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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.
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Choose any two.
Yeah. Florida might find another eighty electoral votes somewhere.
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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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"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.
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.
Shouldn't Ted Nugent be dead or in prison by now?
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.
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. ;-)
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.