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Anonymous Republican, on the subject of the GOP's huge FAIL at measuring the electorate: Democrats "must be looking at us like we're the biggest f—– morons in the world," one frustrated Republican said. "That's what I'd be doing." Yyyyyup.

Phoenix New Times: Mesa resident Holly Solomon thinks it's her husband's fault that President Obama was re-elected last week, because he didn't vote. Not only does Solomon, 28, have a thorough misunderstanding of our nation's electoral system, she also ran over her husband with her car because of this, according to Gilbert police. In an e-mail to media, Gilbert police … Read More

Ryan Reilly tells the story of two separate incidences where a Republican — one in Nevada and one in New Mexico — believed all the bullshit about how easy it is to vote twice.   They tried it for themselves just to show how easy it was to "work the system". Both of them were arrested.  

In all the post-mortems, we learn this about what it was like inside the Romney campaign: Romney and his campaign had gone into the evening confident they had a good path to victory, for emotional and intellectual reasons. The huge and enthusiastic crowds in swing state after swing state in recent weeks – not only for Romney but also for … Read More

And why not? Many of the lightning bolts were aimed at none other than Karl Rove, the former Bush administration political genius who oversaw the deployment of nearly $400 million in campaign spending through outside groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS toward the presidential race and toward numerous Senate and House races. "The billionaire donors I hear are livid," one … Read More

A lot of conservatives are blaming Chris Christie for Romney's loss, based on the fact that Christie praised Obama for Obama's leadership in response to Hurricane Sandy. Which only begs the question: If Christ Christie is so influential that his comments can swing the election, then why the fuck didn't you guys nominate HIM and not Romney?

1)  You have to be FOR something.  The Romney campaign strategy seemed almost entirely to rely on stoking anti-Obama sentiment.  Every campaign needs to demonize the opponent, but Romney seemed to do that exclusively.  Toward the end, he and his surrogates had the talking point about how Obama failed to fulfill his promises — promises which, if fulfilled, Romney would … Read More

Robert Stacy McCain in The Spectator: What is left to hope for? That the American people will soon regret their choice? That another four years of economic stagnation and escalating debt will cure them of their insane appetite for charismatic liberals? If four years of endless failure have not rid them of this madness, the disease may well be terminal. … Read More

* Obama won.  I wasn't surprised or too nervous.  It played out pretty much as I thought it would, although I gave Virginia and Florida to Romney.  (VA went Obama; FL is still undecided, but probably Obama) * Obamacare is preserved.  The things that haven't taken effect, WILL take effect… and no lawmaker can strike it down. * UPDATE:  Oh, … Read More

(CNN) - New Yorkers looking to see who’s winning the White House on election night just need to look up… to the Empire State Building. As CNN projects winners in each state, the iconic beacon of Gotham will be exclusively displaying the race to 270 electoral votes with a vertical LED illuminated “meter” on its spire—blue for President Obama, and red … Read More

Drudge/Fox footage of black people being black. Fake exist polls. Anecdotes of poll shenanigans. Increasingly smug teevee pundits who have the math and know the winner but won't tell us. The end. UPDATE:  Yup…. already.   A black person holding the door open for an elderly white woman. VOTER INTIMIDATION!!!