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Election 2012 Thread Number 2.
by coldwarrior ( 210 Comments › )Filed under Elections 2012, Open thread, Politics at November 6th, 2012 - 8:31 pm
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
BRING THE NOISE !!!!!!
Let me once again be the first to key first
Obama 78
Romney 88
John Difool wrote:
Arrggg. there’s the noise.
let me be first to say
not the first
Hubby just called me.
From downstairs.
I’m sorry but how lazy can you get?
Don’t answer that.
rain of lead wrote:
I will second that/
eaglesoars wrote:
At least he didn’t email or text…
lobo91 wrote:
my wife will text me from another floor…
eaglesoars wrote:
I call that resourceful and it should be commended.
I’m home watching tv. Every eu tv station has the election on. BBC faces don’t look happy. Heh
coldwarrior wrote:
Oh Babyyyyyyyyyyy….text three times through the ceiling if you loooooove meeeeeeee…….
coldwarrior wrote:
At work we will use the radios to call each other even when we’re both right there. Radio’s are fun at times.
@ song_and_dance_man:
hell yeah
momcat will vouch
yelling from downstairs to be heard upstairs takes alot of effort
@ coldwarrior:
My kids do the same thing.
Buckeye Abroad wrote:
…and I hope, I really hope, that all the O. victory parties for tonight all over Gemany will be a disaster.
@ lobo91:
My hubby texts from the other room…I go REALLY?????
@ John Difool:
You got in my secret stash already, didn’t you?
I need a code word as to when it is time to take a shot tonight.
Really hating Aces numbers on O/Romney.
I loathe texting and ignore every one of them.
AP: President Obama wins Maryland and the District of Columbia
@ Calo:
Yep son is always calling me from upstairs…hubby texts from the other room…
Bad news. Election return in Va. are showing Kaine coming up fast on Allen’s lead. )nly 6% back now from 15% back.
NOVA polling returns must be coming in now.
The good news is, Barry is still a solid 10% back so Dems & Indy’s must be swinging towards Romney even though they’re not voting GOP down-ticket
@ song_and_dance_man:
In Kuwait, we all used our company-issued cell phones to talk to each other. Hardly anyone ever used the landlines for anything.
It was always strange to get a call from across the room when someone didn’t realize that I was there and not out someplace.
**From the last thread***
Obama is hanging out at McCormick Place, from what I understand this location is isolated from the rest of the city. It has a body of water on one side and two highways that basically cut it off from the rest of the city. This is where they had a G8 summit…away from everything.
This isn’t the kind of place you would hold a victory rally.. People would have to drive, take a taxi or walk across a freeway to get there as there is no mass transit in and out of this area.
Just say’n
Guggi wrote:
Hear! Hear! and the ones here in the U.S. too!
Lily wrote:
In a text, or when you see him face to face. This is important.;-)
@ Calo:
Here is one for you… you should be good and drunk by the early morning..
“Too close to call”
Lol!
@ Mr Caps:
hmmm….
Guggi wrote:
Not exactly a shock.
@ Calo:
sweetie
you take a shot when you feel it’s time to take a shot
that simple
Guggi wrote:
I should just go ahead & draw a warm bath & get the razorblades ready.
Oh wait, did you say D.C. & Maryland?
Nevermind.
@ lobo91:
I’m only posting WaPo headlines
@ Dolphin:
Heh, yep.
That should do me in.
@ Guggi:
No Republican has ever won DC since they started giving them electoral votes.
time to get some sleep
@good night all
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Nope I just holler at him from where I’m at and say REALLY?????
Calo wrote:
You could watch MSNBC and drink every time someone says something stupid.
Oh, wait…you weren’t trying to get alcohol poisoning, were you?
Guggi wrote:
Just one problem. D.C. doesn’t get to vote in the presidential election. No EC for D.C.
Where the hell are you getting that info?
@ Guggi:
Good night
John Difool wrote:
LOL!!!! Oh my.
@ Calo:
Maybe as soon as 9:00pm!
@ John Difool:
Yes they do
They get 3, the same as the smallest states.
That’s why there are a total of 538 available, not 535.
@ Guggi:
Night Guggi.
I hope we can fulfill your dreams of squashing the German’s fun tonight.
@ Guggi:
Nite Guggi…hope in the morning you will have good news and for us too.
lobo91 wrote:
When did that happen? Or is it representation in Congress? Fuck, I swear i need to stop politics for awhile & take up woodworking or something?
Information overload.
@ John Difool:
DC has 3 Electoral Votes and going for O with 0% in, according to Fox.
@ John Difool:
Gotta take a break…or it will drive you CRAZY!
@ John Difool:
Umm…1961? The 23rd Amendment gave them three votes.
They don’t have any Senators, and they only have a single non-voting delegate in the House.
Generic question.. where is ferb and theoutsider tonight?
lobo91 wrote:
Yep, I don’t even want to know what the hell the people were thinking. Giving the worthless bastards in DC one iota more power was a screwup.
Dolphin wrote:
Waiting for someone from LGF to remember to post here?
lobo91 wrote:
That makes no sense. DC is not a state.
lobo91 wrote:
O.k., I feel like a fool, my nom deplume serves me right tonight. I was thinking of representation in the Senate & House which the Dems have been screaming about the last decade or so.
coldwarrior wrote:
It’s out of the way.
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=mccormick+place&fb=1&gl=us&hq=mccormick+place&cid=0,0,6740551949363775410&mid=1352253092
Looks like a good place for a concession speech.
@ lobo91:
Lol.
Dolphin wrote:
Their parents are using the computer tonight.
Dolphin wrote:
Excellent question…probably on lgf already celebrating obama’s win. You know because they are *psyhic*.
lobo91 wrote:
I trust they’ll be here tonight in the off chance there are some balls to be dipped in our pudding.
Don’t think that’ll happen though.
Dolphin wrote:
halo 4 was released last night.
@ Dolphin:
Ferb is still trying to answer my last question to him on if the presence or absence of respiration defines life.
Dolphin wrote:
don’t think we’ll be seeing those two little pests anymore
jus’ sayin
I’m actually surprised the terrible two aren’t here. I’ve noticed a whole ton of faked election results online that have O winning big. You know how they love to repeat false results.
Hell, even Fox has Romney down by one.
Mars wrote:
Whoops meant Ace.
@ Mr Caps:
And isn’t he there with the preacher that said all white people are going to hell?
@ John Difool:
DC was never supposed to be the way it is in the first place. It was intended to be the seat of the federal government, which was really ony there a few months out of the year. That’s why it wasn’t given any representation in Congress (and thus no electoral votes until the 23rd Amendment). The founders intended it to be sort of like the way we see military installations today, not anyone’s actual home.
Any news coming out of Pa yet?
G-d Bob the boob is on. Cannot stand this traitor.
Lily wrote:
I don’t know.
Romney is ahead in VA though.
FNC gives Michigan to Obama.
Obama 127
Romney 149
well fox is gonna start calling
michigan to obama
lobo91 wrote:
Can someone explain to me how the hell these clown represent us when they are in DC for 9 months out of the year?
Romney 154 O 123
obama takes NY
there’s a shock
@ song_and_dance_man:
Who cares? They’re annoying jerks who bring nothing to the conversation. Those two attention whores should have been GAZED out of here long ago.
Frak, looks like the dems may take the house. Fox has it tied. Local site has the dems 3 ahead.
NBC is calling 114 153 Mitt
Mars wrote:
Ace is not the arbiter or the last bastion conservatism. He’s got a lot of E’Yore in him 7 his good east Village bus is Allahpundit.
Not knocking those guys but I’m not ready to get all weepy over their predictions since they’re not exactly in the shit.
@ Mars:
They clearly don’t.
There was a Senator recently who turned out to be registered to vote at a property he hasn’t owned in decades. The guy doesn’t even have a home in his state.
@ Carolina Girl:
I agree. I have a hunch 123 is a swamp sock.
@ John Difool:
Yeah I heard Ace was trying to depress the vote in Ohio.
@ lobo91:
Lugar didn’t live in Indiana, IIRC.
@ John Difool:
They have nothing on the line. They can afford to be a lot more reckless than people you see every day on TV.
Carolina Girl wrote:
That may have been who it was.
Mr Caps wrote:
I do believe so…
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/11/06/obama-to-spend-election-night-with-pastor-who-recently-said-white-people-are-going-to-hell/
@ Carolina Girl:
I agree. As I stated before, they are a waste of my time. There is a reason I am here and not at DU. I appreciate conversing with like minded individuals. Not arguing.
lobo91 wrote:
I want the this crap set up like jury duty. It’s your civic duty but you don’t make a career out of it. And when your name is drawn you aren’t celebrating.
lobo91 wrote:
Don’t see those two going out & doing wet-work for any conservative causes.
Must be nice to get a paycheck from all the web-traffic though.
Would have been nice to see Romney carry Michigan. Bummer.
lobo91 wrote:
They aren’t being more reckless. They’re not calling anything very quickly now. Fox and the other media are being far more reckless.
Uh-O. Floriduh is looking just like the 2000 election. Out of 6 million votes cast, Obotomy has 600 vote lead.
googles return site is good
https://www.google.com/elections/ed/us/results
NBC has 128 153 Mitt
@ huckfunn:
be not troubled
the returns from the panhandle have yet to come in
huckfunn wrote:
God I hope not. Remember anything that isn’t settle quickly is more likely to go in the Dem column. (Fraud, Judicial Activism, etc.)
@ Dolphin:
Exactly. My “blogging” time is limited, especially on work days — I’m not going to waste it with those two. And the Outsider is a liar of the first magnitude. When called on his behavior he immediately says “you did XXX first!” When I told him to knock off the profanity if he addressed me, he said “you were vulgar to me first” which was a complete falsehood.
@ Mars:
They must be because the polls in Louisiana just closed 11 minutes ago.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
We do that too. We don’t need to use our “outside voices” and have the entire store hear “Price Check on SKU blahblah” or “Customer needs assistance on the furniture pad”.
Still hanging on. Rain need another shot yet? I holler or use the blog when I need something.
@ rain of lead:
Gee, I hope yer right.
huckfunn wrote:
I was hoping the 00 election went to the Congress as it should have and not the SCOTUS. It would have made every one that was paying attention aware of what the Electoral College is all about.
Mars wrote:
Yep. Count the votes until they win. We’ve sure seen that.
Good news from ZIP’s place -- CNN saying Republicans will keep control of the House.
Mars wrote:
Ace is not the go to guy on conservative causes:
Supported Tarp: Check
Supported the auto-bailouts: Check
Lambasted Limbaugh When he said he hoped Obama failed & kicked Uncle Jimbo off his blog for saying the same: Check
Lambasted Breitbart & just about called him racist during the Sherrod affair: Check
The list goes on.
huckfunn wrote:
It’s now under 200 votes leaning Chair.
John Difool wrote:
Ace is a Serb-hater. I have NO use for him.
@ momcat:
ok on shots for now
use the blog
that way you don’t have to yell
the girls out of the tub now
Carolina Girl wrote:
Of course they will.
Nobody who wasn’t sniffing glue has said otherwise.
momcat wrote:
Use your cell. It’s much easier.
Ruh roh
FNC just called PA for Obama.
PA goes to O-Hole
cw
pa just called for Obama
wtf
1389AD wrote:
Say anything there pro-Serb & you will get banned
fuuuuck
not another florida recount
rain of lead wrote:
Why, dear God, why?
@ song_and_dance_man:
but his phone is down here.
1389AD wrote:
Makes me double happy I dropped the tabss that I was watching. Was starting to feel like his numbers were crap. Plus did not like the way he kept trying to put Ohio in the wons column the last couple weeks.
(Don’t go to the site normally, just was watching his maps. Been keeping up with the bit about Ohio and Ace on here.)
John Difool wrote:
I don’t go there. Special place in Hell for “conservatives” who hate Serbs.
1389AD wrote:
Philadelphia.
lobo91 wrote:
I thought there was a post upthread that said it looked like Dems were going to retake the house. Maybe I read too fast.
@ rain of lead:
Twin is in the dryer. He wants a shot when he gets out.
@ lobo91:
It’s 7% reporting. dam
Fuck , & now Warren is expected to beat Brown.
@ Guggi:
Ich such Schatz.
By the way, aren’t they NOT supposed to call states before the polls close in California.
@ Carolina Girl:
Absolutely correct except for one thing. It is XXXDDDDD
Or whatever!
song_and_dance_man wrote:
The key is what 7%.
well we keep the house
fat lotta good that does
I’m getting a real bad feeling about this.
Pennsylvania isn’t exactly a shock. Noone really expected that to be in our column, but yea, there was hope. Lose Ohio & it’s all gone.
Carolina Girl wrote:
No…they’re not supposed to call states before the polls close in that state.
If they used that rule, we’d have to wait until 3am your time, when the polls in Alaska close.
Odd… I keep flipping back and forth between Fox and CNN & CNN is showing Romney doing better than Fox. Go figure
Wisconsin to Obama
Crap
@ momcat:
Co is close?
@ lobo91:
What time (ET) does Hawaii close? We were talking bout that earlier here in our household.
wtf
they call wisconson for obama
but the graphic had romney leading
brookly red wrote:
Good to see you check in. Thought you may have gotten eaten alive by one of those Sandy cannibals.
Ball Game is over, this country is fucked! How did we get suckered again!
Only 11% of the vote counted so far in Michigan.
Only 16% of the vote counted in Pennsylvania.
Think I’ll wait for the full count on those
Dolphin wrote:
11pm eastern
google results
Romney 50.5
obama 48.6
those numbers look better
ev tied
Romney is leading in Wisconsin with 2% of the vote counted— and it is called for OBAMA?? WTF?
FL 600 votes separation.
158 153 Chair
Ack!
Alan Grayson is back in the House
@ Bordm:
yeah
what he ssaid
Tanker wrote:
how do you figure?
Fox News:
Obama 153
Romney 153
NBC:
Obama 158
Romney 153
@ rain of lead:
I was just about to comment on that. How accurate are those numbers? I hope better than the nets.
Allen West and Patrick Murphy are at 50-50 with 99% reporting.
West is ahead by about 2,000 votes
lobo91 wrote:
If thats not a reason for insurrection…you tell me what is.
John Difool wrote:
DELETED.
lobo91 wrote:
Democrats are friggin nuts….not just a difference in opinion, FRIGGIN NUTS.
@ lobo91:
Thanks. Too tired and lazy to look it up. Actually the news about nt2u has completely devastated my day and just can’t do much of anything. To top it off if -0- takes this, I won’t survive the next four years. Heck I am barley hanging on after the last 4.
@ brookly red:
Romney hasn’t won a single state that everyone assumed was in play! Florida isn’t looking very good at this point either! How does Romney get to 270?
yeh fox called pa
what are the NUMBERS
only 3% of the votes have been counted
and the o is leading by less that 10,000 votes
it’s not over
SCREW EXIT POLLS
@ Dolphin:
You and me both.
I’ll be working on my cardboard sign.
Romney expected to win Va. & Florida, Ohio is a toss-up.
If we lose Ohio I vote for stringing up razor wire & constructing pill-boxes along the Potomac & Ohio Rivers.
FOX calls WI for Obama with this on their website!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2012-wisconsin-state-race
We are Greece.
@ doriangrey:
CNN O 123 R 154 it’s all over the place…
@ rain of lead:
I really worried. The one pulled something to win.
John Difool wrote:
hmmm shovel ready hah?
MI has only 3.7 reporting, PA 2.7, NJ 2, and so on.
rain of lead wrote:
I think both sides are trying to be underdogs to encourage their base
If this goes south I am going to have to start a grow op in my basement so I can smoke myself into whatever apathetic stupor this country suffers from…..go along to get along….either that or I die young from pent up rage at it all
They’re using more sophisticated computer models to predict. Not kidding. The models are much better than years past
Now Ace is saying Wi was called too soon. the media is pulling the same shit they always do trying to tamp down the late conservative vote.
@ Scott Madsen:
Hey, you’re local right!
Gimme a yodel if things move in that direction!;-)
Ugh…they’re calling the Wisconsin Senate race for Baldwin, too.
The Senate’s not looking good.
Guys,
A lot of prayers wouldn’t hurt right now.
Evidently Momentum and excitement doesn’t win elections from what I’m seeing! Can’t get beyond the fraud factor or the 47% is really already surpassed the 50% mark!
romney can win but it is looking like the dems keep the senate
thats really really bad
John Difool wrote:
It looks Mitt for now.
Warren the Indian wins
Hey rain, twin bear is dry.
@ lobo91:
And we needed the Senate to overturn Obamacare.
How effing STUPID are these people? Do they know what they’re doing? Do they realize what they’ve DONE?
@ lobo91:
I know your situation. Mine is not so grim, but all of our savings is gone and both still working full time. Talking of selling assets. Thank G-d we have no debt except for the house. Four years ago we had $8000 in savings in emergency funds. Its gone.
120 to 90 K in WI is not looking good for the Chair.
Senates gone. Not just gone…we actually lost more seats in the Senate.
The big cities are all highly organized by the Democrats and they’re essentially dominating the country, even while they run themselves locally, and all of us nationally into the ground. Majority rule shouldn’t be a mob.
Scott Madsen wrote:
I don’t do weed. Alcohol is another matter.
Regardless of how it all turns out, my husband and I are continuing with our plans to emigrate.
Permanently.
The fact that this is a close race tells us all we need to know.
We expect to apply for foreign citizenship in any free country that will have us, assuming that we live so long. Possibly Chile, possibly the Russian Federation. Who knows…
Unfortunately, our plans will have to wait a bit, given that my husband is seriously ill. The latest from the doctor is that his sudden high BP is caused by Cushing’s Syndrome. He’s going through some tests to find out if this is the case. If so, he has to have surgery to remove a tumor on his pituitary.
Nothing is making sense right now. The numbers are all over the place on all the sites. No one is agreeing with anyone. Places are being called for one candidate when another is in the lead. Percentages aren’t matching even close with the numbers. Places are being called when they are under 20% reporting. As far as I can tell most states are too close to call right now.
Carolina Girl wrote:
The last four years sucked, so lets give the same idiots a chance to try again! ///
Boehner now slurring a quasi-concession speech on t.v.
Jeez, should just go ahead & put a glass of scotch in his hand like Ron White.
Hello,
hope Obama wins florida, so I can go early to bed
NEW THREAD
Bumr50 wrote:
Bzzzzt, WROOOOONG!
We are Zimbabwe.
The sheeple and the lemmings are in for a shock when there are no new jobs because Obamacare is safe so businesses will sit on their money. Oh and many will drop health insurance.
ferb123 wrote:
Hope ’bout you go to bed early dip your hand in a jar of Astro-Glide & go fist-fuck yourself.
If Obama wins, The GOP really needs to rethink how to win the Presidency. This will mean that since 92 the GOP is 2-4 for President.
momcat wrote:
The two of you are a riot. I’m gonna put my grocery list on the blog. lol
Florida isn’t looking good for Romney. 84% of the vote in and O is leading by about 15000
Rodan wrote:
The Dems control the cities and the cities win the White House.
Carolina Girl wrote:
I guess I have nothing to lose, since I have neither one now, anyway.
85% of vote in in Fla and O is pulling away.
Rodan wrote:
Easy…
Get a electability guy
Get a centrist guy
Get a guy from the northeast
Get a true RINO
Win..Win..Win works so damn well
////
Really, I think the US is too far gone at this point!
We are Greece
Rodan wrote:
I think we’re looking at apathy. When so many mindless morons view themselves as undecided they we have a problem.
People have just gotten used to voting the same idiot in over and over. I see it at the state level and knew eventually it would go national.
@ yenta-fada:
Glad to bring some humor to this otherwise tense night. It uses up to much om oxygen to holler at him upstairs when I am down stairs. Now he is reading Hitch hikers guide to the Galaxy for bedtime story for daughter and then he will be back.
Carolina Girl wrote:
No. They read the newspapers and listen to the alphabet channel news. They have no clue.
Fox now has them tied.
@ yenta-fada:
“Ah got me a Obamafone!”
//Foward!
momcat wrote:
It is GREAT to see you posting! That is so wonderful you have a smart kid who appreciates being read to by her daddy even though she can read by herself. It says a lot about all of you.
Changed again Romney 163 O 157
@ 194 Rodan:agreed but i will hold on to the bitter end, to the last vote. i am pushing harder for Romney now than I ever had.
1389AD wrote:
good luck with finding someplace better. bye.
Conservatives lose seats in the Senate, so no matter what happens now there will be no changes made on the real issues faces this nation. I WEEP TONIGHT FOR THE NATION I SPENT 28+ YEARS DEFENDING!
Lindsay Graham (RINO, SC) yesterday: “We aren’t losing elections because we aren’t being hard ass enough” Translation: We need to run more RINOs!