in Pennsylvania took a dark turn, according to ominous reports from eyewitnesses. Romney staffers refused to let people leave the rally, despite freezing temperatures. Disgruntled rally-goers complained on Twitter, first in anger, then in horror, then in  madness and despair, as the event transmogrified from a poorly administered rally by an incompetent campaign, to an eldritch night of unfathomable terror. Continue reading →

Why I’m About To Lose My Mind

Crystal Mind by Nevit DilmenLike many people, I’ve got a lot of feelings about this election cycle. I have wanted to contribute a post or some links to major media stories about everything leading up to the events of November 6, 2012, but instead of being productive, I have been seriously wigging out.

I thought, if I wrote a post, maybe I would call it “Why I’m Ready To Lose My Shit, For Reals.” Why? Although the early vote returns are strongly in favor of four more years, the votes received so far (according to ABC News) are maybe 10% of the total predicted votes to be placed today. Several prominent media outlets have predicted our President will have a second term, but we can’t take that for granted. Continue reading →

Why Women Should Support President Obama

If it were the late 1960’s and we were existing in a time when Kings of the Universe, like the Don Draper type, reigned would we acknowledge the only jobs that would be considered respectable and acceptable for a woman outside of helping the war effort in times of dire need, would be either secretary, teacher, or nurse, but never the subversive desire to write barn-burning articles for the local newspaper about inequality between the sexes and how few really seem to care about the concerns of the so-called fairer sex. Mostly. Continue reading →

Crasstalk’s Official Presidential Endorsement, Now With 100% More Righteousness

A very special thank you to Ornery Babe and Cletar who helped put this endorsement together.

Listen, if Michael Bloomberg can take time out from hurricane recovery to endorse a Presidential candidate, it’s only fair for the wise and occasionally sober scribes of Crasstalk to do the same.

Admittedly, the path to this Election Day has been long-six years long for one candidate, in fact. The cost, has been excessive-more than $2.5 billion, to be precise. And on the eve of that election, through the speeches, the conventions and the ads-Good God- the ads, we must decide between two men for the opportunity to occupy the White House for the next four years.

Who do we, the brilliant minds at Crasstalk, believe best to lead this nation through the next four years of corporate pillaging?

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Vote for the Greatest Political Troll of the 2012 Election

It’s been one hell of a painful election season. The never-ending parade of jackassery has been difficult for all of us. Fortunately, it is almost over. Tonight we will all gather around our screens and see who will govern this mess of a country for the next four years. However, here at Crasstalk, this is of a secondary concern.

No one enjoys the stylings of a good troll more than the residents of Crasslandia, and we thought it was only fitting that on election day we vote for our political troll of the 2012 election. Vote early, vote often, and may god have mercy on America. Continue reading →

What You Can Still Do

Obama Getting Out the Vote

Okay, you got up early and voted. You’ve had your coffee and you’re already thinking about opening that bottle of Wild Turkey because there are hours and hours until they call this thing and the misery of this never ending campaign is over.

Rather than spend the whole day hitting the Refresh button on CNN.com or, god forbid, watching cable news all day, you can still make a difference by doing last-minute GOTV (get out the vote) activities. Continue reading →