This makes up for the heartbreak of '04
Arizona is tied!
This is a new dawn for american politics! obama is rewriting the landscape like reegan did!
New Mexico also for Obama!
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This makes up for the heartbreak of '04
Arizona is tied!
This is a new dawn for american politics! obama is rewriting the landscape like reegan did!
New Mexico also for Obama!
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No votes counted thereOriginally Posted by LittleGrizzly
CNN CALLS OHIO!
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Like I've said before, if nothing else, this proves once and for all MONEY WINS ELECTIONS. McCain deserved to lose for following public funding guidelines after Obama broke his promise to follow them.
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George W. Bush does not have the cleanest profile when it comes to that, does he ?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Where are you getting your info? CNN shows McCain up by almost 20. Not that it matters since the urban centers aren't in, but its still a little early.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
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CNN shows Obama up by 13..
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CNN, i.e. TV, says McCain - 69 and Obama - 194.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
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I meant in Ohio specifically.
The excuses begin...Obama got elected by moving drastically to the right in terms of rhetoric, so I'd caution people who see this as America moving left or giving a mandate to liberalism.
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Hey, its true.
Like khaan said, this is a far, far cry from the reverse of 1984.I think you are wrong, really wrong
That is true, and this is a good article on what the GOP has to do:and I think unless the GOP look at realistically why they have got their asses handed to them, they will continue to get battered like this. Remember in the Mid terms they got kicked and then again this year they are getting kicked - that simply doesn't happen over there in your great nation. People don't like the GOP at the moment.
CRRepublicans love to recollect Ronald Reagan, though they forget why. Reagan's strength was looking to the future -- and framing the issues of the day for Americans. When the focus had been balanced budgets, he made the issue the need for economic growth. When the debate had been détente, Reagan turned it into the need for a strong America. That tradition continued with the Contract with America, welfare reform, government reform, tort reform. George W. Bush tackled education.
Reagan's other great strength was not distinguishing between red and blue America. He offered a set of principles, and invited anyone who broadly subscribed to those principles into his political house. The result was that unlikely coalition of fiscal conservatives, defense hawks and social conservatives. These were the days of Reagan Democrats, of victories in states that now seem unwinnable to the GOP.
The further Republicans have moved away from this playbook, the further its fortunes have declined. The GOP was thrown out in 2006 because it had failed to evolve on the new issues facing Americans -- spiraling health-care costs, dwindling energy supplies, out-of-control entitlements. It spent its last years divvying up pork. As it has hit the electoral rocks, the party has also turned inward, harping on immigrants and gay marriage.
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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Indiana is within 5000 votes with much of the north-west still to report.
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Its a 15% now (website), not that it matters the cities should throw it to Obama.
When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples
-Stephen Crane
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By last count, "rich" was household income of 90k. Mrs. Corleone and I cannot afford to pay at a 39% income tax rate and keep our house.
I guess it's lucky Obama disagrees on your definition of rich, and that he doesn't want you to have a 39% rate
The world can now celebrate, your Messiah has risen.
Indeed, the republican scourge that has infected the world for the last 8 years is over, the terrible foriegn policy which drove people in droves to the arms of our enemys is over, britian will be a far safer place without a strongman posturing in the white house and costing british lives, there will still be terrorists but without bush to drive them in thier hundreds to AQ britian will be several orders of magnitue safer
for this reason alone Obama is practically like a messiah, it is only in comparison to the former occupant of the white house
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Nope, it won't be a Reagan-esque victory (check out the electoral maps from '80 and '84 - it was a complete blowout).
Obama got elected by moving drastically to the right in terms of rhetoric, so I'd caution people who see this as America moving left or giving a mandate to liberalism.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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