Election Day '08: Obama Wins, Old guy doesn't

[Cashed]

Beware the exit polls folks!

Haha.

Idiots are running down the halls like the Red Sox won the world series. It's like they think Obama is going to fix everything/anything.

Edit: not that I thought McCain would do anything incredible either, just less bad ****.

Welcome to our generation. We get really excited over things.

 

[Crimson King]

You already could, Psycho.

What do you people not understand? The president doesn't do ****, especially over night. Welfare has been in affect for decades.

Obama will do nothing special and nothing will change. It's cool that a black man has become president in my lifetime--never thought that would happen.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

You already could, Psycho.

What do you people not understand? The president doesn't do ****, especially over night. Welfare has been in affect for decades.

Obama will do nothing special and nothing will change. It's cool that a black man has become president in my lifetime--never thought that would happen.

I realize that, I'm just made at something...so please just leave me alone right now...

...

I shouldn't go all emo and yell at people for other reasons...

 

[thesage]

It's 200k and if your in high school, having a job shouldn't affect your sholarship chances. Also provided 3.0ish GPA and willingness to spend your weekends online you can find an arbitrarily large amount of money in scholarships and grants for like anything. ANYTHING

Too bad that money goes to the college and doesn't lower the EFC which I must pay by law. Unless the scholarship does something illegal so that it doesn't go to the college.

 

[Lovely]

This country was too based on racism, hopfully Obama winning could help the racsisim go down a lot. I believe that this country will get better as the time goes by now.

 

[Mic_128]

Maybe if we don't tax the rich people so much then they could raise the poor people's wages / provide more people with jobs.

Heh heh heh heh, good one.

Wait, you're not serious are you?

 

[marthanoob]

No it doesn't, you are just greedy and depressed because you don't have that much money

Omg. Why do I bother with such stupidity? Rhetorical question.

I'd like to point out the post where I said that more and more Republicans are self-righteous hypocrites.
Perfect example.

1. My family makes over 150k a year. My whole family is liberal. This is not related to how much money I have or will have. This is related to my opinions. Stop making ******** assumptions.

2. You are calling poor people greedy because they want lower taxes. Which is the party ALWAYS in favor of lower taxes? Maybe you should rethink who is greedy. Maybe you should consider that there is a difference between greed and need.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

This country was too based on racism, hopfully Obama winning could help the racsisim go down a lot. I believe that this country will get better as the time goes by now.

Why is Obama's race the most important thing to you people...you don't vote on someone based upon their race...

 

[cman]

Do I really have to explain? I kinda did my own research for this stuff. It's pretty obvious when you think about it. There's a limit to everything, including natural resources. What happens if there's no wind? Clouds don't move. It's not like there's an unlimited of wind going into one air. I'm not saying that we'll run out of wind or something. Just that areas where wind used to travel freely will slow down that wind changing the climate.

Hydroelectric plants always affect how rivers run. It flooded an entire valley in Egypt when they built one (that came from the History Channel). Nuclear Fusion I'm iffy about since I don't think some physicists can be reliable (personal viewpoint). Imagine if something that had the energy of the sun went boom on the earth.

Solar energy works by absorbing the power of the sun. It isn't reflecting any of that energy back into the atmosphere. Imagine if we started sucking away at the heat in our atmosphere. It's exactly what the inundation of carbon emissions is doing.

The geothermal thing I got from something we watched in earth science in 7th grade.

Yes, you do have to explain. Wind loses energy when say... it hits a mountain. Why hasn't all wind already lost all of its energy???? Because wind comes from the uneven heating of the atmosphere by the great and all-powerful sun god. So show me the sources that you used, and i'll decide whether or not they are credible. If the only ones are the ones you listed, then i can safely ignore you.

 

[Neon Ness]

This country was too based on racism, hopfully Obama winning could help the racsisim go down a lot. I believe that this country will get better as the time goes by now.

Hope you're right, Lovely. Hope you're right.

 

[Quail Man]

Even when you're too poor to afford schooling? even if all the businesses anywhere near you can't afford to hire anyone else? Even if you can't afford to move somewhere where ther's more education and job prospects?

As if taxing collages, businesses, and realtors would help?

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

Omg. Why do I bother with such stupidity? Rhetorical question.

I'd like to point out the post where I said that more and more Republicans are self-righteous hypocrites.
Perfect example.

1. My family makes over 150k a year. My whole family is liberal. This is not related to how much money I have or will have. This is related to my opinions. Stop making ******** assumptions.

2. You are calling poor people greedy because they want lower taxes. Which is the party ALWAYS in favor of lower taxes? Maybe you should rethink who is greedy. Maybe you should consider that there is a difference between greed and need.

No, I was calling them greedy for trying to raise OTHER people's taxes, but whatever...read my last 2 posts...I am not in the condition to actually argue right now

 

[GoldShadow]

I'm going to ignore all the petty fighting and say "congratulations! Obama won!"

 

[Azua]

Flaming still gets infractions, even in politics :D



And grats to Obama.

 

[thesage]

Lowering taxes on rich people won't help cuz they're greedy and will just keep the extra money for themselves.

Raising taxes on rich people won't help cuz they're greedy and will take more money from their companies for themselves.

 

[lcampoy8]

Why is Obama's race the most important thing to you people...you don't vote on someone based upon their race...

a lot of people probably did...

 

[M.K]

Why is Obama's race the most important thing to you people...you don't vote on someone based upon their race...

America just proved you wrong.

 

[Omis]

http://politicalcompass.org/

it was in the image url :\

Thanks for the link.

 

[Thrillhouse-vh.]

Flaming still get infractions, even in politics :D

HA!

It seems the best posts here now are the ones that don't relate one way or the other to the winner.

 

[Lixivium]

America just proved you wrong.

Right, cause that's the sole reason Obama won. It's not like he was the better candidate or anything.

 

[Omis]

America just proved you wrong.

Are you implying that Obama only won because he is black? If you are then your a idiot. Look at the demographic results. Even white racists( a few of which I know) ignored his race and instead voted for him because he is the better choice for America.

 

[Quail Man]

Why is Obama's race the most important thing to you people...you don't vote on someone based upon their race...

Other people already said this, but yeah, Obama got nearly all the black vote.

EDIT: I'm only saying there was a corrolation, I didn't say that Obama being black was the only reason he got the black vote. You can make that decision for yourself.

 

[Omis]

Other people already said this, but yeah, Obama got nearly all the black vote.

EDIT: I'm only saying there was a corrolation, I didn't say that Obama being black was the only reason he got the black vote.

On average black people are liberal democrats not conservative republicans, so race is not everything.

 

[Neon Ness]

Other people already said this, but yeah, Obama got nearly all the black vote.

EDIT: I'm only saying there was a corrolation, I didn't say that Obama being black was the only reason he got the black vote. You can make that decision for yourself.

In that case, the point of your post was... what?

 

[NES n00b]

Omg. Why do I bother with such stupidity? Rhetorical question.

I'd like to point out the post where I said that more and more Republicans are self-righteous hypocrites.
Perfect example.

1. My family makes over 150k a year. My whole family is liberal. This is not related to how much money I have or will have. This is related to my opinions. Stop making ******** assumptions.

2. You are calling poor people greedy because they want lower taxes. Which is the party ALWAYS in favor of lower taxes? Maybe you should rethink who is greedy. Maybe you should consider that there is a difference between greed and need.

This is like calling the kettle black. Face it, we are all psuedo-intellectual people with understanding based on school and sources we looked up. I have heard alot of elitist things from liberals. No johns, no ad homeniums.....which goes for conservatives too.

 

[thesage]

Yes, you do have to explain. Wind loses energy when say... it hits a mountain. Why hasn't all wind already lost all of its energy???? Because wind comes from the uneven heating of the atmosphere by the great and all-powerful sun god. So show me the sources that you used, and i'll decide whether or not they are credible. If the only ones are the ones you listed, then i can safely ignore you.

I already knew where wind comes from >_>;

What I'm trying to say, what happens if you have a wind farm that has enough power to slow down wind equivalent to a mountain? It'll obviously change the climate.

 

[Lixivium]

Other people already said this, but yeah, Obama got nearly all the black vote.

So did Bill Clinton and Al Gore. That's racism too right?

 

[Quail Man]

In that case, the point of your post was... what?

Psycho was saying that people weren't voting based on race. I think he was incorrect.

 

[§leepy God]

Good run McCain, Obama I belive you can make this country better.

 

[Omis]

Does anyone know how well Bob Barr did?

 

[A_man13]

This country was too based on racism, hopfully Obama winning could help the racsisim go down a lot. I believe that this country will get better as the time goes by now.

Martin Luther King Jr. said to "Not judge people on the color of their skin, but the content of their heart." I'm not saying I don't respect him, but I wouldn't vote for Obama (If I could, of course) just because of his race.

And racism will always exist, but it should help a bit. In my opinion, however, it was too big of a trade off for me.

 

[Quail Man]

So did Bill Clinton and Al Gore. That's racism too right?

I'll wait for the final results to come in until I figure out the exact difference between the % of the black vote that those two got and Obama got.

 

[Lixivium]

1984 Walter Mondale 90% Ronald Reagan 9%
1988 Michael Dukakis 90% George H.W. Bush 10%
1992 Bill Clinton 83% George H.W. Bush 10%
1996 Bill Clinton 84% Bob Dole 12%
2000 Al Gore 90% George W. Bush 9%
2004 John Kerry 88% George W. Bush 11%

2008 Barack Obama >90% John McCain <10% (estimated)

Can you spot the pattern? Hint: It's not that Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry are all black.

 

[Omis]

1984 Walter Mondale 90% Ronald Reagan 9%
1988 Michael Dukakis 90% George H.W. Bush 10%
1992 Bill Clinton 83% George H.W. Bush 10%
1996 Bill Clinton 84% Bob Dole 12%
2000 Al Gore 90% George W. Bush 9%
2004 John Kerry 88% George W. Bush 11%

2008 Barack Obama >90% John McCain <10% (estimated)

Can you spot the pattern? Hint: It's not that Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry are all black.

This is exactly what I'm talking about. Blacks tend to vote democrat regardless of race.

 

[PsychoIncarnate]

I'll wait for the final results to come in until I figure out the exact difference between the % of the black vote that those two got and Obama got.

If all voted were confidential, how would they exactly figure that out?

 

[OverLade]

Obama for Top Tier.

GTFO Metaknight.

 

[Blooqkazoo]

Anybody watch his speech? It was inspiring!

No, not really. Some Lincoln quotes, the future generation, and Yes We Can.

 

[Quail Man]

If all voted were confidential, how would they exactly figure that out?

The same way they figured this out:

1984 Walter Mondale 90% Ronald Reagan 9%
1988 Michael Dukakis 90% George H.W. Bush 10%
1992 Bill Clinton 83% George H.W. Bush 10%
1996 Bill Clinton 84% Bob Dole 12%
2000 Al Gore 90% George W. Bush 9%
2004 John Kerry 88% George W. Bush 11%

2008 Barack Obama >90% John McCain <10% (estimated)

Can you spot the pattern? Hint: It's not that Mondale, Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, and Kerry are all black.

So Obama got over 90% (I thought I heard 95% on ABC), while no one else in the past 6 elections has. Assuming all else to be equal (it probably isn't, but that's the problem with statistics, so don't complain about it), then the canadite's race influenced this election by drawing slightly more black voters than usual.
edit: If that doesn't seem like very much, then think about it this way: there were only 10% of blacks remaining that didn't vote democrat before, and Obama managed to get half of them.

Anybody watch his speech? It was inspiring!

No, not really. Some Lincoln quotes, the future generation, and Yes We Can.

lol, I would like to. Do you know if/where it's been uploaded to the internet yet?

 

[Neon Ness]

Obama for Top Tier.

GTFO Metaknight.

I oughta make this my new signature.

 

[Firus]

If you make more than 250,000 a year than it should be your moral duty to contribute to those less fortunate.

Because if you make $250,000, you're totally rolling around in cash, mirite? You're totally rich, living in a mansion, and the owner of 3 fancy cars, mirite?