332 to 206 rmoney goes down hard

[billy.pilgrim]

I reckon my thread disappeared during the interruption. here goes again - it does warn the heart to realize that thinking Americans made a real difference. here's to the America haters like bitch mcconnel and their party over country bs losing it all if they continue to obstruct the repair of their failed economic policies.

[O Really]

Warms the heart, indeed. And it was clearly a choice, as Mittens constantly reminded us. And the Republicans clearly were wrong from start to finish. And the homophobes can no longer say "nobody ever voted for same-sex marriage." And legal grass. And a chance to save the Supreme Court from further infestation. Life is good.

Given the circumstances that he had, with the entire Republican Party focused solely, by their own statement, on getting him out of office, the fact that Obama won is extraordinary. Had the electorate had the same choice (current Republicans/Romney vs. Obama), with just a slightly better overall economy, the landslide would likely have been massive in popular as well as electoral vote.

[Banni]

The momentum that Obama had far exceeded even my own expectations.

[Stinger]

Warms the heart, indeed. And it was clearly a choice, as Mittens constantly reminded us. And the Republicans clearly were wrong from start to finish. And the homophobes can no longer say "nobody ever voted for same-sex marriage." And legal grass. And a chance to save the Supreme Court from further infestation. Life is good.

Given the circumstances that he had, with the entire Republican Party focused solely, by their own statement, on getting him out of office, the fact that Obama won is extraordinary. Had the electorate had the same choice (current Republicans/Romney vs. Obama), with just a slightly better overall economy, the landslide would likely have been massive in popular as well as electoral vote.

If the crash and its resultant 3 quarters of job loss had happened just six months earlier, it would have deprived the dolts of most of the ammunition they tried (and failed) to hit Obama with.

I was kind of surprised that the exit polling revealed that most Americans realized that Obama didn't wreck the economy, Bush did.

Especially after the 2010 vote to give the car keys back to the idiots who wrecked the car.

Timing and turnout make huge differences.

[billy.pilgrim]

Warms the heart, indeed. And it was clearly a choice, as Mittens constantly reminded us. And the Republicans clearly were wrong from start to finish. And the homophobes can no longer say "nobody ever voted for same-sex marriage." And legal grass. And a chance to save the Supreme Court from further infestation. Life is good.

Given the circumstances that he had, with the entire Republican Party focused solely, by their own statement, on getting him out of office, the fact that Obama won is extraordinary. Had the electorate had the same choice (current Republicans/Romney vs. Obama), with just a slightly better overall economy, the landslide would likely have been massive in popular as well as electoral vote.

If the crash and its resultant 3 quarters of job loss had happened just six months earlier, it would have deprived the dolts of most of the ammunition they tried (and failed) to hit Obama with.

I was kind of surprised that the exit polling revealed that most Americans realized that Obama didn't wreck the economy, Bush did.

Especially after the 2010 vote to give the car keys back to the idiots who wrecked the car.

Timing and turnout make huge differences.

that was my biggest worry about mittens winning. I spent most of the 1st admin wishing that palin and simple had won. their disaster would have doomed the con party and put an end to reagans voodoo economics

[billy.pilgrim]

I really do like seeing the title of this thread

[O Really]

Here's a fun article from that left-wing rag Politico, entitled "The GOP Polling Debacle." I don't like using the old "Kook-Aid" cliche, but there isn't a much better way to describe it. Their own side deceived itself, and everybody bought into information that could easily have been debunked.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/11 ... html?hp=t1

( I now - a finger slip spelled "Kook-Aid" instead of "Kool-Aid" but I decided to leave it. Makes even more sense)

[O Really]

Maureen Dowd is funny today - even if you're not a fan of hers... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opini ... .html?_r=0

IT makes sense that Mitt Romney and his advisers are still gobsmacked by the fact that they’re not commandeering the West Wing.

(Though, as “The Daily Show” correspondent John Oliver jested, the White House might have been one of the smaller houses Romney ever lived in.)

Team Romney has every reason to be shellshocked. Its candidate, after all, resoundingly won the election of the country he was wooing.

Mitt Romney is the president of white male America.

Maybe the group can retreat to a man cave in a Whiter House, with mahogany paneling, brown leather Chesterfields, a moose head over the fireplace, an elevator for the presidential limo, and one of those men’s club signs on the phone that reads: “Telephone Tips: ‘Just Left,’ 25 cents; ‘On His Way,’ 50 cents; ‘Not here,’ $1; ‘Who?’ $5.”

[billy.pilgrim]

Here's a fun article from that left-wing rag Politico, entitled "The GOP Polling Debacle." I don't like using the old "Kook-Aid" cliche, but there isn't a much better way to describe it. Their own side deceived itself, and everybody bought into information that could easily have been debunked.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/11 ... html?hp=t1

( I now - a finger slip spelled "Kook-Aid" instead of "Kool-Aid" but I decided to leave it. Makes even more sense)

the cons have also bought into the faux news and limbo lies. no problem when you only watch faux news to rail and complain that 47% of the country live off of the hard work of white people, but when you buy into the limbo lies and lets the lies slip to the more educated public, the lies come back to bite you in the ass

that and mittens never understood what evil the rest of us committed to prevent us from being born rich like him

[Stinger]

53% of Americans placed the majority of the blame for the economy on Bush vs. 38% who placed (all of) the blame on Obama.

And that in spite of the right's long, loud, and dishonest 24/7/365 campaign of lies and distortions to blame it entirely on Obama.

I really didn't expect the American public to grade out that highly.

[mike]

Maureen Dowd is funny today - even if you're not a fan of hers...

Thanks, O Really, my favorite part (emphasis mine):

Until now, Republicans and Fox News have excelled at conjuring alternate realities. But this time, they made the mistake of believing their fake world actually existed. As Fox’s Megyn Kelly said to Karl Rove on election night, when he argued against calling Ohio for Obama: “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?”

[mike]

Not that she lets Obama off the hook:

... Now, on issues from loosening immigration laws to taxing the rich to gay rights to climate change to legalizing pot, the country has leapt ahead, pulling the sometimes listless and ruminating president by the hand, urging him to hurry up.

And, on that, we will do.
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