Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:10 PM

Have they officially called Florida for Obama yet?

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Have they officially called Florida for Obama yet? (Original post)	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	OP
I was just going to ask that question.	diabeticman	Nov 2012	#1
When I check on the Huffpost electoral map we are still light blue.	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	#2
Still too close to call, Florida may be undecided for days	teach1st	Nov 2012	#3
thanks!	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	#4
Oh come on... what is the hold up???	cui bono	Nov 2012	#5
Here is the latest	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	#6
Thanks. Man, FL really needs help with this. n/t	cui bono	Nov 2012	#7
Holy Crap, Orlando Sentinel saying it may be as late as SATURDAY before the result is filed.	Mayberry Machiavelli	Nov 2012	#8
maybe it is better that way	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	#9
Okay we're done here folks. Florida is ours	coeur_de_lion	Nov 2012	#10

Response to coeur_de_lion (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:11 PM

diabeticman (3,121 posts)

1. I was just going to ask that question.

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Response to diabeticman (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:14 PM

coeur_de_lion (2,522 posts)

2. When I check on the Huffpost electoral map we are still light blue.

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Response to coeur_de_lion (Original post)

Wed Nov 7, 2012, 06:16 PM

teach1st (5,129 posts)

3. Still too close to call, Florida may be undecided for days

From a local Tampa Bay news source:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2012/11/7/florida_election_too.html

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida decided. But when will it be official?

Nearly 24 hours since the polls closed on Election Night, there is still no declared winner of Florida's 29 electoral votes.

President Barack Obama may not have needed Florida to win re-election, but we may not know if Florida went blue for Obama or red for Republican Mitt Romney until early next week.

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Response to teach1st (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 7, 2012, 08:38 PM

coeur_de_lion (2,522 posts)

4. thanks!

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Response to teach1st (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 03:02 AM

cui bono (19,926 posts)

5. Oh come on... what is the hold up???

Why don't they just count the damn votes already???

Ridiculous.

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Response to cui bono (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 10:43 AM

coeur_de_lion (2,522 posts)

6. Here is the latest

You can keep track of it here:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/cfnews13/politics/fl-election-maps.html

and here:

http://www.tampabay.com/tbprojects/elections/2012/results/results.html

This is the explanation of why we are not done in FL:

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_FLORIDA_PRESIDENT_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-11-07-02-06-29

Fla. counting last presidential votes; Obama leads
Nov 8, 9:47 AM EST
MIAMI (AP) -- Florida is counting its final presidential ballots as President Barack Obama holds a narrow lead in the state.

Most of the remaining ballots are being counted Thursday in Miami-Dade County. The state's largest county had a last-minute wave of absentee ballots that needed to be processed. Combined with a tight race, that has delayed the announcement of a winner.

Obama leads the count 49.9 percent to Romney's 49.3 percent. That's a difference of about 47,000 votes out of 8.3 million cast.

If he claims Florida's 29 electoral votes, Obama would increase his victory margin in the Electoral College to 332 to Romney's 206.

It's Miami Dade, where people stood on line all day and well into the night in order to vote. People were stillk on line at 10:30 at night on 11/6. Tremendous turnout plus I suppose Gov. Scott's decision to curtail early voting by several days really hurt us. Miami Dade is determined I suppose to count every vote.

Another article from Miami Herald says the absentee ballots are now the problem:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/07/3085779/some-20000-absentee-ballots-left.html

I voted early by absentee ballot. I was afraid if I voted on the computer it would be flipped to Romney.

I imagine that is what happened in Miami Dade also.

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Response to coeur_de_lion (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 01:35 PM

cui bono (19,926 posts)

7. Thanks. Man, FL really needs help with this. n/t

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Response to coeur_de_lion (Original post)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 02:24 PM

Mayberry Machiavelli (21,096 posts)

8. Holy Crap, Orlando Sentinel saying it may be as late as SATURDAY before the result is filed.

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Response to Mayberry Machiavelli (Reply #8)

Thu Nov 8, 2012, 06:37 PM

coeur_de_lion (2,522 posts)

9. maybe it is better that way

They can say that they took their time and counted carefully. No vote stealing.

I really think that what they are saying about the absentee ballots is true. I voted early by absentee because I was afraid my vote would not be counted otherwise. A lot of other people did the same.

If you're from Florida maybe you've seen the absentee ballot -- they were four pages long. Legal size paper.

Geezus I would not want to be counting all that stuff.

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Response to coeur_de_lion (Original post)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 02:58 PM

coeur_de_lion (2,522 posts)

10. Okay we're done here folks. Florida is ours

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2012/results#florida

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