Election Thread

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Colorado GOP "victory party" cleared out like a wicked fart ripped through. The 9NEWS pictures are brutal.

[BLeonard]

Romney to speak at 12:55 AM EST... Might be DVR worthy.

-Bill

[cookie G]

Given that Obama wins reelection, I don't see how this election changes anything from where we were on 1 November.

He didn't win enough to change the dynamic, and the Republicans didn't gain a thing.

So, with all the money spent, and all of the craziness involved, I don't see how we are in a different place.

I feel the same about the Bills at this time every year too.

[cookie G]

Romney to speak at 12:55 AM EST... Might be DVR worthy.

-Bill

He was gracious, for an unprepared speech.

[Ingtar33]

might as well call it for Obama now.

No way Romney can win this at this point. he might take a slight popular vote win (i doubt it, but it could happen), but he isn't winning the electoral college.

I knew he wasn't going to take ohio, but i thought it would be more competitive then this... it looks like Florida will be lost (slightly) too. wipe-out.

i should be on TV... i called this thing 2 hours before they did.

[mysticsoto]

i should be on TV... i called this thing 2 hours before they did.

I called it officially yesterday when I saw Patti's prediction and went opposite!!!

[Albany,n.y.]

If you are watching Fox News you can't help but smile now.

I have 8 hours (6-2) from last night on my DVR. When I get tired of watching MSNBC & Current, I'm going to watch their meltdown.

[BillsFever21]

Karl Rove just had a hissy fit on Fox... Looked like his head was gonna explode.

-Bill

I wish I would've seen that. I heard about it when I turned the channel to Faux News after I got home from work but his hissy fit was already over by then.

Poor Karl Rove. All of that money he took from the Koch's and Aldeson and they still lost the White House and failed to gain control of the Senate for the second time.

[BillsFever21]

Last night Faux News said that Obama ran the most negative campaign of all time and that's why he won. You have to be kidding me. These guys are something else. I guess they forgot about all of their campaign ads this year and in 2008.

[BLeonard]

I wish I would've seen that. I heard about it when I turned the channel to Faux News after I got home from work but his hissy fit was already over by then.

Poor Karl Rove. All of that money he took from the Koch's and Aldeson and they still lost the White House and failed to gain control of the Senate for the second time.

You're Welcome.

-Bill

[denverboz]

Obama is the first presidential candidate since Dwight Eisenhower to top 51% twice. :)

[mysticsoto]

Obama is the first presidential candidate since Dwight Eisenhower to top 51% twice. :)

But...but...but...Republicans say there's no mandate b'cse...they still own the House...

[YankeeInRaleigh]

Look, I like Obama, I voted for him, but on what freaking planet is 51% considered any sort of mandate? That still leaves 49% of the population AGAINST you. When basically half the people are against you, stating that there is some mandate for you to be in office is just silly, a miniscule majority is no mandate.

[mysticsoto]

Look, I like Obama, I voted for him, but on what freaking planet is 51% considered any sort of mandate? That still leaves 49% of the population AGAINST you. When basically half the people are against you, stating that there is some mandate for you to be in office is just silly, a miniscule majority is no mandate.

Except that:

Obama's 3 Million Vote, Electoral College Landslide, Majority of States Mandate

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1. Barack Obama has won an overwhelming majority in the Electoral College, a daunting majority of the popular vote and a majority of the nation’s states—including most of the country’s largest states and states in every major region of the republic: New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Great Lakes, the South, the Southwest, the Mountain West and the West.

2. Barack Obama has won more popular votes than any Democratic candidate for president in history—except Barack Obama in 2008.
3. Barack Obama is the first Democratic president to win more than 50 percent of the popular vote in a re-election run since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944.
4. Barack Obama is the only Democratic candidate for president since FDR to twice win more than 50 percent of the national vote.
5. Barack Obama has, in both of his presidential runs, won a higher percentage of the national vote than any Democratic nominee since Lyndon Johnson in his 1964 landslide victory.

Add it all up and Obama has a mandate from this year’s presidential election that is significantly greater than those afforded John Kennedy in 1960, Richard Nixon in 1968, Jimmy Carter in 1976 or George W. Bush in 2000 or 2004.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/171178...tates-mandate#

[YardRat]

Regardless of the spread of the popular vote, if you win you get the mandate.

Of course, that doesn't mean everybody has to roll over and bow to your every whim and wish.