Thomas stevens
Ξ November 5th, 2008 | → | ∇ Uncategorized |
Live-blogging the election returns!
5:01: finally! results. set to rights in. pour yourself a nice glass of win or whine, as you see fit.5:37: “there’s alone one thing to conclude to a kenyan election supremacy gratify: a goat. preferably still breathing - ‘a sign of freshness’ - and with big testicles, apparently the sign of quality breeding.”5:42: per fox news, mccain will lose (if he loses) because mccain’s idea of the white horse worked so well and because president bush kept us free of terrorist attacks. the national security issues cause receded into the shadows, and that makes it hard for mccain.5:48: polls about to close-fisted in a scads of places at the cap of the hour, so let’s while away the moments by looking at the sedate polling come about where i arrived at 9:15. enter:
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drop by the church-school bake sale:
6:00: cnn declares obama the winner in vermont and mccain in kentucky, which is unsurprising. it does not resolve georgia, indiana, south carolina, and virginia. so does that mean that there is no overwhelming landslide exchange for obama? or is cnn playing us (or playing it safe)?6:16: wolf blitzer beams in a hologram from chicago. it’s jessica yellin, floating about oddly. it’s also puzzling how obvious it is that she is being photographed outdoors. there is a subtle hunching against the elements that looks slightly daffy projected indoors.7:00: polls even-handed closed in a clump of states, and cnn is barely predicting the states that were merest predictable. so the big blowout is not circumstance.7:09: elizabeth dole crushed.7:15: in the comments, there’s quite a caboodle of talk of getting toper. palladian shows us what he’s got lined up:
7:18: msnbc calls pennsylvania for obama. is that a sob for attention, or do they know something cnn and fox don’t?7:33: cnn headline news has nancy grace going on about a psychic looking for a missing toddler. i deem “headline” doesn’t mean what it used to. once in a while, it means holding pen for politicophobes. 7:40: now, cnn calls pennsylvania in the direction of obama.8:00: my state went for obama. so did michigan and minnesota. obama’s at 179 electoral votes, with mccain at not 49.8:04: per cnn, twice as many voters said duration was important as said race was important. but both groups tended to see that factor as a reason to vote suited for obama.8:34: cnn calls ohio for obama. “a huge, huge win,” says wolf blitzer. “a huge, huge win,” he says a second dilly-dally.8:34: here, fiddle with this interactive map. it seems sort of clear that obama will win.8:45: john sovereign fiddles with the cnn interactive map to see if there is any way, given the states already called, that mccain could overcome. he gave him everything except hawaii, california, oregon, and washington, and it was not adequate to smash hit 270. so unless they’ve made some wrong calls — and i vividly remember when florida was called for gore in 2000 — mccain cannot win.8:53: i confidence the mccain supporters are holding up. don’t despair. glenn reynolds had an op-ed this morning saying: “[o]nce someone is duly and legally elected president, you do owe some admiration to the office and the constitution. and to your fellow americans. i’m not an obama fan, particularly, but a lot of people i like and respect are. to treat obama as something degradation or subhuman would not only be disrespectful toward obama, but toward them. as contrasted with, i hope that if obama is elected, their assessment of his strengths will turn excuse to be put, and mine thinks fitting turn out to be illegitimate.” yes, can we like not hate the president this time, for a change? (or did i just rile you with the conference “change”?)9:01: more states called. obama’s up to 206 electoral votes… which doesn’t include california (with 55). do we have to keep watching? blog advertising
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