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Not that it affect the outcome, who do you think will win Florida

Once Florida finnaly reports their results, who do you think won?

  • Governor Mitt Romney

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • President Barrack Obama

    Votes: 17 94.4%

  • One of the third party candidates

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    18
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Its two days after the election and not without precedence, Presidential election results are still not in from the Sunshine State. :lamo

Just a few points of interests before you vote in this poll:

  • Obama is presently ahead in Florida by around 47,000 votes counted so far
  • Like many states with Republican administrations, the State of Florida engaged in aggressive anti-voter fraud measures in the lead up to November.
  • Like many states with Republican administrations, the State of Florida engaged in tax-payer cost saving measures and reduced the days allowed for early voting.
  • Some described those measures as minority voter suppression and likely contributed greatly to a massive voter turnout among minorities, some of who where still in line at 1am to cast their ballots, overwhelming voter office turnout expectations.
  • Inadvertently, some US Military personnel registered to vote in Florida discovered their registrations had been purged from voter roles. Not sure if some of these where currently deployed military voting absentee or if their votes are part of the hold up.
  • Some former felons from years and possibly decades ago were granted clemency, had their voting rights restored and some even voted in past elections learned on Tuesday that their registrations had been purged due to being "fraudulently registered to vote as convicted felons".
  • I THINK roughly 200,000 absentee and provisional ballots primarily in South Florida are still being counted/are under review.
 
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probably Obama, but it's anyone's guess.

i will say that i think that Florida's voter suppression efforts were shameful. people were standing in line for six hours or more in some places. that's simply unacceptable, and it's a great argument for more thorough federal election and early voting guidelines.
 
It looks extremely likely that Obama will eventually win Florida. InTrade gives him a 99.7% chance of winning. I think the only reason that it hasn't officially been "called" yet is because it was close enough that the state will need to do a recount, and count its absentee/provisional ballots. But at this point I think it's virtually impossible that Romney can find enough additional votes to win Florida.
 
Last I read they barely gave it to Obama. I was actually surprised. I guess the 8 year record low Republican turnout helped him out.
 
I'm pretty certain Obama will win it. And I hope he does, since that would mean I picked right in the electoral contest from a few days ago.
 
CNN called it for Obama last nite at 10 eastern
 
JohnWOlin said:
Last I read they barely gave it to Obama. I was actually surprised. I guess the 8 year record low Republican turnout helped him out.
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old people (republicans) in florida probably didnt vote much, they're the only demographic smart enough to realize both candidates had the same policies.
 
Obama looks like the winner, which means I was only one state off with my prediction damn it :lol:
 
I'm going with Obama because I trust Nate Silver.
 
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