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Romney Campaign Accidentally Launches Transition Web Site
stevegee58 writes "The Mitt Romney presidential campaign accidentally launched a transition website the day after the election. Sporting a 'President Elect' seal and a catchy new tagline ('Smaller, Simpler, Smarter') , the site was up briefly before the gaffe was discovered and the site taken down. Fortunately an alert blogger, Taegan Goddard, found the errant site and published some screen shots."
That site wasn't supposed to launch until Utah secedes.
He's channeling his inner Rick Perry.
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Hopefully the Republicans can find a better candidate than a used car salesman next time. And hire a better IT staff.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Choose any two.
Both are appropriate.
Yeah. Florida might find another eighty electoral votes somewhere.
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It's over, Johnny. It's over...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Romney is famous for flip-flopping. Even if someone told him he lost, he thinks he won. And he did. That's the beauty of not taking a stance and not taking NO for an answer. God bless you Romney. God bless us all. (Except the gays)
that's because we liberals can do whatever we want and you conservatives can't!
ha ha! sucks to be you!
Not Florida, alone, but technically, the Electoral College ballots aren't counted until early in January.
There is a bit more leeway than one would think, although the results, as they now stand are extremely unlikely to change.
Most states electors are bound by law if they don't vote the way they have been tasked, however, electors in the following ttates are not bound by Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:
ARIZONA ARKANSAS DELAWARE GEORGIA IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MINNESOTA MISSOURI NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW YORK NORTH DAKOTA PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH WEST VIRGINIA
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Oh Hi Boss!
Since I don't give a crap about your campaign, or politics, and this is the only REAL website I've ever done,
and this site is all I did during your campaign, I thought I'd publish it live for a few hours assuming some news outlets
would pick it up, so that I could then reference it for future work, and have important media clippings to reference
as well. Hope you don't mind - and if I do, oh well, what are you going to do, fire me?
Is probably what I'd say.
Takes one to know one... his concession is not binding in any way (just ask Al Gore)... it's simply a respectful thing to do.
In the unlikely event that a large batch of Obama votes turn up in Virginia, Ohio & Florida as fraudulent and the electoral college swings to him... the presidency is his, concession or not.
Will any of the above happen? Probably not... but you show your ignorance of the system.
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Not that Florida would save him - but "un-conceding" is apparently a legal option that Kerry explored in December, 2004, due to voting-machine-fraud allegations from Ohio.
"Fortunately" a blogger captured this? Why exactly is this a fortunate thing? It's not like the site shows Romney doing something wrong, or trying to cover up something. Is there something particularly great about the site design that can benefit us in some way? Perhaps it contains some great scripts that we are now fortunate to have access to?
Someone made a mistake, and you say it is a "fortunate" that they can now be made fun of because of it. Politics aside, let's simply not act like assholes please. Also, be thankful that your mistakes don't turn into Slashdot stories.
Better known as 318230.
In the unlikely event that a large batch of Obama votes turn up in Virginia, Ohio & Florida as fraudulent and the electoral college swings to him... the presidency is his, concession or not.
Check Cartman's house.
In the unlikely event that a large batch of Obama votes turn up in Virginia, Ohio & Florida as fraudulent and the electoral college swings to him... the presidency is his, concession or not.
That would be the largest legal battle the country has ever seen. Given that Romney's campaign shut down so quickly that staffers found their credit cards had been canceled when they tried to pay for cabs on the way home from campaign headquarters, I kind of doubt he has the machinery in place for that kind of fight.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Woo!
You should check your math-
Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206.
Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
Well, most of the campaign staff is now unemployed, so I'm not sure they care that much. Romney's lucky that's the only thing that went up after the loss...
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Late night comics, I mean. The rest of us, not so much.
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After Romney carried Ohio.
Romney and Bain Capital do not have time to worry about a simple presidential loss. Obama won they have to swing into full outsourcing sales mode which will not be very, very easy. You see Romney and Bain did not loose, they won and won big.
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In the unlikely event that a large batch of Obama votes turn up in Virginia, Ohio & Florida as fraudulent and the electoral college swings to him... the presidency is his, concession or not.
That would be the largest legal battle the country has ever seen. Given that Romney's campaign shut down so quickly that staffers found their credit cards had been canceled when they tried to pay for cabs on the way home from campaign headquarters, I kind of doubt he has the machinery in place for that kind of fight.
Perhaps he's saving that money for the legal fees. ;-)
Perhaps he's saving that money for the legal fees. ;-)
Hah! Yeah, that must be it.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I mean, heck, the Romney campaign is transitioning, right? The only problem is in the details, and Romney doesn't like to get into that sort of stuff until later.
Schadenfreudelicious.
Can somebody please get Morgan Freeman to explain this for me?
You think you're being facetious. You think you're joking.
But you're wrong, they actually are this psychotic: I’ve got egg on my face. I predicted a Romney landslide [325-213] and, instead, we ended up with an Obama squeaker [332-206].
The modern GOP is what happens when you market bullshit, then fall for it so hard you can't even realize you've fallen for your own BS when it's pointed out to your face.
where are the screen caps? I want to see this.
To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy.
The electors are picked by the state parties. They're die-hard partisans who've drunk more of the campaign kool-aid than anyone. It's not like people who have been working to elect Obama for years are suddenly going to change their minds and vote for Romney or vice versa.
In the rare instances when electors have switched their votes, it's usually been for someone else in the same party and wouldn't affect the outcome of the election. For instance, there's been speculation that some of the Romney electors might cast votes for Ron Paul, but obviously that wouldn't change Obama's numbers either way.
But what if parasitic aliens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_Snatchers) infect the minds of the electors, or less sci-fi-sh: blackmail them into voting for the other candidate? It's highly unlikely in an election where there's a large gap between the winner and the loser, but what if the difference is down to a vote or two that can easily be offset by doing something funny to a handful of electors?
Apparently he did not get rich by writing a lot of checks.
"...begging for mercy from the Union before Sherman or any other general set foot on their soil?"
???? Uh, small as they might be, the last land battles of the "War of Northern Aggression" were fought in Texas.
Previously, Galveston had been recaptured from Union forces in Jan 1, 1863 and remained confederate until June 18-19, 1865, "Juneteenth".
Then the final Union attempt to take Texas in September 1863, a Union invasion fleet with 5000 Federal troops was repulsed at the Battle of Sabine Pass.
PS. Before you even start, I live way north of New York...
They just got smaller smarter simpler votes.
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There must be a lot of this kind of 'backup win/lose' sort of publication, someone should be collecting it all for an alternative history museum. It could be filled with never-launched websites, newspapers printed one way or the other, inventions that never happned because someone beat them to the punch a day earlier. The world is full of paths that never get taken but someone thought ahead and was prepared for the opposite.
Romney needs to go on an apology tour.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Mussolini
This sounds like an Onion-perpetrated prank to continue their "Romney not giving up just because he lost the election" schtick.
Here's how it works- government comes up with a "policy" or something that has no effect, but looks like it might do something on the surface. Independently, the job market improves. Result - the government takes credit.
You should check your math- Ohio is worth 18, Virginia 13, and Florida 29. That totals to 60. Obama is (estimated) to have 332 electoral votes, and Romney has 206. Swapping out 60 votes still leaves them at 272 to 266.
Correct! Any path to the presidency for Romney would have assumed Fla. (which he may still get, but unlikely and moot now), Va., Ohio, and one small battleground - Iowa and NH were generally considered the most likely (or, least unlikely) candidates.
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Hell, even Truman made fun of the newspapers for incorrectly predicting his loss to Dewey: "Dewey Defeats Truman" said the headline, and there's a picture of a grinning Truman laughing at the headline! If the president-elect can laugh at a newspaper's premature prognostications, then certainly we can too.
Even if the only reason that the web-site became live was so that the site-designer could crow to his/her mom(s): "Hey Ma, look what I did! And they didn't even bother doing their part and win even though I did my part to make the website!"
That's interest to read about Eisenhower. Where is that particular document found? Wasn't he the "The Buck Stops Here" president? That' would make sense. It does say a lot about him that he's willing to own up to and take responsibility for his actions, whether the outcome is good or bad.
I don't have source for the Eisenhower doc. If you want to google it, feel free.
Harry Truman was the one with the "The Buck Stops Here" sign on his desk.