And the U.S. President is...

[bluejatheist]

As of this posting the U.S. president is Barack Obama for a second term. Mitt Romney has conceded.

Huffington Post Election Analysis

Also several amendments:

In Favor of Allowing Same-Sex Marriage: Maine, Maryland
In Favor of Legalized Marijuana(Recreational): Colorado, Washington

These can and likely will be challenged.

U.S. Congress:

House of Representatives: Republican Majority
U.S. Senate: Democrat Majority

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

As of midnight, projected to be Barack Obama. Romney has not ceded so the final counts are yet to be finished, but it looks like a Democrat victory.

He's conceited. He's also conceded...

Where is everyone?

 

[Moky]

Thank fuck.

 

[Frenger]

High five!

Pretty decisive victory as well. The American people have decided "nope, batshit is not for us".

Well done the USA.

 

[DepricatedZero]

In 2008 I was against Obama. Yesterday, I voted for him. Not because Romney was the worse candidate - but because Obama really surprised me and I support a lot of what he's done in the last 4 years. Some of the people here have also changed my views on some social matters, which lead to the decision as well.

I'm excited for my friends in Maine and Maryland, and as for Colorado and Washington, if I look out west I can see giant mushroom clouds drifting in the air.

 

[bluejatheist]

At the brink of my time in high school I voted all Republican on a school fantasy ballot. Then four years of learning about the world and thinking for myself happened and my first actual vote went for President Obama.

 

[)O( Hytegia )O(]

I voted for Cthulhu.

Why settle on a lesser evil?

 

[bluejatheist]

Why settle on a lesser evil?

I found it to be the closest to representing my current ideology and politics given the other candidates. Problem?

 

[IBSpify]

I voted for Cthulhu.

Why settle on a lesser evil?

I loved the Cthulhu/Dagon ticket, shame that they couldn't get on the ballots.

 

[DepricatedZero]

When people ask who I voted for I tell the Zaphod Beeblebrox. Usually just got a blank stare in return tho.

 

[Duvelthehobbit666]

When people ask who I voted for I tell the Zaphod Beeblebrox. Usually just got a blank stare in return tho.

At least he can dress himself properly.

 

[Nom_de_Plume]

Here in Canada all we had to say was thank fuck!!!
http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/why_canada_is_better_off_with_obama_than_romney/2e8a1547

Why Canada is better off with Obama than Romney

07/11/2012 12:30:00 AM
by Nevil Hunt
American voters made the right decision for their country, and for Canada, when they elected Obama over Romney.

The United States avoided a big step to the right last night by re-electing Barack Obama, and that's good news for Canadians.

The U.S. is our largest trading partner and the last thing we need is an American president who uses his nation's economic might to try and turn back the clock to something resembling Leave it to Beaver.

RELATED: Photos: Obama victorious

Obama is a centrist who understands compromise. Romney would have been a blustery America First kind of politician, pushed ever rightward by the nuts in the Tea Party. Canada would have been left on the outside looking in, treated as foreign as any European nation.

America's international relations would have taken a right turn under Romney, and nowhere would that be more dangerous than in dealings with Iran. A president Romney would have been more hawkish than Obama and that could have come with pressure on Canada to enter coalitions, and pressure on our government to spend more on the military.

On immigration, another four years of Obama works in Canada's favour because he is predictable and will provide some social supports for America's illegal aliens. An Obama America would certainly be a more desirable place to live for illegal immigrants, while Romney as president would have delivered tough times for anyone who might need help from a social safety net but no social security number.

The re-election of Obama means few illegal immigrants in the U.S. are likely to see Canada as a better place to live. We could see fewer, or at least no sudden jump, in people arriving at the Canadian border asking for refugee status or the smuggling of people from the States to Canada.

On the economic front, Obama can be expected to support the domestic auto industry, while Romney supported a sink-or-swim policy for North American car manufacturers. It's important for our economy that the auto sector remains healthy or many of the jobs will go overseas.

Few B.C. voters may have much in common with Mitt Romney, but some may have liked the former governor's energy policy. As president, Romney could have reversed Obama's decision not to back an energy pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. That refusal to back a north-south pipeline prompted plans to run a line across British Columbia to the Pacific.

A president Romney would almost certainly have OK'd a pipeline running south, avoiding the risks of environmental disaster in B.C. and off the province's coast.

Ontario asthmatics must have been rooting for Obama because Romney's desire to make the States "energy self-sufficient" would probably have seen more coal burned, which would have delivered more sulphur and smog to eastern Canada.

Romney said during the campaign that he was not convinced that global warming is a manmade phenomenon. Had he been elected president, that attitude would have affected people around the world, not just in Canada.

There's no guarantee that Obama can turn around U.S. greenhouse gas emissions but he's better for this planet that a Romney keen to tap every energy source and burn it.

Oh and I was also happy to see that every jerkwad prolife, drivel spewing republican candidate lost their seat

 

[Anachronous Rex]

Here in Canada all we had to say was thank fuck!!!
http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/why_canada_is_better_off_with_obama_than_romney/2e8a1547

Why Canada is better off with Obama than Romney

07/11/2012 12:30:00 AM
by Nevil Hunt
American voters made the right decision for their country, and for Canada, when they elected Obama over Romney.

The United States avoided a big step to the right last night by re-electing Barack Obama, and that's good news for Canadians.

The U.S. is our largest trading partner and the last thing we need is an American president who uses his nation's economic might to try and turn back the clock to something resembling Leave it to Beaver.

RELATED: Photos: Obama victorious

Obama is a centrist who understands compromise. Romney would have been a blustery America First kind of politician, pushed ever rightward by the nuts in the Tea Party. Canada would have been left on the outside looking in, treated as foreign as any European nation.

America's international relations would have taken a right turn under Romney, and nowhere would that be more dangerous than in dealings with Iran. A president Romney would have been more hawkish than Obama and that could have come with pressure on Canada to enter coalitions, and pressure on our government to spend more on the military.

On immigration, another four years of Obama works in Canada's favour because he is predictable and will provide some social supports for America's illegal aliens. An Obama America would certainly be a more desirable place to live for illegal immigrants, while Romney as president would have delivered tough times for anyone who might need help from a social safety net but no social security number.

The re-election of Obama means few illegal immigrants in the U.S. are likely to see Canada as a better place to live. We could see fewer, or at least no sudden jump, in people arriving at the Canadian border asking for refugee status or the smuggling of people from the States to Canada.

On the economic front, Obama can be expected to support the domestic auto industry, while Romney supported a sink-or-swim policy for North American car manufacturers. It's important for our economy that the auto sector remains healthy or many of the jobs will go overseas.

Few B.C. voters may have much in common with Mitt Romney, but some may have liked the former governor's energy policy. As president, Romney could have reversed Obama's decision not to back an energy pipeline from Alberta to the U.S. That refusal to back a north-south pipeline prompted plans to run a line across British Columbia to the Pacific.

A president Romney would almost certainly have OK'd a pipeline running south, avoiding the risks of environmental disaster in B.C. and off the province's coast.

Ontario asthmatics must have been rooting for Obama because Romney's desire to make the States "energy self-sufficient" would probably have seen more coal burned, which would have delivered more sulphur and smog to eastern Canada.

Romney said during the campaign that he was not convinced that global warming is a manmade phenomenon. Had he been elected president, that attitude would have affected people around the world, not just in Canada.

There's no guarantee that Obama can turn around U.S. greenhouse gas emissions but he's better for this planet that a Romney keen to tap every energy source and burn it.

Oh and I was also happy to see that every jerkwad prolife, drivel spewing republican candidate lost their seat

Not quite:

Despite my best efforts.

 

[Epiquinn]

My reaction to Romney's victory: fuck.
My reaction to Obama's victory: meh.

 

[Nom_de_Plume]

Not quite:

Despite my best efforts.

Ah Yes... Michelle Bachmann, how could I have forgotten her...??? wow
Thanks

 

[Master_Ghost_Knight]

Was there ever any doubt?

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Too bad for Kristen that she has no clue...

 

[Laurens]

:lol: does she just assume that Australia is just a place where things are exactly as she wants them to be?

I can't see any other reason for making such a huge mistake...

 

[Frenger]

 

[DepricatedZero]