Official 2012 Election Day Thread

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Tea Party was a HUGE loser yesterday.

How many are there now compared to before. I know the Tea Party lost one or two seats but I was hoping for a couple more.

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Porn will be moving out of LA. Without a doubt.

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I think people need to pay more attention to this guy. At least he was willing to put his money where his mouth (and stats) was.

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Why would that even be voted on by the general public. Is't that an OSHA regulation? So now OSHA will have to be in the room making sure they are following the safty rules?

You have made me whole.

Thank you.You are very welcome. Congrats again.

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I think people need to pay more attention to this guy. At least he was willing to put his money where his mouth (and stats) was.

Those FOX news polls were all bullshit. surprise right?

In the coming months lots of explanations will be put forth as to why Romney lost...here is one story that should get the ball rolling and it has quite a few head scratcher (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-at-romney-headquarters-the-defeat-of-the-1-percent/2012/11/07/857d00f6-284a-11e2-96b6-8e6a7524553f_story.html):


On the final flight of his campaign Tuesday afternoon, Romney ventured to the back of his plane for a chat with reporters and discovered that — horrors! — the poor wretches were seated in coach accommodations.

“I thought you had bigger seats back here,” he told them.

To me, the Republican loss means 2 things:

1st - Republicans need to step away from the whole, "We're God's platform" mentality. Blue dog democrats in places like Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa would easily vote Republican if they weren't faced with religion thrown in their face every debate and having to deal with far-right social issues. If Republicans left social issues alone and tried their hardest to focus on fiscal issues, they'd get the right, moderates and independents. Statements like (and I'm paraphrasing), if a women gets pregnant due to a rape, it must've been God's will, is why people (or at least I can't) take Republicans seriously. When it comes to social issues, staying as close to the middle as possible, is key.

2nd: I don't know how long Republicans are going to continue ignoring minorities. Obama won 73% of Hispanics and 71% of Asians and 93% of African-Americans. Since I know someone will argue, African-Americans won't vote for a white guy if there's a black guy running, what about Hispanics and Asians? Obama got more Latinos this election than LAST election and in 2004 Bush practically had Hispanics all over his jock. (Granted there was a lower Hispanic turnout). Hell, Bush even got 10% of the black vote.

I could be totally wrong, but I feel like you can't ignore minorities, least you could do is humor them like you're after their vote.

Good post.

Young voters and minorities, that's where Republicans went wrong. They have a lot of work to do.

Nate Silver-Led Statistics Men Crush Pundits in Election - Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-11-07/nate-silver-led-statistics-men-crush-pundits-in-election)

I think people need to pay more attention to this guy. At least he was willing to put his money where his mouth (and stats) was.

He crushed it.