Must be a great day to live in Minnesota- unless you’re Michele Bachmann.
The Senate failed to pass a bill that over 90% of Americans support. Welcome to ‘Murica.
I’ve read like 10 news articles recently saying “Hillary Clinton, who is rumored to be considering a presidential run in 2016…”
Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said she’s not running… the only ‘rumors’ are the ones these new stations keep spreading. Stay classy, gossip-y news stations
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Obama meets Mexico’s New President, Enrique Pena Nieto.
“After Harvey Milk became one of the first out gay people elected in 1977, he put up a sign in his store window that just said, “Thank You.” Thirty-five years later, an out lesbian named Tammy Baldwin would be elected to the US Senate. Remembering Harvey Milk, killed on this day in 1978.”
Irony: Michele Bachmann may have won re-election in Minnesota, but Minnesota is likely going to legalize marriage equality within a year.
Hope this election marked the death of the Tea Party Movement and extremist conservatism in general in the U.S.
A president who supports marriage equality and a record number of women in the senate (including the first openly lesbian senator). Not perfect, but not bad USA.
Again, the real winner of this election was Nate Silver. The guy correctly predicted how all 50 states would vote in this election and was 49/50 in the 2008 election.
His secret? MATH. Meanwhile, his critics are all:
(Source: The New York Times)
Hey guys, turns out Nate Silver is a wizard!
Actually it’s called math. He predicted 49/50 states right in the 2008 election also. This was never a close election.
Florida must collectively decide to mess with the rest of the country every election.
““These charts present the estimated probabilities of an Obama victory and current Electoral College forecasts (where available) from the political scientists Jay DeSart and Tom Holbrook, Stanford’s Simon Jackman, Emory’s Drew Linzer, Silver, Princeton’s Sam Wang, the British sports book Betfair, and the Intrade futures market (here and here).”
The people who keep saying this election is going to be a ‘close one’ do so despite the math mostly indicating otherwise. Also, this chart is a couple days old- these numbers have increased in Obama’s favor pretty much across the board.
