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kentuck

(111,103 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:06 AM Nov 2012

Let us not count our chicks before they hatch.

It would not be wise to do so.

Even though the reality seems to be setting in on the Romney campaign tonight that their odds of winning have widened considerably. The race is not over until the official tally is given.

In my opinion, we should hold off on any premature celebrations until this battle is won...

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Let us not count our chicks before they hatch. (Original Post) kentuck Nov 2012 OP
Where have they narrowed? busterbrown Nov 2012 #1
Sorry. kentuck Nov 2012 #2
In the long run we should always act as if we are behind! We are dealing with a bunch of thieves and busterbrown Nov 2012 #11
Being pessimistic by nature MotorCityMan Nov 2012 #3
who's celebratin' early? 0rganism Nov 2012 #4
k OmahaBlueDog Nov 2012 #5
I'm so confident of an Obama victory, I'm not even going to vote. Liberal_in_LA Nov 2012 #6
That would be premature tabulation /nt libertypirate Nov 2012 #7
I agree. Habibi Nov 2012 #8
No chicken counting here union_maid Nov 2012 #9
You can say that again... AsahinaKimi Nov 2012 #10

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
11. In the long run we should always act as if we are behind! We are dealing with a bunch of thieves and
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 04:55 PM
Nov 2012

crooks who are determined to steal the election. We need more votes!

MotorCityMan

(1,203 posts)
3. Being pessimistic by nature
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:57 AM
Nov 2012

I agree with you, Kentuck.

I will not rest easy until it is called for Obama on 11/6.

Back in 2000, I stayed up until 2 in the morning, waiting for it to be called for Gore. I fully expected that when I woke up that that would be the case. Of course, we know how that turned out.

That was when I found this incredible DU website, back during the 2000 madness, and have been a daily visitor since. Don't post much but read here a lot.

In my heart I feel that enough people in this country see through Romney's bullshit and will vote President Obama back in. I'm just afraid that there is too much money and power tied to Romney and I sure as hell don't want to see a repeat of 2000.

I NEVER in my life thought that any rethug candidate could make Bush* look good (well, not good, but better), but Romney and all the wacky rethug presidential contenders have managed to do that.

0rganism

(23,957 posts)
4. who's celebratin' early?
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:59 AM
Nov 2012

all the champagne corks are staying in the bottles until Tuesday night, as far as i know.

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
6. I'm so confident of an Obama victory, I'm not even going to vote.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:53 PM
Nov 2012

just kidding. Already voted and continuing to donate anyway I can.

union_maid

(3,502 posts)
9. No chicken counting here
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 01:58 PM
Nov 2012

I'm fully committed to stomach pains and hives until it's all over. Oh, and the blood pressure is probably sky high right now.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
10. You can say that again...
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 02:06 PM
Nov 2012

The thing that worries me most are not the votes that are electronically flipped, but the votes that are conveniently just lost. Imagine going in to vote.. You have a touch tone screen. You press a vote for our President. It lights up..it says you have just voted for Barrack Obama. (There is no receipt ) You might even take a photo camera picture to insure that you have voted.

Everything is fine, you feel great, you have done your duty. An unknowingly, as you walk out to your car to go elsewhere, inside the lights flicker for a brief second at the voting machines. Suddenly 50 thousand votes have just been wiped clean. There is nothing. Not one vote for any one!

This is worse than voter suppression. Yours and everyone else's vote has vanished. There is no proof you voted, there is no proof that anyone voted. Later on when they tally up the machine, one poll worker might say.. how strange..it looks like we had a low amount of voters in this district today, while the other poll worker will say.. "Yea, there was a line out there for a while." They both shrug their shoulders and go about their business.

No one knows.. that that little procedure has happened three times that day... poof.. votes gone.

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