I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange
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Good morning, all, and it IS a good morning. Totally agree with WR that there was a kind of heroism in waiting in those long lines to vote. It's wrong, no one should have to stand for hours and hours, but it's also inspiring. It reminded me of the pictures we all saw from South Africa's first democratic election. I remember, at the time, a lot of tut-tutting and comments that, oh, look at that, Americans would never do that, we take our democracy for granted, etc. etc.
All those folks in Ohio and Florida and Virginia (and NYC - 4 hours in our neighborhood!) showed that we don't and we will.
Linda
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Stayed up til the end of Our President's speech.....THANKS TO THE UNIVERSE for waking up to the TREASURE we have in Our President - and a coalition for the FUTURE the Democratic Party has created, EVERY Senator we worked for has been elected, even TAMMY - wow, just WOW...
now I can say the words I've been afraid to say out loud: THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
OBAMACARES is safe, in our hands to keep up the good work.
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I am a happy, if tired, camper this morning! Went to bed a little after midnight, but didn't sleep well because of the adrenaline! Reason and sanity prevailed in Virginia -- we not only went for the President but we have Tim Kaine as a senator. Guess George "Macaca" Allen's time has passed in the New Dominion!
Very sad to hear that Crazy-eye Bachmann won. DH's response was, "Then the people in her district will get what they deserve." Fingers crossed for Allen West's defeat ... just checked and it is still too close to call. Also fingers crossed for Jon Tester to defeat Rehberg. That guy is a piece of work -- we have had to deal with him at my work and he is ... er ... a problem.
It was great fun watching the results with you all here and my friends on FB! So lovely to have someone to cheer with (and you keep me quiet so that DH can sleep!).
My face hurts from smiling -- I think I was smiling in my sleep!
FORWARD (and a little to the left)!
Happy Liberal (which is what Libby stands for, BTW!)
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Congrats, Sunflowers, on Elizabeth Warren's victory! There were HUGE cheers at the party I was at when she was declared the winner in MA.
Linda
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HL - I was SCREAMING with JOY when Tim Kaine won. My friends worked SO HARD for him. He & Elizabeth will do us PROUD...Murphy in CT, Claire defeating The Biggest ( almost) Jerk of all Times!
Michelle Bachman snuck in - but she's a laughing stock, no one takes her seriously, right up there with Trump.
It was western MA that carried Elizabeth - the votes were amazing - highest turnout, just SUCH A GOOD DAY FOR THE WORLD....
I am happiest about the COALITION the Democratic Party has put together - it represents the USA of today - AND the future - and watching the Big Dog in action again, well, I'm already "fired up, ready to go" for HRC 2016.
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What Sunny said: HRC 2016!!! YES, YES, YES!!!!
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What Sunny and Yorkie said!!
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So what congressional races were people watching last night?
I was thrilled that Tammy Duckworth defeated Joe Walsh in IL . . . she's a true hero, and he's, well, let's not go there. From the start, I thought of him as one of those accidental congressmen, elected by some fluke and destined not to be there long. Glad I was right!
Kathy Hochul's loss in upstate NY was a disappointment, though. I know it was a predominantly Republican district, but I was hoping she could pull it off. And I was disgusted earlier this year when her opponent claimed we didn't need health care reform because "no one dies of breast cancer any more." What an ignorant doofus! Very scary that this guy will have a vote on health care policy.
Allen West's race is still undecided, according to Politico (time stamped 2 hours ago). Anyone else heard anything different?
Linda
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I'm happy, even though we lost some races, we won more than I'd hoped.
Going to try to get back to my writing today. Between the hurricane and the election, haven't met my writing deadlines.
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Sleepy good morning, all - so happy things went as expected for our president.
Danmed US House - arghhhh!
"BCO - the Most Trusted News in Politics Breaking News" I swear our analysis was some of the best!
Thank you, VA, for your voice of reason.
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Democrats may pick up 8 seats in the House - noose tightening around Boehner's neck, I say!
The GOP has no national mandate to speak of now. None. The country has rejected its national agenda, even if on a local level some people held seats.
The democrats must now forcefully push through an agenda and stop the caving in that makes them so ineffective even as a majority.
Minnesota, 6th distrct: You deserve whatever you get.
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Happy Day indeed. I am proud that at least half of this country realizes that while the economy is a huge issue, you simply cannot ignore the social issues and their long-reaching impact. That includes the Supreme Court, which has the longest lasting effect of the land. Here's hoping BHO will hold on to that backbone he found at the end of this campaign and LEAD. He can get aggressive with Congress and keep us moving forward. I hope he's learned that trying to talk with the regressives just doesn't work. I put the ball in Congress's court.
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Final election thoughts from our dear friends "Margaret and Helen":
HELEN:
Margaret, it appears that rape remains unpopular among likely voters, gays are people too, and Rocky Mountain High isn’t just a song. It isn’t final yet, but at the time that I am writing this, Michele Bachmann, bless her heart, might not be too popular with voters either. And while he wasn’t actually running for anything, Donald Trump proved to be unpopular with just about everyone.
Once the real news called the race for Obama, I tuned into Fox News to see if Carl Rove was giving refunds. I had to laugh at the meltdown that was happening. Carl wanted a recount in Ohio and some blonde woman with too much make-up lamented about the inconvenient truth of Hurricane Sandy. Evidently Sandy and fraudulent voters had given the election unfairly to Obama. Honey, Hurricane Sandy reminded us that we had a good man in the White House much the same way Hurricane Katrina reminded us that we had an idiot in the White House. And fraudulent voters are about as common as unbiased reporting on Fox News. I had to turn the channel back to the more civil CNN coverage with that lovely Anderson Cooper. Too much Fox makes me itch.
After running for President for nine hundred years, Mitt Romney accepted defeat and gave a surprisingly short and genuinely gracious concession speech. I was touched, truly touched, when he called for unity and wished the President success. President Obama too gave a lovely speech. He always gives lovely speeches. It was tad bit long and I must admit I drifted off a couple of times. I am old and it was getting late.
But back to Mitt… you had me there, sir. You had me ready to put aside my partisan ways in hopes that our elected officials could come together and find common ground. I was all ready to write my letter to the President asking him to govern to the middle and bring us together. I would get a good night’s sleep and then write the letter in the morning and send it off to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But just before I headed to bed, this flashed across my television screen:
“The American people did two things: they gave President Obama a second chance to fix the problems that even he admits he failed to solve during his first four years in office, and they preserved Republican control of the House of Representatives. The voters have not endorsed the failures or excesses of the president’s first term, they have simply given him more time to finish the job they asked him to do together with a Congress that restored balance to Washington after two years of one-party control. Now it’s time for the president to propose solutions that actually have a chance of passing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and a closely-divided Senate, step up to the plate on the challenges of the moment, and deliver in a way that he did not in his first four years in office.”
– Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader
Well Margaret, so much for me giving up my partisan ways. Mitch McConnell is a jackass and the Republican Party can kiss my ass. I mean it. Really.
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I'm awake ( sort of ) this morning and feeling fine. Whether it will happen who knows, but Steve
Schmitt ( sp') and several other Repugs are already saying.....that they are way out on the pulse of what America and Americans truly want and that it was very clear. Big changes will have to come if their is going to remain a viable Republican party.Though like Rachel Maddow I started to wonder just what the Romney camp might have up its sleeve, it probably was the fact of having to write a concession speech. It was rather nice ( as it should have been ) and I hope it was sincere. My feeling was that I really hope to never have to deal with Romney, Ann, or the sons again. In hindsight I doubt he ever had as much chance as it seemed a few times. He metamorphised for the first time to just GET the nomination which was the first lie and he could never rise above that. So very happy that chapter is over.
Nay-sayers will start working over-time but there is important work to do.....and I hope shortly that some of that work is a huge re-vamp of the sorts of things that made people wait in line for hours. I so applaud that love ande devotion to country and to those insisting for their RIGHTS. I hope they all know just what they did yesterday to renew the energy and hope and faith of others who were not forced to do it. A pox on all those who put them in that position.
And now back to our regularly scheduled program of being thrilled for Barack Obama, President of the United States of America. ---- hurry up Fla.
Jackie
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fran-visco/breast-cancer_b_2081844.html
2.9 Million Breast Cancer Survivors: How Will They Vote?
Gender Gap In 2012 Election Aided Obama Win
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Great articles CP!
When I metioned to my daughter some of the clashes on this board re: Obama, she just looked ay me and said, "And these are breast cancer survivors? Shouldn't they ALL want Obama elected?"
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hahahahha, just saw this on FB!
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Perfect graphic, Blue! Bwahahahaha!!
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I am so happy today. No one can make me angry.......I called Obama back in 2004 when he spoke at the Democratic convention, as the man to be our first black President. He impressed me that much. Just said to everyone. The African American with the funny name. Then in 2008 someone said to me, "did you hear about there is. Black guy running President". I said " the guy with the funny name". Sure enough it was Barack Obama. The rest is history. Voted for him then, and worked for his re-election this time. Love their family....Michele is such a wonderful First Lady. Right up there with Jacqueline Kennedy. Her daughters are adorable and it has been fun watching them grow up. Today is a good day.
Will admit Romney was very gracious in his concession speech, and I hope he and Obama can work together. I' m sure Romney has so e good ideas too. We won ladies.2/15/2011, IDC, 1cm, Grade 1, 0/10 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2- -
Here's another one!
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HAHAHAHAHAH
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Alec Baldwin's excellent tweet:
"You know your party is in trouble when people ask did the rape guy win, and you have to ask which one?"
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I hate to disagree with Bill Maher, but America won, and comedy continues to win.
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Woohoo!! The Sesame Street residents are safe from eviction and can stay in their homes!
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Loving the cartoons this morning. The comedy is welcome --- it has been a long battle and I am ready to breathe out a huge sigh of relief. I had feelings that there would be hold ups, recounts, and all sorts of things going on to keep a few rocks disturbing the path of might and right. So, laughter is a welcome release. Nice to confidently know who built what......and our President and the American people built something very special together. And Orville, it WILL fly.
Jackie
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I urge you sisters to go back and read our thread through the last 12-13 hours. I just did. It's an amazing suspense story. To go back quickly, just go to the address bar on your browser and change the current page number (1082) to 1072. That will bring you back ten pages.
What a grand time we had - I really enjoyed last night! Couldn't have had more fun if I had watched the returns on television with friends.
(((((our thread))))
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Ducky, so good to see you posting. Do you have any news about your Cape May property? Wishing you and all the other east coasters well as this next storm bears down. (It's already windy here in NYC, and the Occupy Sandy folks are helping evacuate seniors and/or making sure everyone has enough food and medication for the next three days. A lot of the low-income high rises are STILL without power, heat and water.)
Just saw that another Tea Party freshman will NOT be returning to Congress. Allen West was defeated by his Democratic challenger, Patrick Murphy. Another victory for sense and civility.
I have to think that in the long sweep of U.S. politics, one of the most important results from yesterday is the passage of the marriage equality measures in Maryland, Maine (and Washington?? haven't heard for sure) and the defeat of the anti-equality amendment in Minnesota. A few years ago, marriage equality was poison at the polls -- even in "blue" states like California and Michigan. We all knew it was just a matter of time before that would turn around (in my daughter's cohort, even the more conservative kids view marriage equality as a no-brainer), but I, for one, didn't think it would happen so quickly or decisively.
I wish there were a way to convince those who are reacting fearfully to the election results that no one is going to destroy their own heterosexual marriage, no one is going to put them in a FEMA concentration camp, Obamacare is not going to get between them and their doctor, etc. I hate the way the fear-mongers and rumor spreaders are playing with people's lives and emotions.
Still beaming!
Linda
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DH said waggishly this morning that Mitt should have taken his women out of their binders and allowed them to vote.
ETA: Linda, we crossposted -- HALLELUJAH, Allen West is history! I don't care much for Florida, but they didn't deserve a representative like that!
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I wanna give BIG BIRD a big yellow hug.
Also all of you, I LOVE Alec B's tweet - wht a GREAT DAY FOR THE WORLD...
I'm not a twitterer, where do you find them???
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