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Title: Gary Johnson: Obama will win (Gary Johnson has already given up)
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URL Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/charl ... son-obama-will-win-148493.html
Published: Nov 5, 2012
Author: ELIZABETH TITUS
Post Date: 2012-11-05 23:01:32 by A K A Stone
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Views: 6169
Comments: 13
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Monday he thinks President Barack Obama will defeat Mitt Romney to win a second term. “I think Obama’s going to win, that’s what I think,” Johnson told POLITICO in an interview. “[My vote is] really spread out, meaning I don’t think there’s any state that I’m going to do better than another.” Johnson, who’s on the ballot in 48 states and the District of Columbia, hovers in single digits in the polls. The former two-term New Mexico governor declined to single out any state where he expected to do particularly well but said he had no regrets about how he ran his campaign. “There’s nothing,” Johnson said. “I would ask that everybody look at it and maybe recognize that this is phenomenal that we spent $2 million and may get 5 percent of the general – now maybe it doesn’t turn out that way at all – but that we spent $2 million bucks and here we are playing in a game that by all accounts we should not be playing in, so no. Yeah, you make mistakes every single day, but the reality is: Holy cow.” A CNN Ohio poll released Nov. 2 had Obama at 47 percent, Republican nominee Mitt Romney at 44 percent and Johnson at 5 percent. He has raised about $2.3 million, has about $35,000 on hand and is about $227,000 in debt, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Johnson gave his interview from the lobby of the Capital Hilton in downtown Washington accompanied by two aides, dressed casually. He will participate in the Free and Equal Elections Foundation debate with Green Party nominee Jill Stein Monday night, then return to Albuquerque, N.M., to watch the election returns Tuesday. It doesn’t make much of a difference which of the major-party candidates wins, Johnson said, rattling off a list of similarities he sees between Obama and Romney’s policies. “Either one of them are elected, although they talk a big game: Continued unsustainable spending,” he said. He lamented that media — especially on TV — tend to focus on the results of polls that don’t include third-party candidates. “You go to the website,” he said. “CNN: ‘Obama 50, Romney 48, but when GaryJohnson’s name is included, he’s at 6.’ Well, come on. Where is that being reported?” “The frustration is, if I were just given the credit that I’m due, which is a three-times mention or a five-times mention for every time Romney is mentioned 47 times, I think if you would go back three months and give me the credit that I would be due if this were a discrimination lawsuit, that I would be the next president of the United States because of the interest that would have generated,” he said later. His “dream” is “to catch everybody with their pants down tomorrow,” he said. Yet he's pessimistic about whether it would be noticed, noting that even if he got 5 percent of the vote it would get much attention. “The most underreported significant showing of all time and space when it comes to a presidential election — I would love for that to transpire tomorrow. Get recognized for it. And maybe we even accomplish it and it goes unrecognized. That’s also another thing that could be very real. I get 5 percent of the vote but, ‘Oh, it’s just the pot smokers.’” As for his plans after the election, Johnson indicated he’d return to his active, outdoors-oriented lifestyle. “Get ready for the ski season,” he said, laughing, when asked what he would do after Election Day. Then his family and he “are going to all go climb Aconcagua in Argentinain December.” As for a future run for office, Johnson was non-committal. “I hope to remain a spokesperson but I think the last thing anybody wants to hear right now is talk about 2016 when everybody’s just ready to barf over 2012 so I’ll stay away from that.”
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Of course. Why bother voting for a socialist posing as a conservative, when you can have the REAL socialist? o'Bungler doesn't hide who he really is; mcRomneystain doesn't know who he is, any more... he's on every side of every issue. Which means he's even more of a phony than o'Bungler. And that's saying something. NOW, stone, let's get to brass tacks... when they announce late tomorrow night that o'Bungler has In my case, I'll keep on with my plans... because- unlike you- I recognize that there isn't any difference between them. And no matter WHO "wins" tomorrow... this country is finished, economically, politically and (sadly) socially. And neither one of them would do a fucking thing about it, even if they could... So sorry, but your loyalties have been betrayed, and you've no "friends" left in the government... same as the rest of us. God help us all.
You sure repeat yourself a lot. I don't really care about your opinion. You have no insight or common sense. I used to like you but not so much anymore.
CPUSA Says Re-electing Obama is “Absolutely Essential”
He reminds me of you; Erica, that is.
His stubbornness?
Have a good election day Fred. Vote right.
No booze sales until 6 p.m. today. I hope I don't suffer from the DTs.
His lack of insight, I certainly agree with.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
Glaad, GOProud, and the Log Cabin Republicans say that a Romney victory is absolutely essential. Get out there and back the up the pedophile fudgepacker baby murderers by voting for Mittens! I'm off to the polls to vote. Rest assured, it won't be for either of the D&R commie perverts.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Yeah, me too, after a quick shave, etc.
He likes me better, he likes me better! LOL It is not easy reconstructing 'molded minds'... I don't care. There's NO DIFFERENCE between them. Your wishful thinking doesn't change that. That kinda' happens, when you have the courage to stand by your beliefs. Something you wouldn't know anything about...
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson said Monday he thinks President Barack Obama will defeat Mitt Romney to win a second term.
gotten a mandate from the electorate stolen the election, what're YOU gonna' do about it? 
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
#2. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
#3. To: Capitalist Eric (#1)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#2)
#5. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
#6. To: Fred Mertz (#4)
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)
#8. To: A K A Stone (#5)
(Edited)
His stubbornness?
#9. To: A K A Stone, *Yukon neo-Progressive Vermin* (#3)
CPUSA Says Re-electing Obama is “Absolutely Essential”
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#10. To: hondo68 (#9)
I'm off to the polls to vote. Rest assured, it won't be for either of the D&R commie perverts.
#11. To: Capitalist Eric, A K A Stone (#2)
I don't really care about your opinion. You have no insight or common sense. I used to like you but not so much anymore.
#12. To: A K A Stone (#3)
CPUSA Says Re-electing Obama is “Absolutely Essential”
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
#13. To: A K A Stone (#2)
You sure repeat yourself a lot.
"I am relying on my personal experience with Morons, which have been universally positive." -jwpegler
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