# 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:** 47
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/921 "2012-11-07T07:14:38Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Anyone else shocked when his daughters came out? Last time they were just children. I’m feeling old. [I felt old a while ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=664421) 🙂 ---
**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, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/922 "2012-11-07T07:21:37Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > Sheriff Joe was reelected. Unbelievable. No it’s not. The only way he’s going to leave office is feet first. ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/923 "2012-11-07T07:28:39Z")
It looks like the proposed amendment to Minnesota’s constitution that would ban same-sex marriage will be narrowly defeated. MPR is currently listing 83.1% reporting with 50.6% opposed to the amendment, 48% in favor, and 1.4% blank (which are counted as "no"s). I think I can finally go to bed now. (I’m glad I took today off from work.) ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/924 "2012-11-07T07:33:18Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > No it’s not. The only way he’s going to leave office is feet first. I still hold out hope that he’ll leave office in handcuffs. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/925 "2012-11-07T07:41:08Z")
Big surprise in Arizona. Most expected Gifford’s hand picked successor to easily hold the Dem seat. He won a special election in June. Looks like a run off to me. A Rep win would strengthen the majority they already have in the House. [http://www.kgun9.com/about/165305056.html](http://www.kgun9.com/about/165305056.html) > [@](#): > > U.S. House - District 2 - Totals (96.0% Precincts Reporting) > Candidate Votes % Votes > Martha McSally (R) 104,442 50.0% > Ron Barber (D) 104,315 50.0% ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/926 "2012-11-07T07:49:48Z")
Is anyone watching nbcnews right now? Do they just not give a fuck anymore because it’s late? Their commentary on the marijuana initiatives was totally unprofessional and hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/927 "2012-11-07T07:51:44Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I hope Key & Peele can turn around a sketch in less than 24 hours, because if so tonight’s “Luther” bit should be fantastic. I guess you didn’t watch the Comedy Central news coverage. There was one that played 36 minutes before your post, right after the Colbert Report finished. It ended it pretty definitively. I think you’ll like it. ---
**Author:** ![Troppus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a587f6/32.png) [@Troppus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troppus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/928 "2012-11-07T07:59:36Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Is anyone watching nbcnews right now? Do they just not give a fuck anymore because it’s late? Their commentary on the marijuana initiatives was totally unprofessional and hilarious. Do share 🙂 Anyone stepped outside recently? Smells decidedly less rapey outside my kitchen. I’m so excited Ima go to Maryland and marry a hard working, professional woman with a thick binder. Goddamn I’m loving this evidence of social evolution. Lying here beside my snoring infant, just full of certainty that she’ll be the captain of her life. If things had gone the other way, I couldn’t have said that. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/929 "2012-11-07T08:05:12Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Maryland becomes the first state to approve same-sex marriage via popular election. Other states look good. I had to go to bed early on… but I just now woke up, hours before I’m supposed to leave for work, and found myself half afraid to check the election results. Jesus Haploid Christ. After the last few weeks I’ve had, it feels damn good to have some good news. Everything I voted for passed, both here in Maryland and the entire country. I must admit, I’m a little weepy. Or maybe a little sleepy; can’t tell which right now. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cephalus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Cephalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cephalus)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/930 "2012-11-07T08:06:44Z")
Ha! NBC’s 2:30-3am EST… Lester Holt: “its been a good night for pot smokers” Brian Williams: “Leave your personal life out of this.” ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/931 "2012-11-07T08:10:57Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Do share 🙂 They were talking about having the munchies, and one said to the other something like, “So, I’ll see you in Boulder next weekend.” I mean, it wasn’t funny for regular people to say, but on a national newscast? “Hey man, let’s go out and get fucked up on tequila this Friday, okay?” That’s all the way legal and you still wouldn’t expect to hear it on national news banter. ---
**Author:** ![Crackrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Crackrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crackrat)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/932 "2012-11-07T08:15:08Z")
I voted in Latah County, Idaho today. The woman who was taking the ballots and dropping them from the cardboard privacy cover into the actual ballot box screwed it up and my ballot slid outa bit. She was pretty old, and I’m quite sure it wasn’t on purpose. Also, the votes for the actual people were on the second page, so all anyone could have possibly seen in the few seconds it took to get it in the box was how I voted on education-related propositions. The Independent candidate for State Representative in my district is Pro-Life. Not his platform…his name!:smack: ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/933 "2012-11-07T12:43:09Z")
> [@Troppus](#): > > Do share 🙂 > > Anyone stepped outside recently? Smells decidedly less rapey outside my kitchen. I’m so excited Ima go to Maryland and marry a hard working, professional woman with a thick binder. > > Goddamn I’m loving this evidence of social evolution. Lying here beside my snoring infant, just full of certainty that she’ll be the captain of her life. If things had gone the other way, I couldn’t have said that. Beautiful post. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/934 "2012-11-07T15:54:44Z")
I am proud to be an American today. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/935 "2012-11-07T16:02:41Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Oh well.. local Fox cut to That 70s Show… must be to sooth the distraught Romney supporters. OTOH, reminders of a commie hippie liberal like Nixon might not be at all soothing to the current crop of Republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/936 "2012-11-07T16:05:34Z")
> [@Lightnin](#): > > I had to go to bed early on… but I just now woke up, hours before I’m supposed to leave for work, and found myself half afraid to check the election results. > > Jesus Haploid Christ. After the last few weeks I’ve had, it feels damn good to have some good news. Everything I voted for passed, both here in Maryland and the entire country. Same here, in Virginia (President, Senate, House, eminent domain amendment). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/937 "2012-11-07T16:09:55Z")
> [@Enkel](#): > > Clearly my TV picks up different signals than the Fox pundits have access to. Well, you can’t very well expect the voices inside their heads to penetrate their tinfoil hats and reach your TV, now can you? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/938 "2012-11-07T16:13:33Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Romney’s called Obama and congratulated him on his re-election. > > If history is any guide, we’ll see a much better man when he admits it to the world than we’ve seen for the last year. Now that there’s no longer anything to be gained by fellating the wingnuts in his party, he is free to salvage what he can of his reputation by acting gracious. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/939 "2012-11-07T16:40:45Z")
And they’re partying in [Obama, Japan](http://www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/obamas-re-election-celebrated-in-obama-japan). ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045/940 "2012-11-07T16:57:09Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > It’s officially time to commence a job search in Washington and/or Oregon. RECREATIONAL MJ LEGAL IN TWO STATES!? In MY lifetime!? Heavens to betsy, I’m gettin’ the vapors! Don’t you mean Washington and/or Colorado? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-election-day-2012-thread-11-6-12/640045.md?page=48)