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Official 2012 Presidential Election Night Thread

Shaggy said:
They can count regular votes in real time, but it takes 11 days to count provisional votes? someone tell me what the hell that means?
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Provisional voters have to prove they were eligible to cast the ballots they did. The 11 days are there to give them that chance.
 
Interesting note on CCN that 6 billion was spent amount all the 2012 races and what do we have to show for it?

A Dem. Pres, Dem Senate and Repub House. Just like before all that money was spent.
 
PKM said:
I am not pleased with the outcome of the election, but I'm not a sore loser and will do my tiny little part, the best I can, to move things forward.
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If you didn't support Obama, this needs to be your attitude. If you supported Obama, you still need to contribute everything you can to move things forward.

We're not so different. Give it a few years, and the GOP will regain some of its form and get another Presidential seat.
 
Stoked said:
Interesting note on CCN that 6 billion was spent amount all the 2012 races and what do we have to show for it?

A Dem. Pres, Dem Senate and Repub House. Just like before all that money was spent.
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We need huge reform for campaign spending. This is such a huge waste, and does little to change anything.
 
cctrackstar said:
Yeah, so I've lost my faith in America.

What we have here is a change in society. When the constitution was originally written, everyone in the country had to pretty much stand on there own two feet or die of hunger. Most everyone had either a farm or a manufacturing thing and the ratio of employee to employer wasn't very high. Back then most every vote was equal because everyone knew how to work. Now we live in the world of giant corporations where a handful of people have tons of assets but they employ hundreds of uneducated minions, all of which have the same equal vote as their doctorate wielding bosses. This means that elections are being decided by people who don't even have a high school diploma rather then people with over eight years of college education. (Yes I realize that people back in early America didn't have an education either, but they still had a much higher work ethic than dude working the counter at Walmart)
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Yes back then everyone either had a "farm" (with free slave labor) or a "manufacturing thing" with almost free child labor (working ridiculously long hours, in often dangerous conditions). What ever happened to the good old days?

Also, back then, you were allowed to fend for yourself as you saw fit. You could go hunting and fishing every day if you wanted, and bring home dinner. You could move to an uninhabited area and claim vast amounts of property as yours, for free.

Things are a lot different now.

I do find it troubling that you're questioning the work ethic of people who maintain full time employment (even work lots of OT). Just because they didn't get a job you approve of doesn't mean they're lazy or not hard workers.

By the way, PLENTY of economists disagree with you about lower taxes on the wealthy being necessary for a good economy.

Also, these educated people you speak of, you realize they are mostly voting for Obama right? The uneducated farmers and small town cowboys almost exclusively vote republican.
 
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