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Your candidate LOSES - what do you do?

If your candidate loses this election - what will you do?


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A packed court in either direction would be a disaster.

Which is one of the reasons why it is important to re-elect Obama. Obama ensures a balanced court.....Romney would stack the court with right-wing activists that would tip the balance of the court for the next generation.
 
It's just hard to swallow that anybody genuinely believes that one political faction in Washington can or will do anything of value for our country over the other faction(s). Our government system (including political factions) are perhaps hopelessly broken. They are so systemically damaged that it is beyond their ability to mend themselves. Actually, it's against their best interests to mend themselves.
 
Which is one of the reasons why it is important to re-elect Obama. Obama ensures a balanced court.....Romney would stack the court with right-wing activists that would tip the balance of the court for the next generation.
How many justice are expected to retire during the next 4 years? And which ones?

I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but if conservative justices are the ones getting old, then maybe we should have Romney. Same goes in reverse.

Supreme Court make-up is pretty much the only reason I will vote against my otherwise leanings.
 
Moving to Switzerland.


Just kidding, it's not like Gary Johnson is going to win with the current two party bull**** system anyways...
 
How many justice are expected to retire during the next 4 years? And which ones?

I don't know the answer off the top of my head, but if conservative justices are the ones getting old, then maybe we should have Romney. Same goes in reverse.

Supreme Court make-up is pretty much the only reason I will vote against my otherwise leanings.
The estimates are anywhere between 1-3. Probably Ginsburg for sure....but Kennedy is another possibility as is Breyer. Even Scalia is a possibility although unlikely.
This means that 1 left leaning moderate is going to leave. The one true moderate is somewhat likely to leave and another moderate a lesser possibility. If one or all three are replaced with hard right activist judges, it will dramatically shift the balance of the court which is now 5-4. Obama replacing them with other moderates or even left-leaning moderates will keep the court somewhat balanced. In order to truly balance the court, Obama would need to appoint a couple of hard liberal judges, but that is not likely in today's political climate.

In answer to your question....none of the conservative justices are likely to retire in the next four years.
 
...Romney would stack the court with right-wing activists that would tip the balance of the court for the next generation.

That would be welcome progress!
 
That would be welcome progress!
Only if you want to see the radical right-wing social agenda enacted...which would set this country back half a decade. Not the "welcome progress" that the majority of Americans want to see for this Country.
 
Hmm...This has already happened to me - 4 years ago.

I basically continued more or less as usual, although with less expectation that things would go as I thought they should.


It helps if you're not really invested in a candidate, but rather (in my case at least) voting for the best of two bad options.

I suppose I’ll continue as usual and hope the one who isn’t my candidate doesn’t screw things up as badly as I think he will.
 
I stare at TGND's tits. Ironically, if my candidate wins, I stare at TGND's tits.
 
Oh, thanks, I am kinda new here.
 
I stare at TGND's tits. Ironically, if my candidate wins, I stare at TGND's tits.
You know, I never thought about it before, but it's true - whether my chosen candidate wins or loses, I still check out TGND's avitar on a regular basis.
 
If Obama loses I hope the Romney that would be in office is the one who agrees with Obama on the majority of issues.

I am more concerned for Romney lack of convictions and the advisors he intends to put in place ... many from the BuCheney era.

Yet when all is said and done ... I live, love and work and will just move forward and hope for the best outcome for out country. I will not do what the republicans did to Obama and try to rally and root for failures.

Obama pulled this country up on from the spiraling economic depression that the Bush era set in place.

Obama-Biden 2012

I am a patriot and put country before any political party. I never root for failure of a POTUS.
 
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If Obama loses I hope the Romney that would be in office is the one who agrees with Obama on the majority of issues.

I am more concerned for Romney lack of convictions and the advisors he intends to put in place ... many from the BuCheney era.

Yet when all is said and done ... I live, love and work and will just move forward and hope for the best outcome for out country. I will not do what the republicans did to Obama and try to rally and root for failures.

Obama pulled this country up on from the spiraling economic depression that the Bush era set in place.

Obama-Biden 2012

I am a patriot and put country before any political party. I never root for failure of a POTUS.
My view of things is opposite in some regards

In reverse order:

I think the economy got slightly better in some regards despite what Obama (and Bush before him) and congress did (yes I know congress is mostly republican at the moment).
I agree that Romney's seeming "meh-ness" (to make up a word) is bad, and I too worry about what advisers he might put in place.
If Obama loses I hope the Romney that would be in office is the one who disagrees with Obama on the majority of issues - but I fear that will not be the case.



To go out of order, I also put country before political party (which means if Obama was better than Romney in my mind, I'd be voting for him or some other candidate), and I also never root for a failure of a POTUS (which I think Obama is).
 
I will have a meltdown.

I will strip naked, smear myself in green jello pudding, and mumble to myself incoherently as I wander down the street in central Chicago in utter disbelief. I defecate on Oprah's front lawn.

After a night in jail, I will cry myself to sleep hysterically. I will then turn to food for comfort and become morbidly obese in a matter of weeks as I stuff myself with fried chicken and gravy fries to fill the void inside.

In the end, I will fashion an alternate reality for myself in which Mitt Romney really is president, and where I, the 47 percent, and binders full of women are living in my delusion happily ever after.

That's my plan anyway. But I guess just going with the flow could work too.
 
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Luckily, I don't have to worry about this problem. My candidate has this thing locked down and all the pretenders will simply have to suck it. He will finally get us headed in the right direction and, while haters gonna hate, eventually history will have to admit the greatness of President Gary Johnson :)

I feel sorry for all of you living in denial about your candidates.

Sorry to tell ya, but you are living in fantasy land. Jill Stein has this thing wrapped up. Sure, it looks pretty close in the popular vote but I think Stein has the support to win definitely in the electoral college. We’ll just have to wait and see how Ohio plays out. Hopefully that Obama guy won’t steal too many votes from her.
 
So why, exactly, is violent revolution not listed as an option here, huh?
 
So why, exactly, is violent revolution not listed as an option here, huh?

What? You're in the streets kicking peoples asses all by yourself? Let me know when you do it - I wanna youtube it. ;)
 
Sorry to tell ya, but you are living in fantasy land. Jill Stein has this thing wrapped up. Sure, it looks pretty close in the popular vote but I think Stein has the support to win definitely in the electoral college. We’ll just have to wait and see how Ohio plays out. Hopefully that Obama guy won’t steal too many votes from her.

You greenies have your own personal land of denial! Face it, President Johnson is going to wipe the map with you, electorially speaking. You keep pretending you have a chance in CA and FL, but we all know better. All the important polls, like Joe's Blogland and Blogs Blogs Blogs have GJ up by tons of points with independents (you know, those guys that used to be dems and reps).

Especially after the first debate. It's over for ya. Accept it and join the party of real hope and change :)
 
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