No big surprises as of yet. Predictions?
Massachusetts adopted medical marijuana. Colorado and Washington look like they might legalize it. Missouri passed a 'Health insurance exchange ban'. Washington approved same-sex marriage! What the hell is the 'mandatory health insurance rejection' that passed in Montana?
I don't think Missouri can do that. States can't supersede federal law (supremecy clause in constitution). This will go to the courts. I wonder if the people of miss know that they're costing themselves money by rejecting the health law. Poor states have the most to gain.
no, but they do know that Obama is a muslim that wants to impart sharia law in Jackson. mk, My apologies, apparently NBC did not definitively call Virginia. It's close though.
NBC. Brian Williams. Also all the Right is accepting defeat. He also got Virginia
Yeah, but who knows, the major news networks have improperly called victory before. So much hate and anger on the Right in the chat rooms. It's really disturbing stuff.
This is the main reason why I was not even worried about a clear path to victory for Obama in all the pre-election media hyping a 'close race'. I wasn't really even too plugged into the Nate Silver hype, but I was just looking at all the polls in the aggregate by state (popular vote obv doesn't matter). All the polling pointed to Obama in extremely good shape, with a lot of close swing states that were leaning towards Obama. A statistically significant surprise won't raise an eyebrow. Two might. Multiple swing states polling and trending consistently for Obama all being wrong...I'm sorry, but the term "statistically significant" means something, and you don't want to be on the wrong side of it at the blackjack table. I wasn't surprised to learn that Silver's approach was stats based and aggregated state polls to minimize error. I didn't really have an opinion of my own on how the states were going to go. My opinion was really just whatever aggregate polls were saying. That's it. I thought Florida was going Romney only because I stopped reading the polls a couple days before the election. I guess Sliver swapped it from Romney to Obama the night before based on the latest aggregates. And that's all you really need to know.
It's funny, in a way 2016 begins now. That's how crazy this process has become. As for the house, I'm not sure too much will change really. Why should it? They still have to face their electorate, they still have to make sure that whomever gets the GOP nod in 2016 can say, "enough is enough". 2016 starts now and the House is a big part of that.
NBC just called NC for Mitt. Seems all O needs is to pull Ohio or FL or CO. Where as R needs to get all of the above, right?
Yeah, I might be right about Virginia! Take that Nate Silver. (He had it 79.4% Obama) It currently looks like Obama is going to take it. He just got PA, and Ohio looks bad for Romney. That's almost a wrap right there. Interestingly, 5 of 6 of our ballot proposals in MI were soundly defeated, and the last is a toss-up. I'm not unhappy. I like the state rejecting that type of governance.
I visit an uber-right wing chat room occasionally and they're all going to bed. This morning they were talking amazing amounts of trash, now not so much. It will be interesting to see who was the closest in the hubski election predictions
It's hard following this without cable. It's nice to switch between the channels and get the viewpoints of the pundits just this one day of the year. I'm watching an NBC stream.
Yeah, it really is. Could be less than 50k votes deciding. That's not a lot. I think of Michigan Football Stadium and that's less than 1/2 of the stadium in a very big state. Seems Romney needs to sweep the rest of the "contested" states.