Obama haters petition for Colorado to secede: More than 3,000 signatures at WhiteHouse.gov
| Photo by Brandon Marshall |
| Mitt Romney at his last Colorado rally. |
The online petitioning platform dictates that the White House must respond if a petition reaches 25,000 signatures within thirty days. That means Colorado is about 14 percent of the way there. Louisiana, which appears to be the first petition created after election day, is currently more than half the way there, with 13,084 signatures.
The petitions, which don't mention Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, come just weeks after both candidates made commitments to bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle in their final pleas for votes.
If voters aren't satisfied with these petitions and still want to make their voices heard beyond the call for secession, there's always a other White House petition entitled "Recount the election!"
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