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randomrogue said:
Last I checked Republicans were against planned parenthood and they do a lot more than just abortions.

I don't know who is not crazy. I have always voted republican and this time around I didn't vote for a single one.
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They are against public funding for planned parenthood. What is your point? Do you believe women are incapable of taking care of their own health needs?
 
Romney:

Roe vs Wade: Wants to repeal it
Abortion: Against
Planned Parenthood: Wants to defund it.
Morning after pill: Against
Stem Cell Research: Against

These positions are not going to work. ESPECIALLY when there are up to 3 Supreme Court seats in play.
 
nehalem256 said:
They are against public funding for planned parenthood. What is your point? Do you believe women are incapable of taking care of their own health needs?
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Some women ARE incapable of taking care of their own health needs. Are you that fucking stupid to ask such an idiotic question?
 
nehalem256 said:
Speaking the truth is not an issue.

If you think that the government not funding special health clinics for women, is a "war on women". You are saying that you do not think women are capable of taking care of their own health needs.
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Your grouping of all women together is where you fail. And why people label you as a sexist and worse.
 
randomrogue said:
Romney:

Roe vs Wade: Wants to repeal it
Abortion: Against
Planned Parenthood: Wants to defund it.
Morning after pill: Against
Stem Cell Research: Against

These positions are not going to work. ESPECIALLY when there are up to 3 Supreme Court seats in play.
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And especially when he took the exact opposite position years ago.
 
Romney's platform, generally, was to say that he wasn't Obama. That's why he had so much trouble getting the Republican nomination - he's never really had a strong platform.

Republicans have also come to a cross-roads in their party's existence. It was reflected in the race for the republican nomination. They have so many wildly splintered (and sometimes extreme) factions that it is difficult for a candidate to really appeal to all of those factions. Even when he/she does, the risk of turning off moderates is high. For example, I'm a democrat, but I could easily be convinced to vote for Republican Bot 3k if that candidate would do nothing but straighten out our finances, no matter how politically inconvenient it may be.

Additionally, democrats, historically far less organized, have mobilized heavily of late. It is difficult to beat a guy who dominates with virtually all minority categories, in addition to single women and 18-32 year old voters, but who still does respectably well in the remaining categories save for Evangelicals and Men 55+.
 
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randomrogue said:
It wasn't a close race.
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sigurros81 said:
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303-206 is close apparently. Haha. Poor conservatives are trying to grasp at any they could just to satisfy some faux sense of victory.
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Even I have to admit it was a close race. If 300,000 more people had voted for Romney he could have taken Ohio, Florida and Virginia and a rinky dink 4+electoral vote state.

That's 300 thousand out of nearly 120 million votes. That's a very narrow margin.
It only looks like a huge victory because of the winner take all electoral college.

That said, Obama had a lot going against him. In this show me results now climate he inherited the second worst economic disaster in our history. No one could have done much better than he did, but it still worked against him..
 
techs said:
Even I have to admit it was a close race. If 300,000 more people had voted for Romney he could have taken Ohio, Florida and Virginia and a rinky dink 4+electoral vote state.

That's 300 thousand out of nearly 120 million votes. That's a very narrow margin.
It only looks like a huge victory because of the winner take all electoral college.

That said, Obama had a lot going against him. In this show me results now climate he inherited the second worst economic disaster in our history. No one could have done much better than he did, but it still worked against him..
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agreed...
2 wars for over 10 years... that's where all our money is.. tanks and planes and troops in 2 locations cost alot of cash DAILY..
 
Because him and the republican party continue to go after only white male voters, a shrinking demographic.
 
tincart said:
Team rape was, apparently, not as strong as it thought it was.
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this

theevilsharpie said:
Romney didn't lose so much as Obama won. America wants a centrist, and Obama delivered.
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and this.


....but I still contend that Romney lost because he wouldn't accept that truth. ....maybe it is hard to put yourself up against someone and generally claim to be the same person. Maybe this is why Romney sat squarely on all sides of every issue? His attempt to appear "centrist?"
 
techs said:
Even I have to admit it was a close race. If 300,000 more people had voted for Romney he could have taken Ohio, Florida and Virginia and a rinky dink 4+electoral vote state.

That's 300 thousand out of nearly 120 million votes. That's a very narrow margin.
It only looks like a huge victory because of the winner take all electoral college.

That said, Obama had a lot going against him. In this show me results now climate he inherited the second worst economic disaster in our history. No one could have done much better than he did, but it still worked against him..
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You have to know that if the EC didn't exist both campaigns would have been run very differently. Results would have been much different, they would have focused on very different things and places.
 
jackstar7 said:
Your grouping of all women together is where you fail. And why people label you as a sexist and worse.
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Actually that was democrats. They stated the defunding planned parenthood, which as you point out affects only some women, was a "war on women"(implicitly all women).

Democrats are the ones saying women are helpless and need the government to care for them.

And then get their panties in a knot when they get called on their misogyny and hypocrisy.
 
techs said:
Even I have to admit it was a close race. If 300,000 more people had voted for Romney he could have taken Ohio, Florida and Virginia and a rinky dink 4+electoral vote state.

That's 300 thousand out of nearly 120 million votes. That's a very narrow margin.
It only looks like a huge victory because of the winner take all electoral college.

That said, Obama had a lot going against him. In this show me results now climate he inherited the second worst economic disaster in our history. No one could have done much better than he did, but it still worked against him..
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First, you make it sound like 300,000 vote is a small enough number to narrow the gap. 300,000 is the population of a few metropolitan areas...Second, they're called Battleground states for a reason, where margins are expected to be close...so there's fallacy in your argument already. Third, Obama won all the swing states.
 
nehalem256 said:
Speaking the truth is not an issue.

If you think that the government not funding special health clinics for women, is a "war on women". You are saying that you do not think women are capable of taking care of their own health needs.
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where is the naughty place that the evil woman touched you?
 
Paul98 said:
You have to know that if the EC didn't exist both campaigns would have been run very differently. Results would have been much different, they would have focused on very different things and places.
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CharlesKozierok said:
And if the queen had balls, she'd be the king.
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Well, yes about the Queen.

While the race would have been run differently without the EC, the very narrrow margins still showed how close it was. With both sides going all out in places like Florida, Ohio and Virginia the margins of victory were razor thin.
 
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