No I am not talking them to start pandering to illegals or people that come over and start popping babies every year.

You have this group that
1) leads in small business
2) is most educated in the country
3) has highest average income, with 30% of the households earning over 100k
4) epitomizes the term "hard working" (I know i am generalizing)
5) who gets shafted by handout/ affirmative action policies.
6) and you have a sizable group (koreans) who are tend to be religious and pro-gun!

In 1992, Asian Americans supported Bush 41/GOP by 55-31 margin.

This year, they went 73% for Obama while 27% went for Romney.

This segment of the population should be a shoe-in for the GOP.

In 20 years, we went from carrying them by 20+ points to losing them by 40+.

just.smh.

Fellow conservatives, there's no way to sugarcoat this. We got our clocks cleaned last night. Yes, we kept the House, mostly due to redistricting by gop state legislatures after the 2010 census. But we lost 2 seats in the Senate when the consensus earlier this year was that we would retake it. We put up terrible dumb candidates who just threw away their races. And of course, for the presidency, we lost an election that should've been ours. Obama is a failed first-term president who failed to present a clear agenda for solving this nation's problems. His campaign chose to demonize Romney and invoke class warfare rather than actually running on his record. And yet, Romney lost every swing state except North Carolina (even there, the margin was closer than expected).

It looks like it's over, guys. Obama will win the election by a small but comfortable margin on Tuesday.

1. Romney's momentum after his first debate was halted by Obama's dominating performances in the other two debates.
2. Obama has a firewall in Ohio: popularity of auto bailout, strong labor union presence, superior ground game, Romney's failure to relate to white working class voters in the state.
3. Obama has NEVER not led in the electoral college in the various polls.
4. Hurricane Sandy has been a huge boost, and Obama got insanely lucky with its timing. His good job managing it is pumping up his numbers. And Chris Christie's lavish praise of the president certainly did not hurt.
5. Today's jobs number was pretty solid. It will only help Obama going into the weekend.

The election is coming up, and it's time to make our predictions!

Although Romney got a nice bump from the first debate, his uneven and erratic performances in the other two, along with Obama's strong performances in those debates, have stunted his momentum. In the foreign policy debate, Obama totally dominated Romney and came across as a strong commander-in-chief. The polls show a virtual tie in the popular vote, but that does not matter since Obama is leading in the swing states. Ohio is his firewall; the auto bailout is very popular there, and Romney has been unable to chip away at the president's lead.

Unemployment numbers revised upwards for August revised from 96,000 to 142,000, and September fell roughly in line with expectations (114,000). The cumulative effect is a decline in unemployment to 7.8%.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-05/u-s-joble...

With the official rate below the 8% mark, what impact will this have on the election? I fully expect this to become a cornerstone of Obama's platform going into the final weeks of the election (although 7.8% isn't exactly something to boast about).

For us politics junkies, the collapse of Mitt Romney's campaign is truly stunning. For conservatives, it's infuriating while for liberals, it's pure ecstasy.

What amazes me is how someone like Romney can run such an incompetent aimless campaign. We're talking about a man who by all accounts did extremely well in the highly competitive fields of strategy consulting and private equity. He was a rockstar at bain consulting and Bain Capital, where everyone thought he was the smartest guy in the room. He also demonstrated remarkable executive skills through his management of the 2002 winter olympics and successful governance of Massachusetts, despite a 85% democratic legislature.

Some leaked videos of Romney at a private fundraiser with wealthy donors are likely going to make this news cycle a very nasty one to deal with.

ABC Report
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/leake...

The videos from Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/secret...

The main statement:

Ok. I've been busy lately and have drastically reduced my posting but have to get this off my chest, fellow monkeys.

So as you guys know, Isaac is bound to hit New Orleans and the Gulf soon. By all measures, it looks like it could potentially rival Katrina. Our thoughts are with the people who live in that area; hopefully, the damage will be far less severe than Katrina.

Looks like Romney has chosen Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904434...

Not sure what to think about that since all the talk was previously swirling around other potentials like: Condoleeza Rice, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie, etc.

I'll have to do my reading on Ryan to see where he stands on the issues. What do you all think?

His spokesman just hurt him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahR7k__8GVk&feature...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/e...

[quote]Erik Fehrnstrom, one of Romney’s top aides, made the unfortunate comparison between his candidate and the child’s toy during a television interview on CNN on Wednesday morning.

“Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign,” said Fehrnstrom. “Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-a-Sketch – you can kind of shake it up, and we start all over again.

Cue outrage.

What a joke and a disgrace. No idea whose idea it was to invite cee lo to a presidential fundraiser. And of course some classless buffoon lets his ludacris ringtone go off.

I cannot wait until Willard Mitt Romney and his lovely wife, Ann, bring class and dignity back to the oval office, much like the Reagans did.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/cee-l...

Romney is not going to defeat Obama, I think his second term is guaranteed. What we need is an Ike like figure.
General David Patreaus for President in 2016 on the Republican Ticket. He will surely win, he just needs to run.

I can't vote in 2012 anyway, so I am looking forward to 2016.

From Christian Newswire dated yesterday:
http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6425818602.html

There is one thing Santorum, Romney and Gingrich can agree on:

"Vigorous prosecution of those who violate our nation's obscenity laws is critical now. Our nation is suffering a pandemic of harm from pornography that is readily available - even to children on the Internet and in other venues"

Considering our soon to be nominee Mitt already has a history of going after porns (http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2011/02/ho...), I am left here to think. What's worse? higher taxes with Barack or no porn with Mitt?

Hi All,

I was wondering what your thoughts were on whether Romney is now a lock on the nomination. Basically thru sportsinteraction.com you can place a bet on Romney winning the election offset with Obama winning the election and collecting a spread on the other candidates still in the running. This would lock in a 20 % return if you allocate the weights evenly. In this market not too bad ehhhhhhhhhhh. Arbitrage baby???

Please don't pass judgement on the morality of such a bet.

Curious to know if any monkeys are going up to New Hampshire to volunteer for a candidate. I'm debating on whether I should fly up there and volunteer for the Romney campaign. My first choice is Huntsman, but he has no shot obviously, and trying to get in touch with their campaign people is virtually impossible. I need to figure out the logistics of the trip, such as where to stay, flight, etc.

Seems like it would be a cool experience. Hopefully I can use it to beef up my resume for mba applications next year.