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@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I’m glad Obama got in.. not because I think he has done a wonderful job or anything… I don’t think he has particularly…. but it kept the other cretin out.
Ther other crertin would’ve done a better job tho.
He scared me Terry..bit too right wing for me.
He’s an entrepreneur with a $200 million fortune to his name. Obama was a lawyer I think and had 86% of the black vote. I wasn’t impressed by Obama’s dirty tactics to win at all costs.
I have to be honest I don’t get too involved in American politics…my impression though is that Obama is a good man….. even though I’m not overly impressed with his performance… the other guy I only know from his campaign and the news here and he scared me… can only tell you what I felt from limited knowledge
@mrs_teapot wrote:
can only tell you what I felt from limited knowledge
It’s ok Mrs T – most posters in here have limited knowledge when it comes to politics anyway.
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
can only tell you what I felt from limited knowledge
It’s ok Mrs T – most posters in here have limited knowledge when it comes to politics anyway.
With you Terry being the ultimate shining example. :D
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I’m glad Obama got in.. not because I think he has done a wonderful job or anything… I don’t think he has particularly…. but it kept the other cretin out.
Ther other crertin would’ve done a better job tho.
He scared me Terry..bit too right wing for me.
Yes Romney is very right wing, that’s probably why Terry likes him so much.
In Feb this year, during an interview with CNN after winning the Florida primary in February, he said he is “not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll fix it.”
Republicans on Women
Despite ad campaigns, targeted messages and polls that showed women were warming to Romney in the final days, he still lost the female vote to Obama, 55 to 43 percent, according to exit polls.
The loss wasn’t entirely his fault. Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri discussed how women’s bodies could prevent pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape,” launching a firestorm of protest. A few months later, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, for whom Romney had just released an endorsement ad, said he opposed abortion even in cases of rape because God intended those pregnancies.
Romney tried to distance himself from both remarks, but they gave Democrats plenty of ammunition to argue that Republicans just don’t like women.
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I’m glad Obama got in.. not because I think he has done a wonderful job or anything… I don’t think he has particularly…. but it kept the other cretin out.
Ther other crertin would’ve done a better job tho.
He scared me Terry..bit too right wing for me.
He’s an entrepreneur with a $200 million fortune to his name. Obama was a lawyer I think and had 86% of the black vote. I wasn’t impressed by Obama’s dirty tactics to win at all costs.
If you want to bring race into it, 69% of Hispanics voted for Obama as opposed to 29% for Romney.
The majority of white Americans voted for Romney but 39% voted for Obama.
Seems Obama appealed to all races whereas Romney did not and that bodes well for a cohesive as opposed to divided society.
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@terry wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I’m glad Obama got in.. not because I think he has done a wonderful job or anything… I don’t think he has particularly…. but it kept the other cretin out.
Ther other crertin would’ve done a better job tho.
He scared me Terry..bit too right wing for me.
He’s an entrepreneur with a $200 million fortune to his name. Obama was a lawyer I think and had 86% of the black vote. I wasn’t impressed by Obama’s dirty tactics to win at all costs.
Don’t think either side had a monopoly on sinking into the gutter for votes.
‘Black’ people are less than 14% of the US population, so even if everyone voted – which they don’t of course – with 86% of the possible black vote, The idea that:
Obama’s ‘dirty trick’ efforts went into getting less than 11% of the votes; that
all those voters voted with their complexions rather than on information or principle; and
that the other (for argument’s sake) 40% of the votes he needed just ‘happened’, or were any more hoodwinked than Romney’s voters
makes Obama more lucky than dirty.
In my opinion, the ‘blackness’ of Obama’s appeal and the ‘whiteness’ of Romney’s appeal says a lot about how many Americans – and evidently at least one English person – assume that the interests (and reasons for voting) of ‘black’ people and of ‘white’ people are fundamentally different. It’s tragic.
@wordsworth60 wrote:
In my opinion, the ‘blackness’ of Obama’s appeal and the ‘whiteness’ of Romney’s appeal says a lot about how many Americans – and evidently at least one English person – assume that the interests (and reasons for voting) of ‘black’ people and of ‘white’ people are fundamentally different. It’s tragic.
86% of black voters voted for Obama and that was a statistic from today’s papers. You have to admire the 14% who decided that Obama’s ‘blackness’ (as you put it) was far less important than his ‘crapness’.
Another interesting statistic is that Obama received 10 million fewer votes than he did four years ago. In the back of his mind the President must be wondering what the future holds for him and if there’s another bin Laden moment that will boost his flagging popularity. He certainly needs one.
@terry wrote:
Another interesting statistic is that Obama received 10 million fewer votes than he did four years ago. In the back of his mind the President must be wondering what the future holds for him.
He’s just won four more years in the White House.
I think he might just have a sneaking suspicion what the future holds for him such as four more years as President of the USA?
Just an observation.
@terry wrote:
Another interesting statistic is that Obama received 10 million fewer votes than he did four years ago. In the back of his mind the President must be wondering what the future holds for him and if there’s another bin Laden moment that will boost his flagging popularity. He certainly needs one.
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