• Florida finally called for Obama
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[img]http://imgkk.com/i/k913.png[/img] [url]http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-romney-concedes-florida-election-20121108,0,6038521.story[/url] [quote=Los Angeles Times][B]Mitt Romney’s top campaign official in Florida conceded Thursday that President Obama will win the state[/B], acknowledging a vote count that was moving inexorably against the Republicans. Several Florida counties are still counting ballots, but [B]most of what remains are in areas of South Florida that Obama carried by significant margins[/B]. When all those ballots are tallied, they likely will add to the president’s edge in the state, which was 55,832 votes as of Thursday afternoon, a lead of about 0.7%. “The numbers in Florida show this was winnable,” Brett Doster, the senior advisor to Romney’s Florida campaign said in a statement to the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. “We thought, based on our polling and range of organization, that we had done what we needed to win. Obviously, we didn’t, and for that I and every other operative in Florida has a sick feeling that we left something on the table. I can assure you this won’t happen again.” In addition to absentee ballots still being tallied, the state has an undetermined number of provisional ballots. Those are cast by voters who for one reason or another could not cast a regular ballot – a person whose name does not appear on a precinct’s voter list, for example. How many of those are valid is unknown. In the past, provisional ballots have more often been cast by Democrats than Republicans. [B]With Florida added to his column, Obama ends up with 332 electoral votes, just 26 fewer than he received four years ago.[/B] By comparison, his predecessor, George W. Bush, won 286 in his re-election bid in 2004. Both men ended up with margins of just over 2% of the popular vote. The Florida vote count was delayed in part by long lines at polling places. In some precincts in Miami, voters were still casting ballots when Obama made his victory speech, after 1 a.m. EST. The long lines and other polling problems have led to political recriminations in Florida where elected officials had promised reforms after the contested election of 2000.[/quote] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/usa-campaign-florida-idUSL1E8M8HXZ20121108[/url] [quote=Reuters][B]President Barack Obama held a narrow but apparently insurmountable lead in Florida's slow-moving presidential race on Thursday[/B], putting him on track toward a clean sweep of the U.S. battleground states and a boost in his Electoral College vote total from Tuesday's election. The vote count in what one official dubbed Florida's "perfect storm" election was still under way on Thursday. As of Thursday afternoon, Obama, a Democrat, had 49.9 percent of the statewide vote versus 49.24 percent for Republican Mitt Romney, according to the Florida Division of Elections. [B]But two of the three counties where ballots were still being tallied, Broward and Palm Beach, are heavily Democratic.[/B] The third county, Duval, has more registered Democrats than Republicans, but has traditionally leaned Republican in presidential contests. Just 55,852 votes separate the two candidates, but that was far more than in 2000, when George W. Bush won Florida by 537 votes and captured the White House. The glacially slow vote count in Florida has already made it the brunt of jokes on late night television and conjured up ugly memories of the situation 12 years ago, when Florida was the cause of electoral gridlock. This time, the Sunshine State almost seemed irrelevant since Obama handily won re-election without Florida's 29 Electoral College votes, which was the biggest prize of any of the nine U.S. swing states. No officials were willing on Thursday to predict exactly when the race in the fourth most populous U.S. state, which has a total of 67 counties, would be decided. [B]But barring any big surprises, Obama looked set to get a bump from Florida that would lift his electoral vote count to 332 over 206 for Romney.[/B] In comments in Orlando on Thursday, Republican Governor Rick Scott refused to accept any responsibility for Florida's failure, yet again, to hold an election that was free of voting issues and controversy. Scott's decision not to extend early voting ahead of Election Day, after it was cut back from 14 to eight days by Scott and the Republican-controlled legislature, has been cited as one cause of exceedingly long voter lines at many precincts throughout the state on Tuesday. "We did the right thing," Scott told Reuters. The length of ballots, which included 11 proposed state constitutional amendments backed by the legislature, has also been blamed for long lines at polling places and delays in tallying final results. But Scott said: "The amendments don't go through the governor. The amendments only go through the legislature." "BUSINESS LOGIC" Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez has cited the length and complexity of the ballot, reduced early voting opportunities and an unexpectedly large volume of absentee ballots for many of the election-related problems in his county, which accounts for about 10 percent of Florida nearly 12 million registered voters. The vote count in Miami-Dade, excluding provisional ballots still pending, finally ended on Thursday. "This is what you would call a perfect storm down here in Florida in terms of our elections," Gimenez told CNN. "Without a doubt we had some operational issues that we have to take care of," he said. Massachusetts Institute of Technology political science professor Charles Stewart, a co-director of the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, said there were many issues that need to be addressed in the state where ballot gridlock seems to happen every four years. He said one problem that needs to be addressed swiftly is the fact that county supervisors of elections in Florida win their jobs through partisan elections, rather than, as in California, are professionals hired for their ability to deal with complex logistical maneuvers. As a former health care executive, Scott prides himself on his record a hard-charging former CEO who made a fortune running one of the biggest hospital chains in the nation. But the lack of a businesslike approach to elections, the ritual at the heart of American democracy, is all too apparent in Florida, Stewart said. "There are other states with close races and they don't seem to have these problems. There are other states with even longer ballots and they don't have these problems," Stewart said. "When the same mistakes and the same problems come in year after year after year, it tells you that just the basics of crowd management and customer service are not being applied," he said.[/quote]
Votes Obama, supports republican views and bans gay marriage. Backwards state if you ask me.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38376145]Votes Obama, supports republican views and bans gay marriage. Backwards state if you ask me.[/QUOTE] Southern democrats.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38376145]Votes Obama, supports republican views and bans gay marriage. Backwards state if you ask me.[/QUOTE] Never underestimate the Latino vote.
Wow, some people voted after Obama gave his victory speech.
Took them long enough to declare.
[QUOTE=laserguided;38376145]Votes Obama, supports republican views and bans gay marriage. Backwards state if you ask me.[/QUOTE] Yeah well, It's a felony to hit someone over the age of 65 here
[QUOTE=Jackald;38376906]So it's not a felony to assault someone under 65?[/QUOTE] You can legit, claim stand your ground and win.
So much for a tossup election, Obama CRUSHED in the electoral vote.
I guess I'll just add to the slew of videos: [video=youtube;b-yJBsjatW0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-yJBsjatW0[/video]
[QUOTE=Billiam;38376402]Never underestimate the Latino vote.[/QUOTE] Latinos side with Republicans a lot due to shared morality(religious based), this explains the anti-gay support for instance. However, Latino voters do not appreciate discrimination based on color, so someone running on an anti-illegal platform(ie anti-brown people) is not going to get support. Romney came across way too harsh on immigration. That is a MAJOR Republican problem, a big one since the Latino vote is only going to get bigger and bigger every election from now on.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;38378474]Latinos side with Republicans a lot due to shared morality(religious based), this explains the anti-gay support for instance.[/QUOTE] Which is a real shame because as the GOP adapts (and it will or it will cease to exist), this leaves the chance for the religious right to stay rooted in its platform.
[QUOTE=Primigenes;38377507]Why is Florida still a state? Should replace it with Puerto Rico so we still have 50 status.[/QUOTE] I never got why Florida is considered an awful state. Rick Scott's a dumbass, but the state aint that bad. Just our drivers are awful, and our crime is awful
My vote counted~! My vote counted~! Clocks please.
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This is like a halo multiplayer match. You've already killed your opponent, now you're teabagging his corpse.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;38378705]I never got why Florida is considered an awful state. Rick Scott's a dumbass, but the state aint that bad. Just our driver are awful, and our crime is awful[/QUOTE] Because as soon as you go ten miles in from the coast, you might as well be in Alabama.
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38379464]Because as soon as you go ten miles in from the coast, you might as well be in Alabama.[/QUOTE] North is far better then South, hell some parts of North Florida actually have hills, which is an amazing sight to a Floridian.
[QUOTE=Primigenes;38377507]Why is Florida still a state? Should replace it with Puerto Rico so we still have 50 status.[/QUOTE] i apologize that my state is a giant piece of shit with it's only redeeming factor being orlando
[QUOTE=Wii60;38379541]i apologize that my state is a giant piece of shit with it's only redeeming factor being orlando[/QUOTE] Cut the rest of Florida off except the Keys and Orlando, have Puerto Rico merge in, keep Florida as the name, and it's still the same state except more Puerto Ricans.
hey south floridas awesome so is tallahassee
[QUOTE=NuclearAnnhilation;38379587]hey south floridas awesome so is tallahassee[/QUOTE] South florida attracts the wrong crowd and crime, at Least what i know from living there
My friend is from Florida and she is visibly afraid of just the sight of a picture of Rick Scott. From what I can tell Florida is literally the worst place in the world.
[QUOTE=Rocko's;38379850]South florida attracts the wrong crowd and crime, at Least what i know from living there[/QUOTE] palm beach county 561 nigga represent
I thought this was why they had early voting booths there ..
florida is just full of republican grandparents too racist to get off their asses and stop watching dr. phil to go vote republican so then all of their mexican workers go vote for obama and then they get really pissy for another 4 years
[QUOTE=Mr._N;38378693]Which is a real shame because as the GOP adapts (and it will or it will cease to exist), this leaves the chance for the religious right to stay rooted in its platform.[/QUOTE] There is the potential for the Republicans to really take away a lot of the Democratic vote. Churchgoers of all ethnic backgrounds are a natural demographic for Republicans. There is a very strong anti-gay, anti-abortion feeling among the religious. No Democrat can appeal to these people...except the Republicans actually drive these people away with their obvious bias. So the question remains, can a party that has catered all these years to ONE demographic(White male Christian wealthy) change? Can they admit that other people exist and that these other people matter? It's going to be a bitter pill for them to swallow if they do.
What really makes me laugh is some conservatives saying Romney lost because he was too moderate, and the GOP needs to go further right if it ever wants to win again I say they should try it
Hillsborough county in general is amazing because of how fucking diverse it is. Shame that it's half fucking renecks and half minorities. [editline]9th November 2012[/editline] rednecks*
[QUOTE=smurfy;38383880]What really makes me laugh is some conservatives saying Romney lost because he was too moderate, and the GOP needs to go further right if it ever wants to win again I say they should try it[/QUOTE] no thanks I'd rather not explain basic science to people making political posts on facebook.
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