You probably cried like a little girl when Bush beat Kerry.
Not quite. About 100,000 in Ohio, 50,000 in Florida, and I think something like 70,000 in Virginia could have done it. That’s under 250,000 total.
ETA: I think Romney just needed two of these three states, so just 150,000 could have swung it. Correct me if I’m wrong.
You’re wrong. Obama’s at 303 at the moment, with Ohio and Virginia - Florida is still counting. If you take away both of those (OH 18, VA 13), he’s still at 272 and still wins. Romney could have won all 3, and still would have lost - he had to pick up NH or CO or WI as well.
Yea. Why is it the preferred destination of all the rugged righties is always a socialist dystopia like Canada, Australia or Scandanavia rather than a libertarian utopia like Somalia?
Even if it was a million votes - all I’m saying is that this outcome doesn’t really mean all of America suddenly came to their senses and realized the error of their (and the Republicans’) ways. It’s definitely a reason to celebrate and maybe for some well-deserved Schadenfreude, but still more than a hundred million people (?) chose to believe the lies and fact-distortion. That’s a humbling number, I believe.
Hadn’t heard of them, either, and I supposedly live in a battleground state.
I have a special feeling this morning for a few specific folks I’d like to give a shout-out to:
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adaher: Never really heard of this guy before the election, but that fucker was working his ass off for the Romney campaign. There was not a thread in which he wasn’t spinning, distracting, dissembling, or otherwise bullshitting.
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OMG, a Black Conservative: Also a hard working douchebag. Utterly convinced, to the point of cutting and pasting the same nonsense repeatedly, that all the polls were wrong because of fucking independents. Independents independents independents!! Obama was losing independents by eleventy-billion, and the pollsters were all just ignorant of this fact.
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Bricker: Revealed himself to be completely bereft of any sense of ethic, morality or functioning core. Worthless partisan piece of shit.
Ha, ha. Fucking losers.
My mistake. Among NH, CO, and WI, New Hampshire had the closest tally – about 40,000 votes. And I was wrong about Virginia – the margin is more like 110,000.
So, 110,000 + 40,000 + 100,000 + 50,000 = 300,000. That’s about what it would have taken for Romney to win VA, NH, OH, and FL, and thus the election.
ETA – Pitchmeister, I hear you.
Driving home this morning after bringing my daughter to school, I saw a house with a flagpole in front. The flag was flying at half mast.
Next door to that house was a home with a flagpole bracket, one of those two-position dealies that lets you fly your banner at a jaunty angle or at the half-mast equivalent (pole-parallel to-the-ground). Half mast again.
I guess I’m only surprised that they didn’t hang them upside-down.
All I could do as I drove past was sing out “SCHAY-DEN-FROOD!” 
Since this Board is nominally about fighting ignorance, just want to point out that “Citizens United” was a case that went before the Supreme Court (Citizens United vs Federal Election Commission), in which the court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations and unions.
There was a lot of discussion of this in the news and on the interwebs, as the discussion gave rise to things like SuperPACs and the meme that corporations have the same rights as real people.
She was the one candidate I actively worked against. It torques my nuggets that someone could feel she could just buy a Senate seat. (If she were buying her way into the House, or for a state-level position, I might have been more accepting.)
I am heartily sick of her commercials about how she has a “Jobs Plan” and her opponent didn’t. Sorry, Linda, plans are easy and cheap - we needed someone who might have a chance of implementing legislation, and not just someonewith a PowerPoint presentation.
I am just about to head out for my lunch break. On any given day, my lunch break usually consists of me driving someplace where I can ignore the office for 45 minutes and sit down to read a book. Now, it’s the drive that’s the interesting part.
Glen Beck’s show is on right now. I’ll be listening to him on the way there. His program ends at noon and Rush Limbaugh comes on. I’ll be listening to him on the way back.
I’ve been looking forward to this particular lunch break for a loooooong time. I predict much evil laughter in my immediate future.
I know I did.
I am also particularly pleased with Sherrod brown’s win over Josh Mandel. He was an under the radar tea party type that got too close to winning.
Because they would have to move to a poor country full of brown people to avoid universal healthcare.
I have noticed significantly higher levels of partisanship during election season, I suspect (hope) they (and we) will become less partisan over the next few weeks.
I don’t want to take anything away from your delight in the misfortune of others, but that’s like pronouncing Versace “Ver-SAYSS.” The first syllable of “schadenfreude” rhymes with “Todd” and the last part is pronounced “froy-duh.”
This should help (NSFW):
I hear you, but there were a number of other proposals, besides just the vote for president, that tells me the country is a little smarter, at least in certain areas, than was commonly believed. Legalizing Gay Marriage and legalizing pot are HUGE changes. I think it portends good things to come in future elections.
a) They do not know much about the world around them. They have not the remotest idea what those countries are like.
b) They have bought into the total BS that Obama is a socialist, and has made the country “more socialist”. So therefore they reason that anywhere else in the world must be “less socialist”
c) They’re stupid.
I am delighted to report that FORMER congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM) will not be joining the US senate. Having failed at her second attempt to join that body. While serving in the house, she was a completely reliable rubber-stamp for anything W wanted, with the single exception of a wildly popular stem-cell bill he had already vowed to veto (and did so). She also was one of the critters trying to influence US-attorneys to help R election prospects, for which we should be thankful, as it provided Josh Marshall of TPM with his ticket to fame and fortune. She also was not shy about selling influance to two of my former employers. I feel their loss each time I have had the pleasure of leaving the circle next to her name as white as driven snow.
With luck, we will now hear no more from this harpy, though my luck is not usually that good. I fully expect that she will be trying for her former House seat in 2014. She just doesn’t get that voters are not that into her.
She’d do better in some country with a woman-shortage, like China.
I have a conservative cousin in Vermont(!) who told me that he felt Vermont was becoming too diverse(!!). I guess he must have seen one black person somewhere.
Anyway, as a result, he was going to move to West Virginia.