/r/2012Elections
Election news for the 2012 US elections
For news and discussion of the candidates running for election in the US House of Representatives, Senate, gubernatorial and Presidential races.
Please don't downvote based on party affiliation.
News and discussion about the general political climate is OK here too.
Follow generic Congressional tracking poll here
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For those in-between:
2012 Candidates:
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/r/2012Elections
I can understand the Hispanic vote because they were heavily courted, but why Asians?
You can include the 2008 election, but I feel this year was internet's biggest impact on the outcome of an election we have ever seen. How do you think cable news channels compare to the internet when giving out information? Which one is more knowledge, truthful, and factual? And what were the impacts they had on the election? Which one impacted the outcome more?
I overheard my family members going on and on yesterday about how Obama "stole" the election, claiming that they read that there were some places where he received more votes than there were registered voters, and not a single vote went to Romney.
Obviously this is bologna.
I was tempted to ask them to produce the name of the district and county where this supposedly happened and then take them to the local SoS website to find the official results, but decided to stay out of the fray. That said, I think it'd be interesting to find a spreadsheet that shows something like:
District Name, Voter Turnout (% of registered), votes for Obama, votes for Romney, votes for others...
...with EVERY SINGLE district in the entire nation represented. Then, ask them to go through that list and find one that illustrates their claim. [of course, they'll just claim it was left off the list or something]
But... I can't seem to find such a compilation. Anybody know where there might be one?