Four More Years of Nobama.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

You shouldn't be pumped. That's a bad thing.

[rpgdemon]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Professor Smarmiarty again.

Man, when you're on your game, Smarty, you are very funny.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Betty Elms

Man am I pumped for four years of John Boehner exploiting every chance he gets to hold the american economy hostage until he gets everything that he wants. 'Cause who needs national approval for your beliefs that you want to impose on the country when you've got the okay from Ohio's 8th congressional district?

To be fair, Ohio was the only state anybody paid any attention to for the past three months.

Except this basically means that Ohio historically had split-personality disorder and its denizens can't make up their minds on jack shit, since every other election they vote for the other party.

The only good thing about gridlock in Washington that in as much as they don't get much good done they don't get much bad done, either.

[Kim]

No, they still get plenty bad done. Like the murders.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Magus

Except this basically means that Ohio historically had split-personality disorder and its denizens can't make up their minds on jack shit, since every other election they vote for the other party.

Actually it just means that we have urban and rural populations in roughly equal and relatively large amounts compared to most other states, so we have a sizable electoral vote with a narrow enough margin for victory that makes it especially important for both parties to energize their bases here.

Bush and Obama were better at accomplishing this than Gore, Kerry, McCain, and Romney, so they won the state and, by proxy, their respective elections.

[Magus]

Originally Posted by Kim

No, they still get plenty bad done. Like the murders.

Yes, but if they weren't gridlocked they would be getting way more murders done.

[Grandmaster_Skweeb]

Yeah, us Washies get mighty rankled since our murder quotas took a nosedive. Had to repurpose my stranglin gloves to be drivin gloves. Things just haven't quite been the same since.

Sad times. Sad times.

[Kim]

Honestly, I don't really have any reason to believe the government endorsed murders would have gone up under Romney. It would wreck his chances of re-election, because Dems would focus on it in attack ads, whereas under Obama government murders get sidesweeped by both Dems who ignore what he does wrong and Repubs who want to paint him as not committing enough murders to keep other countries in check.

[POS Industries]

It certainly didn't stop Bush, and Romney was far more aggressive about pursuing full scale war against Iran and Syria during his campaign, so I'm prone to assume the worst about the fictional Romney administration's increased rate of killing people.

[Kim]

Originally Posted by POS Industries

It certainly didn't stop Bush, and Romney was far more aggressive about pursuing full scale war against Iran and Syria during his campaign, so I'm prone to assume the worst about the fictional Romney administration's increased rate of killing people.

Well, Bush had a terrorist attack during his first term. Might have given him room to get away with that stuff.