guest1957 Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 (edited) Go Obama!! Edited November 7, 2012 by guest1957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guest1957 Posted November 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Win! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Goodbye America its been nice knowing you. Hello China, the world's only super-power. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Kelly Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 At least Israel won't be encouraged to bomb Iran now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Scholl Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 I've lost all hope in this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulos Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Would you have had more hope if Mitt Romney had won?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 So did Mick Rodney loose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 (edited) Jolenea-mary may get a slappin' tonight bubba.... Edited November 7, 2012 by gixer1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 shame he got in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Romney reminds me to much of bush so Obama has got to be the better of the two I'm sure..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 News reports today claim that the overwhelming majority of black and latino voters voted for Obama. This attracted no adverse comment other than suggestions that Obama had mobilsed the ethnic vote. I wonder what commentators would have made of it if Romney had mobilised the white vote... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Scholl Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 News reports today claim that the overwhelming majority of black and latino voters voted for Obama. This attracted no adverse comment other than suggestions that Obama had mobilsed the ethnic vote. I wonder what commentators would have made of it if Romney had mobilised the white vote... The Republican Party has a serious demographic problem. It's known as the party of old, white men, and has largely appealed to rural, protestant voters. The only problem is the country's becoming increasingly non-white and secular. Whites only make up 63% of the U.S population now, down from almost 90% in 1950. Also Protestants now make up less than 50% of the country. Yet the Republican Party is over 90% white. Unless they start reaching out to minorities very soon, it's going to be dead as a national party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 The Republican Party has a serious demographic problem. It's known as the party of old, white men, and has largely appealed to rural, protestant voters. The only problem is the country's becoming increasingly non-white and secular. Whites only make up 63% of the U.S population now, down from almost 90% in 1950. Bit more than that according to the US Census Bureau. http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Scholl Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Bit more than that according to the US Census Bureau. http://quickfacts.ce...ates/00000.html 63.4% so I was pretty close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gimlet Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 My point is why would you vote for someone because they are black (or white)? If America really is split on racial lines it is the country that's in trouble rather than the Republican party. If the colour of a candidate's skin is the most important qualification for the job of leader of the free world, something has gone wrong. It strikes me as an outsider that the chief objections to Obama among republicans are his incompetence and his socialist sympathies. Its a reasoned argument which may or may not be correct; but if Obama's critical attraction is not being white and not being a republican that is depressing and rather alarming because it would suggest to me a nacsent political infantilism in the American electorate which has been well established in Britain and much of Europe for many years and is thoroughly bad news for democracy. I had thought American democracy for all its flaws was above that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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