Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Election Day in U.S.A.


I hope every gets out there and votes!

From the front page on Yahoo.com:

Why the 2012 election is the closest in recent history

By Scott Bomboy | National Constitution Center – 9 hrs ago
As Election Day approaches, a review of polling data going back to 1936 shows the race betweenPresident Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is the closest in 76 years.
romneyobamaIn many cases, polling isn’t an exact science, and few polls take into account electoral votes, which ultimately decide the winner of the presidential race.
But polls showing the projected popular vote are useful indicators of how the final election will turn out. In other words, polls about the popular vote don’t always pick the winner, but they usually do.
And there hasn’t been a closer election in the polling world since the mid-1930s, when scientific methods were first used to project a presidential winner based on modern sampling techniques.
As of Monday, President Obama has a very slim 0.4 percent lead in the popular vote based on consensus data from Real Clear Politics. Gallup suspended its national tracking polling last week after Hurricane Sandy, but its recent swing state poll shows Obama and Romney tied at 48 percent.
Of the six major national polls taken in November, three show Obama with a slight edge, two show a tied election and one favors Romney. Only one poll, from Pew Research, shows Obama ahead by more than the margin of error in a poll.
In historical terms, looking at past polls from Gallup and two recent consensus polls from Real Clear Politics, it’s the closest election since 2000, when George W. Bush and Al Gore approached Election Day.
The 2000 contest also appears to be the nearest thing to the Obama-Romney campaign if you look at a consensus polling model, instead of Gallup.
Gallup polling from 2000 showed a two-point margin lead for Bush among likely voters and a one-point margin for Gore among registered voters.
We went back to the data for 2000 and did our own Constitution Daily average for the nine major polls taken within a week of Election Day.

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Thank you KSFO in San Francisco for you IPAD APP!  I'm able to listen to election coverage live! LOVE IT!

This was posted on my Facebook page......intimidation at the polls in Philadelphia:

Here’s Your “Black Panther at Philadelphia Polling Place” Photo
Published on November 6th, 2012
Written by: Victor Fiorillo

This morning, after voting in my own neighborhood, I stopped by the polling place on the 1200 block of Fairmount Avenue, the same location where the New Black Panther Party stirred up controversy during the 2008 election. Sure enough, a uniformed member of the New Black Panther Party stood in the entrance area of the building. I identified myself and told him that I was going his picture. “No pictures, please,” he replied. I then asked him if he was there to provide security. “No comment,” was all he had to say.
Would you care if a uniformed Black Panther seemed to be standing guard in front of your polling place?


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Andrew and I got up around 0600 the morning after the election to see that Obama had won.....and the results on the DOW  November 7, 2012:


Stocks plunge: Dow's worst day of the year

By Hibah Yousuf @CNNMoneyInvest November 7, 2012: 4:26 PM ET

Click the chart for more stock market data.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A sell-off on Wall Street gained momentum Wednesday, with the Dow closing below 13,000 for the first time in three months, as investors focused on how President Obama plans to avoid the fiscal cliff after he won re-election Tuesday night.



The people of California also passed a tax increase initiative!  Unbelievable! This was printed in the San Jose Mercury News about Prop. 30:

Three decades after California's tax revolt reinvented state government, voters have turned around and agreed to raise statewide taxes -- and they've given Democrats a supermajority in Sacramento to raise taxes without the need of voters or Republicans.

Voters: If you supported Prop 30, why did you finally say it was time to raise taxes?

Email reporter Lisa Krieger at lkrieger@mercurynews.com or phone 650.793.0720 on Wednesday with your thoughts.
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