The online betting site I sometimes use when putting a wager on football or golf is in England.
Today, they have Romney as a large underdog. The are giving 4 to 1 odds on Obama.
Their bookies obviously get their political handicapping from the MSM.
I broke my usual betting limit and placed $50 on Romney.
If I lose, the $50 will be the least of my..and the worlds, worries.

The New Black Panthers are out and about....but they may have some problemos....

http://twitchy.com/2012/11/06/new-black-panthers-also-in-ohio-reports-of-navy-seals-heading-to-ohio-pa-to-guard-against-voter-intimidation/

HEE HEE

The actual odds are 9 to 1. Whatever happens THEY won't lose.

Statists: 538
laissez faire: 0

Quote of the day:

Lauren Clay, 28, a doctoral student in disaster science and management, voted for Obama.

"He has a done a really good job given what he was handed four years ago," she said.

- http://apnews.myway.com/article/20121106/DA2CNMGO1.html

Those long lineups are more an indication of the political afiliation of the poll workers.

Here in Morontario it is always the party in power that provides the poll staff. It's so obvious it's stupid.

If Romney/Ryan somehow lose tonight, then the new media sources on the right that I have been frequenting were lying. A lot rests on these results. Every election cycle I prune my news tree based on who was telling the truth, including those on the right. The news tree is getting kinda small. Not much left to prune without killing it.

Doo

I can't help but think mitt is the dawg.
I reckon he's a 3:2 dawg.

Romney's Ohio internals are leaked to CNN.

Obama/Biden +5.

Ouch.

To the minute: from SNN RE popular vote

Obama 48%

Romney 51%

I wouldn't call SNN's results "to the minute" nor CBC's. CTV? Haven't checked them. SNN is where I want to watch the election but the slow results are forcing me to watch CNN instead. And CBC? They reported 0.3% of polls in Florida a little while ago -- this 10-15 minutes after CNN had reported 4% of polls in... I go back and forth between CNN and SNN... SNN more for the commentary.

I watch only Fox.
Electoral Votes: Obama 3; Romney 49

No worries .

I will say this , if Obama wins ,it will be all over for America they will have become a socialist/Marxist/communist. Country and that will not bode well for the rest of the world or Americans either.

Not much will change but it will have been proven that the handouts trump hard work and independent pride in ownership.

It is really that simple ,and even if Romney wins , he may get the economy rolling but the debt and all of the problems America faces ..will not be solved even when Romney is in his grave!!!

Gellen, must be nice. I have only the Rogers VIP package which, unfortunately, doesn't include Fox. Very quick results I'm sure, very in-depth like CNN but with better commentary of course.

Breitbart's down right now. All their sites.

I watch only Fox.
Electoral Votes: Obama 3; Romney 49
~gellen

FOX doesn't look very...I'm not sure of the term but 'convincingly accurate' is the best I can do.
As I said a week ago and more: Romney in a landslide is what I think will happen.
I'm taking off from even the sporadic watching I've been doing today because this is my anniversary when I married Mrs.Oz 29 years ago more or less.(we own our own business and we're taking 10 days off starting last Friday afternoon)

A curse on Obama, his family, and his evil communist minions; I wouldn't spend a minute on this today if it weren't for the fact that life will be so much better without him and so much worse if he wins today.

" it will have been proven that the handouts trump hard work and independent pride in ownership."

Paul,that sounds a lot like how our reserves are set up today. The best jobs are the jobs that involve looking after the people without jobs.

This economical model is sustainable on a small basis,but as it gets larger it will cave in on itself.It would be akin to a family supporting the one that is in constant need. Many can support a few ,but as the many decrease and the few increase,it will collapse.And it won't be pretty.

Nate Silver is leading in all states.

@Wallyj
Yup , I know this but just remember that!!

That is really what this is about ..is America going to be socialist type of lefty country or are they going to go back to the constitution?

From what I can see right now Obama has this ..so buy gold !!!

Not feeling very good right now.

And, no surprise, Pennsylvania goes to Obama, following the birth state of Mitt Romney, Michigan.

Rove's spend to expand the map has not paid dividends.

Keith Baldrey on Global has essentially called the election for Obama,says Romney would need "a miracle" to win.

Yup this looks really bad. Glad I bought more gold recently. America is going down in flames tonight. The caliphate will come to fruition.

And Ryan and Romney have now lost both of their home states. The people who know them best have abandoned them

Without Wisconsin, Romney's path to 270 is increasingly improbable.

dmorris thanks for cheering me up. Keith is a complete idiot.

bad for the U.S. Bad for Canada. I don't think ANY pipeline will be completed...
Is there a PM Mulcair for us in the future too? A definite apocalyptic sign.
Sigh.
Will make sure I am in church on Sunday, lol

I am calling it for Obama!! Right now ...man this is nuts!!!

I mean I understand as a former liberal but they have kept a guy in the White House who has never run or worked at any business in his entire life .....and the people like that !!

Oh well Obama four more years unless he removes the terms for presidents!!!

With Wisconsin down to Obama and Ohio looking strong for Obama, Romney's night is pretty much over.

That so many Americans consider Obama the best option after his incredibly poor record is simply stunning. Unbelievable.

Enjoy your 8 YEAR recovery, Americans. You'll be lucky if it's only 8 years...

Yes, it looks like Romney will fall a few electoral seats short. Ohio is a big disappointment, and all those poll experts showing D+7 were inaccurate, were wrong. Witness Ohio and N Carolina

And yeah, the US is going to go down in flames, into bankruptcy, buying free phones for the homeys, and food stamps for all.

Nirvana for the socialists. Now Putin will move it, with his special deal with Maobama

Words escape me...I don't know what is going on in the mind of 50% of American voters.

How can 60% of the country say they don't approve of the direction the country is going in - and yet we get these types of results in the voting booth??

I see this as the end of the America I knew. It was the last best hope...But now the tipping point has been passed.

George Wills and Michael Barone couldn't have been more wrong. Why, Why, Why?
Tied at 153 Electoral Votes on Fox at 9.41 and I'm off to bed.
Glad I didn't buy champagne.

@mark

The dumbing down of Americans over the last thirty years is bearing fruit ...plain and simple but I blame the parents it is their fault for not teaching their kids ...every great nation falls and maybe this is it for America!!!

Romney is going to win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College. That should shut up the leftards about Bush 2000 LOL.

And a consolation prize will be the impeachment over Bengazi, where information will be pouring out now that the election is done. Should be fun!!! :-)

Obama is winning.. I like.

ET: are you ok? do you need help? I really fear for your mental health.

Thats okay NDP, the impeachment will be worth settling for. Your leftard media won't be able to keep the lud on Benfazi forever. :D

As was just stated on TheBlaze, the education system and the media, the gatekeepers of information, produced this result.

And Richard Mourdock, that unthinking Tea Party troglodyte, who lost Dick Lugar's utterly safe Indiana seat by calling rape "a gift from God", is toast.

The lesson? Republicans need less Mourdocks and more Lugars to have a future.

Romney has to run the swing state table now...

I am going to bed. Tomorrow is soon enough to find out how it goes, the TV coverage is uniformly unwatchable and Ace of Spades, though awesome, doesn't update very often.

Plus I can't do anything about it. I already shot my bolt.

So I guess I'll see y'all in the morning and plan for the new future.

Go Romney!

Warren has won Massachusetts. Knocked out Scott Brown.

Florida is currently showing an Obama victory. If O wins Florida, it's over.

America never ceases to amaze me.

It's not quite over, but yeah... pretty depressing.

Lessons:

1) hard core social conservatism is a sure fire way to lose elections.

2) Romney was a weak candidate who got his stuff together in the last few weeks, but at the end of the day looking at the overall story, he was a weak candidate who did not excite the base, and who was not fundamentally different than Obama. Excellent summary at Zerohedge.

www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-06/it-doesnt-matter

3) Welfare state mentality is now the new normal in the USA. I'm not quite ready to say that American exceptionalism is dead, but if it is to come back to life it needs a better spokesman than a RINO like Romney.

Still, as weak and unimpressive as Romney was, he would have been better than then socialist-in-chief.

The US is broke as a country, and the people are voting for politicians, who have promised to spend more and more, by borrowing more and more from CHina.

You won't have to go to Europe for a vacation to Greece, the new version is south of the 49th.

They need panic in the streets down there to get with the program and snap them out of their fantasy land.

And Fauxcahontas won too......

So, Axelrod's last minute spend in Virginia and Florida over the weekend is looking pretty damned cagey now.

An Obama win in any of Ohio, Virginia or Florida will be the final nail.

Drunks need to hit rock bottom before they hit the 12-step programs.

Apparently so do electorates.

Marx was right. They have the children for 12 years + post-secondary.

Good news: Obama owns the consequences of his first term which will happen in his second. [Media will still blame bush. 51% of the people will believe them.]

Well, western civilization was good while it lasted. I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.

Look at the bright side... Hillary's 2016 dream is destroyed, then again, adding to the point made by james @ 9:25pm, that really won't matter, now will it?

"Romney is going to win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College. That should shut up the leftards about Bush 2000 LOL."

That's the problem, though. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with being mum on that issue, especially the MSM. Their choosing to remain silent on that topic is exactly what they would want rather than to explain their inconsistency on the matter -- having to explain why the popular vote was deemed supreme by them in 2000 and questioning the legitimacy of the EC system in their analysis while doing the opposite this go around.

If it were not for the damage Obama's gonna cause our economy I almost want Obama to win just to show what his real plans for America are,almost.

I vote that Kenney opens the floodgates for Texans who want to escape.

Oh goody, CTV is about to talk about the "Bush effect". This should be rich.

And McCaskill keeps her senate seat in Missouri. A slam dunk Republican pick-up lost by a neanderthal Tea Party anti-abortionist.

Note to old reactionary white guys: don't talk about rape.

jon, the left coast will add to zero's vote count. I doubt R wins the Pop vote at this point.

I'm really wondering what it takes for people to figure accountability is more important than cool. Warren, Jackson and zero. The world is insane.

What more did Obama have to do to prove he's unworthy of the job?

Akin was no the tea party candidate. He was the democrat pick. They operation chaos'ed.

http://www.saysuncle.com/2012/11/06/dear-republicans-part-2/

We are next,can you say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

If we really lose this I don't see how we go forward. Sorry to be a buzzkill.

"We are next,can you say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau"

No, I bloody well can't. Send him skiing.

We are beating Obama by over 2 million popular votes in NC and Virginia, we did our jobs.
but will still lose if Ohio goes Democrat.

Looks like Fla is going to have another recall.

Romney might win the popular vote but still lose the election.

Reminds me of Vietnam,
won all the frigging battles but still lost the war.

Shit..

Black Mamba, embrace the impeachment. :D

Goodbye America... Astonishing and depressing!

unfortunately the American system , with only 2 parties , if the 47 ever becomes 51 , there will never be a conservative government again. instead of a slow and steady slip into socializm it will be a digital outcome , abandoning the most sucessful country and system in history for a bleak spin into oblivion. we are witnessing the end of the new Romans

Yep, we're next. Our lefties will gift us with PM Trudeau or Mulcair.

Gulp.

"embrace the impeachment"

Ya, cause president Biden sounds soooo much better...

I'm glad my American wife is moving to Canada, and soon, at that. Sadly, now the Americans will find out what Trudeau did to Canada.
Winners: owners of gold, moochers.
Losers: all of us, even owners of gold and moochers.

God help North America. We'll need it. How long will it take the USA to recover from the O-damage? Let's hope it's not the 40-year slog (and counting) it's been for us.

Entitlement vs. Freedom

American has lost Her Heart.

How mad must Obama be that he has to keep up the charade of wanting to keep doing this job...?

LOL Jason, you don't think Biden will be riding that train over the cliff as well?

It ain't over yet. I'm hoping for a tie. If Romney loses, there's always the impeachment to look forward to.

Also, if this was the day of the voting dead, then we might have a rematch.

Impeachment does not matter now. The Repubs will not win the Senate. The house can impeach all day long

The power of incumbency.

Only one congress seat has changed hands.

Paralysis for the next four years.

Benghazi will be a bigger story.

Obamacare will be stillborn as the GOP congress prevents funding and Obama more and more becomes a lame duck.

Keystone is done for and the EPA will run amok.

The rino disguised as an elephant Christie didn't do Romney any favours either.

The power of incumbency.

Only one congress seat has changed hands.

Paralysis for the next four years.

Benghazi will be a bigger story.

Obamacare will be stillborn as the GOP congress prevents funding and Obama more and more becomes a lame duck.

Key stone is done for and the EPA will run amok.

Looks like Romney will win the popular vote but Obama the electoral college.

This is revenge for 2000.

4 MORE YEARS...
Obama.

I think I want to move to USA now... California...

Impeachment does not matter now.
The house can impeach all day long.

Agreed.

The Senate will never lynch their boy.

Unless something bizarre happens in northern Virginia, Obama will probably carry the state as the last few polls roll in. Romney didn't make enough gains in rural Virginia and Obama is holding up well in the black belt counties of southeastern Virginia. With Obama performing in the Richmond suburbs, it's tough to imagine how Romney would make huge inroads in northern Virginia.

unreal, like the results have already been decided. election coverage staged. romney keeps a thin lead until the very end but obama squeaks by in the end.george soros or someone like him probably owns the whole show and calls the shots so it probably does't mater anyway.

whats that about the new world order?

Impeachment?

The media will be on their knees just like Monica,
and Chris Matthews will give him a BJ.

Need help packing, NDP?

I had to turn off the TV.
Too many irritating gits saying the same things again and again, and it doesn't look good for Romney.
Ah well...
See what the dawn brings.
Good night all.

Sorry about the BJ comment.

but tonight it sucks to be an American.

later....

America tipped over. Atlas will shrug. And there will be no Rohan around anymore to save Gondor (Europe). It's been great, this thing called Western civilization. We've had a good run.

Now for life as serfs for Orcs. My poor kids.

I'll probably get attacked, but so be it. Ezra Levant was on earlier, blaming Sandy and the media coverage it got as well as laying blame on NJ giv Christie for having gotten his prediction so wrong (a "landslide" for Romney, remember... not even a squeaker), using those issues as some sort of fig leaf with which to cover himself, having been caught yet again making another bogus prediction and trying to lay blame on others for having gotten it wrong.... Totally lame! Both Sandy and the Christie factor happened before his prediction was made, which was just 2 days ago, so both had to be factored into his prediction already. Ditto for the Jewish vote in Florida and laying blame at them. Levant needs to stop making predictions, really! He needs to learn there's a distinction to be made between wishful thinking and objective analysis. I'm crossing my fingers he predicts a landslide for Justin in 2015 or stays out of the fray completely.

Jason @ 10:15...
"jon, the left coast will add to zero's vote count. I doubt R wins the Pop vote at this point."

Good point. It's so easy to get lost in the EC vote and the disappointment that results tends to overshadow everything else.

1.5 million votes more so far and Romney still loses. WOW.

Hopefully this at least puts the nail into Christie's coffin. When he first came along he looked great as a republican, but as time passed it became more and apparent that other than union bashing, he was a democrat at heart.

I predict he will be running either as a democrat or as an independent within 5 years. He'll never function nationally as a republican.

CNN has hands down the best coverage.

Weimer Republic II, here we come.

Popular vote, Romney.

Yeah,

I forgot about the liberal loons in California.

later,

we have to work tomorrow,
democrats can stay home and gloat.

You should need 2 things to vote:

1: Proof of an IQ > 100
2: A job (or at least held one 4 of the last 5 years) and/or be a net tax payer.

Stupid people (regardless of taxes/jobs) shouldn't be able to vote. Leeches shouldn't be allowed to vote.

I was going to add mandatory civics lessons but the same education system that gives us the voters we have would give us the lessons so that's just a dumb idea.

How long do you think the 2 trillion dollar a year deficits can last before the default or a bond market collapse followed by default?

A funny comment from PBS -- the McGovern coalition is finally in a winning position.

It is all about the ethnics votes (Latinos).

Remember that Latinos are the largest growing group in the USA and they seem to be 70% Obama.

THE ETHNIC VOTE AGAIN!!!!!! This time for my side.

Q: How long do you think the 2 trillion dollar a year deficits can last before the default or a bond market collapse followed by default?

A: As long as Obama's printing presses don't overheat.

Now the currency value is another story. I wouldn't go long greenbacks. lol.

The fed is already printing money to cover the deficit now. The rest of the world already stopped buying US debt.

I'm sorry Mr. Franklin. It appears that they've decided not to keep it.

And Iowa goes for Obama.

One more swing state victory, and Obama is re-elected.

(And the Denver Post has just projected a win for Obama in Colorado. Still a tad early, methinks.)

In Boston [Romney headquarters] "they're still watching Fox News on all the screens" [putting off reality as long as possible.]

FNC calling it for Ohio. That would be it, then.

It's over...

CNN has hands down the best coverage.

Well, I guess this is it. Fox is pretty much calling it for Obama.

And NBC calls the Presidency for Barrack Hussein Obama.

Fox just projected Ohio for Obama.

Probably 500000 votes have swung the race.

Poor America,you are going to be so sorry.

So... Bullets & silver?

CBS has just announced Obama has 274 , he is re-elected

OMG. You guys are talking impeachment over Benghazi, yet you let Bush get away with literally 100X the incompetence. That crack you smoke must be awesome.

I guess it must be to forget that all of the mess that Obama has less than artfully been cleaning up is due to the damage of 8 years of Republican rule.

Hey NDP Frog, America goes bankrupt, Canada goes bankrupt. Canada goes bankrupt, where does your free ride go?

Gloat, you stupid trash.

OMG. You guys are talking impeachment over Benghazi, yet you let Bush get away with literally 100X the incompetence. That crack you smoke must be awesome.

I guess it must be to forget that all of the mess that Obama has less than artfully been cleaning up is due to the damage of 8 years of Republican rule.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Get the lawyers out. Sort through the fraud and unaccepted ballots. Might be an eye opener.

Jeeze, people, have some faith.
The count is not done yet.
If this was a Canadian election and they called it this early for either side would you believe it?

note to Oz: never trust these surrender monkeys to have your back in a fight that matters

Glad I sold my paper long ago. This is going to be a rough four years. Really unbelievable.

Obama just won Ohio and the election. The US is doomed.

America goes socialist. Never thought I'd see the day...

Bob, yes bullets and silver. But, ironically, don't forget rice.

Do any of you in Canada have a room for rent? Even a futon perhaps? I suddenly feel like I no longer have a country of my own anymore.

Looks like it is time to buy more ammunition.

As of tomorrow, the United States is a Third World country with an African dictator. I would like to say I feel sorry for it but I cannot. The freest country in the world let itself down. It had a chance to eject a liar and a thief but it did not. Pax Americana has finished. This is Pax Canadiana's ascendance but only due to the end of an empire.

Ezra is 1 for 4 if you count the Canadian federal election in May '11, the Alberta election, the boxing match, and the American election.

Not good. Love yah Ezra, but you suck at prognosticating.

I never had any respect for John or the Commie Frog, and I've just lost any respect I ever had for Davenport. Very classy, b*tch.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. We're going to end up like Greece without the nice weather and the old buildings. Funny, oh, it's very funny.

If we've really lost, there's no coming back from it.

Bye BYr Mr. American pie. The Western Civilization we knew is dead.

Black Mamba @ 11:19. Exactly. These stupid socialists just don't get it.

The Rich get poorer. And the poor get poorer.

How could so many Americans be so very blind. High taxes and national bankruptcy is your future. So very very sad.

If they are that stupid they deserve everything they get in the next 4 years.

Rove is on fox now saying this is saying ohio has obama 900 votes ahead. Um wtf just happened here.

"As of tomorrow, the United States is a Third World country with an African dictator."

Lighten up buddy. Obama is no more an African than Romney is from the planet Kolob.

Maybe on the bright side Rush will move up here to get away from him.

And to the idiots who think more Obama is good, chances are you don't have real jobs, anyway. And not even that will matter. America inflicted a death wound on itself. We will suffer a missing limb. Do you think your welfare payments will be as high this year?

Switch to cheap beer. It will help stretch your government cheques.

As for the Americans, lie in your own bed. We can't make it for you.

Peterj@ 11:26. Trouble is, whatever hell they will be going through, we will feel as well. Especially if the stupidity is contagious around the time our election rolls around.

Laugh Davenport, laugh like a clown. We'll see how loud that laughter is in four years.

Idiots on my block in Vancouver just started screaming as if the Canucks had won the Stanley Cup. I stopped working (yes, I am working at this hour) and checked the news.

Useful Idiots!

Now Canadians will face the connected reality: As America's financial situation gets worse, so shall its largest trading partner, Canada.

But I suppose that those who have few responsibilities and probably live off the dole, are incapable of connecting the dots.

Fools.

So, Obama wins but not by much.

He doesn't have a mandate from the American people to bankrupt the U.S. despite the win.

For an incumbent president to just squeak back into office shows how deeply divided Americans are. If Obummer continues on the path he's on, heaping huge debt on Americans and future generations, there's going to be a huge outcry -- or there should be on the part of almost 50% of American voters who voted Republican.

It appears that the MSM and single women made the difference in this election. Married women voted for Romney, single women for Oblahblah, and there are now more single women in the U.S. than married women, according to Fox News. I don't find this surprising.

I hope that the enthusiastic support for the Romney/Ryan ticket -- not, unfortunately, enthusiastic enough to elect Romney president -- begins a groundswell of opposition to Obama's disastrous course for the U.S. and that his administration's "policies" (sic) are put under much more scrutiny than in the past four years.

What happens to an investigation into Benghazi now? Can the Republican-held House of Representatives call for one?

John, you're an idiot.

Go away.

Romney will be a decent person and make a gracious concession speech wishing Obama well. I have no doubt that he will mean it. And I also have no doubt that Obama would have done the same had he lost. Will the typical SDAer be equally as gracious, or will petty small-minded tribalism prevail?

Remember when the Berlin Wall fell? I do, a little. Those were good times. These are bad times.

Goodbye to the USA. We hardly knew ya. The most free, most successful, beautiful country in the world is gone.

Next up. Secession movements across the country. It's time to shatter this behemoth.

Goodbye.

MissAnthropy: I have two spare bedrooms which you
can have for nothing if you can cook.
I'm tired of cooking and cleaning, and I live close enough to the American border that you could visit every once in awhile in case you ever got lonely.
All serious offers considered.

Black Mamba, the Berlin Wall took over thirty years to crumble.

America is done by the end of this year.

Obama WILL take his anger out on everyone who went after him. Canada is going to take a hit and so is Israel.

We may not see another Republican elected in our lifetime as the USA is turning into a hispanic/african leftist/socialist hell hole.

The 47% takers will grow to 57 then 67, and those who work and pay taxes will flee the USA

In a few decades most cities in the USA will look like Detroit; very " multicultural" and in complete decay

Multiculturalism and feminism are destroying western civilization

Canada is next

This is not only truly disturbing only to Republicans and others who voted Rep - but to the rest of the free world who look to America to lead a FREE world.

America has voted back in a SOCIALIST who will endeavour to continue to promote his socialist/commmunist agenda.

I fear for the free world. I fear for my grand-children.

Thank God the Rep's have retained control of the House. Without that - there is no hope.

How sad..........

I'm not surprised t the gloating from the leftist parasites here. They are immature and childish. When Harper got a majority I didn't rub it into the faces of my left leaning friends. However , I did point out how stupid they were being when they said they wanted to shoot him and anyone who voted for him.

The last laugh may be on Davenport when the dystopia Obama will continue to create in the U.S. begins to impact our economy.

It would appear that the rule of law means nothing to a sizable percentage of Americans. Like so many others have said, this is a sad night, when the beacon of the free world runs out of batteries and descends into darkness.

Kyrie eleison.

Rove can's believe it. All the money he poured into it. AND Elizabeth Warren.

It would be funny if Karl Rove is right but I kinda think this is done like dinner. The lame duck session should be interesting.

Well, there's always secession.

You think those millions of diehard Republicans are simply going to lie down and die... or find another direction for their efforts. I hope there's enough spirit left in them that they won't simply let Obama's undead legions walk all over them.

Canadian Friend, the fight must, therefore, begin here. We must learn from the mistakes of the Roman Empire and the declining (declined) American Empire.

In social halls a favored guest
In years that follow victory won,
How sweet to feel your festal fame
In woman's glance instinctive thrown:
Repose is yours--your deed is known,
It musks the amber wine;
It lives, and sheds a light from storied days
Rich as October sunsets brown,
Which make the barren place to shine.

But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There's a light and a shadow on every man
Who at last attains his lifted mark--
Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirit which glad had hailed his
worth,
Sleep in oblivion.--The shark
Glides white through the phosphorus sea.

Herman Melville

I am very sad. The world that I was born into, the world of law and justice, the world where the expectation that hard work, honesty, and clean living will carry you forward has now gone away.
May God have mercy on and Bless America.
God Save the Queen.

I am tired.

*sigh* Tomorrow I will work a little harder...

Yes,we should be gracious as we are called names,the left really are pea brained hypocrites.Now Obama gets to inherit a real mess,and he did build it.

Osumashi @11:24 - "I would like to say I feel sorry for it but I cannot."

I know what you mean. It's kind of like when Amy Winehouse died - sad, but she was so determined you're kind of relieved she got it over with.

Only I care about America and Western civilization a bit more than I did about, um, Amy Winehouse.

It would have been almost impossible for Romney and Ryan to turn this beast around but continuing down the road with 1.5 trillion dollar deficits... I just don't know what to say it's really crazy.

Keep Owe-bawm in Pres-dint y'know,
He gave us a phone
He gonna do mo'

You on foo stamp?
You on sosh see-cure-tee?
You got low income?
You dis-bill-tee?

Mine-or-tee got Owe-bawm phone,
Mine-or-tee got Owe-bawm phone,
Mine-or-tee got Owe-bawm phone,

And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. The typical Democrat voter:

http://youtu.be/xr201FqTP4w

The Pre-Post Mortem:

http://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/author/stephengreen/

... So we must redouble our efforts.

If Obama wins tonight, as seems likely, he has no mandate. He ran on a platform of “Mitt Romney is teh sux.” I’m not sure how that translates into a governing platform, and neither is anyone else. If Romney pulls this out, he’ll have a hostile Senate for at least the first half of his term.

Either way, we’re looking at deadlock.

It’s our job, yours and mine, to pick that lock. Do not tire, do not flag, do not quit. ...

... If Obama wins, we will need to fight him at every turn.

I’m not quitting. Don’t you quit now, either.

You know, I think their country is screwed no matter who had won (and they'll take us down with them). But what's really disappointing is how we'll now have to watch 4 more years of Jughead's nose-in-the-air speeches, and listen to his grating voice and arrogant mannerisms.

Obama, Layton, Redford... do I dislike socialists simply because they're socialists, or are they honestly all irritating, arrogant pricks?

Time to start cutting back on spending and saving more for the big double dip that's coming.

and to top it all off with a cherry on top, Jesse Jackson Jr. got himself re-elected while residing at Mayo Clinic and not even campaigning! hahahahaha, the world truly has gone mad!

What ever happens in the next four years - Obama will OWN it. That - he will never avoid. Let history record it.

In the end he will be a "failed" President.

Well, Black Mamba, I'm sure there were Romans who thought the same way about their civilisation. They probably asked themselves as they saw their once-great civilisation burn and crumble:" Where did we go wrong? Oh yeah. We let an emperor marry his horse."

But, as H. Ryan so astutely pointed out, Obama inherited his own mess. Even if he does get impeached- and he will make sure that never happens- America is still done. If people had to really think who to vote for this time around and actually re-elect someone like Obama, the nation is finished.

Sorry, Americans. We are watching your ruin minute by minute.

Looks like Ohio is now led by Romney, and he's not ready to concede just yet.

Well there you have it. Romney tried so hard to move to the centre. The lesson is taught again - when will some conservatives get it that you do not become a better conservative by acting more liberal? The GOP better do some soul searching and get it's act together.....if there even be a next time.

I think Obama will win the popular vote too after all...

go Obama.. down with Harper.

Shame on Canada for having this idiot Harper as PM while USA has such a great guy like Obama

It would have been almost impossible for Romney and Ryan to turn this beast around
~james

You said it. It would have been a struggle. Now that there is no struggle, America will hit that fiscal brick wall at 100 miles per hour with Canada strapped to it's jock stap. We'll be like bugs hitting a windshield, the last thing to go through our mind will be our ass.

The final nail in the coffin wasn't that Obama won, the final nail was the fact that it was even close at all. Had Romney managed to win, that was still going to be the case.

I think the Republican Party will rapidly cease to exist after this. It has finally, once and for all, confirmed that it is incapable of mounting a counterargument to the Left. All those many years that Republican wins amounted to nothing more than treading water for a few years here and there; they never actually pushed back against the leftward drift. Now we see the final consequences of that.

Secession is not going to happen. But a gradual balkanization certainly will. In fact, you could say it has already been happening for a while now. The balkanization will continue until people realize there have been de facto secessions.

I am so filled with pain and sadness. I thought the prospect of an Obama reelection would fill me with anger, but it's really more a sense of loss and mourning. People have casually tossed aside something unique, that came with a heavy price, for what amounts to a few token trinkets, tossed in their food bowl like a bone to a dog.

Man I am soooo frickin glad I decided to sell my little oil service company 3 mths ago. Now I can shrug. I'll never put a dime of my own capital into running a business again. I'm done.

There is NOTHING that Obama cannot do!

Well, Canada may end up benefitting. With the onslaught of tax increases (Obozocare, corp. tax increases), US business will be looking to spend their cash reserves somewhere with a more stable, conservative climate.

Watch the US layoffs come next year, when businesses offload their fulltimers for part-timers, to avoid the Obamanation health taxes. It's going to get ugly folks.

Dan there is no cash reserves that's bs. The US goes down so do we. Stash your paper money in gold and hang on tight. It's going to be a very wild ride. Even the chicoms know this is bad.

Osumashi @11:54 - made the horse a senator. I wonder if Incitatus was 1/64th fake Cherokee.

Not for the first time in my life, I wish I was Jewish. I'd immigrate to Israel. There'd at least be an immediacy to things that way.

Let's be honest, we're America's conjoined twin, and we're not the stronger one.

Since we're being poetic, and I'm feeling maudlin:

"...one whose hand,
Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe..."

Hey, Beria, you can go DIAF too.

Just curious...Ibby and QNDPs...what do you folks do for a living?

Just curious, since the OHIO vote is only 75% in and Romney is still in the lead how is it that Obama has won Ohio?
Anybody?

I guess Obama's harper like strategy of painting his opponent early appears to have born fruit.

Black Mamba, James, we do have a slight chance. At the very least, our leader is not a total jackhole and has some financial sense.

Iberia, you're right. There is NOTHING Obama can do. Enjoy the useless African dictator before a coup of angry, machete-wielding thugs take him out. That's how things usually go in Third World nations, which the US is now.

James, no surprise. It worked for the CPC.

Note that the troll who named himself after a dictator who died of syphilis wants to be screwed over by another dictator.

Hmmm....

I guess we should all be thankful that we have a PM in Canada who is smart enough to be aggressively seeking out other trading partners. The USA may not be very friendly toward Canadian imports,especially our BC lumber.

Damned good day for the "alternative power" people,like the Conservative here who has the electric car recharging contract for several thousand stations in the U.S.

According to Drudge, R 50% O 49%

Just turned on the results, oh well not a big surprise considering the American electorate today.

The US is finished regardless of who won tonight, it's probably best for Romney to be out of the way when the crowds eventually gather at the gates.

The US will have it's cleansing when it all comes apart and the Liberal left will cease to openly exist when it does.

Let Obamba speed up the decline and let him and his ilk answer for it, the sooner the better.

I was a little optimistic on my prediction of electoral college votes,Going by the same stupidity that drove a UN socialist human rights totalitarian into office in Alberta with a corrupt government that has gone back to every odious practice, than some.

This is the era of the Mooch with no education . Who actually believe the media. This is also an Age of real Racism where peoples skin color actually determine peoples votes , not real positions. The greedy undercoats will vote for who promises the most "freebies".

Obama 272

Romney 266 but the outcome was the same sadly.
Ive learned if your going to make a prediction, go by the ages Zeitgeist. Or the spirit of the age.

303 Obama
203 so far for Romeny

Re Ohio: this will take days....same with Florida.

But at this point, the lights are going out all over the USA.....regardless....the takers are outnumbering the makers........

Oz, why would God bless America this day? He gave them 4 years to the electors to discern. He gave the electors there a fixer - a man that has taken a host of floundering companys and made them 'good'. He has given them hope and they have chosen to reject it. Why would God bless them? I fear that God has said if you are comfortable in this mess, here is awhole bunch more! ENJOY!

Well, my 303 for Obama/Biden prediction is looking pretty prescient for the moment, but I suspect that the final Florida numbers will cost me the pool win.

I guess I was just a little too sceptical and overlooked how our neighbors would react to that whole ending two wars, killing Osama bin Laden, saving the American auto industry, deflecting a second Great Depression and initating universal access to healthcare, hopey changey thingy.

I guess I should have just stuck with Nate Silver's prediction. It looks like he went 50 for 50 this time. (He also went with the Ebola virus over pundits last night on Colbert, so I really wouldn't want to be a US pundit now. Hey, maybe the Ebola virus explains the whole Rove meltdown on Fox?)

Oz, why would God bless America this day?
~CRB

The people who voted for Cap'n Commie weren't America, CRB.
It's the real red blooded Americans who need His blessing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pimv-Gq2FCk&feature=related

America's enemies are rubbing their hands. Nuclear Iran, Israel is toast, runaway inflation, green power.

Worst is four more years of Mooshels fat arse on page one.....

Demographics....I worry about the demographics for upcoming elections....here in Canada too.

yikes

I just hope that the Dr. Jekyll of 2008-12 doesn't turn into Mr. Hyde in 2012-16.

I'm disappointed that the idiot Warren won in Massachusetts, but the state does have a long track record of being on the liberal side so it isn't a complete surprise. A couple of the other Republican Senate candidates who inserted foot into mouth probably deserved to lose.

There is no real reason to think that Canada under Stephen Harper will be dragged down by an American collapse. An economy consists of all the acts of production, trade and consumption among individual citizens. If Canada doesn't screw ours up, it can continue to run fairly smoothly. The problem will be supplies from the U. S. A bigger problem would be if Kim Justin-il manages to dupe Canadians.

The good news is this: Reality always avenges itself. Capitalism and the free market are the only principles on which to found a successful human society. The so-called 47% are not beyond redemption, they are human, and they too would like to be productive and feel good about themselves - which they can't do on state handouts. One big problem is that the left-wing-run education system hasn't taught them properly. That's why education should be separated from the state.

comment: "America tipped over. Atlas will shrug. And there will be no Rohan around anymore to save Gondor (Europe). It's been great, this thing called Western civilization. We've had a good run."

Ayn Rand's philosophical writings contain everything one needs to understand what's gone wrong - namely the collapse of philosophy into mysticism that got rolling with Immanuel Kant. I for one have been broadcasting this for years here.