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America Votes: The Midterm Elections; Republicans Take Senate, Hold House - Live Feed
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other" - Oscar Ameringer
- *'TIME TO TO START GETTING RESULTS': SPEAKER BOEHNER SAYS
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- *TILLIS WINS NORTH CAROLINA RACE, SECURING SENATE GOP MAJORITY
- *REID CONGRATULATES MCCONNELL ON REPUBLICAN SENATE WIN
- *REID SAYS MESSAGE FROM VOTERS IS PARTIES NEED TO WORK TOGETHER
Sen. Harry Reid statement on GOP taking Senate pic.twitter.com/uxzteAqajQ
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) November 5, 2014
As AP reports,
Republicans retained their House majority on Tuesday, expanding their numbers to near historic highs and giving the GOP control of both chambers of Congress.
The GOP knocked out Democratic incumbents in Georgia, West Virginia, Illinois, New York and Florida as President Barack Obama proved too much of a drag on his party in midterm elections. Republicans also claimed two open seats in New York and North Carolina.
Control of the House and Senate means an all-GOP Congress for Obama's last two years in office.
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State of Play:
House: 435 Seats, 43 Undecided, Results: Republicans 235 - 157 Democrats (Dem -8, Rep +10)
Senate: 100 Seats, 4 Undecided, Results: Republicans 52 - 45 Democrats/Independents (Dem -7, Rep +7)
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For The House: 218 of 435 Seats Needed for Majority; Current House: 199 (D); 233 (R); 3 Vacancies
For The Senate: 51 of 100 Seats Needed for Majority; Current Senate: 53 (D); 45 (R); 2 (I)
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NBC Live Feed
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JUST IN: NBC News projects Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives http://t.co/lvSdF0vhSj #NBCPolitics
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) November 5, 2014
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The key states:
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Details:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky won a sixth term Tuesday as his party eyes its best chance in eight years to take control of both houses of Congress.
Mr. McConnell’s win against a strong Democratic challenger marks the first big election result of the night and positions the 72-year-old as the Senate’s next majority leader if Republicans manage to wrest the chamber from the Democrats in Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Hoping to capitalize on an unpopular president and a favorable political map, the GOP needs a net addition of six seats to gain sway over the Senate.
“Victory is in the air, we’re going to bring it home tomorrow night,” Mr. McConnell said at a closing rally Monday in Louisville. “After six years of borrowing and taxing and spending and regulation, these people need to be stopped, and it starts tomorrow night.”
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Republicans have their first pick up of the evening:
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito defeats Democrat Natalie Tennant in race to succeed 5-term Democrat Jay Rockefeller, who is retiring.
Republicans need net gain of 6 seats to take control of Senate; analysts long had seen W. Va. pick-up likely for Republicans
Capito in 2000 became the first woman Republican to represent W.Va. in Congress; she is daughter of state’s former gov., Arch Moore
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For those onlookers who prefer to stay responsibly number, TIME has a drinking game to get through the rhetoric that fills 8 hours of TV coverage...
Here are TIME’s 2014 Election Night drinking game suggestions:
- “Ground game.” The key is to pace yourself. Drink one sip.
- An incumbent is described as “embattled.” Drink three sips.
- A Taylor Swift reference. Drink three.
- “It will all come down to turnout.” Finish your drink.
- John King doodles on his Magic Wall. Drink one.
- A network presents publicly available information as an exclusive. Drink three.
- Hologram sighting. Finish your drink.
- A Democratic dynasty candidate loses. This includes: Mark Begich, Jason Carter, Andrew Cuomo, Mary Landrieu, Michelle Nunn, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall. Drink one. Let’s not go crazy.
- Democrats win a battleground state: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire or North Carolina. Finish your drink.
- A winning candidate thanks God. Drink one.
- A winning candidate thanks his or her big donors. Drink three.
- A winning candidate thanks Barack Obama. Finish your drink.
- An anchor or correspondent cites an obscure, “crucial” county that may determine the fate of a race. Drink one.
- You’ve heard of the county. Drink three.
- Because you’ve heard of the county, you know the person touting its importance just mangled its name. Finish your drink.
- A Democratic pundit points to the history of midterm losses for a sitting president. Drink one.
- A Republican describes a win as a “mandate.” Drink one.
- Newt Gingrich uses an out-of-proportion superlative. Drink three.
- A media pundit advises Obama to “hit the reset button” or fire people who were in no way responsible for anything that transpired on Election Night. Finish your drink.
- A winning candidate praises an opponent that he or she has been brutally savaging for months. Drink one.
- The number of American flags on stage at a candidate’s victory speech exceeds the number of Electoral College votes in that state. Drink three.
- A winning candidate is not wearing a flag pin. Finish your drink.
- The number of on-screen pundits discussing the political impact of the Ebola virus exceeds the number the Americans with the Ebola virus. Finish your drink.
- Someone notes that there’s only 730 days until we do this again. It’s time to call it a night.
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AP's 5 Things To Watch For The Day After The Election... (via @NedraPickler )
SENATE RACES TO WATCH
Republicans marched steadily toward their goal of picking up six seats for control of the Senate, with a handful of outstanding races the determining factor. Democrats were looking to hold on by keeping Iowa and Alaska and hoping to pick up Georgia and Kansas. But one race won't be decided — Louisiana is heading to a Dec. 6 runoff.
OBAMA HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO
What word will President Barack Obama use to describe this election?
Four years ago he called his party's loss of the House a "shellacking."
Look to see if Obama follows the presidential tradition of holding a press conference the day after a midterm election. And since midterms tend to go against the party that occupies the White House, it's not usually a bright spot for presidents.
GRIDLOCK OR ACTION?
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell delivered a victory speech vowing to turn the country around.
But then McConnell added: "I don't expect the president to wake up tomorrow and view the world any differently than he did this morning. He knows I won't either."
Obama kicks off the new era by inviting congressional leaders to the White House Friday.
GOVERNORS FROM BOTH PARTIES LOOKING TO HOLD ON
Democrats got some early good news by unseating a Republican governor in Pennsylvania, while Arkansas switched to GOP control. Key races were outstanding across the country, including Wisconsin, Kansas, Georgia, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Illinois and Maine.
REPUBLICANS ON TRACK TO BUILD ON THEIR HOUSE MAJORITY
Watch to see whether the GOP can build their biggest House majority in the post-World War II era. Republicans are widely expected to grow their 234-seats beyond the 2010 tea party wave that led to 242 GOP representatives. If they can win more than 246 seats, they would exceed their numbers from 1947-49 Congress during the Truman administration.
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h/t @LibertyBlitz
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I thought the puprple finger was from shoving up your arsehole to stop the bleeding because you have ebola/obola and your blood has turned purple.
You voted...
Your honesty is good. Your discernment needs improvement.
By voting you validated a corrupt system. You support corruption. You gave your moral support to corruption.
The choice between the lesser of two evils is still a choice FOR EVIL.
You chose evil and so shall you reap that which you have sown.
You shall lose LIBERTY and FREEDOM as a result. You are still in the Matrix and an enemy of LIBERTY.
THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS. OPT OUT.
a step in the right direction is a step. To quote a genuis -
RIP John Lennon >
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know we all wanna change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know you better free your mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain't gonna make it with anyone, anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be alright
To know it's gonna be alright
Know it's gonna be alright
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other" - Oscar Ameringer
And anyone in the middle will get completely double screwed (to put it mildly) from both sides.
"What difference does it make?"
When all that's left are the bloody prints of your hands on a wall while screaming for God to save you.
Is this where the saying "Not even God will save you." originated? Naa. Good use for it though.
I hear that bro.
I ain't never goin back to prison again.
They'll never take me alive, I tell ya...Never.
Interesting that the usual Ebola death updates seem to be delayed until after the midterm elections.
Sweepstake ?
I'll take ten cases by tomorrow evening.
Ebola gets time off during elections. The hilarity is their ebola false flag was hurting Obola's poll numbers. So ebola was cancelled for now. Evil scum.
Ebola gets turned off during elections and the price of oil is magically driven downward.
What are the odds oil is more expensive in a month?
Yeah well too bad for McCockhead his 90lbs of post-election party cocaine was seized guess 15,000 bottles of the most expensive wine will have to do.
here in NoVa, go Gillespie.
Warner lost for Govoner previously, but today, the baggy old Fugly women who vote Obola like him . He may win -
NoVa
Why the down vote ? I voted. and I saw the other voters -
You voted.
Since the Voters can't seem to vote out the Corrupt We have defaulted to voting out the Voters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdfRRtAs3o
Make sure when you get done voting you wear your I voted sticker so you get that feeling of self statisfaction that you made a difference today. Plus you can be in a big club. Kind of like the ribbon for everthing club.
Kinda makes you wonder what reaction you'd get from the poll workers if you showed up to vote with four or five "I Voted Today" stickers already on your shirt.
dude. that is the best idea ever. Cover your shirt in them and then show up...
Sticker is worth a fresh
Krispy Kreme donut today.
No exit from the bipolar trap of plutocracy.
Fuck all you banker owned cocksucker motherfucker parasitical senatorial and congressional pieces of shit...
ur day is coming...
AMEN Kaiser. AMEN!!!
Soon, but not soon enough.
well said sir....I like the way you think
Amen. They will work together to fuck all of us over some more.
Tune in to the political kabuki theater and imagine all the poor deluded people thinking a result one way or another will make their life better.
I voted for Bernanke, but he was too smart to run again.
The late Dr. Stan Montieth , retired orthopedic surgeon and host of Radio Liberty out of Santa Cruz CA. stated in an interview on11/14/10 – “What is taking place in America is not happening by accident. There is an organized intentional effort to destroy the economy of our country. Now how can I make the statement? I read the plan. Where can you get the plan, It’s called the Earth Charter. It was written by Steven Rockefeller who is the nephew of David Rockefeller. And if you honestly believe that Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are the two wealthiest people in the United States why you have been reading Time Magazine too long. The real power belongs to the Rockefeller family they’ve been around for almost a hundred years. And basically the Rockefellers dominate Chase Manhattan Bank. David was the president of Chase Manhattan for many years. Now it’s J.P. Morgan Chase, they control CitiGroup, they control the major pharmaceutical companies, they control Exxon and Chevron. They control our major corporations and of course David Rockefeller’s Tri-Lateral Commission controls our government. How can I make that statement? Well you go back and read Barry Goldwater’s ---- With No Apologies…and on page 280 of that book Barry Goldwater says- You know the Council On Foreign Relations is domestic but the Tri-Lateral Commission is international. Their goal is to take over financial and commercial interests of the world by first seizing control of the government of the United States.(Barry Goldwater 1979) What have they done since then? Well the North American chapter of the Tri-Lateral Commission which was birthed by the Council on Foreign Relations in 1973. (And the Council on Foreign relations is a front for a secret society created by Cecil Rhodes back in 1891 dedicated to taking overt control of the world.) Cecil Rhodes wanted England to control the world and to bring America along. The plan changed after the First World War where America would take over the world and bring Great Britain along. You can find this documented in a book called Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In Our Time written by Professor Carol Quigley, a leading historian of the twentieth century. An historian who actually discovered the secret society that controls the world today. How do I know? Because I went back to Georgetown University in 1980, I went through Professor Quigley’s papers before they were censored and I found all of his correspondence with Sir Alfred Zimmern who was a member of this secret society and who told Professor Quigley all about this secret society and who was in it. And then of course in 1921 why, this secret society which had a front group called the ‘Round Table’ created the Council on Foreign Relations which then birthed the Bilderburger Group and then birthed the Tri-Lateral Commission in 1973. Of course at that time the chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations was David Rockefeller. David Rockefeller financed the Tri-lateral Commission and is the honorary chairman of the North American Chapter today. Now between 1977 and 2008 why every president and/or vice-president of the United States came from the membership roles of the Tri-Lateral Commission. Actually, six of the eight presidents of the World Bank; Eight of the ten American representatives to the World Trade Organization; Seven of the Twelve Secretaries of State and nine of the twelve secretaries of Defense all came from the membership roles of this North American Chapter of the Tri-Lateral Commission. And today twelve of these people surround Barrak Obama.
Don’t let them dissuade you. They point to Barack Obama –you know he’s a socialist. He’s a Muslim. He’s a communist. He was born in Kenya, he doesn’t have a right to be president…They are playing games with your mind. The important issue is that Barak Obama does what he is told. He is controlled by the Tri-Lateral commission. In fact General James Jones, a four Star Marine General who heads the National Security Council in a speech in February of this year (2010) at a Munich Security Conference talked about the chain of command in the National security Council (Now remember the head of the National Security Council, General James Jones meets with Barak Obama every day and tells him what to do.) And General James Jones said we have a chain of command in the National Security Council through Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger and we get our orders from Henry Kissinger every day… well people don’t understand we have a one party system with two branches and it’s all political theater.”
@benb,
Outstanding post. Cut, pasted & forwarded.
Read Zinn and Sutton, as well…. Or instead:
Both will be an eye opener in how an empire functions.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Anthony+C.+Sutton&search-alias=books&text=Anthony+C.+Sutton&sort=relevancerank
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Howard+Zinn
Anthony Sutton's "The War on Gold" is a masterpiece.
That is my Crystal Ball.
Everything is panning out as he said it would. It did back in 1979. It is repeating currently.
The only difference is the scale of economy, the magnitude.
It is an wonderful guide if you can find it. It is out of print after all.
Amazon has it.
http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Gold-Antony-Sutton/dp/1939438128
+1
Interesting post. Could you make available these pre-censored documents by Professor Quigley or point us to evidence that this stuff has been censored?
This is not necessarily an attack on what you've said at this stage, but you know, these things are easier to verify with some references & makes it harder to dismiss.
Maybe the Repugnicans can get a special prosecutor to invesitgate this:
Justice Dept. turns over more than 64,000 pages related to Fast and Furioushttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/04/justice-dept-dumps-64k-pages-...
Bush disregarded the CIA intelligence report letting a Kenyan into high office.
You really believe F&F is going to go anywhere? Pass the bong, would ya.
Jeez, these Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC. Board of Directors AKA CONgress didn't bother reading 3k pages of the Criminal Fascist Insurance Scam of Obamacare. Do you really think these Criminals are going to read 64k pages of F&F?
Obamacare has nothing on the Patriot Act that they didn't read either. The NeoCons knew the elected slime would vote for anything that would make them look like they're doing something after they allowed (or pulled off) 911. Which in itself had a cover up investigation meant to promote the story the owners wanted the sheep to know.
So now we go to Rethugs running Congress and a useless Dem/Rethug-light being the CEO. I predict much fear being peddled in the future. It's the Rethug specialty. Not that the Rethug-light Dems haven't joined that party too.
Until corporate power is reined in the raping will continue.
With each "election" the compliant media, corrupt banking, mentally-ill corporate power and the for-profit health care schadenfreude should each be put on trial rather than the obscenity that is the puppet show of American two-party politics.
After 20 years of being in the Chinese trenches I can say with certainty that getting a fair break in fascist feudal China is far more likely than putting your trust in these professional political scammers across Amerika.
Watch as your family's wealth and prospects melt away.
Agreed. The US was built on the foundation of hustling and scamming as a gawd-given right. Looks like it's going to die by it too.
Free Cajun hot wings at my polling location.
We Dutch will not recognize the outcome of the elections in America ... we don't like to be Putint
My voting site was chock full of surprises! Like campaign materials on the tables at multiple of the voting booths, or campaigners within less than 150 feet of the door to the site. Though it doesn't beat last year, when one of the candidates was actually in the voting site itself, not for the purpose of voting, for an extended period and in violation of state electoral law. I reported it, a misdemeanor on the books, and trust that justice MUST have run its course!
At least the 6-7 daily robocalls + assholes coming to my door over the past 2 weeks will presumably end now.
Get yourself on the sexual predator watchlist.No more cold calling to worry about..
Every cloud has a silver lining.
"At least the 6-7 daily robocalls + assholes coming to my door over the past 2 weeks will presumably end now."
......until Verizon Fios runs for office. MWAHAHAHA....
I'll be back. Got to take a crap
I take it, thats not up for a vote ;-)
Hey, don't take that crap! Put it back!
send that crap to washington where it belongs!
Voting has gotten us where we are today.
Please stop (voting).
"McConnell on Obama: 'We do have an obligation to work together on issues where we can agree…'
Fuck you dickhead.
I'm voting.
Michelle says if I vote I can eat fried chicken.
If I'm black, if I'm a Democrat, if I'm in Baltimore.
I ain't none of those things.
I might eat fried chicken anyway.
Fuck Michelle.
Yo, dog, dat shitz rhesus!
Shiii, be trippin bro.
I ain dissed no Wookiez.
Who cares?
Winston Churchill : Get yourself on the sexual predator watchlist. No more cold calling to worry about..
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Absolutely fucking brilliant!!!!! I could never sexually assault another human bean. Pretty sure that would get me a direct pipeline to the hot place with all the flames and the wacky cartoon character with the horns and the pitchfork... but what if I were to publicly sexually assault myself? Say on the steps of the police station or something........I wonder if that would work. Probably get myself out of jury doooty too.
Now ya got me thinking...
I am sure you do not have to hurt a human bean. I am sure you can get on the list if you expose yourself in public or something stupid like that.
Nmewn : 'Fuck you dickhead."
You didn't think things were going to change did you? R&D's work for the same team. Look who Bloomberg contributed $$$$$$$$$$$$$ to in the middle states to bring in stricter gun laws. Hint, it wasn't Democrats.
I know all about two-faced McConnell. He's part of the problem. I also thought he was gonna french kiss Rand just a minute ago ;-)
Keep it down nmewn. The word is Mitch is gonna be passing out bindles of free blow right after his victory speech. His wife has it stashed in her undies…don’t ruin it for the rest of us…
lol...so I heard.
Fucking guys face gets any redder I'm gonna put him on top of the Christmas tree this year. He is the establishment, we just have to pick the battles this way I guess, win a few, lose a few...or go all Bob the Butcher.
People have no idea what that really entails and winds up meaning, having lived here all their lives (they have no perspective of it). It gets real nasty & bloody and lot of innocent people die. Maybe if we can all keep our shit together it won't have to happen that way.
Its my sincerest hope anyways, I'm not a pacifist...just sayin.
He's a sleaze for sure. But just seeing 'Dirty Harry' Reid dethrowned is of some consequence... Maybe McConnell will come out of this owing Rand Paul... maybe
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Harry_Reid.jpg
It seems everyones trying to slide up to Rand these days. He should be careful one of them doesn't have a dagger under their cloak ;-)
A lot of Senators are multi-millionaires who probably are fairly decent in managing money, but as a collective body, the moronic Senate can't pass a budget! What gives and do you want to really know?....
Do you not know by now?
If you're not in it you can't win it ; hell even if you're in it you can't win it. What we got here is a lose/lose, the old banana up the tailpipe; A banana up the tailpipe must, at least, be good news for the greens until you pull the banana.
disgruntled lookerOn
Saying NO to the poor is easy.
Vote for anyone who can say NO to the rich and powerfull.
If the politicians could say NO then you would have a balanced budget with no deficit.
Wasn’t Bush working on attack dolphins way back when? Attack dolphins could come in handy for national security considering the phantom Russian subs sneaking about.
I’d throw five thousand attack dolphins onto the national card.
Democracy: rule by idiots
Dumbocracy
"Democracy is where 51% of the people take away the rights of the other 49%" Thomas Jefferson.
You may not have an interest in politics, or government. They both have an interest in you
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"Benjamin Franklin.
Well, I voted. It took longer than I thought I but there was a whole bunch of local referundum bullshit to deal with regarding a tax hike for some shit no one uses around here. They want a another half a percent on the local sales tax on top of the 7.87% they are already steal. I scratched off some line items from some certian things and voted NO and go fuck yourself.
I was also teaching my daughter how voting works at the same time here. Well, I put the damned ballot in the fucking Diebold machine and it rejected my ballot. I turns out that you can't make any other marks on a ballot or it is spoiled. So then I had to get a new ballot and fill the whole thing out all over again. That takes up a lot of time to refill out the ballot but I did find myself with two ballots in hand. That is pretty spooky.
I asked the daughter about the school board and she didn't know anybody so I wrote in J Alfred Prufrock just as I said I would. I doubt anyone will catch it but I printed it clearly so per the law, they need to publish that. That ballot went through but to me these vote counting peices of shit look like giant paper shredders. Not only that, I cocksuckered to old ladies at the door for a couple of extra "I voted" stickers for the kids and we got them.
So I determined that "Fuck You" is not a valid vote by the vote scanner. I think that "Fuck You" should be on the ballot with that little oval on the side that you have to fill in if you believe that to be true. What is wrong with that idea in our "democracy"?
Why can't I write "FUCK YOU" all over your ballot and have you read it? Because your shitty machine will not accept this ballot? Is that not what a ballot is supposed to be? Who makes up these ballots anyway?
On a somewhat related note, I was party to a class action suit against US Bank for their fraudulent overdraft policies (I think I recouped less than 1%) and they sent me a midget check that my ATM won't accept.
+100 for "cocksuckered" as i have never seen or heard cocksucker used in verb form but im pretty sure it short for some kind of behaviour.
+100 back Pareto. You never can tell what you will get out of me as far as vulgarity. I think it is a regional thing. Yes, we do use it as a verb here in the upper Midwest. Nice catch. This far north we have our own ways and diction. If you go much further north you are into Canada. They have Ottomans up there I hear and they drink beer with mice in the bottle. Not sure about that.
Vulgarity is the most efficient language there is. Wish somebody would stand up at the back of the house and yell, "house majority leader's a mother fucker.", or, "i yield back the balance of my time to the asshat from New Hampshire."
I would agree.
We have those machines here too. I voted write in for every candidate on the ballot who did not have an opponent, there were many. Yet the county results for my precinct showed online 100% of the votes counted and none for write in. I emailed the county clerk about this, as my wife and neighbor also wrote in names for the unopposed candidates. Waiting on a response.
Could it be Satan is not a "viable candidate"?
Kentucky losers.
South will never rise.
Plenty of well armed liberty leaning country folk around here will challege that remark.
What is the wonderful place you reside at?
Here in Micigan we had a few third parties to choose, so I chose. Mostly US Taxpayer and Libertarians. Greens and Natural Law were there too, but Greens freak me out. That's how I wasted my vote today. (Bows as jeers and shit is thrown at him)
So is the 'agreement' with the press about Ebola only through the election cycle?
Hope Republicans win: perfect cover as "fiscal conservatives", always outspend the competition. More on defense and bank bailouts though.
I wanted to. But I just couldn't.
I'm sorry, I know I probably should have, and like I said, I wanted to.
But I just couldn't.
If an institution or organization is criminal, then any participation in that organization's functions, including voting, is criminal. If their criminality is directed at you, the voter, then participation is criminally absurd.
An American, not US subject.
"I think, therefore I am. I shoot, therefore I still am."
Hey man, everyone has their own agenda..
It's a huge YES to labeling GMO foods in Colorado.
Hey monsatan, you gotta problem. No one wants your garbage foods any moar. Stupid companies will continue to sell repulsively smaller and more expensive foods that are not organic and they will never sell. NO ONE WILL BUY ANYTHING that says it has GMO in it. Know what you are eating, because you are what you eat.
Good on Colorado.
GENETIC FOOD LABELING PROPOSITION 105
YES
258,650 votes69%
NO
113,885 votes31%
Precincts Reporting: 457 out of 2964 (15%)
Food labeling got squashed. Sucks.
You better check your vote count. KRDO shows the count is opposite what you have posted here.
Holy Carp!
It said this above a little bit ago and now it says this. Talk about flip-flopping the vote. They did this before during the 08 vote. Shirt!!
GENETIC FOOD LABELING PROPOSITION 105
NO
1,063,344 votes72%
YES
411,229 votes28%
Precincts Reporting: 2128 out of 2964 (72%)
Almost had a seizure in the voting booth this evening when I saw the name Rothschild on the ballot.
It did not get the vote of Q99X2.
History informs us that, in the end, only voting by guillotine counts.
An American, not US subject.
O look corrine brown, an illiteratre nigger who can barely vocalize a word of english won !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a fuckin farce.
And Harry Reid re-elected by a majority.
Oh yeah, things are gonna' change. *cough*
Harry Reid's seat was not on the ballot this election cycle. Ergo, Reid was not re-elected. Sorry 'bout that. Wish we Nevadans could undo our previous mistake but we have to wait a few years. And ol' Harry will likely be dead next time he runs....and he may win anyway because of all the loonies out here.
flattering
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=corrine+brown&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35
andju tell me votin fo dis innin't rhesus
Them black women sure love having that conked hair or wigs. What ever happened to the afro?
Voting today felt like wiping your ass with sandpaper. the only satisfaction i'll have is if the voting public will officially tell buttboy barry and the wookie to go fuck themselves.
Its a sad commentary to observe that americans will line up for days on end for some stupid gadget/toy/whatever the fuck to be first in line and act violently to get it. Yet they will not show up for days on end to see face to face their "elected" officials and air their grevances upon the various ways in which they are fucked in the ass and they refuse to take it any longer.
Would love to show a demonstration on the house and senate floor how to make and operate a homemade guillotine using a watermelon as the prop. think they would get the message?
Not until one of their colleagues, if not their own, head in between it.
Hey its almost Christmas!
On ABC they're calling winners with 28% of the vote counted and a difference of a few thousand votes out of 187K.
Rigged much?
Oh hows about them times they've shown the results prior to the election and just so happens that....
I only got two ballots. I am pissed.
Backdoor Barry mailed me 5 blank ballots!
When you vote, you give your consent to abide by the decisions of a person whose only requirements for holding office are a meaningless period of residence and the ability to breathe for a certain number of years. Nine times out of ten they're going to vote to enrich themselves or their cronies. The other 10% of the time they'll throw a bone to what they consider the majority of their constituency.
Policeman says, I confess. (Sign flashes, "Be seated" Policeman sits but chair is yanked away and he falls to the ground. National anthem plays so policeman automatically stands). Policeman says, I confess...
Wanger-When you vote, you give your consent to abide by the decisions of a person whose only requirements for holding office are a meaningless
It depends on what you voted for. There are blank spaces on the ballot dontcha know? Also there were votes to continue to allow the judges of various areas within my state. i voted no so you do have a say in what continues in your community.
National sometimes not, but even with the media sucking the democrats dick, they still are going to lose in a big way. the media cant cover up what people are living everyday. Most wont see the connection but people aren't as dumb as we sometimes make most of them out to be.
Like having posting privileges to show to fat girls in bikinis they should not be wearing to show the decline of the country. If i had the privilege to post i would show you the better side of humanity. (Fore)
I agree with you 100%. Please don't kill me.
It's a shame that the majority of Americans never exercise their right to write in candidates, and so we're generally stuck with one of these Dem/Rep goons, the parties which otherwise defacto guard the gates to getting your name on the ballot. Actually, my mother and many other people I've mentioned write-in's to, have not even realized you could do that. I would love if more people were aware of, and more candidates capitalized upon, the write-in, so that they would not as a first step sign up to either the Democrat/Republican party, which control their agenda.
The other thing I wish everyone would learn is jury nullification. You have an absolute right to acquit a defendant in any case as a juror on whatever grounds you please. This is a right to ACQUIT, I will add, not a right to CONVICT. I suspect a lot fewer people would be sitting excessive jail sentences if everyone knew of this power and was willing to exercise it as a juror. 10 years for sellling a little pot? For fucks sake. Also probably why, being a lawyer and knowing this shit, I am never selected for a jury and never reach the stage of even filling out a questionnaire prepared by any of the attorneys.
See Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Also, were a write-in candidate to actually get elected, their vote would probably be meaningless: See the Banzhaf Power Index.
Hah. I couldn't imagine a lawyer ever making it past voir dire. In any event, the concept that government cannot be trusted to convict has become so eroded by plea bargaining it's basically null and void. Even the majority of lawyers deplore this state of affairs, so you know it's bad.
I'd like to write a book, "Only the Super-Criminals can Save Us." If every scumbag would demand a jury trial, the system would grind to a halt and the bullshit laws would have to be repealed or ignored, C'mon losers, take one for the team!
Yeah, I have to acknowledge that the concept of election on a write-in is a bit of a pipe dream
It was awful in CA. The only choices on the ballot were Brown and Kashkari.
The very same Kashkari that was involved with TARP. Smart guy and a Republican, I'm jaded on his ethics.
I'll vote for moonbeam over an ex-squid any day of the week.
Kashkari was not a squid.
The Bush Administration's Treasury Department stole him away from NASA where his main work was working out the Differential Equations for the Orbital Mechanics and trajectories of spacecraft on Mars Missions.
The Boundary Condition Mathematics are similar.
Once again Americans have proven they are just to STUPID to be allowed to vote. The vote to require GMO labeling in Colorado is going down in flames. When it happened in California I chalked it up to .....well, California but now it is happening in Co also. Just please raise your hands all of you that do NOT want to know what is in the food you are eating. Who in the hell can be against knowing what they are eating. There is absolutely NO hope for a country of morons like we have here in the US. My dog is smart enough to manipulate these brain dead sheeple. I am completely DISGUSTED. Once again I am vindicated for NOT participating in this "voting" process.
My wife and I voted Libertarian.
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I've been pretty pissed off lately. My Father in Law who I loved very much died unexpectedly. He was a liberty lover. Goddamned great guy who was an Engineer, owned an arsenal and could build anything. Good news I get some of his arsenal and a badass gun safe, but I'd rather have him. He was great to my kids. I held his hand as we took him off life support jamming to Led Zepelin. True loss. It's getting better but I miss him terribly. We would have great conversations. He taught me patience, built knowledge of weaponry and helped my daughter to learn horse riding. Fucking hurts.
This helped a little.
aaaaaaand its off to the private sector for Mark Udall.
He's prolly looking at new bug out locations/second homes as he preps his concession speech.
we'll see soon enough if Corey Gardener is up for the task of collapse.
Welcome to the machine!
So who did you guys vote for the Crips or the Bloods?
duh, the CROODS!
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IL Govenor Rauner vs Quinn very odd stuff...
AP Has Rauner up 2% with 71% of the vote in and all of the local channels here in Chicago have Quinn up 52% to 45%...
How is there such a discrepancy? Makes you wonder how legit this all is...
EDIT: They fixed it... of course... at least Rauner is winning :)
Now that the elections are over, is it time to release the true Ebola stats?
So what are the important issues tonight for America...well lets look at the commercials on tonight's (11.4) national news program... and see what America's corporations think are the important issues that money can solve...
1. Take this med for pains & aches
2. Book your hotel with this firm
3. See this Disney movie commercial
5. Dry mouth... take this med
6. Buy this cereal
7. Buy this life insurance
8. Need a river cruise... use this company
9. Need bladder medicine..use this med
10. Cold problems.. here is the answer
11. Going gray... we can fix that
12. Prune juice.. so good for you
13. Hot flashes... yes we have that medicine for you
14. Heart attach... why aspirin save my life
15. Need to save for retirement.. go with a spider eft
Wonder if any of the candidates touched on these important issues? ... :)
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The profoundly corrupt Harry Reid is getting ass-fucked by Chinese solar turtles, and will have to go back to grifting only the thirsty tards who keep re-electing him--not the rest of us.
Whoot!
Is it over yet? Can we have a look at the market's overnight reaction? I mean not that there's a free market or anything but if there was a sour Dem sentiment inside the TPTB, they would start pulling the plug right about now. Alternatively, the Repubs usher in the era of higher rates (cough cough) and TPTB start prepping for that. Too soon?
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Did Revrelational Pot pass in DC???!!!!
What's that I hear above the din: meet the new boss, same as the old boss. How do you spell sucker? A M E R I C A N V O T E R !
the question is whether congress can end the world in two years or can they risk sharing the spoils with hillarity if the jeb the sprig doesn't win?
And now everyone will learn what we already know. The republicans love Obamacare just as much as democrats. They're both predatory statists, and love egregious atrocities like Obamacare (and endless NSA abuses, and zero transparency, and no major prosecutions, and endless wars, and fiat money, and banksters in control, and so forth down the line).
Sure, they'll make noise about "fixing Obamacare" with tiny little changes around the fringes, but all that will happen with republicans in charge is... more of the same.
Most of us know this. The mainstream media will make sure the rest of the morons in the fictional USSA don't recognize any of this. That's their job.
Senate Majority.
Budget Reconciliation.
Obamacare de-funded.
Priceless.
(Hey I can dream, can't I, even though I know it's not going to happen, but Justice Roberts did leave the door wide open by declaring Oamacare a tax. And as we all should know if we studied, all taxes are subject to budget reconciliation which only takes a simple majority vote in the Senate.)
ALL Spending Bills originate in the House of Representatives.
That Republican controlled House sent a spending bill some 54 weeks ago to the Senate which included the funding for Obamacare.
You can live in a fantasy if you want. But you suffer the consequences when reality kicks you in the hindquarters for your denial.
Keep voting silly rabbit.
all spending bills originate on Wall Street
The election is over, so now Obama has to pretend he is not a lame duck a year early.
Soo pretty much we have a completely frozen government now.
Thank god, I dont think we would of made it through the winter as a nation with anymore democrats, not that we will make it past the summer with these republicans, but ill take what I can get I guess.
Frozen my foot ... They can now all get together and pass amnesty for another 10 million from south of the boarder ... all in the spirit of 'working together' (and in opposition to the wishes and well being of the rest of us)
Bathhouse Barry will cave into Corporate-Fascist Republican's demands.
Having only gotten paltry contributions from Wall Street, Democrats will have nothing to loose by attacking Wall Street and the 1%. Count on it. It is a logical way to get the public back on their side.
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Progressivism was rejected today, amazing consider the death grip Progressives supposedly have on our culture.
Hey! How about Lena Dunham as the poster girl for Progressivism?
eye bleach...need eye bleach...
"Lena Dunham," Pederast.
harry reid needs to work as a ranch hand at the bundy ranch for the rest of his life, consider it restitution for his stasi nazi fascist use of unrestrained excessive force.
LOL - Pat Quinn....we'll never give in until all the votes are counted - down 4,5% with 96% of votes counted.........but all those mail ins, provisional, etc......
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
Yea that Pat Quinn shit is too funny... Hes so shitty he lost hes just trying to dump on Rauner.
Ok, so the retarded won and the dumbass got booted out!!