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# ^^^

though I had a moment this morning when I realised that actually, he's probably going to win. It made me very sad.
(I helped save b3ta! Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:07, archived)
# Obama has a 15% lead now apparently.
So long as about 8% of the country aren't lying racist bastards, he should win.
Fuck.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:09, archived)
# 4 years of rule from a spitting image puppet with malfunctioning blink action and a hot temper
\o/
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:11, archived)
# Don't worry, he probably won't last more than a year or two.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:12, archived)
# And then Palin is president?
*loads trusty service revolver*
(I helped save b3ta! Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:14, archived)
# Remember that the one with the most votes doesn't always win
The one that wins is the one the establishment wants to govern and the people be damned.
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:14, archived)
# True, but they'd have a job to cover up a 15% lead
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:15, archived)
# what do you think
'recounts' are for?
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:22, archived)
# It would be a bit more suspicious when they launch recounts of virtually all the swing states
and overturn all of them
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:23, archived)
# it's ok
there's no time travelling robots due to land in florida this year
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:24, archived)
# nah
think he's blown it. if the democrats had just been in power he'd have a chance, but most of the country want a change, don't know the last time a part lasted more than 2 terms in their country.

was quite depressed when i started reading my old uni's student paper the other week and saw that one of their "columnists" had responded to a letter by saying "if you don't like the current government then you get the chance to change it every 4 years"

FFS we'd best not start following the americans and having such a rigid regime for general elections, will fuck us right up
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:14, archived)
# Like the British system is any better...
(I helped save b3ta! The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:16, archived)
# at least we've got more than two parties
if it all goes to the wall they're screwed and will do as the Germans of the second reich did and pick an extreme to lead them out.

also, in theory a general election can be called (and held) at any time between a new government being formed, and 5 years after that date. not on a fixed schedule. therefore we're (theoretically) not stuck with a government for a fixed period of time.

there's the problem of FPTP vs Prop Rep, but it'd take too long to change the system in this country to prop rep to have any immediate impact, and it's not necessarily a better system (once again see 1930s Germany)
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:22, archived)