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Bob Barr
Posted: 11/7/2012 10:54:00 AM EST
When I voted yesterday in Smyrna, Georgia, I exchanged pleasantries with poll workers, watched children waiting patiently in line with their parents, and shook hands with a local candidate I know. It was, despite the Rainy Day in Georgia, a thoroughly pleasant and uplifting experience – as voting in a free country should be. Unfortunately, but reflecting a clear trend toward confrontational voting, some voters in other communities and states were not so fortunate.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 11/7/2012 10:08:00 AM EST
Obama won. Not by a lot, but by more than enough.
In the end it came down to the battleground states, and President Obama won most of them by slim, but decisive, margins.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 11/7/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
You know who won the election (or whether we face another Florida 2000), and as I write I don't. But whether Barack Obama is re-elected to a second term or Mitt Romney is elected the 45th president, the contours of their support during this fiercely fought campaign show that we live in Two Americas.
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Brent Bozell
Posted: 11/7/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Throughout the very long presidential election cycle, two trends remained consistent. The media lauded Obama no matter how horrendous his record, and they savaged Obama's Republican contenders as ridiculous pretenders.
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Paul Greenberg
Posted: 11/7/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
It's over at last, Now we know. Or do we? The voting may have ended, but the counting continues.
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Michael Brown
Posted: 11/6/2012 8:25:00 AM EST
If Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove, Dick Morris, Michael Barone and others are right and Mitt Romney is our next president, we moral conservatives cannot take our foot off the gas. We cannot let up in our advocacy for life and family. We cannot relax or shift into neutral as if some great victory has already been won. To do so would be to make a fatal mistake, and four years from now we will be kicking ourselves again, vowing once more not to sell our souls to the Republican Party, claiming that this time we have learned our lesson, only to repeat the cycle four years hence.
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Pat Buchanan
Posted: 11/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Whoever wins today, it is hard to be sanguine about the future. The demographic and economic realities do not permit it.
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Dennis Prager
Posted: 11/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
I spent the last week of October speaking to thousands of Mitt Romney supporters in four "battleground" states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Virginia.
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Michael Gerson
Posted: 11/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
On the eve of the election, Nate Silver -- baseball forecaster, online poker wiz, political handicapper -- placed President Obama's chances of returning to office at 86.3 percent. Not 86.1 percent. Not 87.8 percent. At 86.3 percent.
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David Limbaugh
Posted: 11/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Mitt Romney was very wise to pivot on Barack Obama's impromptu statement that "voting is the best revenge" and frame the campaign in the final days as a choice between that negative message and Romney's "love of country."
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Mona Charen
Posted: 11/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
"I don't know," a very wise and skeptical Washington political analyst confided to me on Sunday as I limned the Romney victory I foresee. "I'd like to believe it," she said, "but I have to overlook a lot. If you're right, then a whole lotta state polls have to be wrong."
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Laura Hollis
Posted: 11/5/2012 11:15:00 AM EST
I had the opportunity to be in the western Cook County suburbs of Chicago late last week. I have never seen so many political signs in my life. Signs EVERYWHERE: homes, businesses, parking lots, churches, farms. That stunned me.
What stunned me more? I saw not one sign for Obama.
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Armstrong Williams
Posted: 11/5/2012 9:03:00 AM EST
There’s a very cute Youtube video going around the internet of a little girl named Abigail crying because she’s tired of hearing about the presidential election. I imagine that she’s heard a lot less about it than those of us who are actually of voting age, which just goes to show you that everyone is sick of this presidential campaign. I know I am. Well we're all relieved that today is the day to make your vote count and wait in those long lines to make a difference in our once great nation.
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Wayne Allyn Root
Posted: 11/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
It’s too late to play nice, to not tell the raw, unvarnished truth. If we don’t tell the truth (and fast), we are going to lose America, capitalism, and our children’s future.
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Brian Darling
Posted: 11/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Most Americans will focus on election results in Ohio and Florida to see who rides those states’ Electoral College votes into the White House.
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Michael Barone
Posted: 11/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents, and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.
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Brian and Garrett Fahy
Posted: 11/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Fellow citizens, As voters, you are the jury of this election. You must render a verdict on the president’s stewardship of this nation for the past four years.
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Austin Hill
Posted: 11/4/2012 10:02:00 AM EST
It’s “game on” for the politics of retaliation.
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Derek Hunter
Posted: 11/4/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Well, this is it. Two days till we know who wins.
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Kevin McCullough
Posted: 11/4/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
I don't know about you, but I can't wait for this election to be concluded. Maybe it's because I live in the New York City metro and we've been force-fed a dose of "real life"--right up in our face--this week, maybe its because we all need to focus on genuinely important priorities, but for whatever reason I have "2012 Fatigue."
