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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 11/06/2012 : 22:55:17 [Permalink]
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| Whew! Michelle and I voted together, went for dinner, and I get home and it's over. LOL I really expected a long night! Now I'm doing the happy dance. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 22:59:35 [Permalink]
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Romney's concession speech seems to be 30 seconds of concession and many minutes of thank-yous to various people.
Oh, wait... now he's finally saying we need to come together and "reach across the aisle." |
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
2830 Posts |
 Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:01:44 [Permalink]
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| I having to much pleasure from the election results, the pain Republican's are feeling and Faux news' sad faces are icing on the cake. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:03:49 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
I having to much pleasure from the election results, the pain Republican's are feeling and Faux news' sad faces are icing on the cake.
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Obama ate their kitteh. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:05:47 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Romney's concession speech seems to be 30 seconds of concession and many minutes of thank-yous to various people.
Oh, wait... now he's finally saying we need to come together and "reach across the aisle."
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Boiler-plate platitudes, per tradition. I did laugh at Romney thanking Paul Ryan for his nonexistent "help." |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:07:20 [Permalink]
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| So, by 2016, the American People will have been enjoying the full benefits of Obamacare for two years. Will any serious Republican candidate for President campaign on a repeal platform then? |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:14:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
FOX is finally calling Virginia for Obama.
Florida is still too close to call.
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Chad again? |
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
2830 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:15:59 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
But key demographics like voting by young people show changes are coming.
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I certainly hope so! Romney would have shut down planned parenthood and like a shark taken meat out of Social Security down the road. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26020 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:20:11 [Permalink]
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One of the reasons Virginia took so long was that state election officials decided that people who were in line waiting to vote when the polling places officially closed at 7 PM would still be able to cast votes. (Took me 90 minutes from entrance to exit, but I voted this morning.)
I don't know if the same thing is going on in Florida, but Micah Cohen said at midnight:One of the closest battleground states yet to be decided is Florida, where President Obama leads Mitt Romney — with 96 percent of precincts reporting — by roughly half a percentage point.
Most of the counties have reported most of their results, but one fairly large chunk of ballots that has yet to be counted is in Miami-Dade County, where 83 percent of precincts have reported. Miami-Dade County is heavily Hispanic and favorable terrain for Mr. Obama. He currently leads Mr. Romney there, 62 percent to 37 percent. |
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Dave W.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/06/2012 : 23:33:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Okay, I'm already up way past bedtime.
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And I'm missing my old geezer's mid-day nap. |
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2012 : 00:44:11 [Permalink]
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| Obama practically swept the swing states... wow. |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/07/2012 : 00:56:53 [Permalink]
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Well, that wasn't nearly as bad as I feared. I really did expect this to be a drawn-out affair. It's good to know the system hasn't completely broken down.
Right around the time television stations started to declare Obama the winner, the wife and I flipped to FOX news to see how they were taking things. The amount of spin they were doing trying to pretend Ohio was still potentially in play was comical and cringe-inducing at the same time. They questioned the math. They posed doubtful questions to the experts. It reeked of desperateness. Even after they decidedly called the race in Obama's favor, the anchors were quick to point out that Obama was behind in the popular vote. They also conveniently omitted any mention that this was largely due to the fact that California's votes had not been counted yet at that point. Once the results from the Golden State came in and Obama pulled ahead, they dropped the issue.
Right before going to commercial, one FOX anchor threw out a quick fact: this election was the most "tweeted" election in history. My wife burst out laughing. "More tweeted than the Lincoln-Douglas debates?" she asked incredulously. Twitter is a recent fad, of course this is the most tweeted election. What a stupid thing to point out. But Fox wasn't done! After the commercial break, a female reporter came on and did an entire segment about election tweets. Which keywords were popular with which demographic. Which keywords were trending. What times the most tweets occurred. Etc. She had charts and graphs and used jargon like "twitter storm." It was preposterously inane. She didn't even mention Trump's epic twitter meltdown in which he called the election a "sham," claimed the world was laughing at us, and encouraged people to march on Washington to stop this "travesty." He even called for a revolution. Seriously. It makes me smile to think about the Don going purple in the face, toupee sagging to one side, using two fingers to pound out increasingly angry messages of 140 characters or less.
A little later in the evening, after the fact of defeat really began to sink in for the FOX crew, several analysts were interviewed to explain how everything could have gone so wrong. The conclusion? Romney ran a campaign that was too classy and honorable. Because he refused to get down in the mud with Obama and stoop to his level of negative campaigning, Romney doomed himself. They said this about Romney! The guy who ran one of the most shamelessly dishonest campaigns in memory. They really do live on another planet over there.
I have another theory on why Romney lost. You could see in on every Republican face that crowded the hall to support him. They were almost entirely white. When the news put up side-by-side shots of the two rallies, the total lack of Republican diversity was starkly evident. And that's what sunk them.
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"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2012 : 01:18:08 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by H. Humbert
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I have another theory on why Romney lost. You could see in on every Republican face that crowded the hall to support him. They were almost entirely white. When the news put up side-by-side shots of the two rallies, the total lack of Republican diversity was starkly evident. And that's what sunk them. |
Agreed! |
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Election 2012
