Day: November 9, 2012
Really Final Tally
About Florida elections, people like to generalize.
They say we can’t be trusted with hanging chads and butterflies.
They accuse us of suppression
And chicanery and corruption —
Just because we’re one of two states that elected dead guys?
His Wife Didn’t Vote and He Didn’t Win
If she had just been able to get in to vote, we wouldn’t be going through any of this. You never think it will come down to one vote, but I’m here to tell you that it does.
— Bobby McDonald, who “learned the hard way that every vote counts,” the Kentucky Enquirer reports. McDonald “finished in a dead heat Tuesday with Olivia Ballou for the sixth and final seat on the Walton City Council. Each candidate captured 669 votes, but one ballot McDonald is sure would have gone his way was never cast. His wife, Katie, who works nights … didn’t make it to the polls yesterday.”
Karl Rove Spent $200 Million and Didn’t Back a Single Winner
$200+ million
The amount Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS spent on the elections but backed no winning candidates, according to the Sunlight Foundation.
Axelrod Suggests Billionaire GOP Donors Ask for a Refund
I’d be asking for a refund.
— David Axelrod, quoted by Greg Sargent, joking what he would do if he were one of the billionaires who had handed big checks to Karl Rove.
Darwin Garnered Nearly 4,000 Write-In Votes
4,000
Number of write-in votes Charles Darwin, the 19th-century naturalist who laid the foundations for evolutionary theory, received against Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), the Athens Banner-Herald reports. A campaign asking voters to write-in Darwin’s name in Georgia’s 10th congressional district began after Broun called evolution and other areas of science “lies straight from the pit of hell.”
George W. Bush Had More Mormon Support Than Mitt Romney
78%
Percentage of the Mormon vote that Mitt Romney won in the 2102 presidential election, according to Pew Research. In 2004, George W. Bush was backed by 80% of Mormons.
Now This Guy Is a Sore Loser!
All family and friends, even close family and friends, who I know to be Democrats are hereby dead to me. I vow never to speak to them again for the rest of my life, or have any communications with them. They are in short, the enemies of liberty. They deserve nothing less than hatred and utter contempt…. I strongly urge all other libertarians to do the same. Are you married to someone who voted for Obama, have a girlfriend who voted ‘O’. Divorce them. Break up with them without haste. Vow not to attend family functions, Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas for example, if there will be any family members in attendance who are Democrats.
— Former Ron Paul aide Eric Dondero, asserting that the only recourse to President Obama’s re-election is “outright revolt” and therefore is launching a “personal boycott” of Democrats.
RomneyBot Meltdown: Said to Be ‘Shellshocked’ By Loss
On “Morning Joe” today, David Frum, the former speechwriter for George W. Bush, was asked to describe the campaign message of Mitt Romney and the Republican Party in the campaign this year:
FRUM: Mitt Romney’s message is, I am going to take away Medicare from everybody under 55. I’m going to cut Medicaid for everybody by about a third. And I’m going to do that in order to finance a giant tax cut for me and my friends. And the reason I’m doing that is because half the country contributes nothing to our national endeavor. That’s his message.
The biggest surprise is that Romney himself is said to have been “shellshocked” when he learned that voters rejected his message on Election Night:
