US Presidential Election
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Snoo
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The final polls are close, but if you look at the population center states of America (California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania).. Obama took hold and swept up. While Romney did get a fair share in each state on top of winning decisively in typically Conservative regions (The South and West), Obama won because he won enough of the swing states and the typically Liberal states.
Sadly, as Tom mentioned, the popular vote doesn't matter, and the silly electoral college is what rules in the end. So really, all Obama had to do was campaign in the Swing states to win.. and judging on the number of ads I saw on a daily basis, you could tell both competitors were going hard at it.
Of course, winning decisively in Utah isn't the same as making anal pies on New York.. especially because Romney is a mormon and Utah is.. well.. mormon.
Youngster Joey
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Honestly this will change nothing. The Republicans and the tea party members in the House will just say "NO" to anything proposed and we will be in another 4 years of horrible partisanship.
Also I voted for Obama as well
Also I voted for Obama as well
bmac
Giga Poster
Smithy said:
You should've seen his original reaction when Corzine (the governor before Christie) called him fat. There are quite a few articles out there with a good google search, but all the youtube vids are his professional reply to it.
But seriously he's actually the first decent governor New Jersey has had since Florio. I could say Codey was good, but he wasn't elected governor. He filled in for 3 days when Todd got booted and the rest of McGreevey's term when he left office because of his gay affair.
The latest numbers our media is reporting, have Obama at 59.3 million votes and Romney at 56.8 million. Is (at most) one and a half million votes so disputed they can't be certain who won the popular vote? Looks like an Obama victory with these numbers, and I wouldn't expect them to sway by that much from media outlet to media outlet.
Gazza
Giga Poster
tomahawKSU said:
Quick question, but why aren't higher taxes warranted?
The US has had tax cuts in the past that they probably couldn't afford, and expenditure above income through taxes etc.
Red or blue, wouldn't the US have to do it anyway....Unless you wanted to end up like Greece or Spain?
Smithy
Strata Poster
Nope, the fools believe in cutting taxes for the rich will free up the money these rich people are in dire need of and in turn they'll spend it in poor peoples areas. The most basic form of 'trickle-down' economics you'll likely see.
Of course, I mock, but we somehow voted the Tories into power with similar economic policies.
Of course, I mock, but we somehow voted the Tories into power with similar economic policies.
VascoXTRC
Roller Poster
I voted for Obama. I felt Obama was the safe choice. Romney did a poor job explaining how his tax plan would work. Bill Clinton (3 million +) actually calculated his taxes according to the Romney Plan and still got a 1/4 of a million tax cut, same share?????. Obama plans to return to the Clinton tax rates which WORKED. The problem is the effing house. The house is republican majority so Obama is unable get anything to pass. The republicans have this pact refusing to compromise on anything, essentially making the democratic party fail instead of thinking about the bettering of the USA. We have too much division of the parties, we need to work together to better America.