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SiMuLaCrUm:
Won the election. I don't know about any of you, but I'm moving to Australia. (N)

So far over 330 electoral votes for Obama against McCain's 155... Incredible.

worker201:
I had totally forgotten that today was an election day, until I heard a bunch of screaming outside.  They love their Democrats here in Seattle.  I myself voted against McCain/Palin on Saturday, and I would seriously consider Canada if those fuckers had won.

I honestly thought the election would be closer - because I am a cynic, who believes that most of my countrymen are the kind of idiots who think McCain would make a good president, and that a negro would make a bad president.  I'm more than a little pleased to be proved wrong.  A couple states switched this time around.  Colorado went Bush in the last couple elections.  Easily explainable - Colorado is 2 states in one.  There's a bunch of conservatives in the mountains and a bunch of conservatives on the plains.  In between is the Front Range, where all the ex-Californians live.  Each year, the gap between them shrinks, and it looks like the scale has finally been turned.  Consider the exponentially growing Hispanic population, and you've got yourself a freshly liberal state.  Florida and Virginia switched too, and those states can win an election.

So what will really change?  Probably nothing.  But if it gives the black community even a tiny boost of self-confidence, that's probably the best thing that could come out of an election.  They spend so much time inadvertently screwing themselves over that they sometimes don't even notice how badly we're already screwing them over.  Here's to a chance to turn that around.

Refalm:
Wouldn't there be a lot of change with Obama as president?

The US congress is now under Democratic control. Won't all the proposals by President Obama get passed in an eye-blink this way?

SiMuLaCrUm:

--- Quote from: Refalm on  5 November 2008, 14:46 ---Wouldn't there be a lot of change with Obama as president?

The US congress is now under Democratic control. Won't all the proposals by President Obama get passed in an eye-blink this way?

--- End quote ---

Yes, but sometimes, too much change is a bad thing.
Not all the proposals, due to the fact that most of those in Congress have held positions for a looong time (there are literally dead guys in there) and do not like change.

fishcorn:

--- Quote from: SiMuLaCrUm on  5 November 2008, 15:16 ---Yes, but sometimes, too much change is a bad thing.

--- End quote ---
You actually want to stay in Iraq and want roughly the same economic policies forever?

I think McCain's an okay guy and would have made a good president at a different time in history (because McCain's been around throughout all of history he's old lololollo!) but I don't see how anyone could have voted for a Republican this time around.

I think this whole thing's surreal. I'd just barely gotten pubes when Bush was elected. I can't imagine anyone but self-serving idiots being in the Whitehouse. I mean, imagine it: smart people as our leaders.

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