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Yes, this is horrible, this post.

Turns out I'd do, what I've always done, cash farm subsidy checks and compulsively masturbate.

The majority didn't vote against him. The majority stayed home.   The GOP candidate had less votes in 2016 than in 2012 or 2008, when they lost both times.   Dems (and repubs) just HATED Hillar

That's more of a ban from gay couples adopting than anything.
yes... but it's also not good to let an uncommitted (usually) hetro couple to screw up kids lives either.
Bloomberg would have been a titanically good choice, and may have even helped carry NY State, which is unheard of ( also why I think Mitt would have been good, 'cause carrying Mass would have been huge).Bloomberg could be your 2012 candidate right there, if the GOP wants to win.Again, I've never understood why you pander to your base in choosing a VP candidate. Your base is your base, they are voting for you no matter what ( baring shoddy Iron Play, naturally). VP candidates should be chosen based on their competence in talking to the press and their popularity in their home state, to help carry a state or two that normally wouldn't have gone to the candidate. Picking a small time Alaskan politician in a desperate gamble to woo hilary votes on the " hey, Hillary's a women, Palin's a woman too" theory, was really a bad tactic. McCain should have hired Rove.. there's a man who knows how to run a campaign.
I don't want to win, unless the candidate is a small government conservative... so it's doesn't matter if Bloomberg gives me 'the best chance'. I will vote in the caucuses for the person that best represents my values. Last January I voted for Ron Paul. (too bad he's so incredibly retarded socially)
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My biggest fear of tis upcoming presidency is what Obama is going to do with the courts. This is the thing that wil actually become his "legacy," for better or for worse. His desire to appoint judges who do not neessarily adhere to the letter of the law, but rather take defendants situations into consideration is really the scary thing. I guess we shall see...

EVERY CONSERVATIVE LISTEN CLOSELY.The keeping the 60% major majority out of the hands of the democrats is larger than losing the general election.This will hopefully keep any radical socialist programs at bay.Of all the things that Obama has said publicly, by far the scariest is his citizen brigade that will be as well armed, manned and funded as our military.This is how Adolf Hitler took power with his SA that overtook the military. I don't say this lightly. I am not throwing out hyperbole. I am not saying that is what is going to happen here, but the similarities in ideals is frightening. I can't help repeating the same cliche':"Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it"
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( also why I think Mitt would have been good, 'cause carrying Mass would have been huge).
He's too liberal to ever run for Republican President seriously. He signed in universal healthcare and gay marriage during his only term as Governor.EDIT: Actually he was against gay marriage but it still got through on his watch.
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Holy Mary Mother of God.... Karl Rove is good.his prediction:McCain-Obama-11-3-08-FINAL.gifIt looks like he probably only got Indiana and NC wrong.

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Holy Mary Mother of God.... Karl Rove is good.
Yeah, I knew we were going to win when I saw Karl's graph. He just knows politics way too well.In other news, I think we definitively showed that the so called "Bradley Effect" was completely non-existent in this case.
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Holy Mary Mother of God.... Karl Rove is good.
He is.. really, really good. In my radical leftist days, I considered him a version of the antichrist.. but now that I view the game of politics to be much more interesting than the issues or results themselves, I find him to be a fascinating genius/campaign savant. McCain probably didn't hire him, because he was still bitter about the tricks he pulled in the 2000 campaign ( and also, Rove is kinda damaged goods at this point, from a public perspective) but I swear to god, if he wanted to win, he should have hired him at least under the table, and listened to every single thing he said.
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Yeah, I knew we were going to win when I saw Karl's graph. He just knows politics way too well.In other news, I think we definitively showed that the so called "Bradley Effect" was completely non-existent in this case.
If that's true, than Cope got buried.
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I will laugh, El Guapo, because while I do like you, I think everything you say about politics is insane and extreme. You think bill clinton is a mass murderer, FFS, I can't take you seriously at all w/r/t politics.
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In other news, I think we definitively showed that the so called "Bradley Effect" was completely non-existent in this case.
I'm going to wait until we have 100% reporting to calculate my bet with copernicus about this, but it seems pretty clear that there was no systematic Bradley Effect. At this point the results look pretty close to the polls, although I will probably win PA and WI for showing reverse-Bradley, and possibly a few others. The only state where polls seem to have significantly overestimated Obama is Mississippi.. polls had McCain ahead by 8 but he seems to have won by 14 points.
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And yeah, I thought McCain's speech was extremely moving. I really felt for him tonight, I really did. I know, as does the rest of America, that he's a good, good man. He gives his all for this country, and that's a quality that we can all respect. He's given more than any of us can ever imagine. He's honestly an American hero, and somebody that I would like my (one day) kids to model themselves after. Would he have made a great president? I'm not sure. He certainly had the potential to be a good president. He simply made too many mistakes during his campaign and failed to set a consistent tone and have a consistent message. He was up against one of the best ever in a year that he as a Republican came in already as the underdog. Up until over a month ago, it looked like he could have easily been the winner. It's hard to say what would have been different had the financial crisis not hit has hard and suddenly as it did right before the election. But what happened happened. I hope "my friend" John continues to serve this country with dignity and continues to be an example for senators and average Americans alike.I thought both candidates this year were good. One simply proved himself to be extraordinarily adept politically.

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Oh good lord, Jamies here.Let's have it man!
haha, i don't actually have a lot to say. i mean, it was pretty clear to most of us that obama would win huge tonight, unless the pollsters were retarded, which is more than a little unlikely.i actually thought that mccain's concession speech was the best in my lifetime that i can remember, and i genuinely wish that obama makes the ultimate show of unity and offers him a cabinet post (not that i think he would or should necessarily take it with his senate tenure, but yeah).what i do want to say, though, is that i think it's important for everyone to take a long, deep breath. for the time being, we have a president-elect who's at least talked about unity more than any president in the last 20 years, and i think it'll do everyone's psychological states some good to give him the benefit of the doubt until he acts otherwise. i, for one, believe his words to that end are altogether genuine, and although i understand that a lot of people don't, i think that it's important to realize that the real onus for achieving unity is on us, and not him. to this end, i appreciate BG's OP a lot.and furthermore, i think that it's important to allow ourselves the optimism that obama focused on so much in his campaign. hope, in the sense that obama means it, is and always will be ABSOLUTELY OK and not delusional or false in any way whatsoever. we absolutely have it within our power to do a whole lot of things over the next four years, and the fact that we finally have a president who understands the value of leadership in terms of inspiring those who stand behind him will turn out to be far more important than very many people realize right now, imo. and to preemptively ward off what's coming, i'm not talking about kool-aid. i'm talking about actual, real life inspiration, and for those of us who understand how important that is for poker and life alike, we should really appreciate the value of having someone who is capable of providing it to a very large segment of our population that has been waiting for something like it for hundreds of years.all told, i think that we made a great step forward tonight as a nation. but it's absolutely just the beginning. obama isn't a savior. he's a leader, and leaders aren't worth any more than those that they seek to inspire.i'm also a bit wasted, so forgive any gushiness, lol.
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and furthermore, i think that it's important to allow ourselves the optimism that obama focused on so much in his campaign. hope, in the sense that obama means it, is and always will be ABSOLUTELY OK and not delusional or false in any way whatsoever. we absolutely have it within our power to do a whole lot of things over the next four years, and the fact that we finally have a president who understands the value of leadership in terms of inspiring those who stand behind him will turn out to be far more important than very many people realize right now, imo. and to preemptively ward off what's coming, i'm not talking about kool-aid. i'm talking about actual, real life inspiration, and for those of us who understand how important that is for poker and life alike, we should really appreciate the value of having someone who is capable of providing it to a very large segment of our population that has been waiting for something like it for hundreds of years.
That is just cute as a button, cheeky. I sometimes wish I wasn't a complete and utter cynic. But I do have one question for you...
I also know, BG, as a member of the religious right, that you just want to feel loved and respected by the presidential candidate. But McCain should have known that nothing in the world would have got you to vote for Obama anyway, and he didn't need to appease you.Well, nothing in the world, other than a gambling addiction, I suppose.
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That is just cute as a button, cheeky. I sometimes wish I wasn't a complete and utter cynic. But I do have one question for you...How good was this post?
haha, pretty solid. if i was only less lazy, i had plans to write up a faux-AP article about how california was won by obama by one vote (if that one state would have swung the election, goddammit), and include an interview with a man who would only be called "balloon guy" that basically put him in the role of the GOP's bartman.but yeah, i'm too lazy for that.my previous post, though, i'm altogether serious about. you read the LHE challenge thread, and thus the great discusions we've had about mindset and how it applies to poker. for a lot of people who feel stuck in a rut in life in general, a leader like obama can provide great things, and i'm not being facetious at all in saying that.from an email from one of the smartest people i've ever known:"Holy shit, these people are grownups. Not ideal, but actual ****ing grownups. We will soon have adults in charge of the country. They will be competent. Comp-e-tent. Competent! Can you imagine?"
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from an email from one of the smartest people i've ever known:"Holy shit, these people are grownups. Not ideal, but actual ****ing grownups. We will soon have adults in charge of the country. They will be competent. Comp-e-tent. Competent! Can you imagine?"
If he's a democrat, he can't be that smart.
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If he's a democrat, he can't be that smart.
Come one, brvheart, you're better than that. I know it's sleepy time, I know you're bitter about the results... but come on, man.. you can bring it stronger and funnier than that, don't resort to cheap, throw away one liners... * shakes my head in disapproval*
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LANDSLIDE COMIN DOWNpoor copper, i spared him $ out of sympathy. my bleeding heart, it never stops.
I like how checky juuuust got finished writing his post about unity before you added this. I was surprised that you didn't bet on Obama vs copper. I would have if I had the money to spare. pretty excited to see what happens with obama calling the shots. socialism? we can only hope!have I made guapo vom yet?
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Franken now just barely ahead with 98% reporting.
with mainly conservative leaning districts left... according to CNN. (but... we'll see.)
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