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Georgia overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney how do you like them peaches?
He also came very close to winning the popular vote. If fact many say it was a dead even down the middle split.
Not to mention the stock market crashed the morning after Obummer was elected. Bad way to start another term in office dont cha think?
1. Its a red state, we all knew that would happen.
2. Close don't cut it. Romney lost the electoral college and the popular vote. It wasn't down the middle, down the middle is 50/50...Romney lost the popular vote.
3. It didn't crash, it went down. Its the market, thats what it does. It goes up and down. It will go back up. It was down in 2008 when he has initially elected......it went back up.
3. It didn't crash, it went down. Its the market, thats what it does. It goes up and down. It will go back up. It was down in 2008 when he has initially elected......it went back up.
The market is still up over 50% from its bottom in March 2009. You'll note in the last two days the market has lost roughly 3% of its value. This is also coincidentally how much their taxes will go up when the Bush tax cuts expire. The Smart Money is taking profits now and parking the money in tax-free bonds or cash. They're hedging against whatever decision Congress and the President make regarding the Fiscal Cliff.
This is their Plan B. Plan A was to get Romney elected and make the Bush tax cuts permanent. Now that's off the table, they're adjusting strategy.
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Look for the strikingly handsome tall guy waving an American flag in front of the White House on TV as news of Barack Obama's defeat is announced to the world on Election Night. That will be me.
That's funny, all I saw where you were supposed to be was the new symbol of the self-Righteous, an empty chair.
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Georgia overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney how do you like them peaches?
He also came very close to winning the popular vote. If fact many say it was a dead even down the middle split.
Not to mention the stock market crashed the morning after Obummer was elected. Bad way to start another term in office dont cha think?
Aye, Mitt did lose astonishingly bad, didn't he? What a delicious bowl of peaches that is.
Found a pic of Obama catting around with mitt on election night.
I gotta say, it cracks me up reading those chest-beating articles about how Obama is certain to be creamed in the election.
LOL
Ken
I have to say, the gnashing of teeth and stunned faces on the right comes as a surprise. We knew that they would be upset; but the extent to which they were really, truly unprepared for the obvious possibility that Obama would be reelected is remarkable. I suspect that it comes down to two things: self-definition in terms of always being the people know better, and the right-wing information bubble, which tosses away inconvenient information they didn’t want to hear.
I have to say, the gnashing of teeth and stunned faces on the right comes as a surprise. We knew that they would be upset; but the extent to which they were really, truly unprepared for the obvious possibility that Obama would be reelected is remarkable. I suspect that it comes down to two things: self-definition in terms of always being the people know better, and the right-wing information bubble, which tosses away inconvenient information they didn’t want to hear.
Yup - and the thing is, to someone with any knowledge of history it was pretty clear that Obama would have an EXCELLENT chance at re-election, that's why I posted more than 2 years ago that Obama would win. The fact is, coming out of a major recession, on a path to recovery - even if it IS slower than we'd like - puts a sitting President in a commanding position in an election. It's ALWAYS worked that way and it always WILL.
Now, folks on the Right looked at history too and drew lessons, but they were looking at the "little picture" - the fact that the UE rate is still high for example - while ignoring the "bigger trends" - specifically that the UE rate was FALLING. They looked at the fact that the number of people that think the US is on the wrong track is high, while ignoring the bigger trend that the number of people that feel that way is SHRINKING.
The upshot is, they just looked at the "little picture" - the "snapshot", while ignoring the larger trend - ie "the movie".
This is why they were so certain (and soooooo wrong) that Obama would be "toast".
Ken
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