My Prediction for the Election Today

@Fatcat44 (1141)
United States
November 6, 2012 8:04am CST
I predict that the democrats will take an early lead in the election, but the republicans will catch up after they get home from work.
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@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
6 Nov 12
Well, they have to work to pay for the gas in the car to get to the polls. Whereas, Dem voters are recruited off the streets and bused to the polls.
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
6 Nov 12
I got the joke. I was simply pointing out another reason why a job is not as necessary for a Dem voter.
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
6 Nov 12
I Ohio, they're not only bused in, they can't speak English so they read the ballots to them. How helpful is that! Fat, I got the joke.
@Fatcat44 (1141)
• United States
6 Nov 12
Rollo, this is a joke pointing out democrat voter do not work and get the handouts while the republicans have the jobs. But I also like you analysis of busing in the democrat voters. They are probably given a free meal or something for voting.
@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
6 Nov 12
I like your optimism but I can't share it. Obama has spent 4 years breaking down the system and expanding the poverty rate as well as getting as many people on public assistance as possible. Those people (not Medicare or SS) are nearly 50% of the population and they will vote for him because they don't want their checks to stop. His entire first term was geared toward making people dependent on him and I'm sad to say I think the strategy will work. Even now there is voter intimidation and polling place laws being broken: http://www.examiner.com/article/naacp-takes-over-polling-place-advocates-for-obama-as-officials-do-nothing Plus the media has been rooting for Obama for 4 years and depriving voters of information on other candidates. I hope you're right but I doubt it.
@Fatcat44 (1141)
• United States
6 Nov 12
It is a joke. liberals do not work and get freebees, so they are home all day. A joke man.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
6 Nov 12
I live on the Philadelphia Main Line and people here work. You have to work to afford living here. IThis is a heavily Democratic area where us folks have been working and voting for a long time. We know enough to vote in the morning before work when the polls open at 7:00 AM. Hopefully, by the time those polls close at 8:00 PM, we will have combined with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to give Pennsylvania to Obama.
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@dragon54u (31636)
• United States
6 Nov 12
Irisheyes, if our politicians really wanted people to vote they would make voting day a paid holiday. That makes a lot of sense to me. Combine a couple of other holidays like Columbus day and president's day to make room for Voting Day. People would have plenty of time to vote without rushing, being late from lunch, getting home late or getting to work late.
• United States
6 Nov 12
I love it! I'm going to take my two kids with me to vote so they can see how its done. I feel if Owebama has his way he will do away with voting and elect himself prime ruler over all. If that happens, we will have a revolution!!! Your quote rubs a lot of people the wrong way, especially the frickin wamby pamby libs who know its the truth!!!
• United States
6 Nov 12
Personally I don't think we will know who is president when we go to bed tonight. I think you Ohio and Florida will be to close to call and it will take days to figure it out.
@matersfish (6306)
• United States
6 Nov 12
This is kinda what my mom said. "I won't be able to vote until I get home from work, and I know I'm not the only one." I'm not a Romney guy. But I do feel him to be the much better alternative. However, I just can't see him winning. If he does win, that goes to show that media and Hollywood and the mainstream doesn't have quite as much influence over everyone as they did four years ago. And I know libertarians and those voting third party are kicking me in the teeth over that, believing that both candidates are the same and that media is either going to sway you to one side or the other. And I don't really disagree; I only see that it's a solid 20:1 Dem vs. Rep in the mainstream (with 1000:1 R/D vs. the field). So just to think that liberal America can't sway another election by tilting coverage would be a huge victory in my estimation. Hopefully 2016 we can see an actual third-party candidate get better representation and beat down the dominating two-party system. But I'm no ingrate. Progressives taking an L would be fine for now. I just can't see it happening. My prediction: The popular vote will be incredibly close, maybe even giving Romney a slight lead, but the EC will go Obama's way with Ohio and Virginia burying Mitt.
• United States
7 Nov 12
Fascinating how that's the exact opposite of what actually happened. Can I get your investment favorites?