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Wow looks like obama in a landslide

Free money!!!

Well at least a couple of billionares got to spend their money. Sheldon Adelson spent what 100 million dollars for Mittens and Newt ?

Linda McMohan of the wrestling federation spent anywhere from 70-100 million of her own money for the two senate bids and came up zilch?

Oh and the infamous Koch brothers-how many millions did they plough into this race??

Given that CA is going Obama, I'm calling it for Obama now.

CA has 55 electoral votes, enough to push Obama over the needed number. Unless Romney somehow takes OH or FL at the last moment, but that's highly unlikely given the percentages in.

CNN already called OH for Obama and declared him the winner.

Dan8267 says

Given that CA is going Obama, I'm calling it for Obama now.

CA has 55 electoral votes, enough to push Obama over the needed number. Unless Romney somehow takes OH or FL at the last moment, but that's highly unlikely given the percentages in.

You're welcome!

Obama now has 258 evotes, Romney only 200. 270 is needed to win.

Once again the popular vote is evenly split, but the electoral vote, which is what counts, is a landslide. Obama has won.

I must say, the best thing about this election has been Google's coverage. They did a really nice job on the election results webpage.

And it's all HTML/AJAX. No flash.

If you mouse-over a state, it gives a popup with stats. Who the fuck is Gary Johnson? :) Sounds like a porn name.

I think Johnson was the third party candidate, along with Roseane Barr-though she only qualified to be on the ballot for a few states.

I've noticed a pattern in Florida and in the U.S. as a whole. Places that actually produce wealth are voting Democrat and places that are backwater, uneducated wastelands are voting Republican. Well, I guess that is always the case.

lostand confused says

I think Johnson was the third party candidate,

Libertarian. He gets about 0.5-1.0% of the vote in most states. In one state, he got a whopping 3%.

Google's coverage is good but CNN offers access to local ballot measures:

http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/main?hpt=elec_flippertkr

Obama just got 274 electoral votes. He's officially the winner.

Obama about to claim Colorado, making Ohio, Florida, and Virginia moot.

We will see a concession speech from Romney tonight.

The Senate most likely will have a slight Democratic majority, not a super majority though. So, expect more Republican filibustering on everything unless Obama grows a pair and has them intensively interrogated for doing that shit.

The House is leaning Republican, but a lot of CA hasn't reported in yet, so I expect that it will even out over the next few hours. Still, it looks probably that the House will have a Republican majority.

APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says

Fox News will demand Obama surrender to ICE until his really, really, really long form birth certificate is produced and authenticated.

I think they are demanding the placenta this time.

So now that it's over, does anyone besides me think that Ron Paul would have done at least as well if not better than Romney going against Obama?

I mean, the rednecks are going to vote red no matter what. The hippies are going to vote blue no matter what. Ron Paul appeals to independents. I think he certainly wouldn't have done worst. West Virginia and Texas aren't going to vote for the black guy if Ron Paul is the alternative, but Florida and Ohio might have voted for Ron Paul instead of Obama.

So, you Republicans. Wouldn't you rather have won with Ron Paul than lost with Romney? Wouldn't you rather have Ron Paul in the Oval Office than that Marxist Kenyan? Or is Ron Paul so strong on human rights, that he's even less appealing that "the secret Muslim who's trying to destroy America"?

Sincere answers requested.

Ron Paul wouldn't have stood a chance. No way.

During the Republican primaries, Ron Paul was the only Republican to outpoll the President nationally among all voters. Unfortunately, he trailed badly among theocratic apocalyptic cult voters, who seem to dominate the Republican party. America lost in that primary, then staved off catastrophe this evening.

A Rubio / Portman ticket would have won.

I can't imagine Ron Paul standing up in a national election.

Bottom line is the Republicans ticket didn't win any of their home states. No Wisconsin, no Mass, no Mich, no CA.

Utah doesn't count.

You people are way too hasty - Scott Rasmussen hasn't applied his likely voter filter to the election results yet!

edvard2 says

Ron Paul wouldn't have stood a chance. No way.

Which states that voted for Romney would have voted for Obama had Ron Paul been the Republican nominee?

Dan8267 says

edvard2 says

Ron Paul wouldn't have stood a chance. No way.

Which states that voted for Romney would have voted for Obama had Ron Paul been the Republican nominee?

I love Ron Paul. :-(

david1 says

A Rubio / Portman ticket would have won

Rubio the guy who charged his minivan repairs and groceries to the republican party credit card. Try that in a corporation and they would call you a thief.

Portman who?

Ron paul on his facebook this weekend

Voting for the lesser of two evils, is still evil

I doubt he would have beaten bama but he wouldn't have done worse than romney. I might have bothered to go vote had paul been an option, even though I still don't think much anything would change had he been elected prez

Dan8267 says

Which states that voted for Romney would have voted for Obama had Ron Paul been the Republican nominee?

North Carolina, but that wouldn't be enough to change the overall result.

curious2 says

Dan8267 says

Which states that voted for Romney would have voted for Obama had Ron Paul been the Republican nominee?

North Carolina, but that wouldn't be enough to change the overall result.

I would have said maybe Montana and Indiana, but those wouldn't have matter either.

I could see Ohio and Florida maybe voting for Ron Paul instead of Romney. So even if he lost Montana (3) and Indiana (11) or North Carolina (15), but gained Ohio (18) or Florida (29), he would have done better than Romney.

If Ron Paul got both those swing states, which isn't implausible, he would have gotten 47 more electoral votes and this election would still be going on at least if he didn't lose NC.

Heck, Ron Paul might have picked up Virgina's 13 votes as well.

bdrasin says

How can these people expect anyone to take themselves seriously when their predictions weren't any better than those of our resident douchebag troll here on Patrick.net?

Because they get paychecks to be wrong. They don't care as long as they give the "right" answers.

bdrasin says

On the other hand, some really highly paid people "experts" came up with projections that have absolutely no basis in reality

Nate Silver however, kicked ass and took names.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-nate-silver-stephen-colbert-obama-20121106,0,2963364.story

Looks like that crazy congresscritter from FL, Allen West has lost?

bdrasin says

You people are way too hasty - Scott Rasmussen hasn't applied his likely voter filter to the election results yet!

ON the news last night they pointed out that the people showing up fit the profile of "registered voters" instead of the profile of the "likely voter". Seems to me that somebody needs to fix their model for a "likely voter".

Almost final count. Just excluding Florida because that's the one state that can't figure out who its voting for even after the election is done.

Senate went to Democrats. House went to Republicans. Both chambers close to evenly split.

Republicans got shellacked in the Senate races.

Democrats had tons of seats on the line, Republicans won none of them.

They did pick up Ben Nelson's seat, but no big loss.

If I had my way, I'd throw all the bums out, but that's not how politics works generally.

The House is gerrymandered all to hell which helps the Republicans keep their majority there.

Not that they didn't win a lot of votes vs. the Dems this time around again.

Vicente says

bdrasin says

On the other hand, some really highly paid people "experts" came up with projections that have absolutely no basis in reality

Nate Silver however, kicked ass and took names.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-nate-silver-stephen-colbert-obama-20121106,0,2963364.story

From xcd.com:

I did not expect this:

http://www.kypost.com/dpps/news/national/turnout-shaping-up-to-be-lower-than-2008_7991483

Turnout shaping up to be lower than 2008

Preliminary figures suggest fewer people voted this year than four years ago, when voters shattered turnout records as they elected Obama to his first term.

With 95 percent of precincts reporting, The Associated Press figures showed more than 117 million people had voted in the White House race. In 2008, 131 million people voted.