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US election 2012

belboid said:
The polls will come on from across the state at the same time tho (about five past midnight). If they show Obama ahead, or it being too close to call, he's won it. If they call it for Romney, start worrying.
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You mean the exit polls right?
 
belboid said:
Yeah. I didn't think they allowed reporting of them until the states' poll closes tho
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OK, that makes sense. Was confused at first, thought you meant every county declared at the same time!
 
heck no! Tho even when the counties do start coming in, things should be reasonably apparent from the swing
 
Balbi said:
Well, you could have east coast exits encouraging west coast opposition to get out...
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West Coast is (all but) irrelevant. If Obama wins Virginia, Nevada (the only western one thats close) becomes wholly irrelevant. If Romney wins, Obama still needs Ohio where the polls would already have closed. If it is desperately close then both sides will still be going all out
 
Stuart Varney on Fox News now, claiming that he is a refugee from socialism and so everyone should vote for Romney.
 
belboid said:
heck no! Tho even when the counties do start coming in, things should be reasonably apparent from the swing
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Maybe, though with a state like Virginia I'm not sure we'll see too much to indicate from those ruby red rural counties. Maybe the turn out there will be an indicator of how big the Democratic turn out has to be in the urban areas to overcome the redneck vote
 
In case anyone missed it, here's the times US states declare election results:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/06/time-states-election-results-us#_

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*I'm still trying to work it out, mind.
 
There's not a great deal of difference between the two candidates. But, for millions of Americans, that difference is very, very important.
 
Calling Florida very early this time. It's all over already if they announce an Obama win for that state, though I reckon Romney will take it.
 
I was at my polling place at 7am when it opened. The line out the door was well over 100 yards long. I'm going back later. It probably won't be any better. I feel for the volunteer poll workers. Gonna be a helluva day.
 
mk12 said:
There's not a great deal of difference between the two candidates. But, for millions of Americans, that difference is very, very important.
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There is not much difference in their foreign policy, so it's not surprising a Brit would think this way. The reason this election is so crazy is all the domestic policy bullshit where they're miles apart. I wouldn't expect people outside the US to understand much about those things or care about them either.
 
Brubricker said:
I was at my polling place at 7am when it opened. The line out the door was well over 100 yards long. I'm going back later. It probably won't be any better. I feel for the volunteer poll workers. Gonna be a helluva day.
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poll workers don't get paid in the U.S? in the UK they pay staff to work in polling stations and on the count
 
marty21 said:
poll workers don't get paid in the U.S? in the UK they pay staff to work in polling stations and on the count
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There are state employees managing every location and they're supplemented by volunteers. The volunteer staff for each polling place usually comes from the local neighborhood. The person checking off your name at the door is likely to be some old retiree you know from down the street.
 
Brubricker said:
There is not much difference in their foreign policy, so it's not surprising a Brit would think this way. The reason this election is so crazy is all the domestic policy bullshit where they're miles apart. I wouldn't expect people outside the US to understand much about those things or care about them either.
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Considering the amount of press coverage your elections get around the world, you'd be surprised how much we know.
 
Al Jazeera online journalist D. Parvaz is going to be reporting for us live from Cleveland, Ohio - the heart of this election, if the electoral math is to be believed.

She's currently in Hough, a low-income neighbourhood in the city that reported many problems during the 2004 election. Things appear to be going more smoothly this time around, she reports, but people are on the alert for problems.

One of the voting machines has already broken down, and is not scanning ballots.

Tim Holt, 68, walked out of the voting booth muttering that the "Republicans are cheating already".

"It's not scanning the ballots, so we're supposed to just leave it at the bottom there [in a slot]. They say they're going to count them later. Now does that sound right? It should be counted now. They started cheating. That's not right."
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http://blogs.aljazeera.com/liveblog/topic/us-election-2012-9566
 
If I discover by tomorrow morning that Romney has won I think I will actually stagger out on to the street and throw up, and then lie in the gutter retching and groaning.
 
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