Posts by Kyle Matthews
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From Huffington Post The Funniest Angry Republican Twitter Responses To Barack Obama's Victory
Pick of the bunch:
"The fact that there is a concession speech, not widespread violence, happening now is a testament to America's greatness. #forloveofcountry"
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Pick of the bunch:
"The fact that there is a concession speech, not widespread violence, happening now is a testament to America's greatness. #forloveofcountry"
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I do worry, given the fact it’s essentially going to be electoral status quo ( solidly Democrat Senate, solidly Republican Congress, Democrat president) that the US is going to be locked in four more years of GOP legislative brinkmanship and filibustering. But that’s for another debate.
That's going to be the really interesting thing. Are the republicans, driven by tea party people, going to continue their "screw over the President any way we can?" line? And will the tea party pay for it electorally come mid terms or four years from now? If you did it in most countries I'd say you would, but it's difficult to tell in America - politicians seem to say and do the stupidest things and only a few of them find themselves without jobs come election night.
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So, is there any hard data – and please don’t quote exit polls or cable news projections at me or I’ll forget I’m a gentleman. :)
I'm still waiting on this for Florida 2000 :(
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to David Hood,
He doesn't need Florida if he gets Nevada and Colorado. That will get him to 274.
Looking good in Florida though anyway. CNN has him 37000 ahead, 86% counted.
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I can’t see how that is a bad thing. Surely it would just encourage people to vote?.
Everyone should be voting on the same basis with the same information. If Ohio gets called people could know the results before some polls close. If there's a battleground state out west, like Nevada that suddenly becomes irrelevant, them not voting might affect not just the presidential race, but also all the downticket races - senate, house etc.
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Hard News: The Big 2012 US Election PAS Thread, in reply to Jimmy Southgate,
Yeah, the Huffington post showed 2 million votes cast in Ohio, 1% reported a while ago. Not good maths.
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Also their vote counting is different. I think early votes can be counted on the day before polling finishes, and sent in as soon as the polls close. And then on the day voting can be counted once the polls close. Because lots of them are machine voting, often there's no counting, just a print out of results. As with many things, rules vary state to state, county to county.
Also, nuts that Californians get to sit and watch results out east and then decide if they're going to vote.
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They're not final results, just the media calling it for a candidate. A bunch of these states are called at 20%, but you could have called them weeks ago with confidence. Ohio and Florida are big states, but they won't be called until some time close to actual results all being in (and even then that won't be final until they count specials).
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Obama ahead in florida by 137,000 with 34% reported.