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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:46 PM
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Fiorina waited until today to concede because...get this...last night it was "too close to call."


Nov. 3, 2010, 3:49 p.m. EDT
Fiorina finally concedes in Calfornia Senate race

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Republican Carly Fiorina finally conceded the U.S. Senate race in California to incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer Wednesday morning, half a day after various media organizations had declared Boxer the winner. Boxer was projected to be the winner by various news organizations Tuesday night, but at one point after that, Fiorina pulled ahead. Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., refused to concede, saying the race is too close to call. Boxer, however, prevailed as the night wore on and ended up roughly 10 points ahead.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/fiorina-finally-concedes-in-calfornia-senate-race-2010-11-03
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:48 PM
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1. Better late than never i suppose
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:52 PM
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2. "I was assured by the voting machine companies that
I would win this outright ... that's what I paid them for ..."
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GreenArrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:54 PM
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3. What a genuinely wretched person.
Her going down in flames was one of the night's few bright spots.
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:56 PM
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4. Doesn't surprise me she's so bad with numbers after what she did as CEO. nt
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:56 PM
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5. I said it before: those with an overdeveloped sense of entitlement make poor losers.
And Carly has the biggest sense of entitlement I've ever seen in a "human" being.
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:59 PM
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6. You stay classy, Cruella
:hi:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:59 PM
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7. I hate that woman but when the networks called it for Barbara
they were two points apart. L.A. County wasn't in and neither was Alameda, two places where Boxer might expect a good result. But, officially, they were two points apart.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 10:53 PM
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11. That's all good and well, but
You're not presenting a requisite amount of hate. :)
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:05 PM
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8. Good. I hope she actually thought she might win. Makes her eventual disappointment sweeter.
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:11 PM
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9. shoulda tried that "so yesterday's" hairdo
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:19 PM
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16. Great minds think alike.
:evilgrin:
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 06:58 PM
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10. That's her great "business acumen" at work.
Just figuring out a way to sue the living fuck out of someone to get her own way. Just the way our better corporations do!
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:01 PM
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12. She's not really that stupid...
Look at any exit poll.
Look at the early returns broken down by county.

I'm not even American and I knew she was fucked less than 5 minutes after the polls closed.
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underseasurveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:30 PM
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17. she knew it and she saw it
Just as most of us did. She just wanted more attention and as much drama and righteous indignation she could rile up.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:06 PM
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13. What were the Republicans thinking?
Let's run two moderate, affluent white women from the Bay Area... two affluent white women who have never held office before... Yeah, that'll really stick it to Boxer and DiFi and Pelosi and Brown. :P
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:15 PM
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14. my guess...
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 11:20 PM by bliss_eternal
...they weren't thinking, lol. :spray: the right wing seems to genuinely like affluence, and seem to think that women candidates give them a "we like women" front.

personally, their affluence didn't bother me. it's what they did w/it--the outsourcing, the destruction of companies (HP, ebay) and so many jobs. i also got the sense both were intolerant of "others" (glbt's, brown people, disabled, impoverished, women, etc.) women who are pro-criminalizing choices of other women, are frightening to me.

but even if they'd ran people of color who weren't affluent, with lots of experience, i'm certain they wouldn't be people i'd be interested in voting for. though, others may have. :shrug:
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 11:17 PM
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15. She also thought that buying Compaq was a savvy business move for HP
So numbers are not her forte.
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