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Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#38477: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:20:08 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.

GearLeader from Dota Hell Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: Married to the job
#38478: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:22:08 AM

Mary Jane's been legalized in some states? And Gay Marriage in states? And Purto Rico to?

Well. smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkI1sTDoEg
Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#38479: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:28:58 AM

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

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#38480: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:38:48 AM

..Jay Nixon won?

HAH. FUCK YOU DAVE SPENCE.

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#38481: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:43:12 AM

Here's something I thought of when I was heading to catch my train home this afternoon: If Trump knows as much about politics and running the country as he thinks he does, how come he isn't in the big chair?

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#38482: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:46:27 AM

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!"
NoName999 Since: May, 2011
#38483: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:47:46 AM

The media is ignoring Nate Silver.... again.[tdown]

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#38484: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:52:34 AM

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.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Ekuran Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
#38485: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:56:15 AM

I'd laugh so damn much that my humerus would pop out.

Midgetsnowman Since: Jan, 2010
#38486: Nov 7th 2012 at 6:57:45 AM

I'm just amused that even in a red-ish state like Missouri, the "I'm a job creator, I can do better as the governor!" doesnt work.

Hence Jay Nixon's win.

Paireon I wear no mask. from Wherever you go there you are Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
I wear no mask.
#38487: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:01:08 AM

[up][up][up][up][up]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.

[up][up][up]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.
darksidevoid Anti-Gnosis Weapon from The Frontiers (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Robosexual
Anti-Gnosis Weapon
#38488: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:13:26 AM

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.
RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
TheStarshipMaxima NCC - 1701 Since: Jun, 2009
NCC - 1701
#38490: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:24:00 AM

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
Blueeyedrat Since: Oct, 2010
#38491: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:27:34 AM

[up][up] As far as I'm aware, every incumbent governor won reelection.

Also, apparently eastern Washington vehemently rejected same-sex marriage, while King County and the rest of western Washington largely approved it.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#38492: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:33:26 AM

[up][up]Beats having a guy you need to have a weathervane for to work out what he's going to think tomorrow, though. wink

DeMarquis (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#38493: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:38:29 AM

Not to derail or anything, but we wouldn't really need the electoral collage if the election was held simultaneously in every state (and the results were tallied only nationally, not by state).

I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.
GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#38494: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:39:15 AM

@ darksidevoid: Yeah, I hear North Carolina got pasted.

RadicalTaoist scratching at .8, just hopin' from the #GUniverse Since: Jan, 2001
scratching at .8, just hopin'
#38495: Nov 7th 2012 at 7:39:59 AM

@Starship: Damn decent of you.[tup]

[up] 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.
Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#38496: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:02:05 AM

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 On
Joesolo Indiana Solo Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Indiana Solo
#38497: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:06:46 AM

@Gear- It's still illegal federally, which means the federal government will just press them to continue the ban.

I'm baaaaaaack
TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#38498: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:15:31 AM

Not 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

Fish1 h Since: Sep, 2010
h
#38499: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:16:58 AM

Glenn Beck thinks that God is going to destroy America.

edited 7th Nov '12 8:17:11 AM by Fish1

GlennMagusHarvey Since: Jan, 2001
#38500: Nov 7th 2012 at 8:18:46 AM

I think that someone is using the name of God in vain.


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