Political Wire: Romney Likely to End Up with 47% of the Popular Vote

[democrattotheend]

When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote? Yup. Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent. He predicts with certainty that with all of New York and California counted, Romney will end up below 47.5 percent of the vote.

Rounded, of course, that would put the final tally at 51-47. Anticipating this moment, Markos Moulitsas has inaugurated the “Romney 47 percent watch.”


As Sargent said, talk about poetic justice.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/20/romney_likely_to_end_up_at_47.html

Also, Dave Wasserman is keeping track of popular votes as they come in, and you can track his updates as he tweets them: https://twitter.com/Redistrict

[mucifer]

1. Way too many people voted for that greedy person.

[hrmjustin]

2. It may be a 4.5 million to 5 million vote victory

[democrattotheend]

4. Right now it's just over 4 million

A bunch of votes just came in from Los Angeles County, giving Obama a net of about 63,000 votes and pushing Romney down to 47.54%. And I think there are more votes left to count in LA, because as of this morning there were 518,000 uncounted votes (though they might not all be valid.)

[etherealtruth]

3. Sweet!

[dem4ward]

5. A perfectly befitting number for the king of poo-poo-ville!

[catbyte]

6. Romney's going to be on his deathbed muttering, "47%, 47%, 47%..."

Karma's a bitch.

[democrattotheend]

7. Someone on Kos pointed out

That Romney was born in 1947. I thought that was funny.

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

9. Massachusetts was also 47th in job creation when he was Governor...

[JaneyVee]

8. Poetic Justice.

[jsmirman]

10. His dreams dying in shit

the railroad tycoon dying in a muddy puddle in Once Upon a Time in the West was poignant - Mitt and Ann's lifelong dream ending in humiliation and shame is just one of the sweetest things I've seen in politics in a long time.