Final Stretch Election ThreadFollow

What pickups? Democrats had 193 before. They have 191 now, with 13 races not yet called.

Looks like she voted donuts into her veins.

Fox's Exit Polls:

Neat Stuff:

Remember how Obama kept saying the under 30 crowd would show up? They were 19% of the total vote, 1 point higher than 08', & went 60% > 37% over Romney.

Romney won Independents 49% 45%

They have women backing Obama by 11 points, but Married women swung for Romney by 7.

Men swung for Romney 52-45%, Married men for Romney 60-38%.

Evangelicals made up 26 percent of the voters and 78% favored Romney.

Sandy Factor: About four voters in 10 say Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy was important to their vote (42 percent), and they backed the president by a better than two-to-one margin. Fifteen percent said it was the “most important” factor in their vote.

& for Varrus:

National Blame For Current Economic Problems:

Obama 38%
Bush 53%

lulz

You make me a sad panda protein.

Although I can concede that two out of three is better than none. Hopefully this will help move the country forward on this issue.

Y'all missed the scandal in 2010 when the pollster that Kos had hired was basically making up numbers to keep him happy. As soon as he realized he'd been cheated, he fired them, and then scrounged around for the pollster who actually predicted the 2010 numbers right. That pollster was PPP.

Daily Kos, the Great Orange Satan and the liberal hive of scum and liberal villainry, actually likes to live in reality as much as possible. Unlike our sworn arch enemies over at Red State.

The thing about the pot debate is that it's still against Federal drug laws, so the DEA can and will raid operations that are considered legal by the state (and this has been happening for some time in areas where medical marijuana is legal). Because they have jurisdiction, and they're a federal law enforcement agency, there isn't actually anything the state can do.

The state level legalization is more about decriminalizing use and low level possession. There's no way to legally set up dispensaries, as far as I know.

It's more a stepping stone to garnering public support in other states, which would ultimately create the kind of support needed to remove it from the list of prohibited substances.

Should we hold hope for Boehner's words? Is the House really willing to be led?

Part of me wants to say no... but a smaller part hopes to say yes.

Boehner is a terrible, weak House Speaker and gets led by his party rather than the other way around. He may have the best of intentions but that's like me saying I honestly wanted the cattle stampede to turn left when I asked it nicely but it just wouldn't listen.

I think the GOP is under the illusion that, if they could just get credit for some sort of immigration reform and toss a brown person the ballot, they'd capture a significant portion of the Hispanic vote. They don't have a single issue like that to try to play against the black vote.

If it was Barack Obama vs Herman Cain, do you think Cain would have picked up a noteworthy percentage of the black vote?

That's what McCain tried with his VP pick. Everyone knew that the US wasn't going to nominate another Republican after Bush and the race to the white house was going to be between President Obama and Hilary Clinton. Either way, history was going to be made and McCain was too much like George Bush. He wanted to spice it up and thought it would do something but it didn't work.



Only black republicans would support him. It is taboo to be a black republican and I'm sure some of it has to do with "monkey see monkey do", but as the bishops said in the link that I provided in the other thread, you wont find a candidate that you 100% agree with. Democrats just seem to appeal to the struggles that affect the black community more so than the Republicans.

Now, to tie in both comments, if Sarah Palin were more appealing, I believe that she would have taken more of the women vote than Romney, same with McCain (assuming his opponent weren't black). People will vote for certain demographics, but I don't think they are completely ignorant to completely overlook every flaw. The candidates have to have some level of competency.

Not that it really matters but the Romney campaign is throwing in the towel on Florida:


So Obama wins by a razor sharp margin of 332-206 electoral votes.

Edited, Nov 8th 2012 3:17pm by Jophiel