US Presidental Election 2012 (1 Viewer)

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Will that help Obama pass legislation?

 

[magicbastarder]

the last time the republican party won a presidential election without a bush or richard nixon on the ticket was in 1928.

hence the interest in jeb bush for 2016, obviously.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Will that help Obama pass legislation?

It's a good question. The Republcan cause since 2008 has been to make him a one-term president. Now that that has not happened House Republcans might be a little less intransigent in their dealings wih him. I wouldn't count on it though. They hate Obamacare and fundamentally believe the 47% argument.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I got 7 out of 11 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/quiz/2012/nov/07/great-american-novels-quiz?CMP=twt_fd

 

[shower another shower]

Michelle.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slat...ws_the_five_stages_of_conservative_grief.html

[h=2]The Five Stages of Fox News Grief[/h]

In Fox News' election coverage Tuesday night, there was little pretense of fairness or balance. What there was, from the start, was a glum tone that turned downright funereal by the time Mitt Romney finally conceded, near 1 a.m. To watch the network's anchors and guests work through the dawning realization that their candidate was doomed was to witness a textbook case of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief.

Denial: With the early returns breaking badly for Romney, Karl Rove points to an exit poll suggesting that Democratic turnout was low in Ohio's Cuyahoga County. Everyone basks in the critical importance of Ohio's Cuyahoga County. Anchor Megyn Kelly asks, "Is this just math you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?" Rove assures her it's real.

Mike Huckabee, meanwhile, is counting on rural voters to turn things around: "I still think Mitt Romney wins when it is all over."

Anger: Shortly before the race is called, Sarah Palin says an Obama victory would be a "catastrophic setback to our economy" and lashes out at the public: "I just cannot believe, though, that the majority of Americans would believe that incurring more debt is good for our economy. … I cannot believe the majority of Americans would believe it's OK not to follow the Constitution and not have a budget."

As midnight nears and reality sinks in, Megyn Kelly takes out her frustration on liberal colleague Susan Estrich: "You, having managed the Michael Dukakis campaign, are familiar with the losing feeling."

Bargaining: With all of the networks calling the race for Obama, including Fox News, Karl Rove pleads for his fellow hosts to un-call Ohio, promising that forthcoming returns in the state will be favorable to Romney.

Kelly, followed by the cameras, heads back through the bowels of the building to grill Fox News' decision desk and see if the network's analysts will change their minds. They won't.

Depression: Ed Henry, reporting stone-faced from Obama headquarters as it erupts in jubiliation: "The crowd is near pandemonium now, despite the fact that unemployment is hovering near 8 percent."

Charles Krauthammer: "As a psychiatrist, I will offer to write prescriptions for anyone who needs them right now."
Acceptance: Still waiting on this one.

[video=youtube_share;vJg3z5c93zU]http://youtu.be/vJg3z5c93zU[/video]

 

[shower another shower]

I got a rhyme that comes with a riddle
O-HI-O!!
What's round on the ends and high in the middle?
O-HI-O!!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Also, fuck Paul Ryan.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

He disappeared off the radar a couple of weeks after his nomination.

 

[Unicron]

I was flicking between Fox and CNN (Fox for the lulz, CNN for the numbers) and I thought that for most of the night the Fox people could see the writing on the wall but couldn't bring themselves to say it, the obvious subtext was that it was going to be a bad night for them. They were also a lot more bullish about calling states than CNN, for example they called Wiconsin when CNN were saying that only 2% of precincts had reported.

 

[nooleen]

i watched al jazeera, the main anchor was a bit of a dope...towards the end he kept crapping on about obama losing the popular vote even though all of his panel of experts kept saying in increasingly irritated tones that he would almost certainly have a majority when the count was properly finished...he clearly thought he was onto a big scoop and wasn't letting it go

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

He breaks down a little here

[video=youtube_share;pBK2rfZt32g]http://youtu.be/pBK2rfZt32g[/video]