The OFFICIAL United States Presidential Election Thread! II

[Jaguar]

CNN is slow.

[Agathon]

I have a few things to say about Bush's win.

1st: I wish to collect on my election wager. I bet that Bush would win and Jaguar now has to wear a Lenin avatar. I will let him choose it, but I reserve the right to change it, if it is not communist enough. He also must insert "pwned by Agathon 2004" into his location field. A bet is a bet after all.

2nd: Americans have made themselves look like the biggest retards in the history of democratic politics. No-one else is going to take you at all seriously now (not that many did before). You can kiss help in Iraq goodbye for good, and I don't know how many people will be really that keen to help in the war on terror anymore. If you get attacked again, very few people elsewhere will really give a ****. I know I won't. I only hope that the terrorists spare the people of New York and Washington, who had the sense to vote for Kerry.

3rd. If you are black, poor, a women, secular or a homosexual, your life is going to suck for the foreseeable future. If you are a combination of the above, you better move to Canada or Mexico.

Anyway,

I know I predicted it, but I still can't quite believe that you actually elected the doofus.

So thanks for the laugh of the year.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
51% is hardly enough to claim a 'mandate'. That means 49% didn't want you there.

Yes but he got 49% last time and he still claimed he had a mandate.

He'll now be able to steam roller in anything he wants and the deficit will explode. The problem is no one seems to care.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Oerdin
It seems the youth vote heavily favors Democrates but as always the young people were to lazy to vote. Only about 10% of the electerate were young people which was the same in 2000. The youth vote has the lowest turn out of any group.

Isn't it sad to no longer be thought of as the youth vote

[RGBVideo]

Yep, Bush'll take Iowa. 286-252.

[monkspider]

It may not be over yet! Ohio is saying that counting the votes will take until 2 AM, and the Kerry camp estimates that Bush's lead will be about 50k at that point. HOWEVER, there are 250k provisional ballots yet to be counted!

Some stations have moved Ohio from the Bush count back to "too close to call". Could this be Florida 2000 all over again?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
3 or 4 of my freinds who are solidly against Bush didn't vote (they were here in Maryland, in Texas, and in South Carolina)

JOn Miller

That's a big problem. Ohio and Florida both could have gone Democrat if the young people bothered to vote.

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Agathon
I have a few things to say about Bush's win.

1st: I wish to collect on my election wager. I bet that Bush would win and Jaguar now has to wear a Lenin avatar. I will let him choose it, but I reserve the right to change it, if it is not communist enough. He also must insert "pwned by Agathon 2004" into his location field. A bet is a bet after all.

2nd: Americans have made themselves look like the biggest retards in the history of democratic politics. No-one else is going to take you at all seriously now (not that many did before). You can kiss help in Iraq goodbye for good, and I don't know how many people will be really that keen to help in the war on terror anymore. If you get attacked again, very few people elsewhere will really give a ****. I know I won't. I only hope that the terrorists spare the people of New York and Washington, who had the sense to vote for Kerry.

3rd. If you are black, poor, a women, secular or a homosexual, your life is going to suck for the foreseeable future. If you are a combination of the above, you better move to Canada or Mexico.

Anyway,

I know I predicted it, but I still can't quite believe that you actually elected the doofus.

So thanks for the laugh of the year.

I would say you dont have a real understading fo the US or how we think.

[klesh]

Originally posted by Smiley
It's time for the civilized parts of this country to secede.

Well, at least its nice and tidy:

[joncha]

Originally posted by Field Marshal Klesh


Well, at least its nice and tidy:

You can help keep Canada territorially contiguous after Quebec secedes.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Oerdin
It seems the youth vote heavily favors Democrates but as always the young people were to lazy to vote. Only about 10% of the electerate were young people which was the same in 2000. The youth vote has the lowest turn out of any group.

But that would change if we gave 16 year-olds the right to vote!

[Jack_www]

Originally posted by Oerdin


That's a big problem. Ohio and Florida both could have gone Democrat if the young people bothered to vote.

The problem may be is that they dont know what to do to vote. I heard form someone who was working the poll at my University, and most of the votes cast there were provisional because they did not even know if they were register to vote.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by monkspider
It may not be over yet! Ohio is saying that counting the votes will take until 2 AM, and the Kerry camp estimates that Bush's lead will be about 50k at that point. HOWEVER, there are 250k provisional ballots yet to be counted!

Some stations have moved Ohio from the Bush count back to "too close to call". Could this be Florida 2000 all over again?

I sincerely hope you are right.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT
But that would change if we gave 16 year-olds the right to vote!

As far as I'm concerned the 16 year olds are to stupid to drive much less vote.

I would like for the 18-24 year olds to actually start voting though.

[laurentius]

Monkspider: Oh god I hope so