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Re: Presidential Election 2012 predictions.

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HI54UNI wrote:
Rob Iola wrote:Obama 48 Romney 45 Paul 7
Ron Paul will not run as an independent. The continuation of his run is more about setting his son Rand up for a run someday. If Ron runs as an independent it screws Rand. :twocents:


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Re: Presidential Election 2012 predictions.

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Seahawks08 wrote:why are we going with percentages, especially for the main parties? Al Gore would have won then. The real question is, where will the swing states go to? How does either get to 270 electoral votes?

And if Paul runs as an independent, what should the over/under line be for percentage?
Rounded to the nearest precentage, 00' was Bush 48% to Gore 48%. Gore had about 1/2 of 1% more in the popular vote.

I don't know of anytime where someone won the popular vote by 1% or more where they didn't win the election. So nothing wrong with going with the percentage predictions.
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BDKJMU wrote:
Seahawks08 wrote:why are we going with percentages, especially for the main parties? Al Gore would have won then. The real question is, where will the swing states go to? How does either get to 270 electoral votes?

And if Paul runs as an independent, what should the over/under line be for percentage?
Rounded to the nearest precentage, 00' was Bush 48% to Gore 48%. Gore had about 1/2 of 1% more in the popular vote.

I don't know of anytime where someone won the popular vote by 1% or more where they didn't win the election. So nothing wrong with going with the percentage predictions.

There was at least one other occasion in a prez election in which a candidate lost the electoral but won the popular, but I'm too buzzed to research it.

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Election of 1824:
Jackson 41.3%
Adams 30.9%

Election of 1876:
Tilden 51%
Hayes 48%

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Cap'n Cat wrote:
HI54UNI wrote:
Ron Paul will not run as an independent. The continuation of his run is more about setting his son Rand up for a run someday. If Ron runs as an independent it screws Rand. :twocents:


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Cap'n Cat wrote:
HI54UNI wrote:
Ron Paul will not run as an independent. The continuation of his run is more about setting his son Rand up for a run someday. If Ron runs as an independent it screws Rand. :twocents:
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Seahawks08 wrote:Election of 1824:
Jackson 41.3%
Adams 30.9%

Election of 1876:
Tilden 51%
Hayes 48%

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lol simple google search was all I did. I was curious.
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BDKJMU wrote:Romney 49%, Obama 48%, 3% other (Americans Elect, Constitution, Green, Justice, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist, Independent)
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And this is my prediction if unemployment drops from 8.5% to 8.0% by Sept (the last month before the election) and underemployent drops from 18.3% to around 17%.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/151145/Emplo ... nthly.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And remember, the unemployment now would be about 10% if 3+ million hadn't dropped out of the workforce.
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Blacks will vote for Obama no matter what unemployment numbers show simply because of his race. And not a single one of them can nor will deny it. What I find highly sad from that race is that they have had the right to vote since 1965 and only when a black man appeared on the ballot did they decide to show up. A 107 year old black lady was praised because it was her 1st time voting. Last I looked there were elections in 1968, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 00, and 04.

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Cap'n Cat wrote:
HI54UNI wrote:
Ron Paul will not run as an independent. The continuation of his run is more about setting his son Rand up for a run someday. If Ron runs as an independent it screws Rand. :twocents:


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catamount man wrote:Blacks will vote for Obama no matter what unemployment numbers show simply because of his race. And not a single one of them can nor will deny it. What I find highly sad from that race is that they have had the right to vote since 1965 and only when a black man appeared on the ballot did they decide to show up. A 107 year old black lady was praised because it was her 1st time voting. Last I looked there were elections in 1968, 72, 76, 80, 84, 88, 92, 96, 00, and 04.

Nah, it wasn't about race was it..... :coffee: :coffee: :coffee:
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Obama has $240,000,000. Game Over.
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Since my informal, unscientific polling of voters I know and associate with from the 2008 Presidential elections indicates that Obama received approx. 20% of their votes I don't understand how he won the first time and therefore have no idea what will stop him from being re-elected. :twocents:
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Seahawks08 wrote:Election of 1824:
Jackson 41.3%
Adams 30.9%

Election of 1876:
Tilden 51%
Hayes 48%

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Don't forget the 1860 Presidential election where Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than 40% of the popular vote:


Abraham Lincoln, Republican - 39.8%
John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democrat - 18.1%
John Bell, Constitutional Union/Whig - 12.6%
Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democrat - 29.5%
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LeadBolt wrote:
Seahawks08 wrote:Election of 1824:
Jackson 41.3%
Adams 30.9%

Election of 1876:
Tilden 51%
Hayes 48%

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Don't forget the 1860 Presidential election where Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than 40% of the popular vote:


Abraham Lincoln, Republican - 39.8%
John C. Breckinridge, Southern Democrat - 18.1%
John Bell, Constitutional Union/Whig - 12.6%
Stephen A. Douglas, Northern Democrat - 29.5%
Lincoln had more popular votes than anyone else in 1860 and the election. We're talking about the candidates who had the most popular votes but didn't win the election.
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I like to see a balance of power, one party majority in congress and the other party in the White House.

From all the charts and articles posted on this site, 2011 was much better than Bush's last 2 years and Obama's first 2 years where the Donks ran amok.
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The lesser of two evils will win and we will get the shaft. Americans don't care enough to take control.
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