{"id":31251,"date":"2012-11-06T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/obama-wins.html"},"modified":"2012-11-06T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:56:04","slug":"obama-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/obama-wins.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or so it looks. I mean, Fox was one of the first to call Ohio and the election. \u00a0And if Fox says it … well …<\/p>\n

I dunno. I'll feel better when it turns into an actual 300+ ECV majority. \u00a0I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.<\/p>\n

That said … while there were some other disappointments tonight, there were a lot of other significant wins — goofy rap comment guys voted out, Elizabeth Warren voted in, so on and so forth. And time for more of that catching up tomorrow.<\/p>\n

So Obama's won. \u00a0And I suspect we'll have more of the status quo from the last four years. \u00a0The Republic will endure. \u00a0Karl Rove will make some excuses. Bryan Fischer will predict the apocalypse. Liberals will be disappointed by a centrist administration. Conservatives will be sure Marxist confiscation of their guns to give them all to gay atheist Muslims. \u00a0The House GOP will obstruct. The Senate GOP will filibuster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Could be worse.<\/p>\n

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Or so it looks. I mean, Fox was one of the first to call Ohio and the election. \u00a0And if Fox says it … well … I dunno. I'll feel better when it turns into an actual 300+ ECV majority. \u00a0I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. That said … while there were … Continue reading “Obama wins”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/making-the-electoral-vote-system-less-fair.html","url_meta":{"origin":31251,"position":0},"title":"Making the Electoral Vote system less fair","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-Jan-17 12:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We saw some noises about this in some states back in 2009, too, where -- upset that while the state went GOP at the state level, it voted \"winner takes all\" to the Dems in the presidential contest.The answer the state GOP in various places looked at -- and are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-2018-election-the-colorado-perspective.html","url_meta":{"origin":31251,"position":1},"title":"The 2018 Election: The Colorado Perspective","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-18 11:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(As of 11:50pm MST) The Candidates: Jared Polis (D) has won for governor (replacing the previous D who was term-limited out). 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