I don't believe most people have terribly complicated reasons for how they cast votes.

Don't you think most voters know who they'll vote for long before election day, though? I was surprised by the campaigning that seemed to think it was going to sway you at the last minute.

FOUR PERCENT OF BLACK WOMEN DIDN'T VOTE FOR OBAMA.

I assume some combination of margin of error and...I don't know, Herman Cain and Alan Keyes' wives?

I agree that the cultural wars are going to get worse -- this just confirmed what they feared. The minorities are going to band together and take down white people.

WRT the utter shock... it is commensurate to the hubris. If you believe so strongly that you will win, and you are in the bubble of feedback media (meaning the same guy fundraising for you is on the network as a political analyst) then it makes sense you can think you would win. That and this is a master example of doublethink. Romney spent the entire election lying and dissembling to the point where he lied to himself and his staffers to themselves about his chances of winning.

Don't you think most voters know who they'll vote for long before election day, though?

YES. I wish that politics was more like a cagematch. The election season should be X number of days only. Then decide already.

I think that 4% of black women were all in california and voted Green or Peace and Freedom or some other 3rd party.

Don't you think most voters know who they'll vote for long before election day, though?

Ask me that question at different times, and I'll give different answers, probably. I do see people saying boring was totes whatevs since they're not making a difference--I wonder what the numbers are like? How many of those no-point-to-mine votes can swing a race?

I also wonder how many people are one-issue voters (he can't have my guns/womb/borders) and how many can you convince at the last minute that their one issue wasn't the one they should have been paying attention to?

I don't know. But there's nothing like an election to indicate how many people don't think in ways I can follow.

Yikes! I need to get off my ass and find a pink or burgundy knee length crinoline. Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?

Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?

I think you can have one or the other but not both.

Pix, can you explain the NBPTS renewal process. For Entry 1, I just write about 4 professional growth areas. But then what is the extra pages of documentary evidence?

I am past the schadenfreude of Romney's campaign being SO confident they were going to win, and into the part where I feel bad for the regular people who got such a terrible shock.

I am still gleeful about any pain it might have caused Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, etc.

And I do hope this is at least the end of the FOX news machine being quite so centered on misinformation. NPR had a story about how some conservatives are pointing out that the insistence on Romney's "momentum" and their conviction that the polls were wrong was pretty damaging.

I wish I could convince my mom that Fox News is full of crap, but any time I point out their distortions, it's dismissed as being from a liberally biased source.

This makes me sad, because otherwise, I can talk to my mom about anything, including fandom.

Does this apply to non-white Christians? What about other religions?

I don't know about all other religions, but something like 72% of Jews voted for Obama.

I think you can have one or the other but not both

Fair enough. I can wear a slip underneath, so I guess I can cope with a little scratchy. I don't even really know where to go in LA to get crinolines, despite having bought both my white ones here. I just can't remember where...

I have plane tickets to buy too. I've let a lot of stuff slip. Grr.