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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Obama wins Florida! [View all]yellowcanine
(35,698 posts)10. 332....Solid win and I called it a week before the election!
With considerable assistance from Nate Silver although he had not yet turned Florida blue as I recall.
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But it is still unacceptable even if just one vote was lost because of suppression/purges
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#16
It is BEYOND UNACCEPTABLE. No citizen, no matter who they vote for, should EVER have...
Raster
Nov 2012
#25
Thanks to all the FL Dems who stood in line for hours to vote: Obama won by 60,767 votes!
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#4
True HuffPost is only one to call it--but they are showing FL with 100% returns.
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#14
The lead is about 60,000 votes. Not sure how many provisional ballots are out.
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#30
It's been blue on HuffPost since yesterday...not called by anyone else
alcibiades_mystery
Nov 2012
#27
I'm sorry about the result - but Romney and the GOP did receive a stinging rebuke
jsmirman
Nov 2012
#62
OH still has 200,000 outstanding provisional ballots that they can not count until Nov 17.
LisaL
Nov 2012
#56
No, but Romney camp has conceded Florida. So who cares what news organizations say?
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#54