Elections Results Thread

[epan]

You make a good point.

The Euro economic consensus appears to be that the US election makes no difference. The current economic news is that the German economy is only projected to grow 0.8% in 2013, the same as 2012. The degree of optimism among business leaders is the lowest in 31 months.

Declining exports are now being blamed. Previously, the extreme austerity measures were under attack. While the US pursued expansion through government subsidy, the Germans pulled hard for spending cuts to match government revenue receipts.

Opinion across Europe is mixed, as to whether it is better to stimulate the economy, and create more debt to deal with later, or better to take the opposite approach and let the free markets have more of an influence. The big fear here is a second dip, which some say is starting now. Others disagree, and point to slow growth.

The most common advice is to remain in short positions in the markets, and to wait for signs of structural improvement in the US economy. Neither candidate was seen as being better than the other to achieve that.

The polls were something like 80% in favor of Obama across Europe. A lot of people are happy about the election results.

 

[iloveangels]

Not us

This is not that big, CMatt. The election was very close. There are vast sections of the country that don’t agree with you and that’s not going to change.

The next four years are going to be a fiasco. Own it. It will be the Democrat’s fault.

 

[bellasbane]

This will be 8 years of Democrat presidency. They have only themselves to blame for what happens now. Own it, baby. It’s the Democrat’s fault what happens now.

Republicans control the House so they will have to “own” 1/3 of it at least.

 

[CMatt25]

The House really does need to stop wasting its time with the symbolic and futile efforts to repeal it. How many times now? 30? Each one wasted. They are acting like a bunch of monkeys who keep forgetting that when they grab the banana in the box, then can’t get their hand back out. Talk about silly. It is time to move on to practical matters, and getting things done which can be accomplished.

I agree.

 

[Cider]

For the last 50 years, Catholics have been statistically the same as the general population in way too many metrics to count, including voting patterns.

I think the book Faithful Departed does a good job of explaining this.

 

[ComputerGeek25]

Yes,…but what exactly does that meen? I am asking sincerely. I hear everyone say this but what in you mind would be them being cooperative?

The only compromise CMatt25 wants is more free Twinkies, taxes on the rich (even though that has been debunked unless there’s a ton of spending cuts to go along with it) and free condoms for all!

 

[iloveangels]

Republicans control the House so they will have to “own” 1/3 of it at least.

They’re going to own the part that keeps more crazy stuff from happening because they’re going to sit down and do what the voters asked them to do yesterday. Resist.

 

[CMatt25]

They’ll get over it. Just like a kid’s tantrum, some things you just have to ride out…

Yes they’ve done pretty well under Obama. They’ll be fine.

 

[BroomWagon]

I don’t know where you’re getting your numbers but Catholics don’t vote in a bloc anymore. The last Catholic bloc vote was 1960, the election of John Kennedy. .

Can you read? I provided a link, do you need that again? pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/How-the-Faithful-Voted.aspx

So what!, Catholic bloc, I said Hispanics provided a voting bloc and that is clear, in New York, New Mexico, etc.

For the last 50 years, Catholics have been statistically the same as the general population in way too many metrics to count, including voting patterns. In fact, that’s a badge of pride for many Catholics, who have what they always wanted more than life itself–mainstream respectability and lack of shame for being Catholic.

So, I provided the info. One could say the same for Evangelicals but overall, they do vote on Conservative Christian principles.

 

[seekerz]

This will be 8 years of Democrat presidency. They have only themselves to blame for what happens now. Own it, baby. It’s the Democrat’s fault what happens now.

I’m no pessimist, and I can find more productive things to do than ‘blame’ people for my bad dreams.

 

[ComputerGeek25]

The polls were something like 80% in favor of Obama across Europe. A lot of people are happy about the election results.

That’s nice, but I don’t really care what Europe thinks of US politics.

 

[BroomWagon]

Hispanics obviously skew the Catholic voting block because Hispanics are largely Catholic and largely Democratic but they vote Democrat overall. Why California is such a blue state among other reasons.

 

[Lochias]

They’re going to own the part that keeps more crazy stuff from happening because they’re going to sit down and do what the voters asked them to do yesterday. Resist.

'til the very end.

 

[simple_soul]

The only compromise CMatt25 wants is more free Twinkies, taxes on the rich (even though that has been debunked unless there’s a ton of spending cuts to go along with it) and free condoms for all!

Was that really nessesary? Even I do not bye that…

 

[iloveangels]

Europeans can’t even manage their own economies, let alone ours. They’ve got people starving in the streets in Greece and unable to bury the dead.

That’s what you get when you set up a monetary system that has no controls and no central government. And you can’t have a central government because Europe isn’t like that. There are too many ethnic identities and interests and that’s not going to change.

 

[Lochias]

Republicans control the House so they will have to “own” 1/3 of it at least.

Thank God for small mercies.

 

[iloveangels]

Hispanics obviously skew the Catholic voting block because Hispanics are largely Catholic and largely Democratic but they vote Democrat overall. Why California is such a blue state among other reasons.

Ethnic identity actually has absolutely nothing to do with religiosity. Nothing. It only looks that way because of history and miscellaneous folk artifacts. It’s a red herring statistically.

 

[seekerz]

I suggest that since most of us prayed to God about this election, thanks are due to Him regardless of how we feel about the answer.

 

[iloveangels]

I suggest that since most of us prayed to God about this election, thanks are due to Him regardless of how we feel about the answer.

Wait til the HHS mandate hits. We’ll see who whines then.

 

[Lochias]

I suggest that since most of us prayed to God about this election, thanks are due to Him regardless of how we feel about the answer.

I don’t think anybody’s stopped thanking God, here. Regardless, evil is evil, and we don’t have to accept it as anything but. And we won’t.