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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    :D
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  • SatansFuton
    SatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Florida :o

    C'mon, man. You guys are my TV tonight. More info, please! :lol:

    Ah, I'm sorry. Just so close. 50k or so difference with about 10% left. Miami-Dade county with a lot of the vote left.

    Seems like most people are ready to call it for Obama, since Miami-Dade is strong for him. I don't think anybody has yet, a little too close and they don't want to look like dipshits.
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    for all you history buffs out there, in modern electoral history, has a STATE ever gotten close to electing a third party candidate for president? Like within a few percentage points? Even though I obviously know how much a hold the 2 party system has on our country, it seems surprising no state has ever voted for a third party candidate overwhelmingly.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    brianlux wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Florida :o

    C'mon, man. You guys are my TV tonight. More info, please! :lol:

    The president is ahead. By about 18,000 votes with 85% of the vote in.

    At this point, it's a foregone conclusion that the president has won the election but the cherry on top is that Elizbeth Warren won, Todd Aiken lost... All the old white men who said "rape isn't that big a deal" have lost.

    And it's looking good for Marriage Equality in Maine and Maryland.

    Thanks! :thumbup:
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
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    Newch91 wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    do we dare say that big outside and pac money is not buying many elections tonight? sherrod brown faced the most outside money of any campaign and he pulled out that election in ohio...


    and as i'm typing this, cbs just called my state, Misery, went romney. no surprise there.
    Linda McMahon spent close to $100 million of her own. Money sure can't buy everything. After this election, I hope campaign finance reform happens.

    next week on RAW, Vince calls Linda into the ring............YOU'RE FIRED!
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  • musicismylife78
    musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
    i'd love to see some surprise, like some west coast state voting for one of the 2 candidates, and then number 2 being some third party candidate, or better yet, a write in candidate
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    i'd love to see some surprise, like some west coast state voting for one of the 2 candidates, and then number 2 being some third party candidate, or better yet, a write in candidate

    Probably some day but I'm guessing that's a ways off.
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    Newch91 wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    do we dare say that big outside and pac money is not buying many elections tonight? sherrod brown faced the most outside money of any campaign and he pulled out that election in ohio...


    and as i'm typing this, cbs just called my state, Misery, went romney. no surprise there.
    Linda McMahon spent close to $100 million of her own. Money sure can't buy everything. After this election, I hope campaign finance reform happens.
    i do too. the stuff that was put on the air this election cycle was awful. campaign finance reform should be in the top 3 things the next president should consider.
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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    :fp: :fp:

    @thinkprogress
    Greta Van Susteren consulting Sarah Palin on how to reach bi-partisan compromise

    :fp: :fp:
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    i'd love to see some surprise, like some west coast state voting for one of the 2 candidates, and then number 2 being some third party candidate, or better yet, a write in candidate

    I know how you feel, I just don't see.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    i'd love to see some surprise, like some west coast state voting for one of the 2 candidates, and then number 2 being some third party candidate, or better yet, a write in candidate

    i think vermont wold be the first state to do something like this
  • dignin
    dignin Posts: 9,478
    This looks over, have a great night everyone. I know I will. :D
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    Hugh Freaking Dillon wrote:
    next week on RAW, Vince calls Linda into the ring............YOU'RE FIRED!
    :lol:

    but didn't trump trademark that last year??
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    Castellanos seems to be conceding
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,674
    SatansFuton wrote:

    Seems like most people are ready to call it for Obama, since Miami-Dade is strong for him. I don't think anybody has yet, a little too close and they don't want to look like dipshits.

    What am I missing here? Just tuned into CBS for a few minutes and they show Romney ahead in the EC by 16.
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    brianlux wrote:
    SatansFuton wrote:

    Seems like most people are ready to call it for Obama, since Miami-Dade is strong for him. I don't think anybody has yet, a little too close and they don't want to look like dipshits.

    What am I missing here? Just tuned into CBS for a few minutes and they show Romney ahead in the EC by 16.

    Yeah... but a lot of states aren't done reporting yet... or haven't reported at all. It's early. Florida is really close right now.
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Castellanos seems to be conceding

    looks like it'll be up to florida ...
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    One of the many Waterbury elementary schools ran out of ballots today, got some more...and they were the wrong ballots! :fp: :fp:

    Waterbury. :fp:
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    Newch91 wrote:
    One of the many Waterbury elementary schools ran out of ballots today, got some more...and they were the wrong ballots! :fp: :fp:

    Waterbury. :fp:

    Unacceptable
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,036
    polaris_x wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Castellanos seems to be conceding

    looks like it'll be up to florida ...

    Florida will give it to Obama but not win it for Romney.

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