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troublesomekeen wrote:From conception to natural death.
A supporter of abortion has a hand in every murder.
The poor thing has its own body, it's own soul.
The soul is a human construct, you can't use that as a defence.

Anyway, when is a foetus actually considered to be sentient? I believe it's quite late in the pregnancy.

ANYWAY, THIS is what happens when abortions are illegal: http://m.theage.com.au/national/the-ope ... 28pgy.html


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Rorie wrote:i am just glad that obama won a second term and that we can put behind all this election nonsense for the next 4 years
I am sad that the third parties didn't do better. :/
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Double post, because nobody cares when others do it. :P

http://news.yahoo.com/dead-candidates-w ... 07386.html
Apparently the dead win in elections!



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All I can say is...


























Wow, Nevada has huge counties
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Wow! There's hardly any difference! (I know the vote percentages are different, but just in which seats pointed which way.)
fantomx11 wrote:Wow, Nevada has huge counties
Probably has very few people in comparison to the other state. For some reason, a mix of your comment and your sig made me think of Borovia.
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The deal with Nevada is that it is mostly desert. Or I think so? Not sure.

Population is very concentrated at least. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... ensity.png

Heh, technically one only needs to win the vote in las vegas by a good margin in order to win the entire state. heh.


edit/add:
Looks like the best placing third party was the libertarian party... with actually, over a million votes. Some 1,150,000ish. That's more than double they got last election.
The greens more than doubled their votes, to about 400,000.
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I not using that as a defense. You are what I like to call, men of science.
And darn it. My county is so blue.
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troublesomekeen wrote:I not using that as a defense. You are what I like to call, men of science.
And darn it. My country is so blue.
Blue is traditionally the conservative color actually heh. In most countries it is like that at least. And it was in the US until the 1980s I think. :/
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I split the topic, as such some quotes may not make sense. Sorry about that.
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It's over. Now let's wait for the end to come.

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Scarlet wrote:Blue is traditionally the conservative color actually heh. In most countries it is like that at least. And it was in the US until the 1980s I think. :/
It's strange to me this...in most of the world Red is the color associated with left-wing, even revolutionary or communist ideology. Not so in the United States for whatever reason. Not sure about why that is.
fantomx11 wrote:Wow, Nevada has huge counties
I've driven across the state a couple of times, as my grandfather used to have a ranch outside of Reno. The state has a major population center around Reno/Sparks, a massive population center around Las Vegas, and almost literally nothing in between, which is mostly high desert, salt flats, and largely federally owned territory (a surprisingly large part of Nevada is owned and used by the military for weapons testing alone.)
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StupidBunny wrote:It's strange to me this...in most of the world Red is the color associated with left-wing, even revolutionary or communist ideology. Not so in the United States for whatever reason. Not sure about why that is.
Could it be because the neo-Con movement was started by former Trotskyites and this is their subtle way of letting voters know that they're sleeper agents still secretly working on the coming communist revolution by destabilizing the current system from within?

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Keening_Product wrote:Probably has very few people in comparison to the other state. For some reason, a mix of your comment and your sig made me think of Borovia.
Well, Kansas has only the same number of electoral votes (and representative), which means the populations are very similar in size compared to, say New York which has 29, yet the counties in Kansas are much smaller (even accounting for the difference in size between the two states). So, I don't think it's a matter of population.

In the end, it's not important, and doesn't really make a difference. I was just making an observation.
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Wait. Did I just read somewhere that Mitt Romney received 3 million votes less than John McCain? That doesn't make any sense...
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troublesomekeen wrote:Wait. Did I just read somewhere that Mitt Romney received 3 million votes less than John McCain? That doesn't make any sense...
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