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Obama wins Fla., topping Romney in final tally
AP ^ | 11-10-2012 | TAMARA LUSH

Posted on 11/10/2012 10:27:33 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.

No matter the outcome, Obama had already clinched re-election and now has 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206.

The Florida Secretary of State's Office said that with almost 100 percent of the vote counted, Obama led Republican challenger Mitt Romney 50 percent to 49.1 percent, a difference of about 74,000 votes. That was over the half-percent margin where a computer recount would have been automatically ordered unless Romney had waived it.

There is a Nov. 16 deadline for overseas and military ballots, but under Florida law, recounts are based on Saturday's results. Only a handful of overseas and military ballots are believed to remain outstanding.

It's normal for election supervisors in Florida and other states to spend days after any election counting absentee, provisional, military and overseas ballots. Usually, though, the election has already been called on election night or soon after because the winner's margin is beyond reach.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: election; florida; obama; win
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To: manc

BTTT

May God keep watch.
Tatt


121 posted on 11/10/2012 1:51:20 PM PST by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Ray76

you have no idea how much I ma pissed off as is my family

WHERE WAS AND IS THE GOP?

Dems told they can vote the days the pollng stations were closed but republicans were not.
Ballots were also given out to people in line and told to fill them in and drop them off or mail them in

Those 3 Dem counties should leave this state, to hell with them


122 posted on 11/10/2012 1:53:37 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

“President Barack Obama was declared the winner of Florida’s 29 electoral votes Saturday, ending a four-day count with a razor-thin margin that narrowly avoided an automatic recount that would have brought back memories of 2000.”

Do you believe this was an honest election? Please.....


123 posted on 11/10/2012 2:05:42 PM PST by dowcaet ( for)
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To: who knows what evil?
Romney 'lost' by three million votes...how much of that was 'fraud'?

A: Romney's 3 million went to 0.

They've said, overall, that turn out was lower than '08. I say Romney's 2010/Chic Fil A turn out was incredible, but they sliced off the top and gave it to 0. 0 had no turn out, thus the "low turn out" numbers.

124 posted on 11/10/2012 2:41:29 PM PST by Jane Long ("Miss me yet?" - Mitt)
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To: manc

Bump!


125 posted on 11/10/2012 2:49:23 PM PST by Lilpug15 (The Forgotten Man: He works, he votes and he generally prays - but He Always Pays": Sumner)
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To: ought-six

Are you positive sure it will always be damn-it-all circumstances? By the time you decide it might matter who the candidate is, it will be too late.

It’s totally illogical to protest the situation of being out shouted by simply clamming up.


126 posted on 11/10/2012 3:03:41 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: sheikdetailfeather; NautiNurse; Nick Danger; JulieRNR21; floriduh voter; MinuteGal; manc; ...
So much for Florida being a "safe Romney" state.

Do you Florida residents think it was pure voter fraud, or is Florida really trending from purple to deep blue?

God help us all... we're gonna need it over the next four years. And beyond...

127 posted on 11/10/2012 3:06:00 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: driftless2
Apparently Romney lost the Cuban vote. Yeah...isn’t that a kick in the head? Reagan got about 80% of the Cuban vote and now Romney can’t even get a majority of those people. It seems the younger Cubans love Obama too. Maybe we should ask the younger Obama-loving Cubans if they’d like to relocate back to Cuba.

We are seeing the same thing with the Vietnamese-Americans here in California. The older generation fled communism and voted solidly Republican. The younger generation was born here and has the attitude of "Republicans are for white people."

128 posted on 11/10/2012 3:06:08 PM PST by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

The Democrats certainly are equal-opportunity, that is equal opportunity screw-overs.


129 posted on 11/10/2012 3:09:40 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Is Missouri conservative overall, except for St. Louis? I've never been there.

After this miserable election, Hubby and I are stepping up our research into a near-future move to a Red State. So far SC and GA top the list. We've GOT to get out of The People's Republik of Connecticut before the sh*t really starts hitting the fan... unfortunately it'll probably be at least a couple of years before we can leave.

130 posted on 11/10/2012 3:10:17 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: dowcaet

Well, if something egregious like a stolen Connecticut social security number and a patently forged birth certificate does not get Big Ears in dutch, why should a few telephoned threats to various election officials get him in dutch?


131 posted on 11/10/2012 3:11:38 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: nutmeg

I travel the north and middle of the state and the middle was for Romney, obama went to Tampa and got 5000, actually less and yet we are supposed to think he won that area.

my county, not a small county either.

http://enrnow.votesjc.com/FL/St_Johns/42920/111353/en/md.html?cid=0103

when you see those numbers and that Romney won more counties than MCain then something is not right.


132 posted on 11/10/2012 4:53:00 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Who’s clamming up? Because I’m disgusted with what the GOP has become — especially the Illinois GOP — and I’ve decided not to retain my Republican registration and re-register as an Independent, that is “clamming up?”

The only thing I forfeit by doing that is my opportunity to vote in the GOP primary. And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, it’s not like there are any real choices on the GOP primary ballot from which to pick.

Oh, I will NEVER vote for a Dim, if that is what concerns you. But Illinois is so deep blue that no matter who I might vote for in a presidential election this state, and all its EVs, will go to the Dim.

I’m 62 years old. I’m a cancer patient. I’m not going to get excited about the remote possibility that in 30 or 40 years Illinois might turn from deep blue to purple. Besudes, within 5 years I’ll be out of this crappy state and back in Dixie, where my vote has a far better chance of counting.


133 posted on 11/10/2012 5:01:17 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: MinuteGal; riri
Since you're making the coward's choice to run rather than to fight, I'm making a note of your handle and if you post again in the future with whining and complaints I'll be right there to announce that you don't care enough about saving our country to even vote.

Look - The Stupid Party has had seven elections to deal with this vote fraud issue since you and I have been on Free Republic. We document it EVERY FREAKING ELECTION CYCLE, and we have beginning with the 2000 election.

They refuse to deal with it. Screw them.

134 posted on 11/10/2012 5:21:16 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: snarkytart
Nobody is being a coward or lazy. You’re all just in some state of denial and it’s not cute. This place is like the DUmpster after Kerry lost blaming Diebolt machines.

The Democrats have been committing vote fraud forever. We started documenting it in 2000, and in every election since.

The Pubbies refuse to do anything about it, so I guess they don't need my vote any more.

135 posted on 11/10/2012 5:31:46 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: jcwink
I just find massive voter fraud hard to keep quiet. Surely someone who knows would say something..

Yes, you're right! The Same Left Democrat media that nailed Obama to the wall over Benghazi will rip the cover off massive voter fraud!!

Story at 11!!!

136 posted on 11/10/2012 5:34:03 PM PST by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: Ray76

Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties - all heavily Democrat - allowed voting on Nov 4 & 5 via “in person absentee ballot”.

Voting on Nov 4 & 5 was prohibited elsewhere.

Allowing voting in some counties while prohibiting it in other counties violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment:

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”

The unequal application of law was done with the approval of Florida Secretary of State Detzner.

Detzner has performed his duty in a corrupt manner.

Fla. Stat. § 104.051(3) Any official who performs his or her duty as prescribed by this election code fraudulently or corruptly is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084

IANAL


137 posted on 11/10/2012 6:17:52 PM PST by Ray76 ("We're ready to be led" - John Boehner, leader of the opposition)
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To: dforest

Thanks!


138 posted on 11/10/2012 6:44:45 PM PST by thecodont
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To: sheikdetailfeather

I bet Charlie Crist wishes 0bama had topped him instead.


139 posted on 11/10/2012 7:06:40 PM PST by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Lou Budvis

Thank you. These loons on FR are embarrassing. Now they are talking secession, nothing say’s I don’t believe in democracy more than talk of secession. That’s why you don’t hear Jindal, Perry, Scott or McDonnell, all governors of red states lost to Obama speak of this foolishness. Until one of these Republican governors publicly calls for secession all this fantasy talk has to be chalked up to a 2012 case of Sore Loserman. Folks prove me wrong...


140 posted on 11/10/2012 7:20:47 PM PST by blaquebyrd
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