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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...
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Silver up to over 85%. Where are the states narrowing?
kentuck
(111,103 posts)Corrected post.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)crooks who are determined to steal the election. We need more votes!
MotorCityMan
(1,203 posts)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)all the champagne corks are staying in the bottles until Tuesday night, as far as i know.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)just kidding. Already voted and continuing to donate anyway I can.
libertypirate
(2,677 posts)Habibi
(3,598 posts)After what happened in 2000 and 2004, I take nothing for granted.
union_maid
(3,502 posts)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)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.