2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[kurai]

Really? RCP has it as 49.9%-49.3% with 100% of precincts reporting. Even if there are some early, absentee, or provisional ballots yet to be counted, I'd expect those to increase his margin, not shrink it.

Maybe I'm missing something. I am fighting a migraine, after all... I had a terrible night of sleep after the election.

but the actual report right now is here: http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/FederalOffices/

0.5% of 8314953 is 41575
the difference right now is 47477 (or 0.57%)

which is 0.5 truncated overall

even though the law says "one-half of a percent or less", it does not specify significant digits

this can be solved immediately by romney sending a letter asking them to not bother with a recount ("A recount need not be ordered with respect to the returns for any office, however, if the candidate or candidates defeated or eliminated from contention for such office by one-half of a percent or less of the votes cast for such office request in writing that a recount not be made.")

Care to point out where in my post I advocated for mass rioting or racial vengeance?

that is not the problem with that post

[Roy Karrde]

that is not the problem with that post

I see no connection from one post to the next. Nor have you properly explained one.

[mr_pikachu]

*sighs*

I took a four-hour nap to relieve a migraine, and I woke up to see exactly what I was most hoping not to see.

If Romney wins, and Roy does sink to that level, I'm just going to ignore him, and hope that Heald has the sense to finally lock this accursed thread.

I agree with Cat. Delete it and erase all evidence that it ever happened.

Is this thread still here?

There are plenty more of these in the last 162 pages. I don't care to waste my time tracking them down.

EDIT: Okay. After some further reflection, I've decided to withhold my full response to your most recent comments, DS. I've been restraining myself for months, and I still don't want to get this thread off track if I can avoid it. So let me just say that if you really hate this thread so much that you feel the need to say how much it sucks in every other post you make here, you shouldn't be posting in the thread at all. Maybe you think that you look like the sole voice of reason when you keep saying "why is the thread still open?" But when you continue posting here several times a day, you just make yourself look like a hypocrite. Others have complained about this thread, too -- mostly about the almost-flame wars between you and Roy, actually -- but they haven't turned around and posted in the thread five times the next day.

If you genuinely thought that this thread should be locked so that no one could post in it, you'd stop being an active participant in it yourself. So either keep debating in the thread (thereby acknowledging its usefulness) and stop whining about having a place to voice your opinions, or act like it isn't here and leave it alone, as others who truly don't like the thread have done. You can't have it both ways. Pick one.

but the actual report right now is here: http://enight.elections.myflorida.com/FederalOffices/

0.5% of 8314953 is 41575
the difference right now is 47477 (or 0.57%)

which is 0.5 truncated overall

even though the law says "one-half of a percent or less", it does not specify significant digits

Hmm, I wasn't aware of that standard on significant digits. Interesting. Thanks for the clarification, kurai!

Isn't that why there's like no money in the US right now

Actually, the reason why there's no money in the U.S. right now is because the government is taxing the daylights out of the people who have worked for decades to make a living. This not only punishes hard work, but it also keeps them from hiring others and allowing them to climb the economic ladder in the same way. Then, the government's taken that money and spent it on brilliant ideas like automatic weapons for Mexican gangs who subsequently use them to massacre people just across the border.

But after all those taxes, the government has decided that they still don't have enough to do everything that they'd like, and they see that the economy's not recovering (since people still can't get jobs), so they've been printing more money at a higher rate in an attempt to generate more funds that they can spend. However, all this has done is drive up the inflation rate, making the U.S. dollars that people still have worth less and less by the day.

That's where all our money's going, and it's why smart investors here are concerned about trusting everything to the increasingly weak American dollar. Our funds aren't merely vanishing because investors are acting like Romney, who must be evil. There's a reason behind that behavior, and it lies with the government that has inhibited natural economic growth and developed this poor fiscal climate.