Election 2012: Presidential Thread

No, they stopped counting when they all fell sleep:

The mechanics of this election were a disaster in Florida. The waits to vote were utterly ridiculous. There should be a final count soon, but given where the outstanding votes were, Obama clearly won.

Time for 4 more years of Bush.

And as we wait for Florida to get its thumb out of its ass, 50.3% is exactly where it stands:

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results/

That is genuinely despicable. I hope the international election monitors were in Florida to see how fucked up it is there. Florida has proven itself incapable of running presidential elections for 12+ years. This is clearly a case when the feds need to step in and do something about it because they are bordering on a corrupted democracy.

Fixed.

FTFY

Edit- TR, you beat me by about three seconds!

Like most viruses, ODS has mutated. The new variant is known as Khan Syndrome, characterized by the patient's impulse to reject the reality in front of them in favor of a futile attempt to "remold it to my liking."

This is stagnation, not a recovery.

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That's as accurate as your Romney Wins! maps.

So all your data gathering and four years of "talking to people" didn't really pay off so much, huh?

Is it that obvious?

Wow, so Karl Rove totally lost his shit last night. I mean, full-blown denial of reality, off in lala land lost it. Awesome.

Almost as good as Trump's twitter meltdown. Both were totally hysterical.

Rove was practically crying. He and quite a few other so-called experts badly bungled their predictions by inserting wishful thinking. What little credibility they had is really gone.

Really? I must be looking at the wrong clips. In his stance to call Ohio only once more votes were in, which is the only argument I have seen online so far, Karl Rove -- criminal immoral devious deceitful and highly destructive sociopath that he is -- seemed, to me, to be making a very calm and rational point.

Why don't we have a national ballot and a universal way of counting returns?

I stunned that the turn out was so low. 14 or so million fewer voters than in 2008. I expected Obama to lose voters to disastifaction didn't expect Romney to lose voters.

It was an innumerate point. The counted votes were essentially a tie, the outstanding votes were overwhelmingly in heavily Democratic areas, and the exit polls all showed Obama winning the state. While it might make sense to wait to call a state in those circumstances, it makes no sense at all to rescind a call of a state. The call was right, it just needed more explanation than is easy to give to a FOX "News" audience.

That is actually a very fair statement, but the same could've been said in the event of a Romney victory.

In term 2 for Obama, I look forward to a continued draw down of military action in the ME, the implementation of ACA in full bloom, and a reasonable approach to the top tax rate in a time of economic distress and war. Economic stimulus and policies should be directed towards the consumer class seeing as how now jobs creator will create jobs without robust demand.

Has anyone checked on Dick Morris to see if he offed himself? How about Michael Barone, has he shot himself yet? Did Ann Coulter hang herself from a twig last night?

I ask because I care.

At first. They kept bringing him back after the statisticians explained why he was wrong, and each time he was more panicked and upset.

Limbaugh's having a stroke on air ATM.

It's all an act, of course. This is the best thing he could have hoped for. People like Limbaugh do best when the opposition is in power.

Visionrazer? 'zat you?

http://jezebel.com/5958490/twitter-racists-react-to-that-nigger-getting-reelected/gallery/1

What is he saying about it?

No question. Every conservative talk radio host, blogger, author and Fox talking head is silently thanking God, Jesus and Magog that Obama won. Four more years of shit for them to shill.

What is disturbing about those tweets is how many of those people seem so young.

I hoped most of these racist hicks would die off in the coming decades but new ones keep springing up all the time...

But I guess the overall trend is still positive. What are the chances Obama would have been elected 20 years ago?

Turnout, of course, was very similar to 2008 in this election. There are a lot of votes that haven't been counted yet, and if you go state by state and add in votes for the uncounted precincts, the numbers are almost exactly like 2008 for turnout. So you are, of course, completely wrong and don't understand the numbers in front of your face.

If this is the kind of "analysis" you used to determine there would be a Romney landslide then that explains a lot.

Yeah, Beck was in tears this morning, and Limbaugh's indignant. Since Barack Obama became president Limabught signed a 500 MILLION dollar contract and Glenn Beck went to Fox News, made a fortune and started his own TELEVISION NETWORK. That would not have happned without a riled up mass of followers opposing the president. Now he's saying how he doesn't know how he survives under Obama. What a fucking charlatan!