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The First Obama Term

He'll be assassinated before he takes office.
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He'll be assinated in office.
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He really is the anti-christ and we're all going to die.
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His Presidency will be a failure of Jimmy Carter Proportions.
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His Presidency will be seen by history as mediocre.
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His Presidency will be seen as a success of Reagan proportions.
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He really is the second coming of Christ and GORDON is screwed.
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GORDON wrote:Federal gas tax hike.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....uel-tax

Little confession, here.... I really was hoping he meant it when he said that 90% of America would not be seeing their taxes go up. But I was never stupid enough to believe it like soooo many other people were.
Possibly dropping the mortgage interest deduction.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....duction
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They might as well burn down our houses. Resale values will drop further as more homes are foreclosed and there is no one interested in buying.
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GORDON wrote:Possibly dropping the mortgage interest deduction.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic....duction
Honestly, I'm all for this. There is no compelling reason to discriminate against renters.

Yeah, I might get screwed, but seriously - let's simplify the tax code, and remove as many deductions as possible.
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I think the democrats are going for a republican clean sweep next week
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I voted today.
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I haven't yet.
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GORDON wrote:I think the democrats are going for a republican clean sweep next week
A Republican congress w\ a Democratic White House has historically been the best economic combo.
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I'd really like to see Obamacare get repealed.
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TheCatt wrote:I haven't yet.
Update... I'm not voting this year.
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Having read that before I was even old enough to vote, I never appreciated that story the way I can now.
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GORDON wrote:I'd really like to see Obamacare get repealed.
Yeah, and I'd like to have my youth back. I think we'll both be disappointed. These types don't seem big on repeal. It's like admitting they made a mistake.
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TheCatt wrote:
Having read that before I was even old enough to vote, I never appreciated that story the way I can now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
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Ohio went very red.

New Republican governor, lots of new republican congressmen. I think mine was one of the few districts that stayed democrat... and for that I blame myself. The universe must confound me at every turn, and in this respect it helped Marcy Kaptur, a big fan of Obamacare, to win. I believe she was on board with it even before the vote buying started.

But I know MD really likes her.
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In our state, one congressional district changed from D to R. My district stayed D... again.


I've lived in 5 different cities in the past 18 years... aside from the '94 Republican Revolution, this guy's been my rep the entire time.
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TheCatt wrote:I've lived in 5 different cities in the past 18 years... aside from the '94 Republican Revolution, this guy's been my rep the entire time.

Two words:

Durham and Chapel Hill.

And Cary, too, I guess.



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Having surfed around the internet a bit, the leftie response to last night seems that they have all agreed to act like they are happy about the results for two reasons: All those darned blue dog democrats got voted out, and how Sarah Palin made the republicans not win as big as they would have without her.

I kept seeing those same two points made over and over on various forums.

The left is very happy today, apparently.

Also, and I found this funny, depending on the thread I was reading the republicans suck because either all they say is NO to whatever Obama wants, or Obama sucks because he is always working and compromising with the republicans. Everyone would agree with both of those points, sometimes at the same time.
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This has to be the best example of Gerrymandering extant today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....istrict
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Ohio has a better one than that I learned yesterday, let me see if I can find a pic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio%27s_18th_congressional_district

The two ends of that district are like night and day.
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thibodeaux wrote:This has to be the best example of Gerrymandering extant today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki....istrict
I knew it was the 12th without even clicking.

I think the large amount of gerrymandering is why NC doesn't switch a lot congressionally.
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