# The official post-Election Day thread:11/7/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177 "2012-11-07T05:00:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177/161 "2012-11-26T23:28:28Z")
Most state vote tallies are still not finalized yet, but as the vote counts have increased, Obama’s percentage has slowly gone up and Romney’s has decreased. Right now Romney’s share of the national vote is down to 47.4%. If he winds up at anything that rounds down to 47% I may laugh myself to death. ---
**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 27, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177/162 "2012-11-27T00:24:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Most state vote tallies are still not finalized yet, but as the vote counts have increased, Obama’s percentage has slowly gone up and Romney’s has decreased. Right now Romney’s share of the national vote is down to 47.4%. If he winds up at anything that rounds down to 47% I may laugh myself to death. Actually that already rounds down to 47 percent as a few pundits noticed when the number was just over 47.5: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/poetic-justice-romney-likely-to-finish-at-47-percent/2012/11/20/8a84ad4e-3351-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9\_blog.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/poetic-justice-romney-likely-to-finish-at-47-percent/2012/11/20/8a84ad4e-3351-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_blog.html) > [@](#): > > When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote? Yup. Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent. He predicts with certainty that with all of New York and California counted, Romney will end up below 47.5 percent of the vote. > > Rounded, of course, that would put the final tally at 51-47. Anticipating this moment, Markos Moulitsas has inaugurated the “Romney 47 percent watch.” > > At risk of piling on, a 47 percent finish would represent a perfect conclusion to the Romney political saga. If Romney ran a campaign of unprecedented dishonesty and lack of transparency, virtually all of it was geared towards misleading people about the true nature of his — and his party’s — actual beliefs and governing agenda. Yep, it is official now, poetic justice of historical proportions. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177/163 "2012-11-28T19:21:38Z")
The sweetest revenge is ironic revenge! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177/164 "2012-11-28T22:24:25Z")
And he’s behaving like a victim with no sense of personal responsibility for what happened, as well. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-official-post-election-day-thread-11-7-12/640177.md?page=8)