From CBS News:
After a four-day count with neck-and-neck tallies, President Obama was declared the winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes Saturday, earning 50 percent to Mitt Romney's 49.1 percent, according to the Secretary of State's office.
The victory puts the president ' who had clinched reelection Tuesday night even without Florida ' at a final 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. It also marks his sweep of eight of the nine swing states, with North Carolina his only battleground loss.
The final election results, which also show President Obama with a comfortable 3 million vote-plus lead in the popular vote, are stunning because of the way they completely subverted the expectations of the mainstream political press, who almost uniformly predicted a razor-thin electoral race to be decided by Ohio, and a likely popular vote win by Mitt Romney. This election is also stunning in that, four days ago, we almost elected a guy president whom we can barely remember four days later. While it is fair to interpret this victory as a mandate for President Obama, and for Democratic policies, it's also fair to say that this election has underscored the fact that almost half of America will, to paraphrase Dennis Hopper's Frank Booth, elect anything that moves.
Now that Republicans no longer have to pretend that they like Mitt Romney, they really ought to go back and take stock of the many things that should have completely disqualified him for the presidency, even things which were largely ignored, like his hidden camera remarks about the Mideast peace process. In concert with that long, painful inventory, they should also remember that Romney only managed to secure the nomination by dumping metric tons of political napalm on an endless string of candidates who were even more ill-suited than he was. The noises you hear from Republicans these days are about fine-tuning their message, but this election should be telling them that they don't need a few tweaks here and there, they need a whole new script.
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Obama won the popular AND electoral vote. Mitt didn't stand a goddamn chance. Thankfully, most people saw through his excessive lies and pandering.
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The party's over.
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Let them blame Mitt for everything so we can all sit back and see another resounding GOP loss to Hillary in 2016.
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mandate? you must be kidding
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LAND.
SLIDE.
Just like 2008.
President Obama, you have earned political capital. now go spend it.
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It's funny how baggers like Palin and Santorum said this was the most important election of our lifetime but now that they lost the crap out of it they are trying to play it down.
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well technically, it will be a tax.
'ObamaCares is the law of the land.'
-GOP Leader John Boehner-
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Bush claimed a mandate with a smaller win and every one of those genius pundits who were calling for a Romney landslide of similar proportions were saying that he'd have a mandate to govern as he wanted.
I guess mandates only work when they're Republican, huh, bagger?
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Forget about Florida. look at what's happening in Arizona. What a freakin' mess!
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What's also very troubling for Teapublicans in this loss is that they lost Cuban-Americans, too. That's probably a first.
And Chuck Todd says that hispanics will make Arizona a swing state by 2016.
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just think.
President Obama could, just for fun, concede Ohio AND Florida right now to Romney and he'd STILL win re-election !
yup, its a mandate.
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Who is Mitt Romney? Sounds familiar'
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what did sheriff arapio do now?
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he's the guy who won the first presidential debate in 2012.
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Simple: working folks and educated folks voted for Obama. The blue counties in Florida contain the major centers of education in the state.
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They still have half million votes not counted. People protesting everyday'
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And to think Fox news and its viewers thought it would be Romney in a route. What a sad and pathetic bunch of ignorant sheep.
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But still no mandate?
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Obama concedes AZ to Romney.
done.
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The President carried 26 states and 50.6 % of the vote. I don't call that a landslide or a mandate. I call it a comfortable win engineered by individuals who are the cutting edge of 21 century politics.
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They only lost because they weren't CONSERVATIVE enough.
Akin/Mourdock 2016!
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Romney believed it too. It's the bubble.
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It's about local races there.
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Your dear leader claimed it with over a million fewer votes and 46 fewer electoral college votes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1wppZUClpE
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'I am now predicting a 330-vote electoral college landslide for Mitt Romney.'
'Larry Kudlow
'We're going to win in a landslide..My own view is that Romney is going to carry 325 electoral votes.'
'Dick Morris
'I'm projecting Minnesota to go for Romney in a 321-217 landslide.'
'George Will
When is a landslide not a landslide? When republiklans lose in a landslide.
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it is the law, and yes it is a tax
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thats nice, to bad i am not Bush or a pundit, so what they say means nothing to me'''..and if Obama had a mandate, his party would have won control of the House
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he was also your dear leader
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why Henry do you quote other people that have no relationship to what jumpy feels, since he said 'I'
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'you know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win, and you have to ask which one?'
-alec baldwin-
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Because you guys are living in the Nile and it's funny.
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I don't subscribe to most Republicans' view of reality. They thought 2004 was landslide, and Bush II didn't even get over 300.
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if republicans only understood the PHYSICS behind landslides, they wouldn't be so surprised when they occurred in their neighborhoods.
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President Obama poked it with a needle.
POOF !
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how? because he doesn't share your opinion'as he states exactly why he feels it not a mandate'.tell us why you think it is
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Sore loser much?
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And yes it's the law of the land.
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I picture he and his whole family sitting around the television on Saturday nights with a big bowl of unsalted, unbuttered popcorn and a gallon of milk watching that debate over and over again on tivo'The whole staff, maids and butlers, gathered around in the foyer laughing uncontrollably and Ann shouts back at them, 'Stop it'Stop it, this is hard.'
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Republicans won the House because they were able to redraw district lines to ensure their incumbents were reelected. Not making excuses; it's just a fact of how the system works. Republicans admit as much. Dems received over 550,000 more votes in the House overall.
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It's a landslide''..you're a sore loser.
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i said that ..it's a law, it's a tax
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Because he won the EC by 100+ points, won all of the swing states except NC, and did it despite the fact that you guys were working hard to prevent his base from voting.
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not sore'.and you are a dumbass troll'go get your government cheese idiot
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It was a fee when Willard made it the law in MA. Have you forgotten the anointed one so quickly?
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President Obama recieved fewer electoral college delegates and fewer popular votes in 2012 than he did in 2008'..so no landslide, no mandate'.prevent from voting'lol
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Yeah it is disgraceful what they did there, pushing people to fill out provisional ballots. Could end up affecting the senate and the congress, not to mention all the other down ticket races.
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It's a fee''you're a sore loser.
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Angry sore bagger loser''wahhhh!
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Landslide'..you sore loser.
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it was a tax, at least thats what the President told the Supreme Court
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nope, just laughing at a loser like you that probably lives in Sec.8 housing
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It's a fee, it's considered a penalty not a tax'..you soreloser.
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The Supreme Court and President Obama disagrees with you
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I wonder if there has ever been a presidential campaign who lost by 126 electoral votes while actually believing on election night they were going to win. It is very strange.
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It's the bubble.
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hey troll boy, i know you dont believe facts'go outside and play
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The media.
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troll much dumbass
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It's a landslide'..and your disgusting party is swirling down the toilet'.you angry bagger sore loser.
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If Rmoney had won with those magins,you'd call it a landslide and a mandate for batshit wingnuttery,no doubt about it.
Freaking wingnuts are so hilarious.Carry on,wingnut.
*drink*
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just like you believe your Sec 8 housing is really owned by you troll boy'lol
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Yea,that's also true.The media and the Bubble '.:)
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really Miss Cleo? wow you are amazing dumbass
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So what'..it's considered a penalty and not a tax'..except inside that tiny baggger brain of yours.
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Reminds me of an army joke from the 80s:
Two soviet generals are sitting in Paris.
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I still say that is a comfortable victory rather than a mandate. If the political definition of landslide nowadays is winning by 100 then so be it. I'm just remembering the majorities that Reagan and Bush won by in the 1980s. Clinton did quite well in the 1990s too.
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except the Supreme Court, which considers it a tax
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Just don't ever forget'..no one from your failed disgusting ideology will ever be elected POTUS ever again'..chew on it sore loser.
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lol
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So what, it's defined clearly as a penalty''you angry hysterical sore loser bagger.
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It's the only thing he won, thank God.
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lol'so what? lol
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I blame the FOX NEWS.
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That's a nice wingnut comeback there'empty.Like you brain.
Keep it up,you're funny,wingnut.Laughing is good for the soul
*drink*
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The truly troubling statistic for the GOP is Cuban born Americans voted for Romney 55% to 45% .. American born Cuban Americans voted for Obama 60% to 40%.. The gap between young Cubans and new arrival cubans to their parents and grand parents political leanings is beginning to swing in a major way.. The GOP can no longer just book the Cuban American vote in Florida anymore.. Overall Obama gained 13% in the Cuban American vote this year.. That's major.. With other latino groups growing in Florida as well the GOP is in big trouble..
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well since you can read minds and predict the future'.oops, no you cant, you are just a dumbass that thinks he can
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And you?
You're just another hysterical desperate rabid drooling sore loser. -
Or lack there of.
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'They [Arizona] still have half million votes not counted. People protesting everyday''
And the number of uncounted votes kept going up for some odd reason.
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and you are nothing but a sponge, you live off of other people's hard work'so whats your point roafer?
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When Dick Morris told his hapless FOX audience to expect a Romney LANDSLIDE, how many stayed home and didn't bother voting? lol
Dick Morris must be some kind of double-agent pundit.
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Let me translate that for the normal people'
'Derp'derp derp'derp derp derp''
You're welcome.
*drink*
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'Who is Mitt Romney? Sounds familiar' '
He's that guy who just sold his soul and still came up short.
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Landslide and may yet contest Arizona.
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If Romney had won, by less, only then would it have been a landslide. lol
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Intrade had it right.
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and yet recieved fewer votes than he did in 2008'
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are you roafer's twin brother? you are just as stupid
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