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As of this morning, it isn't even known which candidate won in North Carolina. I find it a little ironic that both candidates put so much of their time and money into the state, and the results ended up not hinging on North Carolina at all.
 
Coffee said:
Obama has won! :D
The racists, bigots and Republicans will be very, very unhappy.Let their whining, crying, and gnashing of teeth commence.
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So all Republicans are racists and bigots. Nice going.
Thank heavens Obama is not like some of his supporters.
 
Hokulele said:
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I was under the impression that California's Prop 8 was likely to be defeated based on exit polling (meaning the ban on same-sex marriage would fail). If I am wrong, crap.

ETA: It looks like it may pass. Crap.

ETA2: The latest info makes it look like Prop 8 is losing. Blah, maybe they will have a real answer tomorrow morning.
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I voted against Prop 8, but it's opponents shot themselves in the foot with some of the ads.
One in particular was so over the top that some gay groups condemned it.
It ,basically, compared the Mormon church with the Nazis, with a couple of Mormon missionaries searching somebodies home of 'things we don't like". If you are fighting something on the grounds of equal rights, it 's not good to look like you are bigoted yourself.
 
ZirconBlue said:
As of this morning, it isn't even known which candidate won in North Carolina. I find it a little ironic that both candidates put so much of their time and money into the state, and the results ended up not hinging on North Carolina at all.
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Hey, that's normal. You can never tell which state will be the diecisive one.
The point is it should have been pretty safe for the GOP. One of the reasons Obama won is that he forced The GOP to spend time and money on states they should not have had to defend.
 
dudalb said:
So all Republicans are racists and bigots. Nice going.
Thank heavens Obama is not like some of his supporters.
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:confused:
Coffee's post references "racists, bigots and Republicans". Three separate (if sometimes overlapping) groups on a list of people who will not be happy about the election results. It doesn't equate "Republicans" with "racists and bigots".
 
mrfreeze said:
I am currently located in my companys terminal in Tunnel Hill Georgia. You have no clue how many people here are seething that McCain has lost. Several are still trying to say that McCain still can win since it is only projections at this point.
*edit* Well I think they have to accept it now that the big tv is showing McCain conceding. Man people are freaking pissed here.
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Hope they were so mad they pissed themselves and held their breaths untill they turned blue!!!!!
 
Maybe I'm a sore winner, but I'm not ready to give McCain a pass on the campaign just one the basis of his concession speech. He and Palin incited their base during the campaign and I want to see them wind them down a bit before assuming everything is OK.

For the first time (at least that I saw) there was bullet-proof glass around Obama at his acceptance speech. For the next 2 terms, the Secret Service is going to have a mighty big job.
 
SezMe said:
For the first time (at least that I saw) there was bullet-proof glass around Obama at his acceptance speech. For the next 2 terms, the Secret Service is going to have a mighty big job.
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Obama? Acceptance speech? That was a hologram broadcast from the Kremlin.
 
ZirconBlue said:
As of this morning, it isn't even known which candidate won in North Carolina. I find it a little ironic that both candidates put so much of their time and money into the state, and the results ended up not hinging on North Carolina at all.
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Ditto Missouri. I was reasonably sure Missouri wouldn't matter.

Missouri shows McCain up by fewer than 6000 votes (0.2%). I've heard that there are some 7500 provisional ballots to go through. MO could still go to Obama, though it's not very likely.

Meanwhile, I'm annoyed that CNN keeps showing the MO vote as being 50% McCain and 49% Obama. McCain has 49.44% to Obama's 44.24%.

Incidentally, Nader got 0.6% or 17,000 votes in MO.
 
SezMe said:
Maybe I'm a sore winner, but I'm not ready to give McCain a pass on the campaign just one the basis of his concession speech. He and Palin incited their base during the campaign and I want to see them wind them down a bit before assuming everything is OK.
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I don't think it's being a sore winner. I think it's accurately reflecting the reality of what we've seen from them the past few months. Words have meaning and actions have consequences. McCain shouldn't get a free pass back to normalcy or to McCain v2000.

I thought McCain's speech was excellent but it's only a start. He's got a lot of hateful and dishonest BS to undo. I hope his speech was an honest first step and he will work with the Congress in a bipartisan way.
 
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