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US Presidential Election: Tuesday November 6th, 2012
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Aw, if I had known Papa Bear and Hannity were on, I would have switched on my Fox News stream sooner. Now all I get is Greta.
This economist doesn't seem completely insane.
Only just switched back on, has Gret ahd Trump as a guest tonight? He was on her show all the time before the election, and with those tweets of his yesterday...
Try their webstie later on, they'll have a few of the interviews up. O'Reilly with Dick Morris and Dennis Miller are worth looking out for.
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Erin Burnett is feckING HOT.
A 3-way with her and Candy...
I am not sharing her with anyone.
Republican tears.
Genuine?
Why won't the brave keyboard warrior show her face?
Did she just call the UK socialist? And we're just trying to figure out how to afford the NHS in the 21C, not get rid of it.
Her name is Shelly Dankert with a blog called NebraskaAttitude apparently.
I imagine because she's butt ugly.
If she writes like she talks i really don't see the point.
Ah those credible sources, the Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh.
By the way, does anybody else think that Limbaugh's face looks like a fat Andy Gray?
She just said that Palin should have stood and then they might've won.
Okay, i'm outta here.
Ah those credible sources, the Drudge Report and Rush Limbaugh.
By the way, does anybody else think that Limbaugh's face looks like a fat Andy Gray?
She just said that Palin should have stood and then they might've won.
Okay, i'm outta here.
She is ugly as feck, just had a look at her facebook there. Appears to be in love with Glenn Beck which is disturbing just by itself.
Another giant leap on the path to becoming a socialist hell hole. Congratulations America!
The Danes better watch-out, the Americans are coming and they are going to get happier.
Yes they can!!
The Danes better watch-out, the Americans are coming and they are going to get happier.
Yes they can!!
Not in the top ten? surprises me
When is Florida declaring?
O'Reilly is repeating at the minute and i must've missed this earlier, in his chat with Bob Beckel he is seemingly bewildered that comments made by Akin on other affect the perception of the Republican Party. Does he really believe that? Santorum, Paul and Ryan each had controversial statements to their names too.
The military vote in Virginia split down the middle, that's not in the GOP script at all.
The military vote in Virginia split down the middle, that's not in the GOP script at all.
If the Congressional District Method was used to allocate Electoral College votes, then Romney would have won the election, scary thought.
What's the future of the Republican Party? Obviously they can't stay the way they have been. That's an easy prediction, given the very obvious and very real demographic changes. It is a fact of American politics that different parts of the country and different demographic groups have supported various parties at various points in time. Surely the Party realizes that they have to change?
I suppose they could attempt the "go further right!" approach for one more election before realizing the futility of that, but I don't think it will even take that long. Whether they can do anything about it that soon is another matter. Unless things go very wrong in Obama's second term, I can definitely see the Democrats pulling another landslide victory, and certainly if the Republican's haven't learned from their mistakes.
But, long term, what are they going to do? You'd imagine that latinos in general shouldn't necessarily fall in with the Democrats ideologically (but who knows with the newer generations), but all of that takes the back seat to immigration policy. But would their core voters really accept that? Even if the upper party echelon realized what they had to do, I can see their voters actually just keep voting in Tea Party types (or other nutjubs).
I suppose they could attempt the "go further right!" approach for one more election before realizing the futility of that, but I don't think it will even take that long. Whether they can do anything about it that soon is another matter. Unless things go very wrong in Obama's second term, I can definitely see the Democrats pulling another landslide victory, and certainly if the Republican's haven't learned from their mistakes.
But, long term, what are they going to do? You'd imagine that latinos in general shouldn't necessarily fall in with the Democrats ideologically (but who knows with the newer generations), but all of that takes the back seat to immigration policy. But would their core voters really accept that? Even if the upper party echelon realized what they had to do, I can see their voters actually just keep voting in Tea Party types (or other nutjubs).
YES! Top of the non-yanks/-adopted yanks.
Solid performance from the Sarcastic Norwegian Atheist-Rationalist Contingent (SNARC).
If the Congressional District Method was used to allocate Electoral College votes, then Romney would have won the election, scary thought.
If apples were oranges your granny would be your dog.
a lot of state houses have ratified this change in the electoral vote counting.
I bet they have but it wont change from the EC system so dont worry about it
The president could trail Romney among white men because, exit polls showed, he could rely on 93% support among black Americans, 71% of Latinos, 60% of the under-30s and 55% of women.
The lift in the Latino vote may well account for Obama's wins in Nevada, Colorado and Florida. And this is no one-off: 50,000 Latinos turn 18 and become eligible to vote every month. That translates into 2.4m new Latino voters able to take part in the election of 2016. ....
.... The consequence could well be a Republican civil war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/07/obama-american-president-continues-odyssey
The lift in the Latino vote may well account for Obama's wins in Nevada, Colorado and Florida. And this is no one-off: 50,000 Latinos turn 18 and become eligible to vote every month. That translates into 2.4m new Latino voters able to take part in the election of 2016. ....
.... The consequence could well be a Republican civil war.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/07/obama-american-president-continues-odyssey
I know some Americans who would be in favour and benefit from it, he can do it for them.
Sure they might be in favor of having an extra couple of weeks off like people get in Europe BUT will they be in favor of the salary adjustment to compensate for lost productivity? I know Americans that cash vacation time in and they only get 15 days.
Quite a few companies allow you to buy an extra week and practically no one ever takes advantage of that. I actually buy an extra week because I am a lazy European and prefer the time off to a weeks salary.
Companies down here don't do too badly with vacation. 17 days days is the standard in the first year, with a few giving 22 days. Most give you an extra 5 days for every five years service. Public holidays are also included, anything from 6-10 days.
YES! Top of the non-yanks/-adopted yanks.
Solid performance from the Sarcastic Norwegian Atheist-Rationalist Contingent (SNARC).
Sorry Plech, you were second
How the feck have I posted that much in here.
I'm usually either employed in the uniformed or civil service and the leave accrual system is great.
Uniformed service (i.e. military) - 1/2 day for every 6 calendar days, up to 2.5 days per month, and can carry over up to 75 days per fiscal year crossover.
Civil service (i.e. civilian sector) - depends on years of federal service (military included if prior military service). For each pay period, it starts out at 4 hours annual leave and 4 hours sick leave and after I believe 3 or 4 years service it jumps to 6 hours annual/4 hours sick, and then after I believe 14 years service it jumps to 8 hours annual/6 hours sick. There's also different accumulations for senior executive service (SES), law enforcement, etc.
Uniformed service (i.e. military) - 1/2 day for every 6 calendar days, up to 2.5 days per month, and can carry over up to 75 days per fiscal year crossover.
Civil service (i.e. civilian sector) - depends on years of federal service (military included if prior military service). For each pay period, it starts out at 4 hours annual leave and 4 hours sick leave and after I believe 3 or 4 years service it jumps to 6 hours annual/4 hours sick, and then after I believe 14 years service it jumps to 8 hours annual/6 hours sick. There's also different accumulations for senior executive service (SES), law enforcement, etc.
My wife's gets 9.66 per pay period, and she has 26 pay periods a year. That works out at around 31-32 days. She also gets 4.8 sick hours per pay period and has around 4 months worth saved up.
I think they might need to get a whole new map. Even if you gave the GOP every possibly swing state that has a sizeable Hispanic community in it, and I'm including New Mexico which is extremely generous, as well as Virginia even though I'm not sure they have any sizeable impact on the outcome there, Obama would have still got 270 electoral votes. It really isn't the silver bullet that they now seem to think it is. Obama won Iowa and New Hampshire by an extremely comfortable amount (5.6 and 5.8% respectively), as well as Ohio by a big enough 2%. All this while Obama lost the white vote nationally by 20%. The GOP have big problems and it isn't just with Hispanic people.
I think the rumors regarding the death of the GOP are very premature. Despite fielding an odious unelectable candidate they actually came relatively close this time around. If they filed a more likeable nominee and decent VP nominee it will be very close in 2016. Then they just have to rethink some of their less popular and unnecessary polices like abortion and gay rights etc.
People are relatively inpatient and blame government and the incumbent for everything. The fact that a GOP nominee did so well four years after GW Bush pretty much proves how hard it is to remain in power for any period of time. people are fickle.
People are relatively inpatient and blame government and the incumbent for everything. The fact that a GOP nominee did so well four years after GW Bush pretty much proves how hard it is to remain in power for any period of time. people are fickle.
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