Obama wins re-election

[jhale667]

More like 97% voted for Obama. You ain't telling me that most of that 97% didn't vote for the color of his skin.

Riiight because we don't pay attention to things like ISSUES, or that the opposition was a complete scumbag.... STFU with that bullshit. Obama's campaign wasn't the one spewing racist dog whistles every five minutes.

And VON's statement, also bullshit - you say that crap like Mitt's main voting block WASN'T white males. It WAS. You're a hypocrite.

[FORD]

More like 97% voted for Obama. You ain't telling me that most of that 97% didn't vote for the color of his skin.

Yes.... because all the bullshit that blacks went through just to be able to get the fucking right to vote, after that they all said "Cool... now we can just wait until a Black man is running for office, 'cause we ain't voting for any of these white motherfuckers like Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton".

Geezus..........

[ZahZoo]

Here's some stats based on exit polls... Source is Fox News... Take it for what it's worth...

Non-whites made up 28 percent of the electorate, up a bit from 27 percent in 2008. This group largely backed Obama: 71 percent of Hispanics (it was 67 percent last time), and 93 percent of blacks (down a touch from 95 percent).

Republican challenger Mitt Romney won among white voters by 20 percentage points. That’s up from John McCain’s edge of +12 points in 2008. In addition, the share of votes cast by whites was lower (72 percent) than it has been going back to at least 1992.

Click to read the exit polls.

Young voters were important to giving Obama his first term. Voters under age 30 showed up again this time: They represented 19 percent of all voters, one point higher than the 18 percent in 2008. Even so, they didn’t back him as strongly this time: 60 percent -- down six points.

National

Young Voters

Obama 60%

Romney 37%

Seniors backed Romney by 56-44 percent, mostly unchanged from 2008.

Meanwhile, more Democrats than Republicans voted, 38-32 percent. In 2008, Democrats also outnumbered Republicans by 39-32 percent.

Almost all Democrats supported the president (92 percent). That support was equaled among Republicans for Romney (93 percent).

Forty-five percent of independents backed Obama, down from 52 percent last time. Half of this swing group preferred Romney (49 percent).

Marital status was a more significant factor than gender this year. Women, a traditional Democratic voting group, backed Obama by 11 points -- about the same as by 13 points in 2008. Even so, married women backed Romney by 7 points (an improvement from McCain’s +3 showing).

Men backed Romney (52-45 percent), and married men backed him by an even wider margin (60-38 percent).

Romney was successful in energizing his base: conservatives accounted for 35 percent of all voters today, one-point higher than in 2008. And he captured 82 percent of them (McCain got 78 percent). White born-again Christians made up 26 percent of the voters today and 78 percent favored Romney (for McCain it was 74 percent).

In addition, white Catholics went for Romney by a margin of 59-40 percent. This is a group that has historically backed the winner.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz2Ba0EIMSi

[FORD]

Men backed Romney (52-45 percent), and married men backed him by an even wider margin (60-38 percent).

And I'm guessing that men with more than one wife backed him 100%

[Guitar Shark]

And I'm guessing that men with more than one wife backed him 100%

[ZahZoo]

One can only imagine Ford...

[Nitro Express]

Obama is just another Roosevelt. You can win a second term in a bad economy if you have enough government funded safety cushions in place. The thing is Roosevelt was a better president. He had better programs. Look at the infrastructure he built and he had work programs. This business of buying phones and just giving people money for nothing really doesn't help people. It's just buying votes.

[FORD]

Obama SHOULD have been another Roosevelt. So far, he's been another Clinton. We NEED another Roosevelt right about now though, and I hope he steps up to it, appoints a cabinet that's capable of helping him do so, and starts twsting some arms LBJ style in Congress if they get in his way.

[Nitro Express]

Where Mitt missed it was the hispanic vote. He should have listened to his Mexican relatives. The reality is the agricultural business, hospitality business, landscaping business, and restaurant business need workers. For whatever reason the domestic population don't want to do those jobs so people from Mexico and other latin American countries do them. They come up here to make money and send most of it home. Without migrant workers these industries can't stay in business. That's a fact. What needs to be done is have a realistic work visa program and maybe if the person shows they have the potential to be a good citizen of the US have a program to offer that.

I don't know if Mitt felt by doing that it would alienate his far right base but his relatives in Mexico thought he was making a mistake towing the hard anti-immigration line. Mitt comes from an interesting family. Not the normal white bread family. You would think he would have had a better insight on the immigration issue.

[Nitro Express]

Obama SHOULD have been another Roosevelt. So far, he's been another Clinton. We NEED another Roosevelt right about now though, and I hope he steps up to it, appoints a cabinet that's capable of helping him do so, and starts twsting some arms LBJ style in Congress if they get in his way.

Boy his cabinet is crooked as all get out but then so was Bush's. I compared Obama to Roosevelt in regard to winning a second term in a poor economy. But you are right, he is no FDR by any means. To be honest, Clinton at least was more competent. I think Obama is in over his head much like Bush was. I would say Obama is more like Bush than Clinton.

If we had an FDR in office we would be building stuff. When was the last time we built a big bridge in this country? We have roads and bridges falling apart and people need jobs and we are giving trillions to bankers and spending billions on elections. Look at the money wasted on an election that changed nothing.

FDR created a lot of shovel ready jobs and we still enjoy the benefits of those projects. Obama could have started a federal road and bridge overhaul program and put a lot of people to work. He's spent $5 Trillion. On what?

[Kristy]

Mitt comes from an interesting family. Not the normal white bread family.

More like an inbred one? You know, the kind the Illuminati supports.

[Va Beach VH Fan]

Couldn't resist...

[FORD]

If we had an FDR in office we would be building stuff. When was the last time we built a big bridge in this country? We have roads and bridges falling apart and people need jobs and we are giving trillions to bankers and spending billions on elections. Look at the money wasted on an election that changed nothing.

FDR created a lot of shovel ready jobs and we still enjoy the benefits of those projects. Obama could have started a federal road and bridge overhaul program and put a lot of people to work. He's spent $5 Trillion. On what?

Careful..... you're starting to agree with Thom Hartmann, Mike Malloy and FORD. We have all been urging Barry to embrace his inner FDR and get the damn infrastructure programs since he won the first election.

[Von Halen]

I am sure SOME black voters are doing that, but your argument assumes too much. Black voters would have overwhelmingly supported the democratic candidate regardless of his race, just like they always do. In 2004 for example, 88% of blacks voted for John Kerry, who is as much of a rich white guy as they come.

So, they are black sheep?

[Seshmeister]