Now that Superstorm Sandy has blown itself out, we can get down to calling the US election.
In this corner, Willard Romney. Republican-esque, trying to conjure the spirit of Ronnie Regan and failing miserably. He’s saddled by a party that is in self-flagellation mode, split between Tea Party loons and those who believe that owning poor people is The American Way. Let us not forget the short-bus candidates who insist that uteruses (uteri?) know the difference between rape, incest, wanted and unwanted pregnancies, as every egg is sacred, but don’t ever consider legislating the spilling of seed without procreation.
In that corner is Barack Obama, who is, at best, Carter-esqe and not in a good way. He presided over the biggest economic meltdowns of all time, not all of it his doing, but he’s still the guy in the Big Chair. The Democrats in-fight like cats in a burlap bag over some of the most picayune minutiae of an unsustainable platform cobbled together by people educated beyond their intelligence at taxpayer expense.
So who wins on Tuesday? Polls tell us it is a dead-heat. Obama’s very presidential behaviour post-Sandy probably gave a good dozen pollsters what could be politely described as conniption fits, as he came across well. Now it’s down to who can get out the vote.
Republicans can’t or won’t do the grunt work needed on Tuesday as it might involve a Negro being in their car, or having their illegal-alien groundskeeper take time from pruning the azaleas to drive them to a polling station. This is assuming they live in a state where they haven’t managed to pass voter ID laws that make the old, vicious, Jim Crow statutes look like “Go Back Two Spaces” from a Snakes and Ladders game.
Democrats meanwhile will argue that only electric cars should be used to ferry eligible voters to a poll, while a cadre of Young Democrats tries to get a trending-Twitter feed of planting saplings in Colorado to offset the carbon footprint of the volunteer drivers. Or, we could have human powered rickshaws take the voters to the polls, hashtag #rickshawvotertransportforObama Ooooh, trending higher now!
It’s almost down to a coin-flip, but we’ll call it Obama by the merest red hair of a margin. America will be better for it, in the long run.
RoadDave 
Hoping this is satire. Canada is on a roll, but we would prefer not to be saddled with what we have had to endure for 4 more years.
I would like to vote for Mitt Romney – problem is, I’m never sure which one’s gonna show up! Meanwhile, I do like the Democratic idea of women being people, too, and don’t mind them having reproductive rights, as long as the Fed ain’t printin’ funny money to do it.
Lordie, if this ain’t the definition of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”, I don’t know what is.
So who’s Mason favouring? 😉