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Excellent.
No, not officially, if you're talking about whether the election returns have been certified by the secretaries of the states, and lawsuits have been settled.
Lol, never forget the incoming lawsuits.
But we're fairly certain he won.
Well, everyone but this guy
@ Super Lazuli What's that from?
Besides a reelection, we voted in or out the following items.
-Maryland, Washington and Maine voted for the Marriage Equality Act, but not Minnesota.
-Colorado and Washington allow marijuana use.
-The first openly gay Senator has been voted in.
-Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock(AKA the rape guys) have been voted out.
-Puerto Rico will become the 51st state.
> -Puerto Rico will become the 51st state.
wait what???
The /pol/ sticky is wonderful for the mood. Relevant theme music:
Also first dose of conservatears: http://uk.eonline.com/news/360904/donald-trump-vs-twitter-alec-baldwin-more-unload-after-obama-rant
Holy shit, that five-post rant from the user identifying 'emself as "EARTH". In ALL CAPS.
>Romney just got Pennsylvania, just like he did last election.
>just like he did last election.
Oh, god. I have an eight hour shift today, and it's the busiest day of the week, and I'm in Alabama.
I am going to have to put up with so much bitching -_-
Is it wrong that the results oft he election are the only reason I'm bothering going to English class?
Probably.
^^^ Ask them whether they've learned to accept it. If they protest, tell them that the other side felt similarly about Bush's re-election.
Hahaha, no. That would probably just piss them off. The appropriate protocol in that situation is to nod, say something vague that could be interpreted as agreeing, and wait for them to leave.
They had a vote on statehood. Although the ball is in the US's court now. (See: Hawaii taking five years to become a state.)
Here's the thing, though: no Republican would ever vote to allow a Spanish-speaking US state in, since that would speed up their demographic suicide by three or four years.
That's why I'm curious whether this issue could become big enough that it would give them headaches.
Though, on the other hand, given how efficiently the Republican party has gone about disemboweling itself in the last four years, I guess maybe they'll be all for it.
Puerto Rico's had 3 votes for statehood before, it's just that this time, they were leaning towards it rather than away.
I've learned to not mind unless they drag the rest of the country into hell along with themselves.
Oh, they won't. The fastest-growing demographic in the country hates them, and their core supporters are the fastest-shrinking demographic in the country. They'll just kind of slide out of the limelight over the next 20 years.
So basically this is a last-ditch plea at relevance.
Funny, because hispanics tend to vote pretty socially conservative. If Republicans were smart they would try to appeal to their interests.
But nope, can't scare off all the rich white people.
The weird thing is, Bush won partially because he understood how important catering to Latinos is. But ever since, every Republican has pretty much just gone "fuck the Latinos" to appeal to people who will be dead in a few years and would have voted for them anyway.
I really have no idea how it's possible to be that stupid.
I wonder if the Republican leaders actually believe that there ought to be a sort of oligarch class (effectively, though not explicitly) of people who do the decision-making on one side while the only thing they need to worry about from the people is that the people are reasonably willing to re-elect them when election cycles roll around. They need not actually explain their actions to anyone; they just need to convince the voters (through any means necessary, including deception about their priorities concerning so-to-speak moral issues) to keep them around.
So they do this, while those people who drink their kool-aid on the other hand believe that they're electing a bunch of leaders who are fighting for them tooth and nail against a liberal/progressive/immoral/Satanic/communist juggernaut, and thus they need to keep electing them in order to prevent said juggernaut from taking over.
I'm not sure I buy that, since if it were the case, they wouldn't be putting so much effort into losing the Latino vote.
What happened was that the drunk-on-the-kool-aid people actually got sufficiently pissed off at their leaders and started to overthrow them, replacing some of them. Now some of the latter group are messing up the decisions of the former group.