United States Presidential Election 2012 MEGATHREAD
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And then Mittens won and Facepunch was home to only a tumbleweed.
[QUOTE=ejonkou;38349899]Romney get Utah!
I'M SO SURPRISED![/QUOTE]
rip in peieces utah
If Romney wins can I get the "Ninja!" part taken off of my name? I'm too poor and Irish to spend twenty bucks on it.
this thread is so full of toxx i can feel it seeping into my skin
I hate when they call him "Mr. Obama". It just sounds very very wrong.
i'm literally crying
[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;38349903]And then Mittens won and Facepunch was home to only a tumbleweed.[/QUOTE]
Except for me, I didn't toxx. :v:
[QUOTE=Prez;38349889]CNN Projections:
UTAH to Romney[/QUOTE]
i'm so shocked
mormons to the mormon who woulda thunk it
[QUOTE=TheSporeGA;38349856]I just voted and I voted for Gary Johnson[/QUOTE]
say goodbye to your schools and colleges i hope it was worth it
Can anyone post that list of sites that people are watching?
[QUOTE=thisispain;38349665]i like how it's just a group of hispanic people smiling with their children and the reaction is "a truly sickening sight!"[/QUOTE]
That's white supremacists for you, I'm pretty sure someone from that forum after seeing that image is throwing up while reloading his rifles :v:
you know what like 50% of fp is getting banned so fuck this toxx if romney wins again we will start our own facepunch !!!
So wait, is it gonna be announced who wins tonight? Now I'm nervous. I don't want Mittens to win. :(
Flordia leaning obama again with 40k votes
[QUOTE=thisispain;38349917]say goodbye to your schools and colleges i hope it was worth it[/QUOTE]
Who needs schools and colleges when weed is legalized [sub][sub][sub]420[/sub][/sub][/sub]
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;38349911]I hate when they call him "Mr. Obama". It just sounds very very wrong.[/QUOTE]
his name is Furhur Hussein Obongo jeez get it right
[QUOTE=Big Ben;38349927]So wait, is it gonna be announced who wins tonight? Now I'm nervous. I don't want Mittens to win. :([/QUOTE]
depends on if there's a recount or not
Reposting the list of those that have initiated a banme/toxx (new banmes are BOLDED):
Shadaez
TH89
venn178
TheHydra
Leonmyster
[del]Cheeseist (for a week)[/del]
LunchboxOfDoom
yawmwen (+ converting to Mormonism and voting Republican for rest of life)
darkrei9n
Pvt. Martin (but needs to gift a random FPer GTA IV + two episodes if Obama wins)
IMoo
Sobotnik
lum1naire
VinLAURiA
mblunk
Plattack
Sorry guys, not doing the mod list for shits and giggles anymore as it was getting too huge
[QUOTE=Big Ben;38349927]So wait, is it gonna be announced who wins tonight? Now I'm nervous. I don't want Mittens to win. :([/QUOTE]
Most likely early tomorrow morning
[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;38349909]If Romney wins can I get the "Ninja!" part taken off of my name? I'm too poor and Irish to spend twenty bucks on it.[/QUOTE]
toxx clause call
add him 2 da list shadueaze
[QUOTE=Lilyo;38349923][IMG]http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcisxiwsIh1qfve95o2_r1_500.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
but
we have Disney World :(
Arnold Schwarzenegger vs Clint Eastwood 2016?
Ok I've made up my mind
If obongo wins reopen respected user and add me to it
California is leaning Romney right now! oh man, didn't see that.
[QUOTE=Darkest_97;38349395]I essentially knew how the electoral college worked, then I saw this by the same guy and realized how entirely broken it is:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k&feature=relmfu[/media][/QUOTE]
It's an old video but it really isn't totally broken
But it def could use some revising
The problem is he is basically calling for the government to be a direct democracy which is a terrible idea when you have a place like america, which is a huge ass country with just about every environmental climate in the world on it and massively different lifestyles of people between states. The problem with "everyone vote being equal" is because that would mean the only places that matter politically would basically be california and the east coast. It also has issues of a large majoirty of people being severely politically ill-informed (aka: see what people say at Romney rallies). He assumes the only reason the electorial college exissted was because of travel issues back in the old days, but this simply isn't true. It stems from the general concept of a republic, which at its very base is a system where officals are elected into office, and these officials are people who are very politically informed (as per their job), and as such they are the people that make the actual decisions. If these choices are not in favor of the populace, then the elected offical will findthemselves either impeached or not elected on their next term.
This is exactly what the US does, and what the Electorial College is based around.
It has problems that need fixed with it (such as, "winner takes all" mentality, which is also a direct result of why there are no more than 2 major parties in the US), but a pure democracy is certainly not a good soultion to the problem
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