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What's gonna happen on Tuesday?

Poll ended at Mon Nov 01, 2010 5:07 pm

Dems hold both houses.
6
4%
GOP sweeps both houses.
15
9%
GOP takes House, Dems keep Senate.
90
53%
GOP takes Senate, Dems keep House.
1
1%
The Mods unleash their secret plan that ends with Max as president and [violet] as VP. Wait, I wasn't suposed to mention that...
29
17%
Any way you slice it, we're up S. Crick without a paddle.
29
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Total votes : 170

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Postby Farnhamia » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:57 pm

Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
NERVUN wrote:Wrong Nevadan female republican candidate, LG. Angle = chicken for refusing to talk to anyone who wasn't from Fox News. :p


I thought Angle was the one that suggested paying our doctors with chickens.

No, I think that was her opponent in the GOP primary.
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Postby New Manvir » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:58 pm

Wa no Kuni wrote:
UnitedStatesOfAmerica- wrote:California Proposition 19 the measure to legalize personal possession of and recreational use of marijuana has been defeated at the polls. The people of California choosing to continue to uphold federal and international laws against marijuana rather than jeopardize the federal funds their police departments and public schools recieve.


Go California.........this is the first time in a long time that I have said that. :shock:


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Postby Melkor Unchained » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:58 pm

Queensberry wrote:anyone from nevada is automatically now a tard

I'm not a big fan of Reid, but steering clear of rhetoric like this is probably a good idea.
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Postby East Lithuania » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:58 pm

Glad Pelosi is out. Reid should have lost and let the Dems have a better Senate leader. At the very least all of Obama's "bipartisan" promises will have to come true if ANYTHING needs to get down w/o Obama's executive orders.

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Postby Lacadaemon » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:58 pm

The Black Forrest wrote:So Meg and Carley are going down.

Looking bad for the Marijuana bill as well...


It was a good idea to run women candidates, just not those women candidates. Meg always struck me as 'meh', so while she might be a competent administrator, she lacks the personality to get elected dog catcher. And Carly is borderline psycho.

Same thing with McMahon in Conn.
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Postby Germonica » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:58 pm

Wa no Kuni wrote:Harry Reid reelected.

I guess that goes to show the intelligence of the Nevada voters. :palm:

I'm from Nevada, and I am pissed, my fellow Nevadans are mentally retarded. We have the highest unemployment rate and highest foreclosure rate, yet they re-elect him!

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Postby Lunatic Goofballs » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:59 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
I thought Angle was the one that suggested paying our doctors with chickens.

No, I think that was her opponent in the GOP primary.


Aha. What an interesting Primary that must've been. :lol:
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Postby O5vx » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:59 pm

Panzerjaeger wrote:
O5vx wrote:This election as been no different than what I have seen in most North American countries. The american people are unable to elect a common voice. I Know that some would say that why is the need for a common voice? well, I will tell you. When you elect a common voice it is easer to determine what the people really want, but when you have some saying yes and some saying no it is going to be extremly hard for the electorate to deliever on the needs of all.

To night I think has also prove that when politcians all ignore the will of the people, the pay deaely. I have observe many result and saw that it has play a sigificant role in the choices of the people.

I didn't know we are electing voices. That would explain my confusion at the ballot this afternoon.

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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:59 pm

UnitedStatesOfAmerica- wrote:California Proposition 19 the measure to legalize personal possession of and recreational use of marijuana has been defeated at the polls. The people of California choosing to continue to uphold federal and international laws against marijuana rather than jeopardize the federal funds their police departments and public schools recieve.


Not really. Most people don't even know about that.

Keep in mind you are still talk about a people who voted for prop 8 because they thought children where going to go through indoctrination of the gay lifestyle in the classroom.

Besides the money raise from marijuana would surpass federal funds. :D
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Postby NERVUN » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:00 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
Lunatic Goofballs wrote:
I thought Angle was the one that suggested paying our doctors with chickens.

No, I think that was her opponent in the GOP primary.

It was. Sue Lowden did the whole paying doctors with chickens.
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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:01 pm

So checking out the Ballot measure. People in Colorado are smart, people in California and South Dakota are stupid as hell. Missed one. Add Arizona to the stupid as hell list.

Also why is everybody suddenly voting for republicans?
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Postby NERVUN » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:01 pm

Germonica wrote:
Wa no Kuni wrote:Harry Reid reelected.

I guess that goes to show the intelligence of the Nevada voters. :palm:

I'm from Nevada, and I am pissed, my fellow Nevadans are mentally retarded. We have the highest unemployment rate and highest foreclosure rate, yet they re-elect him!

:evil:

Which was Reid's fault, how?

Not to mention we have kept Angle out of office for two election cycles now and I'm not about to change that.
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Postby East Lithuania » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:03 pm

Wiztopia wrote:So checking out the Ballot measure. People in Colorado are smart, people in California and South Dakota are stupid as hell. Missed one. Add Arizona to the stupid as hell list.

Also why is everybody suddenly voting for republicans?


Following the trend, man...

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Postby Farnhamia » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:03 pm

East Lithuania wrote:Glad Pelosi is out. Reid should have lost and let the Dems have a better Senate leader. At the very least all of Obama's "bipartisan" promises will have to come true if ANYTHING needs to get down w/o Obama's executive orders.

Pelosi's not out. She's just not going to be Speaker of the House. She won her district with close to 75% of the vote.
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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:05 pm

Lacadaemon wrote:
The Black Forrest wrote:So Meg and Carley are going down.

Looking bad for the Marijuana bill as well...


It was a good idea to run women candidates, just not those women candidates. Meg always struck me as 'meh', so while she might be a competent administrator, she lacks the personality to get elected dog catcher. And Carly is borderline psycho.

Same thing with McMahon in Conn.


Indeed. There are many stories of dear Meg's attitude for the little guy that goes against her talk of helping people and carley will always be known as the destroyer of the HP way. But I am sure she will return back to the talk circuit of the evil males oppressing women in business and now politics....
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Postby East Lithuania » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:05 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
East Lithuania wrote:Glad Pelosi is out. Reid should have lost and let the Dems have a better Senate leader. At the very least all of Obama's "bipartisan" promises will have to come true if ANYTHING needs to get down w/o Obama's executive orders.

Pelosi's not out. She's just not going to be Speaker of the House. She won her district with close to 75% of the vote.


I meant as speaker of the house. I HOPE Democrats realize that she really isn't good for the public image besides in her district.

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Postby OMGeverynameistaken » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:05 pm

Wiztopia wrote:So checking out the Ballot measure. People in Colorado are smart, people in California and South Dakota are stupid as hell. Missed one. Add Arizona to the stupid as hell list.

Also why is everybody suddenly voting for republicans?

To be fair, Arizona elected McCain, not because he's Republican, but because he's McCain. He's got a bit of a cult going in that state.

He wasn't too bad before the election, either. Something about 2008 flipped his, and everybody elses, crazy switch.
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Postby Farnhamia » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:06 pm

East Lithuania wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:Pelosi's not out. She's just not going to be Speaker of the House. She won her district with close to 75% of the vote.


I meant as speaker of the house. I HOPE Democrats realize that she really isn't good for the public image besides in her district.

And "Tan the Man" Boehner is good for the GOP image? Please.
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Postby East Lithuania » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:09 pm

Farnhamia wrote:
East Lithuania wrote:
I meant as speaker of the house. I HOPE Democrats realize that she really isn't good for the public image besides in her district.

And "Tan the Man" Boehner is good for the GOP image? Please.


In all honesty, I don't know many Republicans who have a good image outside of their district/state. I would like it if Frelinghuyson became speaker of the house, but politics makes it impossible since he broke the GOP Code and actually voted for the healthcare bill.

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Postby Wiztopia » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:09 pm

OMGeverynameistaken wrote:
Wiztopia wrote:So checking out the Ballot measure. People in Colorado are smart, people in California and South Dakota are stupid as hell. Missed one. Add Arizona to the stupid as hell list.

Also why is everybody suddenly voting for republicans?

To be fair, Arizona elected McCain, not because he's Republican, but because he's McCain. He's got a bit of a cult going in that state.

He wasn't too bad before the election, either. Something about 2008 flipped his, and everybody elses, crazy switch.


I'm more going off the ballot results anyway. I mean come on. How can anybody vote no on legalizing medical marijuana?

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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:09 pm

Germonica wrote:
Wa no Kuni wrote:Harry Reid reelected.

I guess that goes to show the intelligence of the Nevada voters. :palm:

I'm from Nevada, and I am pissed, my fellow Nevadans are mentally retarded. We have the highest unemployment rate and highest foreclosure rate, yet they re-elect him!

:evil:


Seriously. Angle? She makes the shrub look eloquent......
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Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:11 pm

So the question I have.....


Where did the Repubs hide the shrub?
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Postby East Lithuania » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:12 pm

Wiztopia wrote:
OMGeverynameistaken wrote:To be fair, Arizona elected McCain, not because he's Republican, but because he's McCain. He's got a bit of a cult going in that state.

He wasn't too bad before the election, either. Something about 2008 flipped his, and everybody elses, crazy switch.


I'm more going off the ballot results anyway. I mean come on. How can anybody vote no on legalizing medical marijuana?


It's not medicinal, it's recreational. And look again at the consequence, they'd get A LOT of funding stripped. This matter needs to be solved in D.C., else it will never change.

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Postby Nazi Flower Power » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:13 pm

OMGeverynameistaken wrote:To be fair, Arizona elected McCain, not because he's Republican, but because he's McCain. He's got a bit of a cult going in that state.

He wasn't too bad before the election, either. Something about 2008 flipped his, and everybody elses, crazy switch.


I think McCain took a lot of bad advice during the election about what would attract voters. What politicians say when they're campaigning has very little connection to what they actually believe, and I don't think McCain really believed more than about 40% of the bullshit that came out of his mouth during the 2008 campaign. He's not really crazy, just fake.
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Postby O5vx » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:13 pm

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