4 more years....

PBo
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edited November 2012 in Commuting chat
Well, the tv stations have said so, so it must be true!! How do tv stations get to decide POTUS??

What with all the usual stuff about balloting not working, which seems to be different in every state, I find the US elections very confusing.

reminds me of this....

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Romney has said so too so there must be something in it, like the results posted have Obama reacing the required amount maybe?...............
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Thank fcuk for that.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    And the rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief...
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Dammit, i wanted Palin to win
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  • sketchley
    sketchley Posts: 4,238
    SimonAH wrote:
    Thank fcuk for that.

    +1 the other bloke scared me a lot....
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  • veronese68
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    notsoblue wrote:
    And the rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief...
    My thoughts entirely.
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  • EKE_38BPM
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    mudcow007 wrote:
    Dammit, i wanted Palin to win
    So did Matt Damon.
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  • jrduquemin
    jrduquemin Posts: 791
    Veronese68 wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    And the rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief...
    My thoughts entirely.

    Too bloody right
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    PBo wrote:
    How do tv stations get to decide POTUS??
    Oo - I know this - Emily Maitliss explained it last night!

    Basically about 35% of the votes have been cast in advance. The TV companies then use extensive data analysis techniques and lots of other clever things such as exit poll interviews etc to build a statistical model of how things work.

    This may not be accurate at times - see Florida in the Bush/Gore year, but gives people enough certainty to "call it" before all votes are tallied - which can often take a number of weeks.
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  • SteppenHerring
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    It's not over yet. Well known self-publicising Alzheimer's sufferer Donald Trump is urging people to march on Washington. It's not clear if he's going to do any marching himself - it might be windy out and that could have consequences.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,336
    SteppenHerring wrote:
    It's not over yet. Well known self-publicising Alzheimer's sufferer Donald Trump is urging people to march on Washington. It's not clear if he's going to do any marching himself - it might be windy out and that could have consequences.

    Heh. Saw that. I'll give him this: he's not dull.
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Mitt came across as another republican idiot and Trump is a truly horrid person.

    Barry's doing his best, but I can't help but think that the true catastrophes will happen over the next 4 years. The printing and borrowing (kicking the can further down the street) will at some stage come to an abrupt and painful end.

    It will probably start with the UK.
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