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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
So I just woke up after sleeping for 14 hours straight (I didn't get much sleep the night before), and apparently Obama has won, the Senate stayed democrat, the House stayed republican, Puerto Rico will probably become a state, gay marriage and marijuana was legalized in several states, and some other stuff.
Expected, but mostly awesome nevertheless.
Mary Jane's been legalized in some states? And Gay Marriage in states? And Purto Rico to?
Well.
Gubernatorial results:
- New Hampshire - Maggie Hassan (D)
- Vermont - incumbent Peter Shumlin (D)
- Delaware - incumbent Jack Markell (D)
- West Virginia - incumbent Earl Ray Tomblin (D)
- North Carolina - Pat McCrory (R)
- Indiana - Mike Pence (R)
- Missouri - incumbent Jay Nixon (D)
- Utah - incumbent Gary Herbert (R)
- North Dakota - incumbent Jack Dalrymple (R)
- Montana and Washington are still up in the air, though Steve Bullock (D) and Jay Inslee (D) hold a slight lead in their respective states.
edited 7th Nov '12 6:29:20 AM by Blueeyedrat
Trump is a blowhard ignoramus. For other people that would be hyperbole but for him it is the naked truth. He would never survive a national election; his ego is too out of control. The media gives him attention because he's an attention whore — it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy — but even NBC (which hosts The Apprentice) may be getting sick of him
.
edited 7th Nov '12 6:48:39 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I know this has been discussed before, but it would be deeply ironic if some conservatives would actually make good on their threat to move to Canada
in protest of the election results.
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Trump has had more bankruptcies than failed marriages, he's just good at getting people who should know better to give him their money for the Nth time. He'd sink the budget faster than you can say Titanic. And his continuing support of imbecilic, disproved birther ideology just shows him for the petty, small-minded racist hack he is.
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Considering our higher taxes, free public healthcare, stricter gun control, subsidised abortions and virtually nationwide pro-gay marriage laws, that only proves their ignorance. They'd hate it here. I mean, Michael Moore probably has wet dreams about us nightly.
...Aaaaand now I've gone and squicked myself once again.
That said, good call and good for you, United States.
edited 7th Nov '12 7:12:08 AM by Paireon
I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.Well, I'm happy Obama was reelected and all, but I'm not looking forward to at least two more years of my state's government nonsensically redistributing wealth upward while simultaneously cutting investment in things that are actually important, like education.
The Republicans increased their margins in both houses of the General Assembly, and we're going to have a Republican as a rubber stamp in the governor's mansion for the next four years as well, owing mostly (in my semi-professional opinion) to the fact that the man in question has been running for the last eight years and the fact that our sitting governor decided far too late in the game that she wasn't actually going to seek reelection after all (surprise).
edited 7th Nov '12 7:13:38 AM by darksidevoid
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.@ Blueeyedrat
: And most of those incumbents are Democrats. Good news!
For those who are aware of my views on various issues spanning individual fiscal and health responsibility, sanctity of human life at all stages, and homosexuality, I have mixed to slighty disappointed feelings about the election results.
Nevertheless, the President has been chosen by my fellow citizens. I wish him Godspeed and pledge my loyalty as he leads us for the next four years.
It was an honor@Starship: Damn decent of you.
Inslee and Bullock are running in states where the previous governor either retired or is unable to run due to term limits. Still, if they win, that's two formerly Democratic governorships that are not lost.
edited 7th Nov '12 7:40:23 AM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.The Economists' View: Obama's win raises questions for Republicans
Looks like the comments are divided; a lot are unhappy though, in some form.
And it's not just the USA: China's got a New Leader: Xi Jinping: The man who must change China
edited 7th Nov '12 8:07:18 AM by Greenmantle
Keep Rolling OnNot for long, I don't think. Coming down like the fist of god on marijuana when it distracts from the real problems of crack cocaine, heroin, nicotine, methamphetamine, ketamine, anabolic steroids and PCP always struck me as fucking completely and totally idiotic. Maybe this is a first step to sanity on the issue? Besides, human nature being what it is, making marijuana illegal only makes more folks want to try the thing. Especially when it isn't as quick a killer as heroin or cocaine can be.
And America, more than any other country on the planet, should know how completely stupid prohibition is.
edited 7th Nov '12 8:16:33 AM by TamH70

Three-fifths, actually.