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2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
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2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 7:44 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2013 at 7:57 pm by TheSteelGeneral.)
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January 4, 2013 at 8:00 pm
Ok. .
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 9:02 pm
The popular vote in America is utterly meaningless.
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January 4, 2013 at 10:00 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2013 at 10:01 pm by TheSteelGeneral.)
meaningless? Well, if Obama had lost it, you wouldn't have heard the end of it, it would've been all over Fokkks news,

This gives Obama huge bragging rights, but more importantly, it's a mandate to keep his foot down on the debt ceiling.
Here's to hoping he does.
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 10:03 pm
What he means is that you don't need to win the popular vote to win the presidency. It's one of the major failings of the electoral college system and one of the reasons it should be done away with.
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 10:08 pm
(January 4, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The popular vote in America is utterly meaningless.

Big time. Notice how both candidates spent months of time and millions of dollars just to win the states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan? They didn't care bout the popular vote outside of whether or not they win the popular vote in the battleground states.

I honestly think we should just agree to re-do our entire government from head to toe. The weaknesses of our system have been emphasized by opportunists to turn us into a mockery of democracy. Sadly, though, the broad changes I want probably won't be happening. I'm asking the people who make the rules to change the system that put them in power in the first place and I'm asking them to change it in such a way that they may lose power. Both parties are far too concerned with party loyalty to go for that.
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 11:17 pm
(January 4, 2013 at 10:00 pm)TheSteelGeneral Wrote: meaningless? Well, if Obama had lost it, you wouldn't have heard the end of it, it would've been all over Fokkks news,

This gives Obama huge bragging rights, but more importantly, it's a mandate to keep his foot down on the debt ceiling.
Here's to hoping he does.

Obama is going to raise the debt ceiling. I don't think there is any indication that he's concerned with it at all. In fact with a compromise on the fiscal cliff it's pretty much impossible we aren't going to have heaps of more debt.
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 4, 2013 at 11:32 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2013 at 11:36 pm by Violet.)
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 5, 2013 at 12:02 am
(January 4, 2013 at 11:17 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Obama is going to raise the debt ceiling. I don't think there is any indication that he's concerned with it at all. In fact with a compromise on the fiscal cliff it's pretty much impossible we aren't going to have heaps of more debt.

This is generally blown out of proportion by the media anyway. It's not -that- big of a deal.
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RE: 2012 Elections results finally in US officially applies 4 Banana Republic status @ UN
January 5, 2013 at 12:07 am
(January 4, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The popular vote in America is utterly meaningless.

Not in the aggregate but state by state. Granted, even that is an anachronism in the 21st century.
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