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so if you are an obama supporter and you live in a romney state, your vote is meaningless? it sounds like if you want your vote to even count you have to move to one of the swing states?
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I suppose Democrat voters in a Red state could pull finger and make sure they all vote and try to reduce that margin and so turn it into a potential minor swing state for next election. But yeah nah... really they're fucked. HA HA HAAA!
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but then i was reminded that this is just for the presidency not for the government, at the same time people are voting for house of representatives? which i think is more like our parliament which gets seats based on % of votes and then there is congress and the senate, also governors and mayors...mind boggle |
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The House is pretty much like how our electorate seats work, with electorates based on population - but the overall winner in each seat is still decided by first past the post, they're not allocated by a %age system. It does tend to reflect a fairer picture though, there's still plenty of fucked up things about it, like how whoever wins the state legislature in the 2 years prior gets to redraw the electorate boundaries to suit their candidates. The Senate has 2 seats per state - so is not population based, designed this way to prevent the interests of low pop states getting rail-roaded by the bigger states - the tyranny of the majority. Again the winner of the seat is simple first past the post. Mayors are well, exactly like our mayors here so not so difficult to understand :P I believe their powers tend to be more wide ranging than ours though. |
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7th November 2012, 14:02 | #49 |
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so a congressman from each...county? and the two senators represent each state in the house? do senators have more voting power?
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Florida starting to dribble in.
http://www.politico.com/2012-electio...sident/2012/FL |
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7th November 2012, 14:34 | #52 |
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I've found this to be edifying (a bit off topic)...
www.politifact.com there's an app for that even for poors |
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7th November 2012, 14:53 | #54 |
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that site is always so fucking lol
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7th November 2012, 15:00 | #55 |
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Spoken like a nigger-loving godless librul communist.
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7th November 2012, 15:53 | #57 |
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Best projections are always at http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
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7th November 2012, 16:21 | #62 |
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remember that the west coast is blue, while atm they are going through all the redneck states which go red. Romney losing Pennsylvania and Ohio will be the nail in the coffin if it happens, and it is looking that way so far. Florida recount again incoming...
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7th November 2012, 17:19 | #68 |
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Poor Mike McRoberts. A Pakistani looking dude in a losing Romney camp.
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Youtube has livestreams of a few news networks, and a few shitty social media shitholes on its "main" page at the moment too. Yay for unlimited youtubes on snap
Watching AlJazeera via youtube personally.
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7th November 2012, 17:47 | #71 |
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John Stewart has a live feed from 1pm (NZT)
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7th November 2012, 17:52 | #72 |
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Hoo-boy, neck and neck in Florida - O 49.7 to R 49.5 with 92% reporting. That shit ain't gonna get decided this week.
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7th November 2012, 17:56 | #73 |
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Watching the huffpost stream atm. Good info and bonus eyecandy.
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7th November 2012, 18:10 | #77 |
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This just in: Apple Maps projects Obama to win Chile.
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7th November 2012, 18:13 | #78 |
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It's interesting how the news networks have slightly different electoral vote results. Are they using officially announced results or projections? Or a mix?
Anyway, Obama is currently on 244 to Romney's 200ish... looking good for Obama in the important swing states too.
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7th November 2012, 18:15 | #79 |
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Fox & NBC call Ohio for Obama.
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