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United States Election: Nov 6, 2012 |OT| - Barack Obama Re-elected

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Jayayess1190

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Saw this on a public phone in downtown Pittsburgh:

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EmCeeGramr

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For the rest of your life, remember that there was a moment where a bunch of billionaires sat in a room and watched TVs while drinking cocktails, and had a moment of realization as all the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars they gave to Karl Rove went up in smoke
 
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Guevara

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EmCeeGramr said:
For the rest of your life, remember that there was a moment where a bunch of billionaires sat in a room and watched TVs while drinking cocktails, and had a moment of realization as all the tens and hundreds of millions of dollars they gave to Karl Rove went up in smoke
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At what point do you think they realized it would have been cheaper and just as effective to keep their money and absorb a simple small tax increase?
 
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Rubenov

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So GAF, what's your opinion on the fiscal cliff?

I believe Romney would have avoided it given the Republican control of the house -- the Senate is always more willing to compromise.

Any chance Obama avoids this?
 
Bitmap Frogs

Bitmap Frogs

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All you guys expecting the republicans to recover their lost sanity, are in it for a shock.

Internally this election will be read as: voter disenfranchisement and electoral circunscription tamepring almost did the job. Double down on the crazy and double down on the "legal" electoral fraud.
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

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Dartastic said:
http://gawker.com/5958260/americas-...ection-night-of-anybody-and-heres-why-a-guide

"...Silver gave Obama a 91 percent chance of winning on election day, and correctly forecast every state outcome as well."

BAM.
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Yeah, Nate Silver did great on the presidential level, but he had a few issues in the Senate races. Indeed, he blew two of those calls, one badly -- he said there was a 91% chance Heitkamp would lose in ND, but she won. He also put the odds at Tester losing at 65%, and he won too.

Drencrom said:
On behalf of the world (except Pakistan); Thank you for doing the right thing Americans.

Cheers!

lol @ republican tears and Fox news
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There is one other country that polled towards Romney, but it wasn't in that poll -- Israel. But they were the only two.

Regulus Tera said:
what the shit how did i miss this
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How could anyone actually watch that stuff? Seriously...
 
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speculawyer

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nib95 said:
Not sure how Hannity and other Reps can be so delusional.

1. Ignore the negative campaign Romney ran and pretend it's all Obama

2. Act like the rest of the media is biased when Fox is is quite clearly the most biased of all

3. Be so delusional about facts and figures
a.) Completely disregard all of Obama camps claims about Romney, suggesting they're all false, when so many were true
b.) Pretend the fact checkers were partisan and were just picking on Romney
c.) Act surprised that they were so off on the election predictions
d.) Completely disregard Bush and his policies and act like everything started with socialist Obama

It's mind numbingly idiotic.
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It really is. With a lot of news stories you can't know which side is 'biased' because you don't know the actual truth unless you were at the event in a news story.

But the elections provided an objective verifiable story. Fox had all sorts of people like Rove, Dick Morris, etc. making election projections. THEY WERE ALL BADLY WRONG. Fox lied to them QED. They should immediately reject Fox and go to a different news source.

But they won't. Fox tells them what they want to hear and that is apparently more important to them than learning the truth.
 
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Klocker

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Bitmap Frogs said:
All you guys expecting the republicans to recover their lost sanity, are in it for a shock.

Internally this election will be read as: voter disenfranchisement and electoral circunscription tamepring almost did the job. Double down on the crazy and double down on the "legal" electoral fraud.
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sweet! record years of Democratic governing to come!


until the old white racists die off
 
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speculawyer

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A Black Falcon said:
There is one other country that polled towards Romney, but it wasn't in that poll -- Israel. But they were the only two.
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Of course Israel likes GOP candidates for the opposite reason GOP supporters like GOP candidates . . . socialism. Israel is more likely to get bigger loans (that will be forgiven) and more military toys from GOP leaders.
 
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The Friendly Monster

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A Black Falcon said:
Yeah, Nate Silver did great on the presidential level, but he had a few issues in the Senate races. Indeed, he blew two of those calls, one badly -- he said there was a 91% chance Heitkamp would lose in ND, but she won. He also put the odds at Tester losing at 65%, and he won too.
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35% chances happen 35% of the time. My main criticism of him would be how cautious he was.
 
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Tex117

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Bitmap Frogs said:
All you guys expecting the republicans to recover their lost sanity, are in it for a shock.

Internally this election will be read as: voter disenfranchisement and electoral circunscription tamepring almost did the job. Double down on the crazy and double down on the "legal" electoral fraud.
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Im not sure many on here "EXPECT" the Republicans to regain their sanity. I do hope, that in a last ditch effort before things truly get out of hand, somehow logic regains control.

Hell, I need to join up with the Republicans to help with the sanity.

OR,

Guess I could join the Democrats and steer them right. As of right now....steering the Democrats towards fiscal conservatism sounds easier.
 
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gutter_trash

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The only viable option for Republican to win in 2016 is to get Jeb Bush and tap Rubio as VP and court Latino voters hardcore.

If the GOP continues to be the party of old white males... they are through.
 
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HP_Wuvcraft

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Kusagari said:
He keeps saying the GOP are the responsible parents who watch what their kids do while Obama/Dems are the parents who let their kids gorge on junk food and play video games all day.

He's seriously made this comparison like 50 times in an hour.
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Someone should write him a three page letter explaining why video games are a positive effect on society.
 
A Black Falcon

A Black Falcon

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The Friendly Monster said:
35% chances happen 35% of the time. My main criticism of him would be how cautious he was.
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Yeah, I'll give you that on 65/35, but Tester won a 4-point victory -- it wasn't that close. And Heitkamp, he gave her 9% odds but she won. By a small margin yes, but she won -- was it really unlikely, or had he underestimated her odds? I think he overestimated how much of a bump Ronmey would give both of those candidates. But yes, of course sometimes things happen against a percentage prediction, and there wasn't as much polling in ND particularly compared to some other states, but some polls did show Heitkamp ahead. Her winning was surprising (I wasn't expecting it either; hoping, but not expecting), but not completely unexpected.

speculawyer said:
Of course Israel likes GOP candidates for the opposite reason GOP supporters like GOP candidates . . . socialism. Israel is more likely to get bigger loans (that will be forgiven) and more military toys from GOP leaders.
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True. And of course Netanyahu was a definite Romney supporter, too, that has to have been a factor.

Guevara said:
New talking point "We kept the house"
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I'd say that that was more because of gerrymandering than money...
 
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Devolution

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Jadedx said:
The wealthy right is furious with Karl rove and the super pacs, billions spent and they won nothing.
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Because their sociopathic core group of voters is declining and they refuse to acknowledge it. Their base comes out well but when they put the fear on too hard, the minorities and people sick of their shit come back out swinging. The more minorities and women who care about their autonomy get out the vote, the more SOL the GOP gets. Even Rove is so far up his own fucking ass he doesn't get it.
 
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Cubsfan23

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gutter_trash said:
The only viable option for Republican to win in 2016 is to get Jeb Bush and tap Rubio as VP and court Latino voters hardcore.

If the GOP continues to be the party of old white males... they are through.
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There's no way a Bush will ever enter the white house again, no matter how much better Jeb is. Hillary runs, and the election is already over
 
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anotherVegan

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The Republican party is finished. Until it changes its out-dated stances on social issues, a slew of new voters will come about every election cycle and vote Democratic.
 
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