Romney Campaign Concedes FL

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/08/3087995/romney-campaign-we-lost-florida.html

[renate]

1. I am so, so, so grateful to all those people who stood in line for hours

They love democracy more than the people whose job it's supposed to be to administer it.

[Spazito]

10. Well said!

They showed how important democracy is, how the right to vote, the determination to vote against all odds is crucial for everyone.

[BainsBane]

25. +1 n/t

[VWolf]

29. Especially grateful to those who waited in line even after

it was called for Obama.
Even after Romney conceded.
Even after Obama's victory speech.

It was truely inspiring.

[Cha]

36. I know! It seems they felt like a lot of us..that they just wanted

to be able to cast their vote for our Country.

[agracie]

43. Add my thanks and gratitude to all who stayed in line no matter what...

You did a truly good and unselfish thing. And our country is a better place as a result. Sincere thanks and gratitude to each and every one of you. You are heroes.

[myrna minx]

31. Profound statement.

[TahitiNut]

39. Amen.

[PA Democrat]

46. Yes! Thank you to all who endured the efforts to suppress the vote!

[Berlum]

2. The door is right over there, Willard.

[cali]

3. woot! love those extra electoral votes

[frazzled]

4. It's about time!

I wanted those 29 Florida EVs in Obama's column even though they didn't matter. I wanted it for the record. And I knew since around 10 pm Tuesday night that he'd won the state.

Rick Scott can now sit and wait for his twelve other pages of ridiculous ballot questions to be counted to the last person. Obama won his state.

[GETTINGTIRED]

5. hot sauce on the

ass...whoopin hope the bootay is raw and it burns........no sympathy here ...none ..zilch....nada....

[deutsey]

6. Yes!

[oswaldactedalone]

7. Hey Robme and Turdblossom

You got your asses kicked. Suck it shitstains.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

8. Here's to all the late night line voters!!

For Great Justice!

[CakeGrrl]

18. +10000

Thanks to all of them!

[hifiguy]

9. 332-206 EVs!

That counts as a thumping in my book. A serious thumping.

[AnnaLee]

13. Yes, 51.2% of the popular vote (Politico last update) and 61.7% of the electorial votes.

[NYC Liberal]

22. Plus 55 Senate seats, gains in the House, and more total popular votes for all House races:

I'd call that a mandate.

[B Calm]

16. Ass kicking

[AlGoreRhythms]

11. I knew I stood in line

for a reason

[GETTINGTIRED]

15. thank you

I have relatives in Ohio and Florida who stayed in line hours and hours....they said it was well worth it ..try to suppress the vote ....we rise up higher

[niyad]

41. welcome to DU and thank you

[MynameisBlarney]

12. haHA!

Now it's not simply a landslide.
It's an ass-whompin' of truly epic proportions.

[upaloopa]

14. What they did wrong was to try and suppress the

votes of a community who fought and died for the right to vote just a couple of decades ago.

[frogmarch]

19. Yes, it was a mistake, but

according to the repuke spokesman in Florida, they must have left something off the table in their efforts to win. He said it wouldn't happen again.

What's next with these effers? Shooting people who look as if they might vote Democratic?

[PoliticalBiker]

17. My only Regret....

... was that the dems didn't take back the House.
Maybe the Tan Man will get his ouster in 2014...

[longship]

20. Concession is mostly irrelevant.

It is the votes which speak, and only the votes.

In 2000, if Al Gore had conceded and then a recount gave him FL EVs, he would have been inaugurated in Jan, 2001.

But this concession by Romney is important because it means that there will be no recount rubbish in FL this year (at least not with regards to the presidential electoral votes). They know they lost big.

Apparently that crazy West has other ideas.

[smccarter]

21. Early voter - Santa Rosa County, FL

Stood in line for an hour. Not too bad considering what I've been hearing.

The thing about SR County is... I've heard that only 25% of the registered voters in the county actually voted. Not sure that's an exact or accurate number, but that's something I was told.

[JohnnyBoots]

24. Next door in Escambia

only took a half an hour for early voting. Was happy to be surprised by that.

[City Lights]

23. Alrighty!

[TwilightGardener]

26. A little salt in the wound for poor Mittloaf. LOL.

[lpbk2713]

27. Loser ... loser ... loser ... loser ... loser

Or for our drive-by visitors from Freepville ... Looser ... looser ... looser ... looser ... looser

[ReRe]

28. Yeah, Baby!

Kick

[Iwillnevergiveup]

30. My dad was a nervous nellie

right up until Obama's re-election was confirmed on teevee. He's 91 and has voted Democratic his whole long life. When I saw this news about Florida, I wrote 206 in red and 332 in blue with a smilie face on an index card and taped it to his laptop. He was thrilled, and for Florida folks, acknowledged the sacrifice of many thousands who stood on long lines.

IT'S TRULY SUNNY IN THE SUNSHINE STATE!

[DirtyDawg]

32. It's my...

...understanding that if the difference were half a point or something, it would trigger an automatic recount, and that, since the final total wouldn't change who's gonna be the next President, the State of Florida was going to ask Romney to request that they 'not' redo the count. Wonder if the Obama campaign could request the count even if Romney's wouldn't? Why? Cause since even if the count went against the President it wouldn't matter, but at least that bastard of a Governor would have to spend the money to do it...and think how nice it would be to get an even bigger spread...either way the a-hole would deserve to have his nose rubbed in it a little more.

[Jennicut]

33. 332 electoral votes is a mandate and I don't want to hear anything from Repubs that it is not.

Thank you to those that stood in long lines to vote our President in, you are all amazing!

Rick Scott needs to be thrown out.

[Hubert Flottz]

37. Rick Scott needs to be looked at by the FBI...

And if he's thrown anywhere it should be in federal prison for tampering with the election and racial discrimination against registered voters in Florida.

No more mister nice guy, about election theft or fraud. We owe it to all the people who had to wait in lines so long to exercise their right to legally vote, to see to it that this criminal shit never happens again. If we let this slide, it will NEVER stop.

Tagg and ES&S needs to be investigated too.

[MynameisBlarney]

40. Hell yeah!

+1

[Cha]

34. In spite of Rick Scott! Can you believe how incredibily determined

We The People were in Florida! And, all the States where they stood in lines for hours to Vote for our Democracy!

I'm so grateful! Thanks for the news Mayberry!

[Hutzpa]

35. Can y'all smell that?

It is the sweet smell of karma.

[L0oniX]

38. Luv the color of Florida Blue. n/t

[Liberal In Red State]

42. 332!!!! So no more is it a mandate . . . Hell yes it's a MANDATE! W claimed to have earned

capital at 286 - time for Obama & Co. to push for the agenda that the Country voted for! And to those of us that supported him and the causes . . . Time for us to chase the Repuks back into the holes they crawled out of and make sure that this majority holds for the next several election cycles . . . We could possibly being living in the era of a new Warren Court with progressive agendas being successful whether through legislation or the courts!!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

44. ...heh....

[Lugnut]

45. No mandate my arse!

[lindysalsagal]

47. I just called and told them to stop counting votes.

We're all set!

[lexw]

48. YES!!!!!!!!!

The hits just keep on comin'

[LostinRed]

49. 332

Didn't see this reported anywhere else nice.

[demo dutch]

50. GOTV effort was huge in FL! & Scott's tactics shortening early voting backfired

[4lbs]

51. MSNBC and CNN said as much around 11:30pm Eastern on Election Night.

They said nearly all the outstanding votes were from Democratic counties, so it was unlikely that Rloser would close the gap, but more likely that PRESIDENT OBAMA would increase his margin of victory.