The stock market is down because the bond markets are up. The feds policy under Obama, Geitner and Bernanke is to weaken the dollar to increase US exports. That affects companies adversely as world trade takes place in dollars and the cost of raw materials increases when the dollar is weaker. So profits go down and so their share prices go down. The markets had built in a Romney victory so inflated the market prices as he would have put an end to the QE policy.

pusillanimous crap weasel.

"Only God is the boss of me"

pusillanimous crap weasel.

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hippo please change your username to that

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ive just read through that guys tweets wow what a clown, its just a shame that about half of americans think exactly the same as him

I've been reading them, too. Opera style reactions to everything.

Trumps always been a buffoon.

Glad to hear that Todd Akin and Allen West were voted out though. Two more morons

Gloating to the Conservitards is fun.

can anyone explain why the party which is likely to attract votes from the largest economic band of people in the country, has to get significantly fewer votes to win the election than the party which is likely to attract its votes from the smaller economic band of people in the country ?

What you on about brayns?

I don't think so.

i knew ska would agree with me

What you on about brayns?
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1. generally speaking, (for want of a better phrase), working class vote for democrates, middle class people (and whatever comes after that), vote republican.

2. there are more working class people than other people.

3. it should therefore be easier for democrats to win than republicans.

4. nevertheless, republicans have to get more votes than democrats to win.


i dont know anything about it, but it seems like a bit of a barmy system to me.

It's probably to do with the democrat states being small and numerous and the republican states being huge but not quite so numerous.

So more people don't actually have to vote republican for them to win..?

Surely if that were the case Bush never would've got the job, let alone stay in it.

i know, but on what basis are the electoral votes (probably the wrong word) per state assigned ? it cant be strictly pro rata to population can it, because even when the number of votes are even the democrates win by a landslide.

so how are the number of electoral thingies determined ? whatever basis it is, it looks like it doesnt work and is very unfari in favour of the democrat party.

are we all happy with the 12 round KO from obama? i presume so.

Democrats > Republicans

They lost brayns, more people voted for the black guy.

i dont like romney because he said whatever it took to get people to vote for him.

saying that though i believe obama's foreign policy has been the most disasterous of any since britain's in 1914.

Obama won the popular vote, as well. So he got more votes in total.

More disastrous than Vietnam, the Korean war or the Cuban missile crisis?

As if it's his foreign policy

For the sake of debate it hasn't been great but Biden actually campaigned on the issue of funding insurgents.. Al Queda anyone?

alright, well maybe he did. i didnt check the final figures. it was blaady close though.

my point is that romney could have won the popular vote quite comfortably, but still have lost, even though the people who his party is likely to appeal to are less in number than the other party's target market.

to make it fair it should be the other way round shouldnt it ?

If they don't appeal to the majority of the population they shouldn't win a democratic election.