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So.... How is everyone feeling/doing? Early thoughts? Rants? No fighting No comments directed at other members.... Just your thought on the Election... or Eviction.... how ever you see it. Then after the polls close.... Crying and celebration.
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This may be an election where Mr. Romney will win the popular vote, but loose the Electoral count.
The wild card in the next Senate may the Independent from Maine; he's a slightly left of center moderate, and ran on doing something about the Senate rules that prevent anything from getting done.
The polls were rather good this year, I mean from seeing them from the swing states last night was no surprise to me. The only one I thought would be a nail biter was Florida and it has been. One thing I don't get is since the polls have been rather clear for weeks why the media and some people keep saying it was a close election. It wasn't even close to being close. Obama won the popular vote and did a pretty solid butt kicking in the electoral vote. Not many presidents have won a 2nd term with Obama's numbers from last night in recent history and not since FDR has one won with unemployment as high as it is.
Sadly it seems the GOP still are holding firm on their ways. I was hoping that they would get the message but since their redistricting in the states they held the house and from what I've heard from the web and watching cable (even fox news) they are going to cause a stir. My worry is the dems once again will be unable to point to them doing this and cave. Obama has given so many compromises that his own party has blasted him over but the common wisdom is he hasn't. Poor journalism at it's best! I really hope the sides can come together but it takes to to tango and the GOP are not standing up. The senate may be a different story but Mitch didn't sound that way in his speech.
On the local level I was sad that my state didn't pass the "weed". Sad indeed. Good on Washington though.