Elections 2012: BFP Watch Party

[Gráinne]

I may have posted this already, but it seems the last word:

[Miss Scarlett]

I think he was over confident and expecting an enormous voter backlash against Obama so losing came as a shock.

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Completely agree. He looked pale, empty eyes, and disconnected from his body. He looked like he had just came out of some sort of trauma (like he had just walked away from a car accident), and was in utter shock and feeling numb. I concur on how he looked and what was worrying him.

[Martina]

Rachel is on fire tonight.

[princessbelle]

Originally Posted by Martina

Rachel is on fire tonight.

(news to Republicans)

...."President Obama did win the electoral and popular vote, again. And...there really wasn't any chemicals of mass destruction, and there really is global warming, and we really did land on the moon"...

She's so enjoyable to watch. She is happy. Like all of us.

[*Anya*]

I TiVo'd Obama's speech because I had to go to bed last night.

I am struck by the folks listening: young, old, men, women, straight, lesbian, gay, trans, black, white, Hispanic, Asian and other ethnicities- a real rainbow coalition.

It is awesome to hear and see him be the true orator that he genuinely is and that I have not heard for a very long time.

[tara_kerrie]

Originally Posted by Okiebug61

You are correct. Everytime any part of the nation goes forward we go 2 steps backwards, because we have to hang on to our Traditional Oklahoma Values. (Puke).

We now have an open gun carrying law so saddle up your horse and slap your six shooter on your hip it's going to get scary.

Arkansas is the same way. I do not think that Arkansas will ever move forward.
Although the medical marijuana act wasnt rejected by as big of a margin as i thought. 52% against 48% for

[Sun]

Huffington Post is all over this story

BREAKING: Arizona Outrage Over Unprecedented Provisional Ballot Mayhem; Record Latino Vote Marred

People are protesting and waiting at the election office until every vote is counted. Note that this comes on top of an ongoing demonstration protesting Arpaio's brutality that caused the death of a woman in Tent City who was denied medication for diabetes. The womans family was awarded nothing in a lawsuit. The people are outraged. There is no justice here.

[Sun]

This is unreal. Nazi's and KKK on the streets. This is the old West at its worst.

Seriously if I were not seeing it I would have a hard time believing it.

Another article:

It is Going to Take the DOJ or a Conservative Candidate to Oust Sheriff Joe Arpaio with the Archaic Tea Party Stronghold Here


This is really all about Democracy. If this vote is stolen from the people and this criminal Sheriff is allowed to stay in office well we are all in serious trouble. If the win is legitimate, so be it. The Tea Party poured a lot of money into this race. But KKK and Neo Nazi's should not be running this state. People are fighting for life here.

[Martina]

Rachel's intro tonight:

We are not going to have a Supreme Court that overturns Roe versus Wade. There will be no more Antonin Scalia’s and Samuel Alito’s added to this court. We are not going to repeal health reform. Nobody is going to kill Medicare and make old people in this generation or any other generation fight it out on the open market to try to get themselves health care. We are not going to do that.

We are not going to give a twenty percent tax cut to millionaires and billionaires and expect programs like food stamps and kid’s health insurance to cover the cost of that tax cut. We’re not going to make you clear it with your boss if you want to get birth control from the insurance plan that you are on. We are not going to redefine rape. We are not going to amend the United States Constitution to stop gay people from getting married. We are not going to double Guantanamo. We are not eliminating the Department of Energy or the Department of Education or Housing at the Federal level.

We are not going to spend two trillion dollars on the military that the military does not want. We are not scaling back on student loans because the country’s new plan is that you should borrow money from your parents. We are not vetoing the Dream Act. We are not self-deporting. We are not letting Detroit go bankrupt. We are not starting a trade war with China on inauguration day in January. We are not going to have as a President a man who once led a mob of friends to run down a scared gay kid, to hold him down and forcibly cut his hair off with a pair of scissors while that kid cried and screamed for help. And there was no apology, not ever. We are not going to have as Secretary of State John Bolton. We are not bringing Dick Cheney back. We are not going to have a foreign policy shop stocked with architects of the Iraq War. We are not going to do it. We had the choice to do that if we wanted to do that as a country. And we said “No” last night, loudly.

[Martina]

[Allison W]

Originally Posted by Sun

This is unreal. Nazi's and KKK on the streets. This is the old West at its worst.

Seriously if I were not seeing it I would have a hard time believing it.

Another article:

It is Going to Take the DOJ or a Conservative Candidate to Oust Sheriff Joe Arpaio with the Archaic Tea Party Stronghold Here


This is really all about Democracy. If this vote is stolen from the people and this criminal Sheriff is allowed to stay in office well we are all in serious trouble. If the win is legitimate, so be it. The Tea Party poured a lot of money into this race. But KKK and Neo Nazi's should not be running this state. People are fighting for life here.

In fairness, the DOJ or another conservative candidate aren't the only things that could oust Arpaio. He's eighty years old, and all the outside money in the world can't buy off the Grim Reaper forever. Not yet, anyway.

That said that's kind of beside the point. Yeah this is seriously fucked up and Joe is a bad bad man and shouldn't be spending another day in power, let alone however many years he's got left on the egg timer. His re-election also says some pretty bad things about the moral fibre of the people who re-elected him, at that.

[Miss Scarlett]

One of the commentators on the CBS overnight news stated that Romney "looked shellshocked" when he came out to make his concession speech.

I confess that I was getting a tad concerned about the outcome the other night but when I saw that Romney failed to carry Massachusetts and Wisconsin I realized that Obama was going to win. It says a lot when you can't carry your own state and that if your running mate.

[LeftWriteFemme]

Ohio GOP Senate Candidate Josh Mandel's Family Takes Out Newspaper Ad Denouncing His Anti-Gay Positions

Just over two weeks ago I posted a video of Ohio GOP senate candidate Josh Mandel espousing his anti-gay positions in debate, saying that he opposed 'DADT' repeal and is a supporter of marriage between a man and a woman, but promising to represent every resident of Ohio and be "blind" to sexual orientation.

Some members of Mandel's family took a full-page ad out in the Cleveland Jewish News denouncing him:

Open Letter to Josh Mandel,
Republican 
Candidate for U.S. Senator from Ohio


Dear Josh,

Four years ago you came into our family. We still remember the excitement surrounding your wedding, and how happy our family members were as they described it afterwards. So we were deeply saddened when you announced during your October 18th debate with Senator Sherrod Brown that you believe only some people should share this right to marry the person they love, while others should not.



Your cousins, Ellen Ratner and Cholene Espinoza, are among the many wonderful couples whose rights you do not recognize. They were married almost eight years ago in Massachusetts, at a time when it was the only state in the nation to allow same-sex marriage. Their wedding, like yours, was a beautiful and happy occasion for all of us in our family. It hurts us that you would embrace discrimination against them and countless other loving couples in Ohio and around the country.



We are equally distressed by your belief that gay men and women should not be allowed to serve openly in the military. Like you, Cholene spent many years in the armed forces. A graduate of the Air Force Academy and an accomplished pilot, she became the second woman in history to fly the U-2 reconnaissance plane. And yet, you have argued that she, like many gay and lesbian soldiers, should be forced to live a life of secrecy and lies.



Josh, as you know, our roots are deep in the Cleveland area and we have friends and family we love throughout Ohio. This family is sprawling and diverse, but it has always believed strongly in the values of equality and inclusiveness. Your discriminatory stance violates these core values of our family. Nevertheless we hope that over time, as you advance in years and wisdom, you will come to embrace the values of inclusiveness and equality as well.



Your cousins,



Michael Ratner, Bruce Ratner, Karen Ranucci, Pamela Lipkin, Rebecca 
Ratner, Elizabeth Ratner, Patrick Markee, Jacob Ratner, Ana Ratner

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/11/ohi...#ixzz2BdXa6Rmf



http://www.towleroad.com/2012/11/ohi...y-positio.html

[Kobi]

(Reuters) - Florida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will not take office.

Both men died weeks before the November 6 election yet managed to beat their very much alive opponents by comfortable margins.

http://news.yahoo.com/dead-candidate...202607386.html

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Kobi

(Reuters) - Florida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will not take office.

Both men died weeks before the November 6 election yet managed to beat their very much alive opponents by comfortable margins.

http://news.yahoo.com/dead-candidate...202607386.html

When things like this happen I can't help but wonder exactly how many of the folks that voted for these two candidates knew they had died...

[Zimmeh]

I knew that Earl K Wood had passed away and I did my research on the guy replacing him and voted for Earl K Wood. Scott Randolph seemed to be a better candidate than Huckeba.

Zimmeh

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

When things like this happen I can't help but wonder exactly how many of the folks that voted for these two candidates knew they had died...

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Zimmeh

I knew that Earl K Wood had passed away and I did my research on the guy replacing him and voted for Earl K Wood. Scott Randolph seemed to be a better candidate than Huckeba.

Zimmeh

That's awesome Zimmeh! It's so important to research candidates before voting. I wish more people did this. You rock!!!!!

[The_Lady_Snow]

White People Mourning Mitt Romney

[princessbelle]

I've been looking around the webs at the different networks the night of the election. I found this clip of Diane Sawyer. Wow. Giving her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she was just really tired, but who knows. The tweets were so funny. Dang, i had 2 margaritas, was loaded on carbs and a ton of comfort junk food and my words weren't slurring as bad as hers.

[Okiebug61]

I think she was just worn out. I'll take her coverage over the other two boring anchors anyday.