The Grand Election Thread

[celedhring]

Irish bookie Paddypower calling it for Obama and paying out the bets already.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/obama-wins-paddy-power-irish-bookmaker-pays-bets_n_2081975.html

It's a publicity stunt, albeit an expensive one if Romney wins.

[Caliga]

I was being facetious. 

[lustindarkness]

Did we really need another election thread?

[Gups]

Also, Fox News has just called the election for Romney.

Where?  I just checked their website and didn't see anything.

They seem mainly concerned with black panthers and a mural of Obama at a polling station in Philly.

Gearing up for calling foul.

[Tamas]

Did we really need another election thread?

This is THE election thread. The others were impossible to follow. Here is where the important things are posted. Ignore everything else.

[Caliga]

This election thread beets the other election threads.

[Eddie Teach]

Like gypsies, election news must be free to move around from thread to thread. 

[garbon]

Like gypsies, election news must be free to move around from thread to thread. 

+1

[The Minsky Moment]

This is the one to check if you are hungary for the latest and best election commentary. 
The other are not as horthy of your attention.

[Tamas]

[CountDeMoney]

So I voted.  Definitely the best time of day to go.

Naturally, I voted against Romney.  Also went with Ben Cardin for Senate, and my main man and congressman Dutch Ruppersburger, the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and an anti-Chinese IP stealing Democrat even Republicans can love, and he gets along with Mike Rogers. You may remember him from 60 Minutes a few weeks back over that whole Huawei thing.  A responsible, sensible member of Congress.  One day, I'd like to see him fist Michelle Bachmann with Peter King's forehead.

But more importantly that the shoo-in Democrats in the People's Republic of Maryland were the ballot initiatives.

Voted for the Maryland Dream Act, which allows the children of illegals who are technically illegals themselves who finish high school in 3 years, as opposed to 4, to qualify for in-state tuition rates for Maryland public universities.

Despite the extremely annoying self-centered and selfish majority of Languishite pillowbiters, I voted for the Same-Sex Marriage Amendment.  Fags have the universal and human right to have their marriages in participating churches legally recognized by the state, and to be as miserable as every other married couple I know.

Voted against the really big issue of expansion of casino gambling under the questionable auspices of enhancing the education budget.  It's bullshit:  casinos are in the business of making money for casinos, not schools.  And besides, how do we get to the point in a society when something as basic and fundamental as public education has to be supplemented by a participatory sin tax?  I don't believe in enabling addictive behavior aimed a a particular subset of society, and you know who the fuck I'm talking about.  If we want to fund public schools, tax everybody through the nutsack equally.

Also voted for all the ballot initiatives for floating bonds and borrowing money for various initiatives, since Bigger Government is Better.


I then celebrated America with my "I Voted" sticker, and hit McDonald's to try their new Cheddar, Bacon and Onion Angus burger.  Democracy never tasted so good.

[Eddie Teach]

I then celebrated America with my "I Voted" sticker, and hit McDonald's to try their new Cheddar, Bacon and Onion Angus burger.  Democracy never tasted so good.

That sounds good, even if it is McDonald's.

[MadImmortalMan]

Voted against the really big issue of expansion of casino gambling under the questionable auspices of enhancing the education budget.  It's bullshit:  casinos are in the business of making money for casinos, not schools.  And besides, how do we get to the point in a society when something as basic and fundamental as public education has to be supplemented by a participatory sin tax?

It's not that. It's just in vogue to put education and schools on every proposed tax increase. I guess it sells better that way.

[DontSayBanana]

Democratic down the line.  Didn't intend for it to come out that way, but the NJ Republicans in question have been really shitty.  Yes to both ballot questions for NJ (state can match funds for college projects, state can withhold benefit contributions from justices' and judges' salaries).

[CountDeMoney]

I then celebrated America with my "I Voted" sticker, and hit McDonald's to try their new Cheddar, Bacon and Onion Angus burger.  Democracy never tasted so good.

That sounds good, even if it is McDonald's.

Well, it was a certainly more reliable choice than that shitty Diebold machine with its Access 2.0 database I voted on.  At least at McD's I know my choice won't result in a fucking NULL string.