Call the Electoral Vote

[Ideologue]

What should I do with my fifty bucks?  I think I'll send to the government.

[Ed Anger]

What should I do with my fifty bucks?  I think I'll send to the government.

[garbon]

Florida is gonna be the shit state again, Obama is leading by slightly over 300 votes, after 78% of the polls opened. 

Nah.  Obama has Florida locked up.

Nonsense.  Plenty of absentee ballots to be thrown out yet.

Jeez , we all knew that Obama had this in the bag for a while now.  The campaign is over and the votes are being counted.  Can you drop the fake 'I don't know if Obama's going to win' pose yet?  You don't need to pretend to be cool.  This is Languish, not Hipsterland.

[Kleves]

Well, hopefully Obama won't fuck things up any more than he already has. Also, hopefully the Republican party will take this opportunity to become more, rather than less, sane.

[Viking]

Well, hopefully Obama won't fuck things up any more than he already has. Also, hopefully the Republican party will take this opportunity to become more, rather than less, sane.

meh, they'll just blame Romney for being a bad candidate and claim that ACORN stole the election, given all the blacks who voted. The GOP will continue to spiral down until they realize that the tax and sex fanatics can't have a veto on candidates if the party is to be sane.

[Sheilbh]

Also, hopefully the Republican party will take this opportunity to become more, rather than less, sane.

I worry not.  I think they'll see this as a repudiation of moderation (especially if, as it seems, white evangelicals didn't turn out the way they did for Bush and McCain - possibly anti-Mormon bigotry be damned) and they'll probably do well in 2014.  So they'll point to that election and 2010 as proof they just need to be purer.

On the upside for Republicans they've got a lot of talent in 2016.  Downside is I think they're were the Labour party was in the 80s.

[Kleves]

I worry not.

Republicans thinking they have to get more extreme would be an insane reaction. I wish I could say that I didn't think it was likely.

[Kleves]

I wonder if Obama will promise to harness the sun and to stop the rise of the oceans again in his victory speech.

[CountDeMoney]

On the upside for Republicans they've got a lot of talent in 2016.

The two, or possibly even three, Supreme Court Justices Obama may have the opportunity to nominate will be much more important.

Besides, the Democrats will have a fine field of their own.

I just hope that Chris Christie doesn't suffer immense damage with the GOP over doing his fucking job.

[Sheilbh]

Besides, the Democrats will have a fine field of their own.

I disagree.  The Democrats, at this point, have a weak, weak field for 2016.

[CountDeMoney]

Besides, the Democrats will have a fine field of their own.

I disagree.  The Democrats, at this point, have a weak, weak field for 2016.

There is an Irishman from Maryland....

[11B4V]

Go home Mittens....

[dps]

Besides, the Democrats will have a fine field of their own.

I disagree.  The Democrats, at this point, have a weak, weak field for 2016.

Both parties have fielded a weak line-up for the past decade and more.

[Sheilbh]

Both parties have fielded a weak line-up for the past decade and more.

I think 2008 was strong: Clinton v Obama and McCain, Giuliani, Romney and Huckabee.  2012 and 2004 were weak, 2000 was sadly a bit fixed rather than weak.  '92 seems impressive to me too.

I think the Republicans have stars in 2016, especially Christie, Ryan and Rubio.

[CountDeMoney]

And the Dems could field Cuomo, O'Malley, Mark Warner from Virginia, and there's always Hillary.

I really don't think Ryan would be the kind of GOP candidate that could succeed in a general election on his own;  he's Rick Santorum on the P90X program, without the sweater vest.