Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Thats a funny link Tom..completely tongue n cheek, Always tricky these days bringing up the colour of an individual but I guess if you are a hi flying american comedian its okay...
I believe some small hick town has voted already. I think they have a population of just a few, and for the first time ever they have fessed up a tie...so the BBC are reporting anyway. Highlighting the fact that its gonna be close.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the latest polls suggest that when electoral college votes are added up the incumbent will remain in office.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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For four years Obama has been ``Banker Bashing``...now the Bankers are putting millions of dollars in to Romney`s
coffers in order to remove Obama.....probably why Cameron and Osborne are not `Banker Bashing``until after the election.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Well..well..well..
Its all over. The exhausting hugely competitive race has led to FOUR MORE YEARS for Barack Obama
A huge turnout. The voters bought into the process bigtime..people everywhere queing around blocks to cast their vote, some waiting for hours to do so...my gawd was this democracy in action. These voters failed to deliver any of the swing states to Mitt Romney however, so that was that. Mitt fought a very strong very good campaign and he deserves credit for that...he was written off at one time but came back strongly and made Barack Obama fight all the way.
Yes a huge turnout..lets see if we have the same level of turnout for our Police Commissioner thing...dont thinkso somehow
But it has been a very long campaign. Howard started this thread back in January...exhausting.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It seems Obama won on electoral college votes but Romney could well have a majority of the popular vote. Not an unusual situation.
Ryan is the one to watch for the next presidential contest.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Well, as the is the first I have heard of it all I can say is well done to the Voters of the USA. It simply cannot be a Democracy with out them (you, we, us...).
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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what was the turnout, last i heard there were 90 million with no intention of voting?
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Romney..``I have little interest in 47 % of the nation``......Ryan kept well out of the spot light in the campaign due to his extreme
views...........Electoral College Obama ...303 ...Romney...206..........say no more..........
Brian Dixon
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the best of two evils i supose.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the more i read about the campaign the more america comes across as third world rather than world leader. anyone with hopes of becoming president has to have billions of dollars to run a campaign. we then have the religious bigots that put pressure on republican candidates and finally we hear that obama was appealing to the black vote at the last knockings.
can anyone imagine in europe religious groups having such a big say or anyone's vote being decided on the skin colour of the candidate?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Kiss goodbye to any upturn in the US economy:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-07/obama-may-levy-carbon-tax-to-cut-the-u-s-deficit-hsbc-says.html
Shares were down 2.5% earlier in the States. There's confidence in Obama if ever I've seen it. He also wants to increase taxes on share profits soon down the road. As I say kiss goodbye to any upturn in the US economy.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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What upturn? Oh, sorry - their jobless 'recovery'.
Interesting contrast to our job creating 'second dip'....
UK set to boom while the rest of Europe stagnates and the USA hits its fiscal cliff.
Now, if only Osborne will chop public spending faster and deeper, cut taxes and cut red tape then we will regain a massive competitive advantage over the USA and the rest of Europe.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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"Labourite Democrat"? Both major US parties' policies would fit comfortably within current Tory thinking. There are no serious political movements in America which could be identified with anything as left-of-centre as our Labour or LibDem parties.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the blues seemed fairly relieved at the election result, apparently dave and mitt were not a hit.
Jan Higgins
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One reason could be that Mitt said words to the effect that we were not being ready for the Olympics, another possibility being Cameron was not high enough up the super rich league for him.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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What you're seeing is the tipping of a nation because of mass migration and expansion of the ethnic vote
The conservative party in the UK are in danger of this within 20 years, as the older white generations pass on.
Enoch tried to tell them
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Apparently Cameron phoned Obama to congratulate him on his victory to say..``I look forward to working with you on
Global economic `growth`........the line went dead...........
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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solar interfereance,caused by solor flares form the current bun.
