“Obama wins by default”

[DeistPaladin]

If they lose this election, they are going to be pissed, big time, and I wouldn't be surprised if they do something crazy because of it.

We're already there. Here's the most recent isolated incident of right wing terrorism:

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/m...ng-blow-da

[Justtristo]

Is Texas big enough? Sheet, here,in my state, we have a cattle station (ranch) roughly the size of Texas (I shit you not)

Anna Creek Station is the world's largest working cattle station.[1] It is located in the Australian state of South Australia. Its area is roughly 6,000,000 acres (24,000 km2; 9,400 sq mi) which is slightly larger than Israel. It is 8,000 km² larger than Alexandria Station (its nearest rival) in the country's Northern Territory and eight times the size of the United States biggest ranch, King Ranch in Texas, which is 825,000 acres (3,340 km2; 1,289 sq mi). [2]

The nearest township is William Creek (which is surrounded by the Anna Creek station), but the nearest town for freight etc. is Coober Pedy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Creek_station

Anna Creek Station is actually the size of Belgium or Massachusetts, not Texas. Texas is around 700,000 square kilometers in size, which is a somewhat smaller than New South Wales at nearly 800,000km2.

I think Texas is the largest state in the USA apart from Alaska. However if it was an Australian states it would be only bigger than Tasmania and Victoria. New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Northern Territory are bigger than Texas in size. Even despite a lot of Australia is essentially nearly empty desert, it is still a big country, with huge distances between major population centres (even compared to the United States).

To give an example of what I am talking about here are the distances between the major urban areas (with 150,000 people or more living in them) of Australia.

Sydney to Melbourne: 895.3 km
Melbourne to Adelaide: 728km
Perth to Adelaide: 2553km
Sydney to Brisbane: 919km
Sydney to Canberra: 287km
Melbourne to Canberra: 681km
Adelaide to Darwin: 3028 km
Brisbane to Townsville: 1357 km
Brisbane to Cairns: 1706km

I left over major urban areas such as Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold Coast because they are quite near (100km) to Sydney and Brisbane.