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

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Guevara

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At some point, early Wednesday morning, when Gov. Mitt Romney and family were tucked into bed, a quiet call went out on the radio channel used by his Secret Service agents: "Javelin, Jockey details, all posts, discontinue."

Of all the indignities involved in losing a presidential race, none is more stark than the sudden emptiness of your entourage. The Secret Service detail guarding Governor Romney since Feb 1. stood down quickly. He had ridden in a 15-car motorcade to the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for his concession speech. He rode in a single-car motorcade back across the Charles River to Belmont. His son, Tagg, did the driving.
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Damn, dropped like yesterday's news.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/blogs/death-race/2012/11/how-the-secret-service-said-goodbye-to-mitt-romney.html?mbid=social_mobile_tweet
 
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TacticalFox88

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The fact that they lived in a bubble makes this victory all the more sweeter.

I wanted them to feel pain and have complete and total defeat and I got that along with progressive legislation.
 
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Loxley

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Pretty much falls in line with what Maddow said her segment, that the problem was that the Republican party genuinely believed they had this in the bag from the start, all for no discernible reason other than they swallowed their own bullshit without question. It also backs up the rumors that Romney had no concession speech written ahead of time in the event that he lost because he was so damn confident he would win.
 
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Tex117

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The Technomancer said:
I can't believe that he actually bought the bullshit they were spinning.
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Im not sure it was complete bull sheet. It was a manifestation of the problem with the GOP. It is actually very symbolic.

The GOP was relying on OLDER models that did not accurately reflect the shifting demographics in this country. Same can be said with a lot of the GOP platform.

If the GOP wants to compete in National Elections going forward, then they are going to have to re-invent themselves entirely.

Don't know if they will do it.
 
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BRIGHTON, MI—Visitors to Brighton’s Fairview Cemetery confirmed that since early this morning, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been kneeling at his father’s gravestone and tearfully apologizing to the late politician for his loss to Barack Obama in Tuesday’s election. “All I ever wanted to do was please you, and I failed. I am so, so sorry,” Romney reportedly said as he ran his fingers along the marbled engraving of his father’s name, quietly sobbing while wiping away dirt from his tear-streaked face. “I tried as hard as I could. Honestly, Dad, I did. Can you ever forgive me?” Sources reported that a disconsolate Romney finally left the plot after a deep, guttural voice emanated from the ground and said, “You’ve disappointed me, Mitt. Go away. Forever.”
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/romney-spends-day-tearfully-apologizing-at-fathers,30312/
 
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3phemeral

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Guevara said:
How can no one in the campaign see it coming? It just makes no sense unless you cherry-picked polls.
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You mean after spending an unprecedented amount of money, a disenfranchised, unenthusiastic Democratic party that was filibustered left and right, and all of our attempts to suppress votes and further marginalize minorities, we lost?

Dem salty, salty tears.
 
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EmCeeGramr

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Okay so now the narrative is that this night was a huge loss... FOR DEMOCRATS!

See, they won, but it was a dirty win, so the right is frankly just glad that they didn't win in such an embarrassing way.
 
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Deified Data

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polyh3dron

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EmCeeGramr said:
Okay so now the narrative is that this night was a huge loss... FOR DEMOCRATS!

See, they won, but it was a dirty win, so the right is frankly just glad that they didn't win in such an embarrassing way.
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Much more embarrassing than Bush in '04 with the swift boating, right? Because "Romnesia" was just as much of a lie, right?

Oh and Romney with his "Jeep jobs to China" ads after being called out on the lie and Paul Ryan with his "Obama threatens Judeo-Christian values" ran a classy, presidential, dignified, upstanding, positive campaign.
 
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Joe Shlabotnik

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TacticalFox88 said:
I chuckled and then realized how disgusting that was.

FFS, Onion you were on a roll, too.
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I think The Onion has one particularly bad writer or something. There was a Trump article recently that read exactly like this--just lazy, mean and jokeless. There's no way these and the convention speech articles are coming from the same person.
 
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chubigans

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Joe Shlabotnik said:
I think The Onion has one particularly bad writer or something. There was a Trump article recently that read exactly like this--just lazy, mean and jokeless. There's no way these and the convention speech articles are coming from the same person.
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Then there was the Chick-fil-a articles that came across as angry and everything other than funny. It just seemed like the laziest take on the whole situation.
 
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Alchemy

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Anyone else still a little worried that only 3 million votes separated the popular vote? I was hoping there would be a greater backlash to all the misinformation and voter suppression attempts. Right now I'm expecting the same strategy in the future but with more focus in its targeting, and I find it worrisome.
 
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MidnightRain

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Rebel Leader said:
Details and details NOW!
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Bobby Jindal is currently the governor of Louisiana. His administration approved over 200 million of budget cuts in the Health Care and Education Budgets:

A local charity hospital, that serves low-income families and people who can't afford health insurance, had to layoff some of their employees because of the budget cuts.
Patients already had to wait 10+ hours to be seen by a doctor and this was before the layoffs. I can't imagine how long they will have to wait now.
Moss Regional braces for cuts; patient wait times to be affected

Education Budget Cuts:
Colleges in Louisiana have been forced to layoff professors.
Other professors had to take early retirement.
So, now there's many classes that need to be taught, but there's not enough teachers to go around. Also, the cost of tuition and student fees have steadily increased.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg:
Jindal's Bad Decisions
 
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Hawkian

The Cryptarch's Bane
Tex117 said:
More women in the senate is only a Democrat cause? (Its not).
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Did you know that using "Democrat" as an adjective like that is kind of a pejorative? It's been around since the '40s. It may just be ingrained in you and not intentional at this point, but if you have an interest in public debate at all, it always puts me on edge to hear someone open an argument that way. :p

Of course more women in the senate isn't only a cause for the Democratic party. But it was a cause of the Democrats, and the reason the new record was set in this election was because of seats being filled by female Democrats (which is the way it was always destined to happen). That's why it was a point on my list.

Openly gay senator is fine by me. Don't care.
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I don't know if you meant that your apathy about the issue demonstrates that you support gay rights, but surely you understand that it being "fine by you" puts you at odds with a majority of the Repubilcan party for the moment. Plenty of them are pretty disgusted right now.

I suppose I also "don't care" in a sort of postmodern sense, in that I don't think being gay or straight or whatever else has anything to do with your ability to govern. But I care a lot in that it was a significant victory for LGBT rights; maybe the most prestigious elected office besides the Presidency. That cause is championed by the Democratic Party and abhorred by the right.
Marijuana will be shot down by the Democratic federal government. Don't kid yourself. (I think this should be legalized, but thats not the point for right now).
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but:
1) When you say "shot down," I'm not sure what you think the federal government will do. Cannabis is still a controlled substance according to the DEA and this won't do anything to change that. But it's a lot more complicated than just "illegal" for the citizens of Colorado, and more specifically, for the citizens of cities that had previously passed decriminalization laws but whose users were still at risk of breaking state law.
2) I mentioned it on this list because the votes were referenda on the will of the people of those two states, and, increasingly the will of the American public at large. These things take time and this was a step in that direction. Again, this is a cause championed by the Democrats (although they sure agree with Libertarians on this one) and vehemently opposed by the Republican platform.
Scott Brown losing is sad...A true moderate. We need more of them in Washington not less. (But it also happened in a deep blue state so, big whoop...should be blue).
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He supports DOMA, the death penalty, and torture, but otherwise he is what passes as a moderate these days I suppose. But this is Massachusetts and that was Ted Kennedy's seat, and the party was not happy with him in it- thus reclaiming the seat was a victory for them. Elizabeth Warren is also awesome.
Obama winning every battleground is a big one...and THE big one. No getting around that. Though keep in mind that of all the votes cast nationally Obama only won by around 3 million or so votes...hell even make it 5 million. Thats not ZOMG the Republicans are dead! In other words, its not like the Republicans will never recover (if they actually read the writing on the wall...more below on this).
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He lost NC! But yes, it is big, and no, it doesn't mean the Republicans are anywhere close to dead or unable to recover. They hopefully will adapt.
Really, the big one and why its not DEVESTATING is that the Republicans still control the House. To me, that means there are parts of the Republican message that still resonates with voters. (Im going to hope its the fiscal convervatism and not the crazy social policy).
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That's a pretty damn idealistic hope. You can't possibly know what motivated the voters to elect Republicans throughout the country, and demographically speaking it has a lot more to do with "crazy social policy" in some parts of the country than others.
2008 was devestating, but just a mere two years later, the Republicans took back the house, and if they were not totally retarded with gawd awful candidites this time, may have had a better chance at the Senate.
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I think 2010 represented a reactionary dissatisfaction with having a Democratic president in a still-horrid, lurching economy. Job growth has continued steadily since. I expect the 2014 midterms to be far more competitive and interesting.
That said, I think the Republicans have a golden opportunity right now...And I do mean GOLDEN. It is clear...apparent...obvious...that the demographics of this country has shifted and the Republicans are caught playing catch up. Its time to get with it. If they drop the social agenda crap, Re-brand fiscal conservatism as more "helping" and less hurting, and get the right people leading (which hasn't happened for awhile), while selling their soul to win the Latino vote (which is sitll up for grabs). They can do this all while holding onto the House. I think you will see a much more potent Republican party.

Will they read the writing? I have no idea. Maybe.
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Can't disagree with a word of this. Thumbs up.
 
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Rebel Leader

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MidnightRain said:
Bobby Jindal is currently the governor of Louisiana. His administration approved over 200 million of budget cuts in the Health Care and Education Budgets:

A local charity hospital, that serves low-income families and people who can't afford health insurance, had to layoff some of their employees because of the budget cuts.
Patients already had to wait 10+ hours to be seen by a doctor and this was before the layoffs. I can't imagine how long they will have to wait now.
Moss Regional braces for cuts; patient wait times to be affected

Education Budget Cuts:
Colleges in Louisiana have been forced to layoff professors.
Other professors had to take early retirement.
So, now there's many classes that need to be taught, but there's not enough teachers to go around. Also, the cost of tuition and student fees have steadily increased.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg:
Jindal's Bad Decisions
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sooooooo he's.....The Rick Scott of Louisiana?
 
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titiklabingapat

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Guevara said:
How can no one in the campaign see it coming? It just makes no sense unless you cherry-picked polls.
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I'm sure some in the campaign knew, but candidates are known to be wrapped in this bubble that alot of bad news are shoved under the rug lest they manifest on the campaign trail. You always have to sound liek you're winning, otherwise, your fundraisers stop raining cash on you.
 
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