Posted on 11/06/2012 5:01:23 PM PST by georgiegirl
So it's not just the checkmark. I am just reporting what states Fox News has called. 49 Electoral Votes so far.
Can I give you a snapshot from my polling station today?
Yes, it was in CA, but still I think it's instructive.
Right outside the 100 ft. perimeter of the polling place: a car parked with a "Vote Democratic" bumper sticker.
The young woman behind me in line, wearing a button -- a GOP symbol with a cross bar superimposed on it -- "It's OK," she explained to a bystander, "it's not a candidate, so I can wear this."
This same young woman said she worked for Planned Parenthood.
Ahead of me in line: the neighborhood imbecile, who asked me "Are you here to vote?" in a loud voice. No dear, I'm there to play pinochle.
This same guy said "I haven't done this [voting] for four years. I've forgotten what it's like."
This guy and the PP girl joked about how you should "vote early and vote often."
OK, it's CA, and CA went for BO, but maybe this gives you an idea.
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That is the way it ended up the last few months.
Or you have to buy votes to win. What alternative besides graft did Obama offer?
Mitt never had the electoral count in polls.
Let me take a quick wag, go easy on me please :) :
1) Safe strategy and wishful thinking, at the end Mitt was agreeing with O more than disagreeing.(I saw this as a danger sign) He acted like its an easy win. And the economy in the recent months, all that counts, appeared to be slowly improving. Then you got the hurricane
1b) O at the end went on attack rallying all his various victim groups to the polls.
2) Huge demo graphic changes largely do to immigration, nonwhites
So Obama was generally personally liked more than disliked. I know hating him can cloud sights but if you want to see you have be willing to open your eyes. Romney tried to be like-able to compete,
3)Rs took over the house and just looked stupid. It was near pointless.
Speaking of #3. Is that a$$wipe Bitch McConnell going to resign NOW since he said his #1 goal is to make O a one term POTUS? Or will the stupid party rally behind him? Boehner needs to go with him.
Obama was the incumbent. You offer an alternative to the incumbent.
I left off my list of GOP curses : GWB legacy. Its only been 4 years, he was POTUS for 8. That gives Dems a powerful argument. And how was Mitt different from Bush and O to the causal observer?
I think you got it. I look back to John Kerry.
He had nothing, no message but BUSH SUCKS. I told my liberal friends that wasn’t enough. People on our side at least then were in Bush’s corner (other than the the smart people who realized he was a rino) and there was no enthusiasim for Kerry.
Obama is a damn disaster and it should have been enough, but no. Just like disaster Harry “White Obama” Truman before him. Both Truman and Obama should have been destroyed.
Indies may have soured on Osama but his base still likes him, I have reports of locals celebrating.
After 4 years of GHWB, I didn't find Clinton particularly inspiring but he won. Romney tried, but O was the better deceiver? Maybe this was like the OJ trial -- the jury was going to acquit OJ no matter what the evidence was. Maybe, as you suggest, Romney could not overcome the GWB curse.
It's really embarrassing to have such a person as the leader of the nation.
Maybe the GOP is dead. A dozen or so very vulnerable Dem senators, and the GOP lost seats.
Earlier today I pinged you )and others) with a cheerful flashback to 8 years ago 2004 when Dems created a website called “I'm sorry world, com” and posted pics of themselves to the world with signs saying that they were sorry that GWB won again and they voted against him. It was pathetic and fun to watch them humiliate themselves.
They made victim jokes of themselves.
But in the next four years they plotted and strategized and made GWB the focal point of every problem in the USA, and yes, Pelosi was very effective at it. By 2008 GWB was as popular as a bill collector and Rs were toast, as was the economy.
I watched them on their shows starting 2005 and they plotted about re-0framing political issues to destroy Rs. And it worked.
Simple lesson, Make O own EVERYTHING bad that happens. Make him own it.
Getting around to counting House seats.
We lost every close race in IL except the 13th.
Barr beat Chandler.
Roscoe B crushed in Maryland 1 as expected,
West is tied in FL. Garcia (rat) beats Rivera. Frankel beats Hanser. Grayson wins big. Southerland (R) Wins. Webster had a close call.
In Georgia Rat Barrow survives. ;(
MARK CRITZ LOOOOOOSES in PA.
In Indiana that seat Susan Brooks held the Dan Burton seat by 20 points (;) )
Walorski BARLEY picks up Donnelly’s seat. Senator elect. Donnelly’s seat. I thought that was a gimme.
In Iowa it’s 2 to 2 as expected. Latham clowns Boswell.
NH. Kuster beats Bass. Gunita is TRAILING CHE-PORTER.
The rat, JEanne SHaheen 2.0 crushes that loser Ovide Lamontaigue for Governor. That state can go straight to hell.
3 close races in Arizona.
NY
Tim Bishop wins 52-48
Nan Haywoth (R) is trailing.
Buerkle loses big.
Collins beats Houtcul in the 27th. But BARLEY.
Slaughter wins easily.
Bill Owens (D) squeaks in again!!
Tom Reed (R) in the 23rd is in a tight race. Up only 3 k.
In MA the rat is barley ahead of Gay RINO Sissei.
RI-1, was not close.
IN Ct 5 the Rino is narrowly up. He could be the only GOP in New England if Gunita losses. Or we could go back down to zero.
The rat is leading Canseco in TX-23.
In NC, rat Mike McIntyre is ahead by a few hundred with all the vote in. DAMN!!!
Matheson leading Love in the early going, nOOOOO.
Berg is slightly behind in ND Senate as Cramer easily holds his House seat.
In MT, early, Tester up and GOP up in the House race. Rat Governor candidate up.
Gain only Nebraska. Democrats plus 2 net? Really? REALLY?
Flake won AZ, Heller is barley ahead. If he Berg and Reberg all lose it’s minus 3 net. If they all win it’s break even.
MN 08, Chip Craavick is narrowly behind. Michelle B is TIED. Shite.
Net loss of house seats certainly. You were right Phil Collins. But still not for the specific reasons you said. ;)
Michigan.
Benshiek (R) barley ahead with 80% in.
Paulbot looks like he’s holding the McCotter seat.
Ohio 16, Renacci (R) beats Sutton.
In CO, Tipton wins. Coffman ahead with 63% in.
Many tight races in Cali, for the first time in over 10 years.
No I said there were multiple things:
1) GWB curse
2) Boehner/McConnell
3) Romney/Ryan’
4) Hurricane and fat boy Christie at last minute
5) Dramatic change in Demographics\
You read that crap HERE today about Romney not preparing a “I lost”speech ?? What BS!
Now make O own it like Dems did to GWB second term.
What happened with teflon RINO Peter King in NY? Was he re-elected or did the RATs take that seat too? His fan club on FR kept whining how we have to support him because only he could win that district. In reality it was safe GOP but I heard in 2012 it was redrawn to be more RAT.
His seat is more rat. Now it’s a swing seat like Bishop’s. But he won easily, the democrats didn’t get a strong challenge going. No pundits had in him danger.
Yep, teflon RINO. That turd is harder to kill than a cockroach. And I bet a bunch of freepers STILL love him.
I didn't mean that was the only factor, although the GWB Curse might be enough by itself.
5) Dramatic change in Demographics
On that point, did you notice the instant consensus on Fox News after Romney lost: That it was because he wasn't sufficiently enthusiastic about amnesty? Even Hume, who used to grimace on Special Report when Barnes and Kondracke were pushing amnesty hard, seemed to agree. You have heard all my arguments why amnesty means death for the USA, so I'll just say, imagine Jeb Bush 2016.
I survived the tsunami here in Central CT. My right-wing candidate won her state house race vs. an 18-year incumbent NARAL green Leftie. My town was the decider. We outperformed. A 277-vote margin!!!
Other newcomer state rep candidate is in a recount due to machine errors, but I think he’s got it. The Obambi landslide almost brought both of them down ... due to coat-tails for the opponent.
And our nemesis, Roraback R-CT-5 RINO lefty ... went down to defeat by 4%! Everything coming up good in looney tunes central CT.
One crucial candidate, Suzio for state Senate, pro-life extraordiare, is losing 50.1% to 49.9%. Recount. A tear-jerker.
Allen West, Mia Love (as Romney does top 70% in Utah), and Vernon Parker (In AZ) are all down, super narrowly with all/almost all the vote in. Tim Scott won in his safe seat.
So close to 4 Black Republicans but it looks it could be down to 1.
Not that Black voters will ever respond to reason anyway. Not that anyone is really trying to reason with them.
Rat beats gay RINO in MA. Not upset about that one.
RINO loses in CT-5. Don’t care either.
Rats wins TX-23. BOO.
GOP Holds it 2 vulnerable seats in Colorado.
NV-4 goes to the rat
92% in in ND, HEIDI is up by 3 K. 3 k. Boy do I have egg on my face on that one. Christ. Romney winning the state by 20 points as I expected. I want to hear from the retards who want Obama out but his girlfriend Heidi in. Democrats vote straight ticket for the most part. Stop being retarded rural white people.
I use that word a lot, I apologize if any of you have people with down syndrome in your family but there is no other word.
This is much worse than 2008, at least that year we (except the delusional) knew we were gonna get our asses kicked.
Tester up 4 points in MT with just 62% reporting.
Seriously I could have counted the whole state by hand by now. Rat up 2% in the Gov race. House seat looks like a GOP hold. Looks like US House is the only thing we can do halfway right.
Heller clinging to a 1 point edge. 9 thousand votes with 92% in.
Bob Kerrey and Richard Carmona must feel like crap right now. Losers.
So we’ll need 6 or 7 seats in 2014? That’s alot (unless your the democrats for whom winning Senate races is like knocking over mailboxes with a baseball bat). Alot. We can afford no eff ups at all.
Wilson is losing MN by only 51-45.
Romney and rat Red Joe Manchin both win over 60% in WV! Hillbilly logic at work. Of course it would have been better if we had a real candidate instead of a bum from the 80’s.
We only lost the Gov race by 5 points. With a name like EARL RAY the rat Governor is poised to “serve” the people of West VA till he’s 100 years old.
Paul Ryan did win his house race, by 12 points. Pretty low for him I think.
CA 3 Lungren tied with 75% in. This is a GOP leaning seat (46% Mcain, Romney must have carried it), weak Lungren should have retired.
CA 9 rat incumant up 6 points 56% in.
Jeff Denham winning by 10 points with 73% in, some people called that race a tossup. If we lost THAT seat that would have been really embarrassing.
Lois Capps beating RINO Abel Maldonado.
Tony Strickland up 51-49 in CA 26th, half the vote in.
Incumbwnt Gary Miller leading fellow a Republican in that one competitive seat where 2 Republicans won the primary (hahahaha)
Mary Bono Mack the Lesser, TIED in a GOP leaning seat with only a third of the vote in.
Brian Bilbray up 51-49 with 70% of the vote in, in maybe the closest seat in the State.
Costa won, only by 10 points with 75% in. A Hispanic candidate would have helped. I’m sure many local see his name and don’t know he’s Portugese.
David Valadao (R) won huge as expected.
Rat leading by 4 points in the new open 47th.
Looks like they are voting down the death penalty ban.
A tax hike proposal lost HUGE. But these people voted for Obama and DiFi.
Pete Stark losing to a fellow rat!!!
Calcowgirl hasn’t posted since February.
Obama over 70% in HI again. Hirono is crushing Lingle by almost 30 points.
Djou trails by 12 with 50% in. I hope he give it another go in 2014.
RINO traitor spawn Tulsi Gabbard and the bisexual in Arizona who looks like she beat Vernon Parker best looking rat Congresswomen in a while.
Rodney DAvis IS called the winner in IL-13. He leads by 1 point. Just over 1000 votes. This would have been a loss without the green party taking votes from joke democrat David Gill. Hats off to Mike “Darth” Madigan. I don’t think we’ll gain anything in 2014 here except maybe taking back the 8th (fake hero Duckworth aka Melissa Bean with no legs). Considering how everything else went Walsh did better than you would think, lost 55-45. Judy Biggert was murdered 58-42. Dold edged out, would have held the old 10th.
If I’m bothering anyone feel free to ask me to stop pinging you and I will. I’m sure I’m saying things that may offend people, women, maybe, Black people, those that favor civil language, I’m sorry.
WA state Governor, rat ahead by 2 points. 55% in.
CD 1- Rat beats Koster.
RINO Dave Reichert can finally breath easily, he won’t ever lose his new seat.
Alaska. Lingle Hater Don Young wins big.
Romney doing worse in the state than McCain/Palin did.
Oh Gunita loses NH 1 to Che Porter. Carol Che Porter. The face of the New New Hampshire. Creepy little state. Can we take away their first in the nation primary now?
Big nothing in New England.
O’fer.
We kept the NH leg, I think, its close. Float away new England, float away. Maine leg must be lost.
Oh the icing on the cake. The gays. Maine and Maryland go gay. The first victories for the gays at the ballot box.
Bachmann has pulled ahead but they are still counting. She’s up 2 k.
MN narrowly votes down men marrying each other.
In WA it’s narrowly ahead with half the vote in. Craavick is a goner to a former rat Congressman from another district in the 70’s.
So Phil, you were dead wrong on IL. It was even worse than I thought.
Of the 4 and only 4 “democrat leaning” seats we won in 2010 that were STILL democrat leaning, MN-8, IL-17, NH-1, NY-25 they got all 4 back.
Your overall call of minus 10 looks spot on though if my math is right. Could be more. So good job though your reasoning was wrong. Thank goodness we won redistricting and halfway did a decent job with the House races. The 2014 target list is shaping up.
Should Jim Matheson be on it? Those idiots in Utah must be racist.
Cali will be a battleground the next 10 years, after taking 10 years off with a map with almost no competitive seats.
Not surprised.
But I made it a point to vote against it here, Question 6 in MD ..
And I posted the story here about the lesbo handing me the card
Sorry but delusion and fantasy got us no-where. All these posts tonight and the past few months claiming Rs will win big accomplished NOTHING . Wishing is NOT doing it.
Well hey, I honestly did not believe the polls, I thought they overweighted democrats. Guess not. They turned them out.
PPP did say Obama would win by 9 points I think based on early voting. 9. Not 2.
On the flip side there were polls showing Romney up in PA, 2, 3 days ago.
I don’t know what to make of polling. Both sides seem to want to the polls to show their side winning. Doesn’t anyone want an accurate poll? Isn’t that the point of polling? Who was accurate this year?
Sports betting sites, intrade, all had Obama, all the way. Watch them next time, they take it seriously, they have money on it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2955863/posts
People like Dick Morris, well, he has some ‘spaining to do.
Barone got it wrong though, he’s a very smart man. Morris is a clown.
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