2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN

[DeistPaladin]

...as was the case with G.W. Bush who lost the popular vote to Al Gore by over 500,000 votes, but still won the presidency....and to TSG who said, "Well, if Obama had lost it, you wouldn't have heard the end of it,..."....the dems and leftist news outlets screamed bloody murder when Bush lost it, but was still elected POTUS.

Actually, the screaming from the left was over the fact that he neither won the popular vote nor did he definitely win the electoral college since the Florida recount had been arbitrarily shut down. He won the Supreme Court by a 5/4 margin.

I wasn't aware the Supreme Court could simply appoint a president because Florida, even 12 years later, can't get their shit together on how to run an election, but obviously I missed that part of the Constitution.

The Supremes themselves admitted this was a biased, partisan decision, by stating that this ruling was not to be used as precedent for any future decisions. In other words, it's the kind of judicial activism that conservatives normally despise.

Now you can say that W. Bush likely won Florida but we'll never know for sure (and I'm not big on leaps of faith). The recount, required in such a close election, was shut down.

As a side issue, I just love how in the recent election....

FLORIDA: "Duh-uh, we still don't know who won our state... days later. Counting hard. Duhhhhh."
AMERICA: "That's OK. We've determined the results without you."