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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitical Wire: Romney Likely to End Up with 47% of the Popular Vote
When all the votes are counted, could Mitt Romney really end up achieving perfect poetic justice by finishing with 47 percent of the national vote? Yup. Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report says new votes in from Maryland put Romney at 47.56 percent. He predicts with certainty that with all of New York and California counted, Romney will end up below 47.5 percent of the vote.
Rounded, of course, that would put the final tally at 51-47. Anticipating this moment, Markos Moulitsas has inaugurated the Romney 47 percent watch.
As Sargent said, talk about poetic justice.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/11/20/romney_likely_to_end_up_at_47.html
Also, Dave Wasserman is keeping track of popular votes as they come in, and you can track his updates as he tweets them: https://twitter.com/Redistrict
mucifer
(23,565 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)A bunch of votes just came in from Los Angeles County, giving Obama a net of about 63,000 votes and pushing Romney down to 47.54%. And I think there are more votes left to count in LA, because as of this morning there were 518,000 uncounted votes (though they might not all be valid.)
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)dem4ward
(323 posts)catbyte
(34,451 posts)Karma's a bitch.
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)That Romney was born in 1947. I thought that was funny.
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)jsmirman
(4,507 posts)the railroad tycoon dying in a muddy puddle in Once Upon a Time in the West was poignant - Mitt and Ann's lifelong dream ending in humiliation and shame is just one of the sweetest things I've seen in politics in a long time.