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Author Topic: American Election Megathread - It's Over  (Read 752809 times)

Knight of Fools

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8295 on: November 06, 2012, 09:16:39 pm »

A lot of the liberal, Western States aren't in, yet. Don't get your hopes up/be disappointed quite yet.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8296 on: November 06, 2012, 09:17:00 pm »

If Romney loses the electoral college but wins the popular vote, I'd go to sleep with smile on faces

Remember, same thing happened with Bush's second term.
And that is why the electoral college, as it is, is a Bad Thing(c).
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8297 on: November 06, 2012, 09:17:23 pm »

This is an American election, silly. Aside from the battleground states, nowhere else matters because of our terrible electoral college system rendering the rest of the country non-competitive.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8298 on: November 06, 2012, 09:17:51 pm »

NBC is calling Pennsylvania for Obama, and while the Presidential ballot in New Hampshire is not officially called, the governor race there looks to be a lock for the Democrat.

North Dakota Senate seat possibly going to the Republican challenger.

I'm looking at a map right now, and there is a lot more red on it than blue. There are several numbers above it, and the red ones tend to be bigger than the blue ones. Is this worrying?

Note that the states have wildly different populations.  Half of the states account for about a sixth of the people.  Coincidentally, most of them lean heavily Republican.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8299 on: November 06, 2012, 09:18:18 pm »

I'm looking at a map right now, and there is a lot more red on it than blue. There are several numbers above it, and the red ones tend to be bigger than the blue ones. Is this worrying?
Most of the Bible belt has reported in but the blue states aren't done yet. Romney's going to be ahead until they do.

Also, if lots of red states have big numbers then those aren't really big numbers. Republicans tend to be rural so most of the small states vote republican.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8300 on: November 06, 2012, 09:19:09 pm »

Pennsylvania surprises no-one except massively over-optimistic Romney fans (IE Fox News).  Hey, he was campaigning there, it must be in play!
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8301 on: November 06, 2012, 09:19:26 pm »

A lot of the liberal, Western States aren't in, yet. Don't get your hopes up/be disappointed quite yet.
So Washington, Oregon and California tend to go left? Well they do have big numbers on them, so hopefully those numbers go into the blue numbers and the blue numbers get bigger than the red numbers.


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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8302 on: November 06, 2012, 09:20:04 pm »

A lot of the liberal, Western States aren't in, yet. Don't get your hopes up/be disappointed quite yet.

A lot of the conservative, Western States aren't in yet either. Really, either this is obviously over in half an hour (Obama wins Florida), or this goes on until we know how Iowa went.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8303 on: November 06, 2012, 09:21:42 pm »

Mitt Romney could edge into the lead on Florida, but the fact that he has to fight a close race there implies he isn't going to win the tougher swing states he needs.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8304 on: November 06, 2012, 09:22:23 pm »

Yeah.

I kinda wish we could do popular votes. The whole electoral college thing is... Wonky.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8305 on: November 06, 2012, 09:22:33 pm »

Quite. Even his prelocked states show much smaller margins than I expected.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8306 on: November 06, 2012, 09:25:44 pm »

Just to make sure, you need 270 points to win this game, right?

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8307 on: November 06, 2012, 09:26:15 pm »

Yes.
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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8308 on: November 06, 2012, 09:27:33 pm »

And here I was thinking the Australian election ritual was cryptic and archaic.

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Re: American Election Megathread
« Reply #8309 on: November 06, 2012, 09:28:44 pm »

I voted earlier in the day. Took me (and my bro) an hour to get through line. Parents voted a couple hours after that. Took them two hours.
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