Obama speaking now.

11/7/2012 1:07:55 AM

^^they only flipped fl in the past few days.

11/7/2012 1:09:18 AM

Okay he's really on now... With his daughters.

11/7/2012 1:36:33 AM

AP, NYT, & MSNBC have all called VA for Obama.

11/7/2012 2:24:07 AM

Nate Silver got it right.

11/7/2012 2:26:32 AM

Willthe republicans learn a lesson here or what?

11/7/2012 2:32:32 AM

take a wild guess

11/7/2012 8:25:18 AM

I just heard about this "statehood vote" in Puerto Rico; I for one hope they become the 51st state, and that generally the territories end up having a voice in the election (by means of abolishing the Electoral College).

11/7/2012 8:45:36 AM

the maine house and senate races went as expected with the incumbents in the house keeping their seats and king easily winning the vacant senate seat.

the ballot measure to re-legalize gay marriage passed, which is not that much of a surprise, but we'll see if it stands up during the next round of referendums.

11/7/2012 9:58:02 AM

So it looks like Nate Silver called every fucking state on the money!

11/7/2012 11:02:41 AM

Quote :

"if true, it's just more proof that you have to run an actual candidate, as opposed to just running to defeat the other guy. It didn't work for Dole, and it didn't work for Kerry. Maybe the parties will figure it out one day. but I doubt it"

Worked for Obama when he ran against Bush

11/7/2012 11:24:43 AM

http://news.msn.com/politics/puerto-ricans-opt-for-statehood-in-referendum

Give the people what they want! The flag industry could use the money anyhow.

11/7/2012 12:50:49 PM

Quote :

"and I'll have a good election night if more of them break my way than not."

It's the day after and looking back, it was an awesome election night, and the majority of the races I listed at the start of this thread did break the way I was hoping for. I recognize you can't win 'em all, but especially at the national level things are moving forwards.

11/7/2012 1:41:02 PM

God damn the GOP.

They better drop the fucking churches and Tea Party FAST.

Good for Obama! I'm so fucking pissed the GOP couldn't pull this out.

I SAID IT ONE HUNDRED TIMES. A HAM SANDWICH COULD HAVE WON.

GOP < HAM SANDWICH

11/7/2012 1:53:09 PM

Waiting around till the fattest fat lady has sung willy?

11/7/2012 2:08:38 PM

11/7/2012 3:38:20 PM

^^^^i wasn't pulling for romney, but that party looks awful.

I heard in Durham that they had a "party" at the Mortco for the election.... i could think of about a million things I'd rather do than that.

11/7/2012 3:51:49 PM

I don’t know think that party, at least in the traditional sense, is the word I’d use to describe watching election night returns. There was ample pizza, alcohol, and wonkiness though. Everyone had their own prediction map for the night to match up to the white board as it got filled in. Nate Silver fans did the best. My map had Romney doing a little better than he did, but whatever, I had fun.

11/7/2012 4:14:33 PM

Quote :

"They better drop the fucking churches and Tea Party FAST. Good for Obama! I'm so fucking pissed the GOP couldn't pull this out."

Yup.

Even when they've nominated two moderates, those same guys ended up having to pander to the far right evangelicals and teabaggers to get elected, and that pandering then burns them in the general.

I wasn't pissed that the GOP couldn't pull it out, necessarily, but was disappointed Obama won. It's hard to me to think of someone the GOP or a 3rd party could have run that would have forced me to vote for Obama. He's been so unbelievably bad as a president.

Bush for 8 years and now this mongoloid for 8 years.... holy fuck. I'll be surprised to see what's left and what our deficit is.

One good thing about Obama,though. I've loved his foreign policy and the fact that he's essentially told Israel to screw themselves and handle their own business. Unfortunately, his Keynesian policies and Obamacare are going to be painful to endure.

11/7/2012 4:29:37 PM

did they call FL for Obama yet?

I want it to stick in Romney's craw even more

11/7/2012 5:32:36 PM

I believe the rest of the US Senate races were called that were too close to call last night. Looking like the Dems not only maintained a majority, they actually made gains.

11/7/2012 5:49:46 PM

Quote :

"and now this mongoloid for 8 years"

again, I'm fine with not liking a guy, but how in the world could you call him a mongoloid?

11/7/2012 5:56:38 PM

Quote :

"Worked for Obama when he ran against Bush"

Can we seriously stop this Now?

Obama had credibility and trust with the people for being against the Iraq war from the get-go. Kerry and Romney were both chameleons whose whole platform was based on being defined as a "not the other guy" candidate.

11/7/2012 6:42:30 PM

not only that, but he wasn't running against Bush at the time.

11/7/2012 6:45:39 PM

11/7/2012 6:49:04 PM

Mongoloid huh?

The remnants of the Republican Party still think this is going to cut it the day after the biggest political buttfuck of modern time?

On top of that, even if this was the 19th century, he still used the term incorrectly.

Your imaginary God pities you.

11/7/2012 6:59:22 PM

Quote :

" and now this mongoloid for 8 years"

LOL

YOU'RE what's wrong with the GOP. How do you not see this?

They lost because they were catering to YOU.

11/7/2012 7:04:00 PM

Blacks and hispanics were ~23% of the vote this time.

And this is only going to grow overtime.

I'm not trying to say the GOP is racist, but their message is to maintain the status quo, that has built up historically to be bent towards whites in this country.

The status quo doesn't make sense for our evolving demographics.

11/7/2012 7:05:40 PM

Quote :

"this mongoloid"

KHAN!!!!!!!!!!!

11/7/2012 7:26:41 PM

Quote :

"I'm not trying to say the GOP is racist"

I am

11/7/2012 9:23:57 PM

what's fascinating is that the tea partiers and the super conservative groups are blaming Romney for being too moderate - and that's why he lost the election

i'm really not sure what planet they're living on.

11/7/2012 9:26:47 PM

Planet Jesus.

11/7/2012 10:31:26 PM

^^He got less votes than McCain last time around. If he just got all of McCain's votes, he'd be the President-Elect.

Despite the right-wing airwaves sounding as enthusiastic as ever, I know a LOT of conservative people who stayed home or didn't vote for President at all. And these people think Obama is damn near the anti-Christ, but they just couldn't pull the lever for Romney regardless.

Shoot, Bush got more votes in 2004 than Obama did in 2012, despite population growth and all the rest.

I'm not saying they're right, but I am saying they're not crazy.

11/7/2012 11:09:30 PM

11/7/2012 11:50:16 PM

Who says republicans don't believe in economic stimulus.

11/7/2012 11:52:26 PM

Neat

http://nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/politics/electoral-maps-results-indicate-deepening-racial-divide-among-voters-20121107

11/8/2012 12:24:06 AM

^ The comments are

11/8/2012 12:53:38 AM

It really is quite stunning to see the divide.

I never would have guessed that if you count only the white vote then Romney would have won:

CA, IL, WI, MI, OH, PA, VA, NV, CO, NM, NJ, MD and probably MN, NY, and CT. That would leave Obama winning 7 states.

No racial group had less than a 20 point gap in preference.

That type of divide doesn't bode well for future race relations.

[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 2:39 AM. Reason : a]

11/8/2012 2:38:15 AM

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"I never would have guessed that if you count only the white vote then Romney would have won:"

Then you're uninformed and have been uninformed for months. This is common sense to people who follow polls that aren't Rasmussen.

Quote :

"That type of divide doesn't bode well for future race relations."

Whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, and the rest all get along fine within the Democratic party...Maybe it's because every time one of them tries to talk about minority-specific issues they aren't shut down with "RACE CARD RACE CARD RACE CARD"!

[Edited on November 8, 2012 at 8:14 AM. Reason : .]

11/8/2012 8:13:25 AM

History classes need to cut some of the early history stuff so they can spend more time on recent American history, specifically race relations and the Republicans rise to power based on racial baiting that turned poor whites against poor blacks. There is no reason this stuff should be surprising.

11/8/2012 8:17:57 AM

One election result, if Obama won Virginia, was the dude from Morning Joe was supposed to grow a mustache. Today he announced he wont be doing that. I wonder if the 2 or 3 tdubbers who said they'd stay out of the soapbox if Romney lost are going to follow through?

11/8/2012 7:40:29 PM

Quote :

"Then you're uninformed and have been uninformed for months. This is common sense to people who follow polls that aren't Rasmussen."

That's a colon at the end of what you quoted, not a period.

11/8/2012 10:01:11 PM

I know.

11/9/2012 9:21:09 AM

The GOP is made up of two kinds of people: Racists, and non-racist people who tolerate racists in order to win elections. Anti-racist whites and non-whites who suffer racism naturally aren't drawn to this kind of tent. It's really not hard to understand.

Here's a handy little map of racist-tweet-density from the election:



http://geocommons.com/maps/210024

It also doesn't help that the GOP pundits respond to losses with heavy racial components by calling all the Obama voters lazy takers who just want stuff, and mourning the loss of the "traditional white establishment." Like, seriously, there's no way the GOP could be any greater of a white supremacist party unless they literally wore the white hoods and everything.

If you're in the GOP, and you're not a racist, but you put up with and humor the racists, you're part of the problem as much as they are. Kick them out or suffer 100 years of losses.



[Edited on November 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM. Reason : .]

11/9/2012 9:24:05 AM

after the election, O'Reilley claimed that Obama won because "traditional america is dead" and that 50% of Americans are people who "want stuff", so they voted for Obama.

[Edited on November 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM. Reason : ]

11/9/2012 9:31:04 AM

The full quote:

Quote :

"“The white establishment is now the minority,” O'Reilly said. “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. You are going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama. Overwhelming black vote for President Obama. And women will probably break President Obama's way. People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”"

I'm seriously not seeing how this could get more racist without actually using the phrase "lazy n***ers"

11/9/2012 9:35:49 AM

11/9/2012 1:16:23 PM

The election must have ruined that dude's vacation in Belize.

11/9/2012 1:38:33 PM

First Weekly Address since being re-elected:



[Edited on November 10, 2012 at 12:06 PM. Reason : .]

11/10/2012 11:43:38 AM

So I don't know enough about this stuff to explain it but my friends are annoying me talking about it. How are counties reporting like 120% voter turnout and stuff?

11/10/2012 3:07:34 PM