And he would have lost the popular vote still by a large margin. The electoral college is a f*cked up system.

Like my grandmother used to tell me "If the dog hadn't stopped to lick his balls, he would have caught the rabbit."

/totally serious

If Breitbart were alive today, he wouldn't be dead.

Obama won with Electoral and Popular votes. Deal with it.

The obvious response for republicans is to dial up the derp, that should get them the results they want.

Palin/Santorum 2016

And if he'd not been born rich and spoiled, he'd just be some random Mormon dude.

Look at the big ole mandate on that guy.

How many votes would have given Obama a 400 EV landslide?

If Obama wouldn't have won by a landslide it wouldn't have been a mandate.

Krymson Tyde: The obvious response for republicans is to dial up the derp, that should get them the results they want.

Palin/Santorum 2016

Come on, Palin is so 2008 bro

/Bachmann/Santorum 2016

Oh, look! More butthurt.

If Alabama had just scored six more points, they'd still be undefeated.

I wonder how many votes in the right places would have turned the house back to the Democrats?

And let me guess.... these votes are hidden away somewhere, confiscated by Liberals working the polls, perhaps of the Black Panther variety?

Penguin_named_Nori: Oh, look! More butthurt.

Exactly. farking Politics tab...

Oh, wait, this elections shiat is still on the Main tab? WTF, mods? Welcome to last week.

/Old News is so exciting jpg

If Michele Bachmann were a man, she'd be gay married to Marcus.

"But we derped so hard, how could we lose?"

Something tells me these guys are never going to leave last Tuesday night. They're trapped in time.

How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

Free Radical: If Obama wouldn't have won by a landslide it wouldn't have been a mandate.

That election was not a mandate...popular vote was close and the the house stayed GOP. If you expect political capital and change, you are sorely mistaken

swaniefrmreddeer: The electoral college is a f*cked up system.

Why? It prevents one or two states from completely disenfranchising the rest of the nation. As much as you'd like it to be, the United States is not "California and New York".  The Electoral College isn't a perfect system, but going strictly by popular vote would be a disaster.

Obama's victory doesn't constitute a mandate for his far left agenda to "transform America" into some nightmarish amalgam combining the worst features of a European socialist state with an Indonesian oligarchy.


What is this I don't even

MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

It's not a democracy. It's a representative republic.

swaniefrmreddeer: And he would have lost the popular vote still by a large margin. The electoral college is a f*cked up system.

Really is, 4-5 states should not decide an election. Candidates not even needing to campaign in the largest states as well is just silly. And it does stifle voter turnout. If you live in CA and are not a Democrat, Texas and not a Pub, you know your vote is thrown out, so why do it? Same here in VT, unless you are a Democrat, your vote is useless.

No reason to have the college, none.

It's refreshing to see some in this country put their feelings aside to rally behind the President and face our future challenges together.

MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

Obama gets to be president every day from Midnight to 12:30pm. Romney takes over again until 11:57pm; Gary Johnson gets the 11:57pm to midnight shift.

Forever Alone

Sybarite: Like my grandmother used to tell me "If the dog hadn't stopped to lick his balls, he would have caught the rabbit."

/totally serious

And she was right.

But what living thing with balls is going to pass up a good ball licking, even if a nice juicy rabbit is involved?

GoodyearPimp: How many votes would have given Obama a 400 EV landslide?

300k (200k in AZ and 100k in NC) would have given him 356. Too lazy to find the shortest route to 400 though.

A prolapsed uterus thread?

In my fark?

Well, that's all I needed to hear to consider an armed revolt to be justified!

Otherwise, I'm failing to see the point. Perhaps we can talk about the narrow margin by which GW Bush won the popular vote?

Despite losing the popular vote 51% to 48%--not a landslide for Obama by any means...

Yeah it's not like the '04 landslide where GWB got 50.73%.

Sneakernets: "But we derped so hard, how could we lose?"

Something tells me these guys are never going to leave last Tuesday night. They're trapped in time.

Well they'd have to leave the shiny happy version of the 1950's first before they even think of getting to last Tuesday night.

And if Rove had just gotten $390,000,001 from donors, Republicans would've won everything!

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

It's not a democracy. It's a representative republic.

Pretty sure he was making fun of Trump's Twitter feed there...

Breitbart's corpse is right, republicans shouldn't take this loss as meaning anything, the "squeaker" win that Zerobama pulled off shouldn't cause them to change their OP one bit. If anything the votes they did get were because of them and they should double down on the anti-science, morality police, anti-immigration rhetoric and throw in some more fear mongering and promises of military adventurism too all while ignoring any criticism or fact checking from the liebral-leftist-lamestream-driveby-med ia conspiracy. In short, suck it libs!

"Free Candy" is the only platform that can win from now on.

Not protesting Obama or anything, but the Electoral College "winner take all" system is absolutely stupid.

Every election we hear the "your vote counts" garbage. That's not true. The message should be "your vote counts if you live in Ohio or Florida".

I understand why we don't do national popular voting (recount nightmares... yikes)... but voting should be done electorally be DISTRICT instead of at the STATE level.
In other words, All states should do what Nebraska and Maine do..
It makes the most sense, and it doesn't leave voters feeling disenfranchised like the current system does.

However, it would never pass, because liberals in blue states and conservatives in red states wouldn't allow it.

Maybe the Republicans didn't get off work yet.

Le Grand Inquisitor: Free Radical: If Obama wouldn't have won by a landslide it wouldn't have been a mandate.

That election was not a mandate...popular vote was close and the the house stayed GOP. If you expect political capital and change, you are sorely mistaken

House Dems received significantly more votes than GOP Reps. That identifies a significant problem with how the districts are drawn.

PunGent: Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

It's not a democracy. It's a representative republic.

Pretty sure he was making fun of Trump's Twitter feed there...

Oh, sorry, I don't bother following Trump's twitter feed. Not sure why anyone would.

So is this going to be the narrative for the next four years then? "Dammit white people, vote harder"?

You keep saying that, but he lost, Zombie Breitbart. He lost.

Well, they sure weren't biatching in 2000 when Gore won the popular by 540k and lost the EC by 5. shiat happens, this was a landslide by comparison. DEAL!

MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

They should each take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the weak.

But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.

//Help, help; I'm being repressed!

332,999 votes....

Obama got the votes he needed. Maybe he could have found another 300,000 between the couch cushions.

MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

First, as someone else pointed out, it's a Democratic Republic.

Second, More than half the people who voted wanted Obama as president. He won the electoral college votes and the Popular vote. Therefore, Obama is president again.

This is how Democratic Republics work.

Headso: Breitbart's corpse is right, republicans shouldn't take this loss as meaning anything, the "squeaker" win that Zerobama pulled off shouldn't cause them to change their OP one bit. If anything the votes they did get were because of them and they should double down on the anti-science, morality police, anti-immigration rhetoric and throw in some more fear mongering and promises of military adventurism too all while ignoring any criticism or fact checking from the liebral-leftist-lamestream-driveby-med ia conspiracy. In short, suck it libs!

Dems just have the advantage. Mexicans, blacks are all in their corner no matter what and they breed like crazy. That alone gives them elections. Then you have moron young people, who cannot get a job out of college but still scream for Obama's nut droppings.

Just going to get way worse before, if ever, it gets better. Math is simple, and we cannot afford this route as a country. Eventually, you run out of successful people to tax because their won't be enough, and the screaming hordes of young unemployed Democrats will never see reality because they are idiots.

Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion: MrVeach: How is it a democracy if half the people want someone else as president? Maybe they should split the term percentagewise based on votes. Obama first 25 months, Romney last 23? Stagger it?

It's not a democracy. It's a representative republic.

Thank God for that. A pure democracy would be bad, what with all the retards.