I was surprised that people would vote for a man who would let minority unemployment go to 14% and doesn’t do anything about it.

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Being one who long felt Obama would win comfortably my surprise was that it wasn’t more comfortable. Still it’s a ‘comfortable’ win. As to reaction, I’m continually amazed at the number of people who will vote against their own best interests.

I’m surprised that there were no surprises. Virtually everything came out as I had hoped for and expected. I follow the work of Nate Silver and my expectations were based primarily on his predictions. Once again, he was dead on. I thought that, surely, there will be at least one thing he would get wrong and I’m surprised that there was no significant mis-calls.

His website is http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/

I was most surprised by the voter’s lack of demanding accountabiltiy. A president wins re-election after stating four years ago that he would balance the budget or deserve one term. A Justice receives more approval from voters than from his own peers. Congressmen re-elected who stick future generations with crippling debt. Voters certainly can’t be accused of a lack of tolerance!

Actually I wasn’t surprised at the outcome. If there is any surprise it has been long-going in observing the candidates that the Republican party has presented us. Considering the economy and unemployment rate, the fact that many people would vote against Obama because they think he’s a Muslim (not that it should matter), not a natural-born citizen (if you doubt they exist just search “polls Obama Muslim”, “polls Obama citizen” Etc.), a Marxist-Leninist, or a person of color, Obama should have been an easy shoo-out. In Iowa the Iowa Republican Party chairman approving of the loathsome “reject the SCJ effort” probably further discredited Republicans in general.

I’m surprised that the world didn’t end. The radical regressives who’ve taken over the Republican Party have been telling us that the world would end if we retained “That one” as President. Grifter Bob and his Out-Of-State-Bus-Of-Hate told us the world would end if we kept that sinner, Wiggins, on the bench.
Funny, but the sun came up, the birds are chirping, there’s a squirrel running around the back yard teasing the neighbor’s dog, and my coffee maker worked just fine. We’re going to be fine, despite what the regressives and theocratic zealots claimed. Perhaps now they can redirect their focus to those planks in in their eyes, getting good with their god (who clearly is punishing them for ignoring all the important teachings), and learning how to play nice with others.

That this election proved that we now have more takers than makers in this country. The lies and distortions used by the Democrats were effective on a lot of voters who haven’t the slightest idea what four more years is going to do to this country. Standby for 2013 and the fiscal cliff.

This election was NO surprise. How does a president with the worst record in American history get elected to the highest office in the land? How does Obama survive despite the worst economy and the worst unemployment since the great depression? How does a man born and raised a Muslim overseas, migrate to Hawai wih eight years of communitst mentorship under Frank Marshall Davis, followed by several years of communist affililation with the former Weather Underground become president in the first place?

The answer is quite simple. MONEY! The same people who own the Federal Reserve, a private corporation, own a majority interest in the top 3 of 4 media outlets MSNBC, ABC, an NBC. For the last four years those media networks have been ordered not to say anything bad about Obama. Romney had the same attacks launched against him as did Ron Paul. It was not until the first debate did the American public get to know Romney. Up until then he was shut out less the year of attacks prior.

What’s most suprising about this election is the POWER OF THE BRIBE. He came to power by paying off his “selectors”. In return for the oval office he gave Wall Street one trillion dollars of tax payers money effectively called the “Stimulus”. The same people who own the Fed are the same people who own the Goldman Sachs who are the same people who the major media outlets. It was a great trade. The masses bought it. Once in office the Fed not so quietly invented QE1, QE2, and now QE3…….a virtual license to steal …….and grant themselves more money and power. Obama was in! Main man! Yeah.

On the dumb American side of the equation THE BRIBE paid off the unions with the GM bailout, illegal aliens get a free pass, liberals remain under the illusion they will never have to work again, and money grows on trees. What’s surprising about this election is just how dumb
Americans really are. What’s not going to be surprising is the party ends January 1, 2013. At least a trillion dollars through sequestration, the Bush Tax Cuts, and Obamacare will befall our “giddy nation”. Unemployment will skyrocket. Inflation will take over. Obama will continue to blame it on Bush and the masses will believe it will more entitlements as we dig deaper into the dark hole of marxism. As time goes on the great Obama dillusion will disapate into despair. Your 401ks will vaporize into GRA’s. Gun rights will be history in four years. The Supreme Count will be a kangaroo court rewriting the constitution.

So what’s surprising about the election? The BRIBE was far more powerful than freedom, character, and economic sanity. You don’t really exspect the same special interests to pay off the 100 trillion dollars of unfunded entitlements do you?

We see the extremest’s view of why Obama won and Romney lost. Here is a more thoughtful view: http://news.msn.com/politics/why-mitt-romney-lost

Okay, finally got time to mention my second surprise.

That is why/how his grammar is still so bad. From his first sentence: “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Tonight, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny to perfect our union moves forward.”

What is the subject of “moves forward”? C’mon LIBs, you consider yourselves 2-3 brains above us common folk, let’s hear what the subject is referring to. I can’t wait for this answer.

Mr Ahart, you forgot to mention Super Storm Sandy and how it was a hoax; Created by the Dems to allow BO to appear more “presidential”.

There was no surprise in the Presidential election. The 538 blog called it right, The Intrade Futures market had it right. The surprise will come after this election See the CounterPunch article here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/11/07/victory-of-the-technocrats/

The biggest election surprise will come down the road, when Obama’s agenda is exposed and the people who voted for him wonder, what happened. First term was at least controlled, this one has nothing to lose.

The largest non-surprise is that we now have a brand bnew “buzz phrase” the media has spawned to keep the sense of crisis brewed up… we’ll all be sick and tired of “fiscal cliff” in the days to come.

As to the tin-foil-hat conservatives out there:

“The jackals howl in the night but the caravan moves on.”

I have mixed emotions of surprise. I am surprised the balance of power did not change, statistics aside. I thought this elections was about jobs and the economy. I was surprised that it was about welfare and abortion. I am surprised that so many are perfectly satisfied to take from those that make. Obama did a good job creating and pandering to that increasing electorate and it started in Ohio. I won’t be surprised if we see many more lay offs and many full time jobs going to part time. I am surprised to hear a president say that voting is the best “revenge.”

I was really surprised that even though they tried, the republicans werent able to steal the election. Around the country they were doing their dirty tricks. they were telling people the wrong day to vote in florida, they had a machine that wanted to change Obama votes to romeny votes, and in the west. they drove around picking up ballots to turn in, that could of been mailed in.

About welfare and abortion ? Where were those issues mentioned and by which candidate(S) in the latter part of the campaigns?
What is your source for ” . . . so many are perfectly satisfied to take from those that make.” ?
When and where did the president say ” . . . voting is the best “revenge”.” ?

No surprises.

When your campaign is rooted in ‘the sky is falling’ lies throughout an entire primary season- and then double down with a VP who cant help himself but to tell bigger, crazier, lies during the general election – you don’t win.

“ya fool me –wont get fooled again” GWB,

I was pleasantly surprised that there are still enough intelligent people to vote for continuation of our slow , but sure progress to clean up the mess left by the Bush2 adm. Mitt would have been worse surpassng Bush2 as the worse pres in my life time. I am an independent voter.