# The official election day 2012 thread: 11/6/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 6, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045 "2012-11-06T04:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 40
**Author:** ![RickG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rickg/32/5174_2.png) [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/781 "2012-11-07T05:34:56Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > CNN is reporting that Romney is leading in the pop vote nationally by **335**! Totally pointless. If you just counted my parents’ house, it would be an exact tie. If the instantaneous popular vote total goes up and down depending on which states/precincts are reporting, it has to pass through “exact tie” fairly often. Just dumb to focus on it. ---
**Author:** ![Oliveritaly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oliveritaly/32/15233_2.png) [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/782 "2012-11-07T05:35:22Z")
Northern Piper I just saw that … Wow! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/783 "2012-11-07T05:35:27Z")
Obama up on pop vote sez CNN ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/784 "2012-11-07T05:35:50Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Just before going to a commercial, Fox said the national popular vote has swung to Obama. Shhhhhhh, don’t let anyone know. Especially not Trump. It’ll be more entertaining that way. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/785 "2012-11-07T05:35:54Z")
> [@The Walking Dead; 3.04 "Killer Within" (open spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-walking-dead-3-04-killer-within-open-spoilers/639908/145): > > A show based on a comic is too comic bookish to you? :dubious: > > 😃 > > Weapons always seem to work better in fiction than in real life. Hell, just the ease most of these untrained rag tag survivors seem to have with getting off headshots approximately 90% of the time is pretty astounding. Even Rick shouldn’t be that good. Unless I’m mistaken cops are trained to shoot for center mass, not heads. > [@rocking\_chair](#): > > …also he is leading in the popular vote… Which means nothinging outside the SNL writers’ room. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/786 "2012-11-07T05:36:04Z")
I hope Key & Peele can turn around a sketch in less than 24 hours, because if so tonight’s “Luther” bit should be fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/787 "2012-11-07T05:37:16Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Four more years of gridlock. Woo-hoo!! The Dems could take the House in '14. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/788 "2012-11-07T05:37:19Z")
Boy, Fox pundits are getting cranky… think they want to wrap it up and go home or something… now they’re trashing Romney for taking so long to write the concession speech… I’m sure once that is given, they’ll go to covering a cat in a tree rather than broadcast Obama’s declaration of war on the 'ril 'mericans out there. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/789 "2012-11-07T05:37:31Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Don’t forget that if the Presidential candidates are within .5% of each other, that triggers an automatic recount. We really want that lead to be over 50,000 as to not trigger this. > > Colorado has the same % requirement, btw. Florida currently reporting 92%, and Obama is up +56,078 ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/790 "2012-11-07T05:37:44Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Christmas commercials!?!?!? We need a SCOTUS decision to limit Christmas commercials to after Thanksgiving. Citizen’s United Against Early Fucking Christmas Commercials!! Why do you hate free speech? Now if we could just tax Christmas commercials earlier than Thanksgiving I think we could get the Chief Justice on board… ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/791 "2012-11-07T05:38:20Z")
It looks like Romney is about to slither out of his hole and concede because family members are appearing in the room. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/792 "2012-11-07T05:38:35Z")
Poor, poor Mittens… It’s time to put on the brave face and rip the band-aid off. And besides, the rest of the country already knows. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/793 "2012-11-07T05:38:43Z")
It’s bloody amazing. I look at the colors on the map at HuffPo, then at the colors on Silver’s projected outcomes on 538, _and they’re exactly the same!_ ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/794 "2012-11-07T05:38:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Christmas commercials!?!?!? We need a SCOTUS decision to limit Christmas commercials to after Thanksgiving. Citizen’s United Against Early Fucking Christmas Commercials!! I’ve had the local university (twice!), honda, a deoderant commercial, even the middle-of-the-night buy a car for $99/mo guy is back on! ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/795 "2012-11-07T05:39:06Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Just before going to a commercial, Fox said the national popular vote has swung to Obama. Shhhhhhh, don’t let anyone know. Saying at least for the time being or something like that. Their ratings probably got enough of a jump from arriving happy Dems to balance out the departing despairing FOXbots. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/796 "2012-11-07T05:39:08Z")
Michele Bachmann is tied at 50% with her challenger. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/797 "2012-11-07T05:39:27Z")
And I think George Will (or a talking mouth at FOX - I have many windows open now-) was blobiating a few minutes ago the “No Mandate For Obama” point as he lost the popular vote… Just to put the big salt in the wound, the CNN ticker is reporting that Obama is also winning the popular vote. ---
**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/798 "2012-11-07T05:40:04Z")
VA to Obama… he’s at 303. The only one left if FL. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/799 "2012-11-07T05:40:04Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Florida currently reporting 92%, and Obama is up +56,078 I think you mean 97% reporting. That’s what New York Times is currently showing - a 0.7% lead by Obama. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/800 "2012-11-07T05:40:05Z")
NBC reporting Tea Party darlings Michelle Bachmann (MN) and Allen West (FL) are all necked-and-necked up with their Democratic challengers. Bachmann as up by a few hundred, and West down by a few hundred. Those would be interesting upsets, should they happen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045.md?page=41)