[EnergyUnlimited]

Whoever gets a nomination to become a pilot of this failing aircraft, future will be the same and rather not nice for all/most of concerned.

[Pops]

I wasn't arguing fish, just sayin. I've been quoting 538 blog all year because Nate Silver (being the geek he is) theoretically takes all those various numbers into account along with factoring in the biases exhibited by individual pollsters over past elections.

Go to Intrade.com and with your insight you can make a killing, they have it 65/35 Obama.
:^)

[Pops]

So the question is, are the R's more inclined to compromise?

I didn't watch much TV coverage (reading Snow Mountain Passage, a novel about the Donner party) I know Akin lost, Bauchman won and Carl Rove showed just how fair and balanced fox is, LOL. I guess if the election was, as some said, a referendum on big government, then at least the results seem to be in favor of some government.

Really the whole thing still boils down to what the Rs want. Another four years of filibusters may be Grovers idea of success but if so I'm gonna say they'll be worse off in '16 - even if they nominate a latino, which after Steel, won't surprise me a bit, I'll even predict it here and now.


So in that case I'm thinking that immigration reform will happen too but not in the way the extremists pray for, it will probably include the dream act.

Perhaps some version of the Grand Bargain.

And considering how completely Wall Street abandoned the Ds I'll guess we will see an increase in regulation there.

Don't want to get too carried away...

[Lore]

It's pretty obvious the GOP, or party of angry old white men, has reached its limits. With 61% of the white vote, it would have been assumed that they'd have swept the election like Bush Sr. did with the same number. However, the new demographics have finally come into play and it looks like the minorities have now become the majority. I really don't know how the far right and their Rush Limbaughs and Fox News talking heads are ever going to convince the evangelical Tea Party base to embrace a bigger tent.

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'I')t's pretty obvious the GOP, or party of angry old white men, has reached its limits. With 61% of the white vote, it would have been assumed that they'd have swept the election like Bush Sr. did with the same number. However, the new demographics have finally come into play and it looks like the minorities have now become the majority. I really don't know how the far right and their Rush Limbaughs and Fox News talking heads are ever going to convince the evangelical Tea Party base to embrace a bigger tent.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'I')t's pretty obvious the GOP, or party of angry old white men, has reached its limits. With 61% of the white vote, it would have been assumed that they'd have swept the election like Bush Sr. did with the same number. However, the new demographics have finally come into play and it looks like the minorities have now become the majority.

[evilgenius]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('azblue82', 'O')bams wins the Presidency. Repubs maintain control of the House and Dems maintain control of the Senate. The status quo will be maintained for the most part, but we will get to see the changes due to Obamacare. Adding 30 million people or so to an existing health care system that is about to be turned upside down by Peak Oil should be interesting to say the least.

I would definitely like to read what others think about peak oil and changes in health care services due to the changes in law and scientific reality.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Don35', 'O')bama wins, US and world collapse.
Romney win, US and world collapse.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('evilgenius', 'H')ealthcare does not make an ideal market precisely because there is so much marketing involved in it and because personal choice is not involved in the immediacy of healthcare decisions, experts and expediency make those decisions.

[autonomous]

Now approved for recreational use in Colorado and Washington:



Coming soon to a state-operated and controlled dispensary near you.

The Washington measure may generate as much as $1.9 billion in revenue over five fiscal years, according to the state’s Office of Financial Management.

[sparky]

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This election has shown the U.S. to be as steady as an iron spike
no change whatsoever , only a reinforcment of the situation ante election
a militant Republican house of reps , a democratic senate and the same POTUS
the problems are the same , a one dollar government with a 60 cents revenue

Romney probably would have been a mistake , the guy was too good at lying to everybody
the fluffyness of his program smelt like bull , looked like bull , felt like bull and tasted like bull
it's hard to believe it's vitamins
the Tea Party got him Ryan as a side kick to keep him in line
Obama got in with an assist from God , the ultimate October surprise
and the fact that Frakking in the Middwest created a mini boom in Ohio construction industry
all those rigs , trucks and manpower lifted employment in that state

Pretty much all the country district voted Romney all the city district voted Obama
the cleavage country/city is absolute

@ Lore , it's not just the old white men who lost the election , it's all the white men
from the dominant governance they are now a large shriking minority to be managed or ignored