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Filibuster Cartoons
Title: Score Card '08 (click to view)
Date: November 4, 2008
Continuing the Filibuster tradition first established in 2004, I have made a score card for tonight's big election fiesta. Of course, it will be probably be much interesting this time around. I guess the main excitement will be to see if Obama can win ALL of these battleground states.

For the printable version, click HERE.

[martin14]

nice pic

Its still amazing for me the Republicans are still competitive.

between Bush's popularity, Iraq, markets, economy, McCain not being
a Republican favorite, tradition to change every 8 years,

this should have been the most boring election in history.
instead, its probably been one of the better ones.

[Thanos]

martin14 wrote:

nice pic

Its still amazing for me the Republicans are still competitive.

between Bush's popularity, Iraq, markets, economy, McCain not being
a Republican favorite, tradition to change every 8 years,

this should have been the most boring election in history.
instead, its probably been one of the better ones.

And if McCain had maintained his vow to take the high road instead of caving into the crazy demands of the Rovians and hard-right hate-mob in the Republican base, this election would also have been a much closer one than it's probably going to turn out to be.

I still like McCain, and I still think that he would have made a damn better President than Dubya if he had won the primaries and then the general election back in 2000. I'll be shaking my head for the rest of forever trying to figure out why the McCain of 2008 gave in so easily and started taking his marching orders from the nutcase fringe of the far right. An appeal to the moderates and independents, instead of to the whack-jobs, would have taken a lot of votes away from Obama and the race would have been neck-and-neck instead of the Obama blow-out that a lot of the less-partisan polls are indicating that it will be.

[Pseudonym]

I'm not much of an artist, but North Carolina does not have that bend on the left side there.

[Psudo]

martin14 wrote:

Its still amazing for me the Republicans are still competitive.

between Bush's popularity, Iraq, markets, economy, McCain not being
a Republican favorite, tradition to change every 8 years,

this should have been the most boring election in history.
instead, its probably been one of the better ones.

Change every 8 years? That's only a 16-year tradition: the last two presidents. And that's only if McCain loses (which, while likely, hasn't actually happened yet). Before that was the 4-year Bush 41 (R) administration, preceded by the 8-year Reagan (R) administration, and the 4-year Carter (D) administration.

Compare that to JJ's list of traditions, some of which date back to the 60s, 50s, or earlier without exception, and you see that 8-years-per-party is a pretty weak tradition.

(Edited for Freudian slip, changes in bold. Yes yes, Democrats, laugh it out.)

[Painkilla05]

Being an NC resident. Its sad NC is the only state out of shape
Good comic anyway Good luck to both candidates but I hope more to McCain!

[xceer]

JJ, you forgot about colorado and nevada.

[CaliShark]

I would like to see how many, if any, traditions are averted this time. I hear claims all the time that this election isn't just "business as usual" and I would like to see some indicator that this isn't the standard "More people are moving to the cities and becoming less religious" shift.

[Firekite]

Thanos wrote:

I'll be shaking my head for the rest of forever trying to figure out why the McCain of 2008 gave in so easily and started taking his marching orders from the nutcase fringe of the far right.

Perhaps I simply missed it, but at what point did he start making "the nutcase fringe of the far right" the focus of his campaign? Does that kind of hollow smear even mean anything anymore? Or are you just regurgitating something you heard one of Obama's campaign staffers anchoring for MSNBC say? And if that's really true, how did McCain lose by such a narrow margin in the popular vote?

[Dogmeat]

Firekite wrote:

Perhaps I simply missed it, but at what point did he start making "the nutcase fringe of the far right" the focus of his campaign?

Pretty much the day he picked Sarah Palin for his VP...

[Zipperfish]

Too bad--McCain ended up less of a figure than when he started. Maybe he really was that scattered, or maybe he was getting bad advice. Palin was either a horribly cynical or devastatingly incompetent pick. But, as a fan of Obama, I can't say I was too upset about his choice. She so aptly demonstrated that the party was actively appealing to ignorance.

I had a lot of respect for McCain when he stopped his speech to call Obama "a decent man." He would've made a far better president than Bush. Well, OK, an outrgaed purple-assed baboon would have made a far better president than Bush, but still... In the end he couldn't rise above the politics of Fear and Smear, and I'm convinced that, in teh final analysis, Americans picked hope over fear.

Still it was certainly no landslide, but now Obama, a left Democrat, can steer the nation back from its lunge to the right and the destruction it caused.

[simjanes2k]

In 50 years we'll see who the best president from the Clinton-Bush-Obama series was.

I don't really know where capitalism is headed, but it sure isn't the United States...

[Painkilla05]

This is a sad time for America. Socialism here we come.

[Pseudonym]

Dadgummit, I wish you people would stop acting as if it were the end of the world. Shed a single solitary tear and let's get on with our lives! We lost. Suck it up and stop acting like some sort of pansy ass liberals.

[CaliShark]

LOL. What country do we get to threaten to move to?

All I'm worried about is the potential for the "Political Correctness" kangaroo courts that spring up whenever the far-left is in power.