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The American Presidency: NBC Projects Barack Obama Re-Elected!!!
enlightenedbum
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So hey, it's election day! Vote close map:
Obligatory 538 link:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
NY Times interactive paths to victory
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html?ref=politics
PA D&D Content:
Predictions thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169232/us-election-predictions-predicting-precincts-and-popular-votes/p1
Ballot measures and other state issues thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/167267/ballot-measures-state-races-and-all-that-other-downticket-stuff/p1
Congresional elections thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/152757/us-congressional-elections-2012-scott-brown-diviner-of-ancestry/p1
About a billion Presidential threads, the most recent one was here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169262/2012-presidential-election-nate-silver-is-crossing-the-streams/p1
This thread is for talking about your election day experience. How does turnout look? How long was your line? Do any volunteerism?
It is also for talking about how election day seems to be proceeding everywhere. News stories about the imminent clusterfuck in Florida and Ohio are appropriate. Accounts of turnout obviously. Random stories about the President and Mitt Romney are up to are fine.
Oh right! The candidates. President Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, seeking a second term. He is generally considered the favorite by those of us who can do math or read a poll. Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, is the challenger representing the Republican party. He is considered to be tied to the favorite by those who are "savvy insiders" and prone to spin.
There are also a ton of competitive Senate races. And plenty of House of Governor's races to talk about. State initiatives are also going on, with notable ones including gay marriage in Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, and marijuana legalization in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon. California might end the death penalty.
This thread is also for discussing the results. Which is why it has vote closing times.
Here we go.
Oh, also:
If you have not already...
VOTE
Obligatory 538 link:
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nate-silver/
NY Times interactive paths to victory
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/02/us/politics/paths-to-the-white-house.html?ref=politics
PA D&D Content:
Predictions thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169232/us-election-predictions-predicting-precincts-and-popular-votes/p1
Ballot measures and other state issues thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/167267/ballot-measures-state-races-and-all-that-other-downticket-stuff/p1
Congresional elections thread: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/152757/us-congressional-elections-2012-scott-brown-diviner-of-ancestry/p1
About a billion Presidential threads, the most recent one was here: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/169262/2012-presidential-election-nate-silver-is-crossing-the-streams/p1
This thread is for talking about your election day experience. How does turnout look? How long was your line? Do any volunteerism?
It is also for talking about how election day seems to be proceeding everywhere. News stories about the imminent clusterfuck in Florida and Ohio are appropriate. Accounts of turnout obviously. Random stories about the President and Mitt Romney are up to are fine.
Oh right! The candidates. President Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, seeking a second term. He is generally considered the favorite by those of us who can do math or read a poll. Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, is the challenger representing the Republican party. He is considered to be tied to the favorite by those who are "savvy insiders" and prone to spin.
There are also a ton of competitive Senate races. And plenty of House of Governor's races to talk about. State initiatives are also going on, with notable ones including gay marriage in Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington, and marijuana legalization in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon. California might end the death penalty.
This thread is also for discussing the results. Which is why it has vote closing times.
Here we go.
Oh, also:
If you have not already...
VOTE
The idea that your vote is a moral statement about you or who you vote for is some backwards ass libertarian nonsense. Your vote is about society. Vote to protect the vulnerable.
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That's been true on this forum for a long time. Certainly since I started participating heavily in these thread. Which was roughly the same day this happened:
It was further clinched a few days later, when this happened:
We've been accused of being cultlike, we've certainly been called an echo chamber, but we thought this dude was a pretty good choice for the Presidency. We stuck with him through the Rev. Jeremiah Wright issues and we got this:
Then he won the nomination and the primary threads became the general election threads. We cheered the choice of Joe Biden, because for several of us, he was something of a hero already (I actually was not one of those people, but was certainly charmed by him over the last four years).
We worked hard for then Senator Obama. And we cheerled. It culminated in this thread from election night last time. They were exciting times, and this happened:
And what did we get?
Well, we got the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. We got the auto bailout, which saved my dad's job, and the jobs of many of my friends, their family, and my family. We got an end to the Iraq War. We got Osama bin Laden. We got an Arab Middle Eastern government and an Arab Middle Eastern populace that likes us. We did not get War with Iran. We got two Supreme Court Justices. We got student loan reform. We got credit card reform. We got health insurance reform. We got the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We got massive improvements in gas mileage standards. We got mercury emissions regulated. We got competent disaster response, as we have seen in the last week. We got DADT repealed and DOMA undefended. We got a President who supports full marriage rights for our gay and lesbian friends, family, and fellow posters. We got a recovering, if not yet good enough economy.
And we've talked about it pretty endlessly through every painstaking negotation. It's been a blast. One of the things I got re-reading the 2008 election night thread was the number of lurkers who chimed in to say that our endless chatter had amused, informed, or persuaded them. So yeah, we're just people bullshitting about politics on an internet forum. But we are (or were) also a damn fine news aggregator and interpreter of news at this point. So let's re-elect the President because he deserves it, but also because I get the sense that if Mitt Romney wins, a lot of us will lose faith with the process. I know I will. And less engagement breeds less engagement.
So let's do this.
Ready to go!
Like this thread is still going to be around by the time they start announcing results. I doubt by the time I get up tomorrow I will be able to keep up with what's been written here
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I'd also like to say, I really like the OP, good job!
FIRED UP!
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Danke, I wrote both of those yesterday while listening to various injections of hopium (CALLBACK).
We did about 100 new pages on election day four years ago, and we were more engaged then, to be honest.
Yes, it's mostly from '08. That was a more hopey election. This is an accomplishments election.
Like we repealed motherfucking DADT.
Edit: 37 seconds in
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Just read the thread, we'll be obsessively monitoring things on a county by county basis, if I know myself and @PantsB and a couple of others.
1. Get up earlier than usual.
2. Convince wife (who just came off a shitty long medical professional shift) to get up early too.
3. Shower?
4. Dress.
5. Vote.
6. Social media that fact.
7. Go to class.
8. Then I'll be here, watching results TeeVee, and enjoying some good eats and drinks we have planned.
5-5 tie, time to call it for Romney!
Good news, Dixville Notch is super conservative, traditionally.
I'm actually traveling to Texas tomorrow; assuming Obama comes out the victor I'm expecting to spend the evening enjoying the cries of thousands of rednecks. Will have to be careful not to smirk too much...
It'll be funny when they forget they can't apply a likely voter screen to votes actually cast.
F5
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Another thing we did four years ago. Favorite photo of the President? That one is mine. Biden entries are also acceptable, but he's an even more photogenic dude than the President.
That's a 75% drop in Obama voters, while Romney stays the same. Doomed.
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This should be on a billboard.
Got to say, it's been awhile since I've been excited about a day. Christmas, just doesn't do it for me any more.
Also my avatar will be changing to a modified version of this.
Yes, behold the glory of google images!
I just need track down the kitten picture from OFA for my FB page. I already have the picture of a "I voted" sticker to replace the current profile pic. Will be throwing that South Pole picture as well. I'm pretty sure all my FB contacts are voting if they are registered, or have done so, but I won't take any chances.
This one is good
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Have fun with that. I'm going to take a morning train downtown to volunteer and then either head to McCormick Place for the speech or a friend's place for a watch party. With whiskey and/or Asti. (Champagne can go to hell, Viva Italia!)
I don't think I have ONE favorite photo of the president. But this one is up there.
Champaign-Urbana is hell, I thought.
Look at all of the fucks he isn't giving.