Obama wins

[El]

Hooray!  Not-Romney won!

And maybe in four years one of the candidates will be outright good, instead of the less-bad choice.

[Pyraxis]

You're such an optimist.

[TheoK]

Hooray!  Not-Romney won!

And maybe in four years one of the candidates will be outright good, instead of the less-bad choice.

Yes, and you come to Heaven when you die, and Santa Claus lives on the North Pole 

[midlifeaspie]

After last night’s election, it appears to me that the overarching accomplishment of the Tea Party over the past four years has been to push American voters further to the left in opposition and protest.  After 32 straight defeats, gay marriage won referendum votes in three states last night.  We elected an openly gay senator and legalized marijuana in two states!  I don’t know if any of these things would have happened if the right had been represented by moderation.  The Tea Party has been very good to us liberals, and I want to thank them for their support.

[Adam]

I like Obama. He's not perfect, no. He needs to lay off the religion, although I realise tha's not gonna happen in the US any time soon. He;s not left-wing enough either. But I like the guy.

On the BBC this morning they were interviewing random americans, obama supporters and romney freaks. And this one crazy bitch was saying "It's like our country's turning into a, uh, a, uh... COMMUNIST country"

lol communism

COMMUNISM

lol

[Adam]

I watched some of the coverage on FOX btw, just for the lulz. Who's the weird british guy with the glasses and why was he there? What a dick

Also loved how the Republicans on there were pretty much saying americans were just too thick to understand the issues and THAT's why they didn';t vote Republican. haha nice

[ZEGH8578]

At least, under a strict communist rule, we wouldn't have to deal with pretending to have a choise... A supreme ruler would be making all the bad decisions, without the public feeling guilty about it, or quarreling about who voted for him and who didn't

[TheoK]

 

[TA]

I'll be the one to say it...the two-party sham continues. Obama is clearly going to piss quite a few people off and The Republicans will most likely win the 2016 Election. Cycle of disappointment ladies and gentlemen. On the bright side, i'm sure some Mormon power brokers in a dimly-lit conference room in Salt Lake City, Utah were pissed when they learned that they would not be running an entire country and will have to be happy with running Utah.

[Adam]

I don't think the Republicans will win in 2016

Obviously impossible to tell and depends who gest the nomination, but I don't think Obama pissing people off means the Democrats will necessarily lose in 4 years time

[odeon]

I think the Republicans are losing ground.

[TA]

I don't think the Republicans will win in 2016

Obviously impossible to tell and depends who gest the nomination, but I don't think Obama pissing people off means the Democrats will necessarily lose in 4 years time

The American voters as a whole are pretty predictable, when one side pisses them off, they vote for the other. It is pretty obvious that the Republicans are going to crying foul for the next four years and if they get enough people riled up and kiss enough ass, they win, the same would have been true for the dems if they had lost.

[midlifeaspie]

Obama is clearly going to piss quite a few people off and The Republicans will most likely win the 2016 Election.

The depth of your political analysis is stunning 

Not even Nate Silver can call an election 4 years in advance.  You should write a book, or start a website, or .... something.

[TA]

Obama is clearly going to piss quite a few people off and The Republicans will most likely win the 2016 Election.

The depth of your political analysis is stunning 

Not even Nate Silver can call an election 4 years in advance.  You should write a book, or start a website, or .... something.

  History repeats itself mate.

[midlifeaspie]

The American voters as a whole are pretty predictable, when one side pisses them off, they vote for the other. It is pretty obvious that the Republicans are going to crying foul for the next four years and if they get enough people riled up and kiss enough ass, they win, the same would have been true for the dems if they had lost.

Politics is not as simple as you would like to make it.

The Republican party has two choices right now.  They can retool, move to the center, and become a national force once again.  This will include ejecting almost all of their current funding, so I find it very unlikely to happen.  The other option is to double down on their past ideas, in which case they will go he way of the Whigs.  They may retain some regional power for a few decades, mostly in the South, but in the end they will become a piece of history.