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The Official Presidential Election Thread

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danderson.
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Predictions? Post who you're voting for and why. I figured I would make this a tad early for all the predictions.
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GEORGEzimmerman
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and virginia is leaning towards Obama 49 to 47 so i think Obama has this in the bag
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BrewskiJr
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Everywhere is goin to want to be the first news source to declare a winner. I never believe anything anyone posts on the news till about 6pm
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SlurbnBeef
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I just read that Romney pulled ahead 3% online. Not sure though.
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JakeAssBeatClap
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Jesus christ this. So much this. Polls dont close in the east coast until 7 your time and it progressively works its way west. I mean Alaska won't be official until 1 am tomorrow morning EST. So lets just wait until at LEAST 6 pm eastern to start debating on who the winner will be. We will have a much better idea by that point and it will make everyone's argument more educated and concrete rather than you totally building off your prediction from 6 months ago that Obama will totally win Ohio, Virginia, and Florida and have 300+ EC votes.
13 years ago
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NinetyFour
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Aha threads for Bill vs. Laisse battle. My prediction is that Obama is going to win.
13 years ago
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JAHpow
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for Romney!!!!

13 years ago
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Sno.
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ah, come on-- what's the fun in that?
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JakeAssBeatClap
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Okay where?
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PacificRimJob
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Vote Dingosean-Gnartron. 2012 NS Communist Party.

We promise no 12 year olds by the end of the month. To the gulag with them!
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codizzle
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volvotom
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I have to agree that I am also going to wait on any calls until the AP makes theirs. They were one of the few institutions to hold off on calling Florida back in 2000. NPR goes by their calls as well.
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yourthemannowdog
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I don't understand why the patrons follow the election day so closely? All these predictions and analyzing do not affect the election and it's results. Just vote and be patient. We will wake up tomorrow with something to sink our teeth into
13 years ago
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miroz
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Voted! :)
13 years ago
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JakeAssBeatClap
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This is something I can back.

Write in vote for sure.
13 years ago
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Sno.
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cause it provides entertainment throughout my otherwise horribly dull workday.
13 years ago
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.ZT.
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Wish I could vote. Would have voted all YES on the 3 ballot questions here in Massachusetts and Elizabeth Warren, Joe Kennedy and Obama. Looking promising.
13 years ago
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BlackCupid
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502 would end the marijuana prohibition in Washington and 64 would do the same in Colorado.
13 years ago
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Amen, I'm getting shithoused with friends tonight and watching the results.

No hockey, must drink to politics.
13 years ago
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theBearJew
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Facebook what the fuck is this. Why are your promoting people being annoying as fuck about the election. I like the find out where to vote thing. But Fuck the tell your friends your voting.
13 years ago
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Vino
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lol


13 years ago
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RedEyeTheJedi
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Voted for I-502. I'd be surprised if it doesn't pass. Basically all the parents or adults my parents hang around are voting for the initiative and they are not stoners or hippies.
13 years ago
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PacificRimJob
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I think one of the candidates should make a vow right now... "if you elect me, I'll make an executive order to start the hockey season"

That person would automatically get my vote, the vote of all the rest of the guys in the NHL thread, win Minnesota, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, and also get an automatic 50 or so electoral college votes from Canada as they'd immediately allow themselves to be annexed into the United states of America in order to force the issue.

...I really should start the Hockey party.

13 years ago
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volvotom
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Obama came out in favor of an 8 team college football playoff. Probably polls at 95%, lol.
13 years ago
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PacificRimJob
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Obama coming out in favour of the SEC always winning it every year no matter what, he wins the entire south...
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BravoWhiskey5280
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Thats what Im hearing as well. There are some republican politicians freaking out about how Romney is blowing out Obama right not. Some sources I have read are also suggesting that Obama has unofficially congratulated Romney. Of course I have no idea if this is legit our not but if I were Bill Nye Id be shitting a brick right now.
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PacificRimJob
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Anyone else have Roseanne Barr on their ballot?

I'd vote for her if she promised to take a dump in a paper bag and mail it to North Korea for the lulz.
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roddy116
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my 18th bday is november 7th :(
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shuckle
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if this mega prayer thing takes off, we just might see some surprising results.
http://romneymegaprayer.com/

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"What would happen if everyone prayed for Mitt Romney?*
* Where "Everyone" means the millions of conservatives who support Mitt Romney, of course.
Would that do anything at all?


I mean, how could prayer affect a national election?


The idea is just sort of ridiculous really.


Honestly, I don't even know why you're still reading this.


No one takes this stuff seriously.


No one at all.


Except Scientists.


There have been hundreds of scientific studies proving the effects of group prayer.
Did you know that… …patients who had a group pray for them, even without their knowledge, show positive effects by healing faster or better in 57% of studies?
SOURCE: University of Maryland School of Medicine Annals of Internal Medicine 2000 Jun 6;132(11):903-10.

If group prayer can heal people,
it can change an election."

13 years ago
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white+wolf
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wow those are some interesting scientific results. Everyone, pray for Mitt!!!! every prayer counts


























mitts a faggot
13 years ago
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corona
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some interested stats in here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/11/05/f-us-election-campaign-final-day.html


I like this part:


World poll

If the U.S. vote were open to non-Americans, Obama would be the resounding winner. A 21-country survey done by GlobeScan/PIPA for the BBC World Service showed that given the choice between the current president and Romney, most people would vote Obama. France is the most fervently pro-Obama, with 72 per cent saying they want him to be re-elected, followed by Australia (67 per cent), Canada (66 per cent), Nigeria (66 per cent) and Britain (65 per cent). Of the nations polled, only Pakistan favoured Romney (14 per cent) over Obama (11 per cent), with the vast majority (75 per cent) expressing no opinion.



and campaign spending

Obama's immediate campaign team spent over $540 million, the party spent $263 million and Democrat-friendly political action committees (known as "super PACs") chipped in another $127 million, for a total of $931,471,420.

On the Republican side, Romney's team spent $336,399,297, the party spent $284,156,290 and pro-Republican super PACs supplied $402,198,146, for a total of $1,022,753,733.
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k-rob
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i clicked and read the sources, and only two of them were to do with group prayer, and all of them concluded that more study would need to be done for a definitive result. not saying it has no effect, because according to the studies, it probably does, but it studied only the people participating in the group prayer and the control groups, not whether or not praying for someone has any effect on them (ie. mitt romney would have to sit and pray with everyone else, for himself, for any of these source studies to relate).
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Steezy_P
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What in the fuck?
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k-rob
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sorry but i forgot to say, having a decent blood pressure after having cardiac surgery performed probably won't help mitt win the election.
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KLovelace
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hmm I guess those investments the romney family has been making in voting machines are paying off.


WTF INDEED
13 years ago
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yourthemannowdog
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I'm pretty sure the machine wasn't calibrated properly. People are just blowing that video out of proportion
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KLovelace
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"I initially selected Obama but Romney was highlighted. I assumed it was being picky so I deselected Romney and tried Obama again, this time more carefully, and still got Romney. Being a software developer, I immediately went into troubleshoot mode. I first thought the calibration was off and tried selecting Jill Stein to actually highlight Obama. Nope. Jill Stein was selected just fine. Next I deselected her and started at the top of Romney's name and started tapping very closely together to find the 'active areas'. From the top of Romney's button down to the bottom of the black checkbox beside Obama's name was all active for Romney. From the bottom of that same checkbox to the bottom of the Obama button (basically a small white sliver) is what let me choose Obama. Stein's button was fine. All other buttons worked fine."


quote from the description of the video.
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roddy116
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lol 300 some views, 13000 some likes
13 years ago
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miroz
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My 21st is tomorrow, fuck yeah betchez
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k-rob
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someone's never used youtube before.
13 years ago
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TOAST.
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Its all obama. He is trying to make it look like Romney is trying to cheat. Why would Romney do that, he would obviously get caught.
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volvotom
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Or it was just an alignment issue with the touch screen (common issue with touch screens).

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KLovelace
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that's a pretty ass-backwards way of looking at it... although I agree romney's methods of buying his way into the presidency haven't exactly been clandestine.

who knows what the cause is or if anyone is behind it. in any case it is disturbing
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deleted5
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mines next Saturday lets party
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XtRemE11
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well good thing other countries cant vote in our election! personally i dont want to be anything like France, Australia, Britan, Nigeria, Canada, etc.. if anything, their approval of Obama is a good reason not to vote for him.
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deleted5
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lol wut
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shibby
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Yo Pakistan prefers Romney, so everyone should vote for him! Many of those countries' living standards > USA.
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Supergyro
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It's my birthday today. But im turning 17. Oh well, I wont make this red state redder.
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XtRemE11
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except....... not.
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PJS.
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No one's suggesting we become like Nigeria...It'd just be nice to have allies whose populations don't hate our president...
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I.B
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Today is my dads birthday.
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