I doubt that a couple thousand votes would have been enough to change the outcome, although the popular vote certainly was close as you say.
Woah. What a silly bitch.
Now that’s a meltdown.
Gives me kind of a warm glow, but then, I’m not a very nice person.
I cannot thank you enough for this video. I am ever in your debt.
The only thing crazier than that lady is someone who would sit through that entire irritating screed on purpose. Hell’s bells … I zoned out after about the 54th “fuck” or so.
I was gonna see if I could chart the exact time of each transition; you know “denial->anger, 0:45”, something like that.
I could listen to this all day. I could memorize this and sing it like a pop song. I have it on as muzack as I do my messageboarding. I. Love. This. Video.
Hahaaa! My favorite part is when she gets mad at watching the Obama wins footage and she swings the camera around at the screen and says, “Look! Loooooookkkkkk!”
Thank you for that, this is what schadenfreude is about. That woman probably is hostile to the rights and dignity of gays, non-whites, the poor, foreigners, etc. Her being pissed is justice as far as I’m concerned. Her railing against health reform (which has helped thousands of people, including me, and will eventually help millions) is good evidence of this. A woman bitches that people are able to see a doctor when they are sick because their security and well being violates her failed ideology. Too bad.
But hahaha, about her thinking if people would’ve forwarded more of her emails and facebook posts that that somehow would’ve changed the election.
Dumbass will probably never figure out that treating people like shit is why Romney couldn’t get 51% of the vote. ‘We treated gays, women, non-whites, non-christians and the poor like shit and we didn’t win the election. I don’t get it’
Clearly Romney failed to fully win over the namby-pamby pussy vote.
Hahahahahahaha!!! ::wipes tears::
I thank my lucky stars my husband and I share the same politics. 
Dude. You know what site this is, right? The Straight Dope?
Next time you’re responding about the effects on political spending of Citizen’s United:
1.) Find a source that doesn’t mix candidate spending with outside spending.
2.) At least try to bother to find a source that includes all the SuperPacs and not just a single one (for each side).
3.) Then if your allegation is about a specific subset of campaign donors, say, billionaires, try to find an actual list of, you know, billionaires from each side as opposed to just a subtotal of some of the spending with no indication of who the monies came from.
:rolleyes:
Oddly, I’m not feeling very schadenfreudy today. I’m just fucking relieved that Mitt Romney and the lunatic fringe are far, far away from any influence on Federal judgeships and the Supreme Court.
That just gave me weltzschmerz in the zugzwang.
She ain’t too hot on her own dignity, as far as that goes.
It really cries out for a DJ Shadow mix.
Funny how she’s spending so much of her anger on the CTers. Birthers, Muslimers, Chemtrailers.
“Obama is not a Muslim. If anything, he’s probably a Black Liberation Theologian.”
This. Since yesterday I’ve been reading pundit after pundit talking about how this election is some sort of resounding rejection of the GOP’s tactics, platform and indeed very being. And now in this thread I’m reading about how the election is a triumph of the common man’s astute ability to reject spin and bullshit.
What horseshit: Obama’s victory was like that of a marathon runner who wins by a couple of seconds. Sure he won. He’s the champion, no question. But the result is far more a vindication of the runner up’s tactics etc than a condemnation.
The more telling headline here isn’t “Obama Won!” it’s “Romney Nearly Won Despite Being an Smarmy Wanker!”.
I don’t know if you’ve heard about this particular anecdotal supportfor how right you are but it is beyond hilarious.
Meh, who cares? Any Republican could nearly win. Run the cryogenically frozen body of Dick Clark under the Republican flag and it would nearly win. There are enough partisans out there who will vote for anyone with an R beside their name that it’s not really an achievement to get a little less than half the vote, particularly if you’re running against a Black Muslim Socialist who is going to Cancel Religious Freedom and Steal Your Guns.
More impressive would be if Romney had actually won, but, he didn’t. Bye bye, Romney.
But that was mostly from small contributors, not billionaires. Which I understand (from a discussion on another board) entitled him to something called the “lowest unit rate” and meant he got much better prices for TV time. Romney got much more of his money from SuperPACs and large checks from the wealthy, money that didn’t qualify for that low rate, and so was charged a much higher price by TV stations.
MsWhatsit,
1/ I’m not an expert, but I don’t think what you are saying is accurate. According to this page there have been, over the years, typically more “certain democrat” than “certain republican” voters (though there isn’t much difference) and the swing vote is very substantial at an average of about maybe 25% over the last couple of decades. I haven’t seen the latest figures but last I did this election was very close to 50/50, which means that Romney did almost as well if not better than Obama at getting swing voters to vote for him. And the partisans would only have got him about 37%.
2/ Even if you were right, that wouldn’t much detract from my point.
I guess my gut feeling, which I will freely admit is not backed by any actual data, is that even for those 25% of undecideds, there’s a certain percentage who are going to be swayed either by reacting against Obama or by something that attracts them to the Republican philosophy. In neither of those cases is it specifically Mitt Romney that’s pulling them to the R side.
I will grant you that in any case, it’s important to remember that a little less than half of voters wanted the other outcome, so yeah, it’s not a crushing decisive landslide victory or whatever. I’m just not all that impressed that Romney got to 48%, is all.