US Presidential Election: Tuesday November 6th, 2012

Red Dreams

I'm sure Citizens United made this country better

Anyway I love this ad...which is truly inspirational. It made my day

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Neutral

gooDevil

Colbert on Friday reported that 49% of the donations to Romney were from 22 people. The suggestion was that these 22 people were being allowed to buy a candidate.

Neutral

Think once Obama gets into things, it'll be the same for him(despite individual contributions being a big factor for him last time), Warren Buffet will be a major contributor.

Cali Red

Not exactly true but I see where you're coming from. More than likely it buys them a job in his administration if he were to win.

Red Dreams

Santorum winning all the caucuses tonight...

Santorum won Colaroda, Missouri and Minnesota.

Romney will still be the nominee...but what a slap down for him.

brad-dyrak

I heard a report on NPR that sussed out the number$ as they stand a few days ago. The telling bit was that though Obama was getting comparable dough already, it was largely coming from the <= $200 donations whereas Romney's were from just a few heavy hitters. I expect someone on here can find a clever graph or summat.

Drainy

reminds me of The Thick of it where the politician is involved in a minor corruption scandal and accidentally gets caught for photos in front of a big sign that says 'bent'

Cali Red

This must spell the end for Newt then. I'm pretty surprised really with Santorum winning.

Cali Red

Just saw no delegates are actually won tonight. So no one really wins or loses here.

Wittmann45

Romney on right now...anyone want to bet that he brings up America the Beautiful

Wittmann45

Whenever he speaks, in the back of my mind, all I can hear is Tim from the Office saying "You're a cock, you're a cock"

mjs020294

As much as I dislike Romney I do respect the way he and his father achieved their success. He is a half decent guy deep down but a bit of a fake republican cock on the outside. Obama will chew him a new one mind.

Wittmann45

Did someone just try to knife Romney??

Raoul

Some one just threw glitter on him and was subdued by the secret service.

Raoul

Santorum wins Colorado as well.

Mitt is such a weak candidate.

Neutral

Saw the tweets that said, with 60% of the votes counted, Romney had drawn level at 37%...I go away for 45 minutes, and he fell back again?

Plechazunga

Jesus Christ, what just happened?

I didn't see that coming

Raoul

Its really ominous that Romney didn't win Colorado. He trounced McCain with 60% of the vote four years ago. Furthermore, there are good number of Mormons in the northern and western parts of the state. For me, this is a sign that Conservatives (Mormon or otherwise) are really apprehensive about Mitt, to the point where they may not be sufficiently energized to turn out to vote on November's election day.

cinc

Gingrich is finished for sure now.

Raoul

Newt wasn't on the ballot in one of the three states. Knowing his ego, he's likely to interpret Santorum's wins as a sign that voters prefer a conservative over a moderate, which will be a sign to him that he's still in it.

africanspur

Surely conservatives can appreciate though that, even as he will inevitably swing to the centre when he wins the nomination and therefore away from their ideals, Romney presents their best chance of knocking the devil out of the White House?

Why are they still voting for nutters like Santorum?

Neutral

Because for some, Romney is no better than Obama, to them ROMNEY is a RINO(which is true tbf).

cinc

Yeah, but he's delusional.

gooDevil

You have to be pretty motivated to vote in the primaries, we're talking some 10% of the numbers that will be counted in the Presidential race for each party. My impression is that it's the more extremist and especially the more evangelical elements that are backing Santorum. He passes the 'Real Evangelical Nutter' acid test better than the others, as Iowa proved.

Red Dreams

Romney defintely lost though.

He is the presumptive nominee. Utter disaster for him.

He will limp to the nomination.

Rick Santorum Sweeps Colorado, Missouri, Minnesota, Embarrassing Romney

Red Dreams

loved some of the posts..

"Just when you hit the bottom of barrel there is always the sub-baseme*nt...hence*, Santorum. "

"Gonna need more popcorn! "

Excal

I wondered if headline writers were going to be able to resist the temptation if and when Santorum won an election. Answer: Nope.

Red Dreams

the surge is definitely premature.

Raoul

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Sir Matt

cinc

Fuck me, thats incredibly stupid

gooDevil

I prefer the Ramadan cards with Buddha quotes.

niMic

Fake, surely?

ooeat0meoo

As the Clown Car pulled up to meet at the Washington Marriott Wardmen Hotel, this past week... I took the opportunity to bring my new chief editor for Occupied News Network to this event to get a feel for rank and file conservative voters...

To summarize the general feeling - There were lots of sad faces surrounding the clown car at CPAC. The person in the video below captures the general distaste for candidates like Governor Mitt Romney. Romney has the money edge on all the other candidates, and the conservatives were not pleased with Romney being a flip-flopper and the best chances of going up against Obama.

Santorum Support Rips Romney at CPAC (Good One) - YouTube

Raoul

This pretty much sums the Conservative anxieties with Romney. They know he's an unelectable flip-flopping moderate.

cinc

Every GOP candidate still standing is unelectable in the general election.

Plechazunga

That's bollocks, Romney is electable, unfortunately. The primaries have shown him to be less smooth than was thought, but he's still clever, good-looking, untouched by scandal, and his record is moderate by US standards. Plus he has highly presidential hair.

If unemployment keeps falling it's Obama's. But that's not in his hands... next week we may find out if the Euro's fucked once and for all. If it is, the US recovery will probably fail, and then we'll see how unelectable Romney is.

Raoul

One normally needs a strong degree of support from the base in order to win a general election. For example, Romney is polling exceptionally poor in the south to where Obama may actually retain states like Virginia and North Carolina.

Plechazunga

Sure, but once he's set in stone as the NotObama candidate they'll get more enthusiastic.