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OFFICIAL ELECTION THREAD MEANS ALL ELECTION-RELATED STUFF GOES IN HERE, DUR
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JackFrost2012
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XS+ said:
...but ... you don't mean ... IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG!
teiresias said:
Oh come on now. I'll tell you right now that I voted for the ban and I don't want you confined.
I work with gay guys, I have gay friends, but when asked to vote, I vote based on my opinions, just as you do with yours.If I had my choice, "marriage" wouldn't be something the government had any dealing in at all.
brooklyngooner
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Seth C said:Oh come on now. I'll tell you right now that I voted for the ban and I don't want you confined.
An opinion that has nothing to do with you personally, just denying the same rights you have to others. Good job, citizen!
carbonbased
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Marriage should not be something that the government has a hand in. Period.
Why thank you.Miguel said:
Seth C said:Oh come on now. I'll tell you right now that I voted for the ban and I don't want you confined.
If I had my choice, "marriage" wouldn't be something the government had any dealing in at all.
not trying to attack your opinion, but if you truly felt that gov't should stay out of marriage issues then voting for a ban involving it doesn't make sense to me.
Funky Papa
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Question from an european citizen.
If Bush wins like it looks like, how do you foresee the next presidential elections?
If Bush wins like it looks like, how do you foresee the next presidential elections?
I still cannot believe that, despite all of the mistakes Bush has made, his popular vote exceeded Kerry's by at least 3 MILLION. That's the highest in history from what I have heard. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.
Funky Papa: Bush will win, and in 2008 three people will possibly run - John McCain, Rudy Guliani, and Jeb Bush. All three of these guys are extremely popular and would more than likely win over any democratic candidate. I'm also willing to bet America likes them so much that they'd be re-elected and stay in office until 2016. Basically, no democratic president in the US until at least 2016.
Funky Papa: Bush will win, and in 2008 three people will possibly run - John McCain, Rudy Guliani, and Jeb Bush. All three of these guys are extremely popular and would more than likely win over any democratic candidate. I'm also willing to bet America likes them so much that they'd be re-elected and stay in office until 2016. Basically, no democratic president in the US until at least 2016.
Funky Papa said:
If Bush leaves office with a high approval rating, it wouldn't surprise me to see the Republican party "ride" the Bush wave and try to put in Jeb Bush.
For the Democrats, they're going to try to put in Hilary Clinton, John Edwards or some other adorable political figure.
Diablos said:
Democrats got what they deserve.
Rudy Guliani scares me. He really does. I'm indifferent about Jeb, but he's a Bush, so y'know. I do like John McCain. I wish he won the 2000 primaries.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
What I don't get is how the exit polls could be so wrong. It looked like Kerry had it wrapped up at one point. Someone on the news said they found it odd that the exit polling matched up almost exactly except for those battleground states with electronic voting without receipts. In those states Bush consistently came out 3-5% ahead of what the exit polls predicted. That's very disturbing IMO.
Funky Papa said:
it's entirely in the hands of republicans now. If they do a good enough job at establishing an environment that promotes, effectively, a substantial revival of the economy.. well, that's the biggest factor... that can only help maintain the current edge republicans have.
It wont help the republicans make any space between them and democrats (nowhere near as much as most people would expect) because if the economy is going good then the American electorate will not believe that a republican dominated government is absolutely required anymore. The democrats will then have a chance to gain some steam with social issues.
The heart of America (geographically speaking, all those red states) will continue to grow conservative so if the republicans can get out the vote like we saw this time then the republicans will continue to hold the edge globally.
But if the economic recovery falters (for whatever reason, whether it be in the hands of the government or not) then the republicans have no shot at keeping both branches of government. I think in that scenario the democrats win back the white house. And I think that just like in this election domestic issues will dominate versus international issues in deciding the president and the legislative makeup.
I am not factoring in Rudy's likability among democrats. Screw it. We need a democratic president to ensure balance in this country, and it isn't happening for a long, long time.
McCain is the best one, yeah.
Explain. If you are talking about the youth vote being the same, I agree. Kerry could have won if there were more young people at the polls. It was 54% democratic.
McCain is the best one, yeah.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
+100000 homophobes, retards, racists, facists, warmongers, hicks Good job voting guys.....no matter how retarded bush supporters are democrats are worse for not doing something about it.
[shatner]this sickens me[/shatner]
[shatner]this sickens me[/shatner]
XMonkey said:
It would be interesting to see how much she'd lose by. I really don't think the country is ready for a female President. I think a vast majority of men would vote against her (we're like that, you know) and I think most conservative women would vote against her also. I know my mom would make it a point to vote for whichever man was running against her.
All you dumb phucks who voted for Bush and are going to college hoping to make it out in the real world, well you can kiss that dream good bye. I'm so ashamed of being an american right now. How can people be this ignorant for voting for Bush? Business won't want to spend money on training people, because major businesses already losing money, and getting rid of people beause of the economy. My mother went to college and got one of the top five best degrees to have in the few years, and it's STILL going to waste because of how shitty Florida's economy is. All that hard work, taking care of two kids on her own.....for NOTHING. Thank you Bush. You truly are a fucking idiot.
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
I wonder who the republicans are going to blame now when the shit hits the fan?! No clinton, republican congress and who knows how many bush appointed judges in the sup. court.
nathkenn said:
how could a small sample size of people volunteering to divulge their selections all from the early half of the election day possibly give you an accurate view, especially when close, of what the ACTUAL final tally would be?
"I wonder who the republicans are going to blame now when the shit hits the fan?! No clinton, republican congress and who knows how many bush appointed judges in the sup. court."
That's exactly what we want... we don't care that we'll have to deal with ultimate culpability.. we want a chance to put our policies into practice unhindered.. just like democrats want.
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