2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGreg Sargent: Romney Likely to End Up at 47%
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://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/poetic-justice-romney-likely-to-finish-at-47-percent/2012/11/20/8a84ad4e-3351-11e2-9cfa-e41bac906cc9_blog.html
Robbins
(5,066 posts)Won't that be Ironic.Romney with 47 percent of popular vote.And Obama winning 51 to 47 In popular vote.
This says most of Obama's voters stayed with him.Only 1 percent nationwid went from Obama 2008 to Romney 2012.And another 1
percent went to various Independent and third parties.
doc03
(35,364 posts)that have the largest percentage of non-income tax payers and the same states collect more
federal money than they pay. So in reality he sort of carried the 47% he said he didn't care about.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Dave Wasserman
@Redistrict Prince George's, MD: 25,122 new votes for Obama, 3,354 Romney. Obama crosses 64M votes, Romney down to 47.56%:
http://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE#gid=19
Teach It Greg Sargent!..
Thank you, democrattothend
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)The "other" vote staying the same (1.69), Obama would have to get to 50.82 to drive Romney down to 47.49, allowing us to "officially" claim that he only got 47 per cent of the vote!
rocktivity
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)He'll forever be Mr. 47% and change.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)on average, those states have a 20-25 percent margin for Obama.
that's why Wasserman is estimating Mitt will end up below 47.5, he even said "bet on it". And Wasserman dutifully updates his spreadsheet as he gets updated information from throughout the USA county by county!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AjYj9mXElO_QdHpla01oWE1jOFZRbnhJZkZpVFNKeVE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=19
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Whoot!
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)Hopefully that will give Obama some more votes, as well as prevent Ohio Republicans from getting 60 seats in the statehouse (apparently they are at 58): http://www.wksu.org/news/story/33837
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,049 posts)sputter - sputter - wheeze - cough - cough - clank.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)kinda reminds me of the photo of Saddam Hussein when he was found in the hole in the ground. :> ))
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)InsultComicDog
(1,209 posts)and falling, slowly
SouthernDonkey
(256 posts)You smug son of a bitch! I hope you are forever haunted by 47%, being beaten by Honey Boo Boo, as well as Obama. Talk about feeling entitled! He doesn't deserve to carry the water of a decent hard working man. Good riddance!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)agentS
(1,325 posts)I saw one on KOS, another from SumofUs.org, and so on and so forth.
Sign a few of these, make a few calls, who knows? She may win this appointment if we help her out.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)He's very close to being rounded down to 47%!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012
Such sweet irony: revenge of the 47%.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)they said it was over. On to the next story.