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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Obama wins Florida! [View all]Gregorian
(23,867 posts)22. Universal education. It is infrastructure.
It's more important than roads.
And yes, rural should be as important as any of the rest. Rural ed and med both suck.
I know it will never happen, but if I had my way I'd drop the military funding to 10% of what it is now. Then we'd be level with the next biggest army. Then we could have good education and medical.
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But it is still unacceptable even if just one vote was lost because of suppression/purges
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#16
It is BEYOND UNACCEPTABLE. No citizen, no matter who they vote for, should EVER have...
Raster
Nov 2012
#25
Thanks to all the FL Dems who stood in line for hours to vote: Obama won by 60,767 votes!
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#4
True HuffPost is only one to call it--but they are showing FL with 100% returns.
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#14
The lead is about 60,000 votes. Not sure how many provisional ballots are out.
yellowcanine
Nov 2012
#30
It's been blue on HuffPost since yesterday...not called by anyone else
alcibiades_mystery
Nov 2012
#27
I'm sorry about the result - but Romney and the GOP did receive a stinging rebuke
jsmirman
Nov 2012
#62
OH still has 200,000 outstanding provisional ballots that they can not count until Nov 17.
LisaL
Nov 2012
#56
No, but Romney camp has conceded Florida. So who cares what news organizations say?
mnhtnbb
Nov 2012
#54