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BEST EVER!
ReplyDeleteThe International Front Pages: 'Obama Wins; Planet Relieved'.
ReplyDeletehttp://theobamadiary.com/2012/11/08/rise-and-shine-the-international-front-pages/#more-96748
What if that $400 million being doled out to printing companies, TV stations, staffers, phone companies for robocalls, production companies, video editors, graphic designers, radio stations, etc throughout the swing states ended up providing the very economic stimulus necessary to improve the local economy to the point that the voters stuck with Obama???
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/07/1158653/-Popcorn-Time-The-billionaire-donors-are-livid
Early on, i thought about the production people who are getting that money and using it to buy food, clothes, and taking vacations :)
DeleteIt's amazing what the billionaires' money will do when it isn't sitting dormant in an off-shore account.
She did forget the victory of Mourdork in Indiana.
ReplyDeleteThat would be the defeat of Mourdock.
DeleteDonnelly won in IN, right?
DeleteYes Donnelly (Blue Dog so don't be too excited) won in IN. Mourdock was never going to win and after his 'gift from God" shit he was as dead as a doornail.
DeleteYou are correct about "defeat;" I stand by Mourdork though.
DeleteI see what you did there @9:07!
DeleteDorks are pretty lovable people though. MourDORK... not so much. Mourdumbass is more like it.
And paul ryan kept his seat
DeleteWhinin'-Ryan kept his "seat" but he LOST the country. :D
DeleteBesides: no use for that whiner "keeping his seat" when he CAN'T even keep track of 21st century reality. G'bye, cry-babies:
Delete"GOP" now stands for "Gone Old Party". You folks can go 1st: Mittens Robme & Ann 'You People" Robme, Whinin' Ryan, the entire F**ks News Circle Jerk (aka "Media stars" - roflol), & almost ALL of the rest of the Big Six Media hosebags, no matter what they pretend to believe in when the cameras are on. The TRUE majority is, like, SO fed up with you freaks blaming things on a mythical "liberal media" when the Media as a whole [OMG what a hole] is actually owned by the Right Wing! Doubt this? Fact check it & see. If you still can't see it even when it pops up on your PC screen in front of you, you're still jerking. (Auto-erotic Asphyxiation having been proven BEYOND DOUBT this week to be the Right Wing's Permanently Most Popular Solo Sport.)
Besides: no use for that whiner "keeping his seat" when he CAN'T even keep track of 21st century reality. G'bye, cry-babies:
Delete"GOP" now stands for "Gone Old Party". You folks can go 1st: Mittens Robme & Ann 'You People" Robme, Whinin' Ryan, the entire F**ks News Circle Jerk (aka "Media stars" - roflol), & almost ALL of the rest of the Big Six Media hosebags, no matter what they pretend to believe in when the cameras are on. The TRUE majority is, like, SO fed up with you freaks blaming things on a mythical "liberal media" when the Media as a whole [OMG what a hole] is actually owned by the Right Wing! Doubt this? Fact check it & see. If you still can't see it even when it pops up on your PC screen in front of you, you're still jerking. (Auto-erotic Asphyxiation having been proven BEYOND DOUBT this week to be the Right Wing's Permanently Most Popular Solo Sport.)
The Most Accurate Polls
ReplyDeleteA Fordham University study ranked 28 polling firms on how their pre-election national surveys compared to the results on Election Day. The ranking:
1. PPP (D)
1. Daily Kos/SEIU/PPP
3. YouGov
4. Ipsos/Reuters
5. Purple Strategies
6. NBC/WSJ
6. CBS/NYT
6. YouGov/Economist
9. UPI/CVOTER
10. IBD/TIPP
11. Angus-Reid
12. ABC/WP
13. Pew Research
13. Hartford Courant/UConn
15. CNN/ORC
15. Monmouth/SurveyUSA
15. Politico/GWU/Battleground
15. FOX News
15. Washington Times/JZ Analytics
15. Newsmax/JZ Analytics
15. American Research Group
15. Gravis Marketing
23. Democracy Corps (D)
24. Rasmussen
24. Gallup
26. NPR
27. National Journal
28. AP/GfK
John Sides plots the data from the study on a nice chart
Tom Jensen of PPP told New York magazine the key to the firm's success: "We just projected that African-American, Hispanic, and young voter turnout would be as high in 2012 as it was in 2008, and we weighted our polls accordingly. When you look at polls that succeeded and those that failed that was the difference."
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/07/the_most_accurate_polls.html
That was beautiful! I think I'll hit replay a couple of times before sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI think a big problem with the media in this country is the shortage of real investigative journalists and reporters. With all the mergers and cuts to staff, they are mainly staffed with talking heads who merely read the latest news releases they have received. Why else would they have been talking about Mittmentum for so long after the first debate? Congressional republicans blew it for the last 4 years by obstructing everything that came before them from Obama even if it was originally a republican idea. They were counting on ignorant voters with short memories. Meanwhile the democrats were quietly pounding the pavement, making calls, and convincing citizens to vote.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see this. It was amazing. Thanks, Jesse!
ReplyDeleteMaddow is dead on!!! She is a brilliant young woman.
ReplyDeleteI felt like I was destroying an archival treasure, when I hit the "delete" button, after watching the Maddow show referenced here.
ReplyDeleteI had "taped" (PVR'd?) this episode, knowing I'd be out, and got to see it later...mouthdropped through the entire first segment.
She managed to encapsulate the situation in perfect fashion, without "crowing" as much as was justifiably deserved.
While I would have felt better if well OVER half the populace had spoken with their vote to reject the utter bullshit propaganda of corporations, just knowing there were at least 50% of people too smart to get sucked in, was a relief.
Yes: especially since the caught-on-tape/radio/print BS from Right Wing Media reveals ALLLLLL their idiotic Media Porn Stars predicting on Tuesday night that it would be a "mandate" for Robme if HE won by the EXACT SAME margin Obama just won by Tuesday night. And -- >>gurk!<< -- well well well: surprise, surprise! Now that it proved to be just what the most intellectually robust polls indicated -- i.e. that OBAMA initially won by that very same margin -- suddenly those same right wing hypocrites are saying it's "NOT a mandate"! (roflol) :D
DeleteAs Rachel said: if GOP-types don't wake up, like, "real soon y'all",
they'll be 150% extinct so quickly they won't even know what hit them. (Oh. Wait: Garsh, it's Saturday now & they STILL don't know what hit them, so Rachel, Ed, & Lawrence ALL predicted this w/ pinpoint accuracy; & the Goners' sauto-erotic asphyxiation just Keeps On Growing. THANK YOU, GOD! :D :D
NB: Equally hilarious is the fact that as the additional votes came in, & in some cases are still coming in even today, [e.g.OH, FL, AZ, et cetera], ANOTHER thing that just Keeps On Growing is Obama's Mandate-Margin. :D :D :D
Ahhhhh. Delicious! How does that hymn go? "Peace... is like a riiiiver....".
Thank you, American majority, for believing in progress no matter HOW suppressive those treasonous Gone Old Party state officials made it. I shall proudly tell my grandchildren someday that on 11/06/12, Americans successfully fought off yet another fascist-coup attempt from the Auto-Destructo's of Amerika, the GOP-believing corporate & individual nutburgers.
Sign me --
Yet ANOTHER History-Reading Independent Voter
w/ No Mercy For Fascists
Pssst: And if you right wing jerkers think that just means I can't still vote as an Independent for whomever I want to in the future, that just proves you STILL don't understand what it means to have the right to vote! Perfect example of why the GOP is dying on the vine.)
PPS: "Crowing"? You "betcha", to quote yet another delusional right wing sociopath, Failin'-Palin. Indeed I am SO PROUD of what my country has achieved through this election, I'll crow as long as I darn well feel like it. Waiting until we made sure Obama got re-elected by a STILL-growing Mandate Majority makes this Crow-Job ABOUT TIME. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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I was also shocked and overjoyed when I heard Maddow list all of the wins! I had to come here so I could WATCH her list them too! Thanks!
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ReplyDeleteThis is O/T but I had to share. Nancy French finds out Mitt Romney lost.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1107/breaking7.html
Here are more pics of Nancy (#25 and #27 of 41):
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/07/us-election-2012-
romney-supporters_n_2087016.html#slide=1729793
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/07/us-election-2012-romney-supporters_n_2087016.html#slide=1729795
Nancy must be taking Romney's devastating defeat really hard as she has not ghostwritten any recent posts for the Bristol Palin Blog.
DeleteSeriously, how does she get time off from groveling at the Palins' feet for their table scraps?
DeleteSo, I'm guessing Nancy set up President Obama as the big Black boogie man. Otherwise, why would her son look about to cry?
DeleteOT.. the donors are demanding where the $400 million they gave to Rove went. Other major Rep donors also gave to advertising, etc. I hope they do the same with Sarah, multi millions and she gave 1.7 to candidates....
ReplyDeleteI thought that last night's Rachel Maddow show was THE BEST EVER. Just wanted to happy dance through the night. I also enjoyed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. But Rachel really told the story of the 2012 election. And Mitt Romney thinks he lost because of the hurricane . . . .
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
The Pundits and Strategists Were Wrong; Nate Silver Was Right
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83569.html#ixzz2Bed7QkZc
Take A Look At The Romney Transition Website That Briefly Went Live
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mediaite.com/online/take-a-look-at-the-romney-transition-website-that-briefly-went-live/
The reason why the picture is familiar to me is because I've had it as my desktop picture for almost 4 years now. The original picture can be found on the US Capitol's flickr site: Presidential Inauguration.
The Inauguration of President Barack H. Obama, 44th president of the United States, on the West Front of the Capitol. January 20, 2009.
Now I would have thought Team Romney would have chosen a picture from the inauguration of Reagan, Bush the elder, or Bush the lesser, but instead they went with who would actually win the election.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/07/1158664/-Romney-s-WH-Transition-Website-Surprise
Very telling of Mitt's confidence that his backers $$$$$ off the election.
DeleteDuring the lead up to voting day, I saw this on someone's twitter feed, can't give a h/t or credit the writer, but I thought it was clever
Santroum - Romney writes one speech
Obama writes two
What a SnOB!!!
White People Mourning Romney
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Nancy French's pic is all over the internet.
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Semi OT, but for those shaking their heads over Boehner's win and Newt's claim that Tan Man rec'd a "mandate", he ran unopposed in a custom designed district. If I hadn't been afraid that they'd invalidate my ballot, I'd have written in ABSOLUTELY NOT!
ReplyDeleteRomneyworld reckoning begins
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83549.html
“We didn’t think they’d turn out more of their base vote than they did in 2008, but they smoked us,” said one Romney operative. “It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more from the African-American community than in 2008. Somehow they got ‘em to vote.”
African-Americans supported Obama nearly universally, but Obama still only won Ohio by 1.9 percent.
“We just didn’t see the enthusiasm with their base,” he added. “We had enthusiasm on our side. So we thought, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna win this.’ … We hit our numbers in rural areas. When Fox called it, we still thought we had a chance based on what we could figure was in and what was still out.”
Shows how stupid the Republicans are: "Somehow they got 'em to vote." African-Americans are citizens and are eligible to vote and are generally better informed than most GOP voters!
DeleteBeaglemom
That should have read ..."somehow they got 'em to vote DESPITE US!
Delete"...didn't see the enthusiasm with their base", huh? That's because you never bothered to look, you arrogant assholes. You thought you had the machines sufficiently rigged and the people intimidated and invalidated. Wrong, again!
“It’s unbelievable that that they turned out more from the African-American community than in 2008. Somehow they got ‘em to vote.”
DeleteSo, after the *shocking* level of racism that the Republicans trotted out over the last four years aimed at the first black president, it's surprising that African American voters were *more* motivated now? These people are nuts. Every person of color in this country has just witnessed a rise of racism in the public discourse that defied all expectation and hasn't been seen since the civil rights era. How is it surprising that they are now even more galvanized? I, personally, have heard shit come out of the mouths of family members that left me stunned and appalled. No shit minorities get it.
Garbage in, Garbage out. Romney relied on the GOP's people to run the campaign. President Obama used the census, the numbers from the last election, and tons of data mining to run a flawless, well oiled, targeted ground game.
DeleteHe didn't "smoke" them, he burnt them.
Romney Planned Victory Fireworks Show Over Boston Harbor
ReplyDeletehttp://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/romney-planned-victory-fireworks-show-over-boston-harbor
The fact that 100% of MSNBC’s audience and 80% of CNN audience watched President Obama, while 80% of the Fox News audience switched away speaks volumes not only about who these Fox News viewers are, but also their unwillingness to listen to the President’s message.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/fox-news-obama-victory-speech.html
Lord and god of the algorithm Nate Silver explains how his election forecasts got it right, and why others got it wrong.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-7-2012/nate-silver
AP: Jared Loughner Setenced To Life In Prison For AZ Shooting
ReplyDeletehttp://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/ap-jared-loughner-setenced-to-life-in-prison
Jared Loughner was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for shooting former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others nearly two years ago in Tucson, Ariz., the AP reports.
Reuters reports Loughner was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms in addition to 140 years in prison.
Graphic: Geography Of The Popular Vote
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The best men and women won. End of story.
ReplyDeleteRachel is brilliant. She's one person I truly admire as a reporter. She does her homework, checks her work, and rarely fails to deliver a great program. When she makes an error, she's the first to point it out and correct herself, no matter how trivial the detail may seem.
ReplyDeleteThis was one of her best. I'm so glad we got more treat women in the senate.
Just in case you cannot see the video here, you can view it on you tube:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4699sVXbBo