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  1. From the pov of a former U.S. citizen who has many family members there, I'm often more plugged in and aware of U.S. politics than I am with what goes on here. But, I think most of us who were following the latest two year presidential extravanganza have moved on to other subjects. But there still are some interesting side bars and issues that I would like to see answered or at least get more information on. Let's start: 1. It's Still Not Over Yet! Believe it or not, the final vote tally still isn't in yet, but what's really shocking is how many votes remain to be counted: as many as two million....and most of them are in New York and California, so, it's not likely that Romney is going to pull a surprise come-from-behind win now. Irony of ironies, with mostly Obama votes remaining, it looks like Romney's final popular vote total will fall to 47%, or possibly lower. So, he ended up winning the 47% after all! Liberal schadenfreude is about to reach overdose levels. Just when you thought the dead horse of Mitt Romney's campaign had been beaten more than enough — and most savagely by members of his own party — Dave Wasserman at Cook Political Report projects that the final count of the popular vote, which is still ongoing, will show Romney winning 47 percent of the electorate. This could raise related questions like WHY aren't all the votes counted yet, and why did the Republican vote get counted so quickly, while so many predominantly Democratic districts are still trying to sort out the mess? What was most disturbing about the latest U.S. Elections, is the decline in democratic process. For example, the poorer and the darker your district was, the more likely it would have fewer polling stations per capita; 'malfunctioning voting machines', and given provisional ballots to fill out...which can be long forms that have to be completely filled in correctly or tossed; find that their names had been stricken off the voter lists through voter caging and other nefarious Rove tactics; or find that their polling station just happened to have "poll watchers" from 'True The Vote' and other Republican-sponsored groups. So, if you were dark and/or didn't have money, the greater the hurdles to exercise your democratic franchise to vote. I suspect there were no similar lineups at the polls in South Beach Florida and other millionaire bastions around the Country! Just more evidence that conservatives view the democratic process as an annoyance to a existential threat....depending on just how far out of synch the rich are with the interests and welfare of the majority....and that's pretty damn far now, as the wealth and income gaps keep growing and growing! And that leads to the next question I have after viewing some of the highlight reels of the meltdowns of Rove, Trump, Limbaugh and the nuts and bolts at Foxnews: 2. Was The Fix In For Romney and Republican Senate Candidates On Election Night? A lot of liberal, especially Democrat activists have been enjoying the comedy show...especially between Rove and Megyn Kelly on Election Night. But when I watched the clip, I wondered whether Rove was in denial...like John Stewart and similar talking heads are saying, or was he still confident of Romney winning Ohio because he was still sure that the fix was in? Recall the story about how the bean counters in the back room at Fox called Ohio for Obama because the districts still remaining to come in were going to be mostly Democratic. Well, does anyone really think that Rove was stupid enough not to realize that? He successfully fixed the vote in Ohio in 2004 for Bush, and you can bet for damn sure that he knows the details about every district in Ohio...and most other states as well....this is what he gets payed to do, and what his reputation as a campaign strategist hangs on. Anonymous, Karl Rove and 2012 Election Fix? That article about Anonymous and the Get Out The Vote Democratic strategists, reveals one of the key reasons why Republican vote-rigging failed this time -- it was too bloody obvious! The Republican Party had started making it more and more obvious that they weren't interested in the votes of certain minority groups for some reason, and seen a better return in running against them....especially Latinos, by targeting their populist appeals at white suburbanites fearing being "overrun" by immigrants and darkies. They were far less subtle with these tactics in this election than in previous campaigns. And now that it's over, and the results show it was a failure because of the backlash it created, they are back to courting the Latino vote again! Just like in the runup to the 2000 Republican Convention, where everyone who could speak Spanish was put on the stage. This time around, they refused to give any except for Marco Rubio any chance to speak at the Convention. Now, it's back to square one, as they try to do that balancing act that Dubya did, and try to tone down the rhetoric of the anti-immigration activists....let's see if it works this time! And then there are the fun stories that come out after the election: 3. How The Secret Service Said Goodbye To Mitt Romney In brief: he rode from his hotel to the convention hall in Boston to make his victory speech in a 15 car secret service motorcade, and as soon as the results came in, the detail leader told the agents to pack up and return to their base....and the Romneys had to hitch a ride with their son Tagg, back to the hotel....love it! And his statement a few days before election night - that he had only written a victory speech seemed to be more than bravado, judging from the fumbling mishmash of concession speech that he had to end up delivering instead. It seemed like Romney sure was sure that he would win! Was it just because he surrounded himself with a bunch of flunkies and yes men like a typical millionaire? Or, was it something he had been told by the operatives who were trying to fix the election for him. Obama had prepared both, according to Politico. But, Romney really was awfully damn sure that he only needed one speech on Election Night.
  2. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/10/staying_classy_1.php I guess this is just how the Romney's roll anything for a political point.
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