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[HylianTom]

Franken wins = I cry.

Pretty simple.

Coleman has no business being in the senate, representing Minnesota.

Franken is a good man; I'd love to see him serve MN for a few decades.

(edit: CNN just described the McCain camp as "stoic." They'd be crying if the cameras weren't on them.. hehe..)

 

[Keylime]

Hopefully Democrats stick with the long lines and don't get lazy and leave.

I'd say long lines favor Democrats. We're excited to vote, old people need to be tucked into bed by 7PM.

 

[Plinko]

Didn't the exit polls have Kerry winning PA by 16 in 2004? He only ended up winning by 3.

 

[Askia47]

only song in my head now lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJqLQkODKnk&feature=related

 

[Jason's Ultimatum]

How much left until the race can be called consistently?

24 more hours.

 

[Xabora]

How much left until the race can be called consistently?

12AM est while we wait for florida.

 

[ghibli99]

Damn right.

 

[kkaabboomm]

Regan '84

bam, WRONG

Reagan 84 - 525-13 == 512EV margin

Roosevelt 36 - 523-8 == 515EV margin -- largest TOTAL EV margin


Monroe 1820 - 231-1 == 230EV margin -- won all but 1 EV

Washington 1789 - 69-0 == won every single EV out there


Reagan 84 is the largest in the 538 EV model.

 

[wartime1020]

50-50 senate KY

 

[Sharp]

Didn't the exit polls have Kerry winning PA by 16 in 2004? He only ended up winning by 3.

That's what I was trying to ask about.

 

[Cloudy]

Man, I am going crazy here

 

[greepoman]

Washington is the only candidate to officially win every single state. Nixon also unofficially won every single state but they gave the other guy one state because they wanted that distinction to be reserved for Washington.

In terms of percentage, ya Washington is #1 followed by James Monroe (231-1) and then Reagan.

 

[StoOgE]

Hopefully Democrats stick with the long lines and don't get lazy and leave.

They have Obama people at the polls handing out water. Wegotthis.gif

 

[Shard]

We still have hours before that happens.

 

[VPhys]

CNN just reported that areas of Virgina that have had allot of new registrations are reporting waiting lines of 4 to 7 hours. W T F.

 

[Squirrel Killer]

Isn't the part of Indiana that we're about to see results from the rural part that will go heavily McCain?

1) Official results from even that part of IN probably won't start showing up until the rest of the state's polls close.
2) Even once all the polls have closed, it still will probably take some time to tabulate the results.

 

[platypotamus]

I just gave my students an in class assignment so that I could sneak on here and check for some info/results.

It was the ONLY reason I gave them the assignment too.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Did you vote today? DID YOU?!

Spoiler

we're gonna take this thing man, we will make AZ go blue!

I voted first thing this morning. We are good.

 

[besada]

I know i know, no sympathy for someone running for president.



Yet, all political bullshit aside, the guy must have a really fucking hard 3 days right now. I wonder what he eats/drinks/does during his flights to keep him focused.

He says that shooting hoops relaxes him, which is why I wasn't surprised to see him doing it today.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Canary in coal mine: Kentucky Senate, McConnell v Lunsford

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapSKY

Votes coming in now. Tied with 2300 votes.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Franken wins = I cry.

Pretty simple.

Coleman has no business being in the senate, representing Minnesota.

Franken is a good man; I'd love to see him serve MN for a few decades.

I want Franken to win simply because he promised in his book that he'd work to make Election Day a national holiday.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Right, so ignore exit polling.

 

[User 10639]

FDR had the highest EV margin since the electoral college has been based on popular vote, though, right?

 

[Stoney Mason]

Didn't the exit polls have Kerry winning PA by 16 in 2004? He only ended up winning by 3.

Nobody with a brain is putting any stock in the exit polls.

 

[harSon]

What the fuck is with this Blackberry commercial on CNN :lol

 

[Stillmatic]

I feel a bit guilty that i've been following PoliGAF religiously since the first debate, and haven't made a single post until now. XD

Anyway i'd like to thank all the regulars for keeping all the info updated as i live in New Zealand and coverage isn't that great, and thanks for all the laughs, it's been an entertaining ride. :lol

Follow through.

Obama, win this shit!

 

[Fjolle]

What are they saying in Denmark? I'm curious.

Before they talked about when the polls will close and when we should get a good indicator of the result.

Now they are talking about how danish movies have been affected by american politics and a director (peter aalbæk) complains that he cant show that much nudity in movies now :lol

 

[Xabora]

CNN just reported that areas of Virgina that have had allot of new registrations are reporting waiting lines of 4 to 7 hours. W T F.

Virgina normally doesn't have a large voting population.

 

[cilonen]

What is the mood like on the international broadcasts?

The BBC have an odd 'must be fair at all costs' policy which makes their coverage of events like this quite hard to follow - it's like an inverse Fox, where they'll have dissenting opinions and pundits given equal airtime no matter how marginal their view. In this regard they've been kinder than I thought they would be to the McCain campaign and over the last couple of days have been going along with the general media feeding frenzy of 'the race is tightening! listen to us! we are important!'. At the moment they've just finished an explanation of the electoral map and when the polls close and have gone into a retrospective of the Bush years with a big negative Bush / world view of America spin.

Sky are like a mini Fox (Murdoch owned), but they aren't allowed to be as blatant with their bias due to UK broadcasting standards. They're playing the 'race is closing, polls are unreliable, it's almost a dead heat, we'll have to wait and see' angle.

 

[Souldriver]

All the holograms and touch screens used on the news channels look so tacky. Look over substance seems to be the motto.

Just look at the lady going back and forth through the holographic room. It looks ridiculous.

 

[Keylime]

What the fuck is with this Blackberry commercial on CNN :lol

FAST!

Spoiler

SAVEDBYZERO! SAVEDBYZERO! SAVEDBYZERO! SAVEDBYZERO!

 

[NullPointer]

What the fuck is with this Blackberry commercial on CNN :lol

At least its better than seeing the damn Wright one again and again and again.

The desperation. You can smell it.

 

[Tarazet]

I'm going to do some work. I expect some results by the time I get back!

 

[grandjedi6]

Washington is the only candidate to officially win every single state. Nixon also unofficially won every single state but they gave the other guy one state because they wanted that distinction to be reserved for Washington.

That's not true. You're thinking of James Monroe

 

[Kildace]

CNN just reported that areas of Virgina that have had allot of new registrations are reporting waiting lines of 4 to 7 hours. W T F.

<3 Melissa Theuriau so much.

 

[Particle Physicist]

do you have a wallpaper size version of this?


by the way. why does cnn.com say the polls close an hour later than that image people are throwing around? for instance, they have indiana closing aat 7pm, not 6pm .. ?

 

[HolyStar]

This is the birth of a new age.

 

[kkaabboomm]

i look on the CNN map of ky and cant find where the numbers are coming from

 

[Plinko]

Nobody with a brain is putting any stock in the exit polls.

Good.

 

[Rindain]

So will we see any Indiana results before 7:00 pm eastern?

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

All the holograms and touch screens used on the news channels look so tacky. Look over substance seems to be the motto.

Just look at the lady going back and forth through the holographic room. It looks ridiculous.

it's the pinnacle of this election cycle

 

[JavyOO7]

I think everybody agrees that same day registration should be made available.

When I did early voting 2 weeks ago it took me 2 hours.

My sister did it this past Sunday and she was in line at JFK library in Miami for 7 hours. =/

 

[HylianTom]

I feel a bit guilty that i've been following PoliGAF religiously since the first debate, and haven't made a single post until now. XD

Anyway i'd like to thank all the regulars for keeping all the info updated as i live in New Zealand and coverage isn't that great, and thanks for all the laughs, it's been an entertaining ride. :lol

Follow through.

Obama, win this shit!

This election has been 10x more entertaining for me because of PoliGAF. I echo your thanks to everyone here.

 

[TDG]

So at 7, Kentucky and Indiana will be completely closed, Vermont, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia will close, and Florida except for the pan-handle will close.

SO, here's what should happen:
1. We won't hear much from Florida until 8, when the rest of the state closes.
2. Virginia, Georgia, and Indiana should be called "too close to call" or "too early to call."
3. Vermont will be called for Obama.
4. Kentucky and South Carolina will be called for McCain.

SO the electoral count at that point should be 16-3 McCain.

 

[GhaleonEB]

do you have a wallpaper size version of this?


by the way. why does cnn.com say the polls close an hour later than that image people are throwing around? for instance, they have indiana closing aat 7pm, not 6pm .. ?

Western Indiana closes at 7:00, the rest of the state at 6.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

lol HOLLLOGRAMMS

 

[Shard]

More fun with the CNN Magic Wall.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I don't know if anyone (or everyone) has seen it, but I wanted to quote part of this article I really liked from an Obama volunteer, which I got on the Christian Science Monitor of all places.

I learned in just those three hours that this election is not about what we think of as the "big things."

It's not about taxes. I'm pretty sure mine are going to go up no matter who is elected.

It's not about foreign policy. I think we'll figure out a way to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan no matter which party controls the White House, mostly because the people who live there don't want us there anymore.

I don't see either of the candidates as having all the answers.

I've learned that this election is about the heart of America. It's about the young people who are losing hope and the old people who have been forgotten. It's about those who have worked all their lives and never fully realized the promise of America, but see that promise for their grandchildren in Barack Obama. The poor see a chance, when they often have few. I saw hope in the eyes and faces in those doorways.

 

[Tamanon]

do you have a wallpaper size version of this?


by the way. why does cnn.com say the polls close an hour later than that image people are throwing around? for instance, they have indiana closing aat 7pm, not 6pm .. ?

Most of Indiana closes at 6, not all of it though.

 

[Kikujiro]

do you have a wallpaper size version of this?


by the way. why does cnn.com say the polls close an hour later than that image people are throwing around? for instance, they have indiana closing aat 7pm, not 6pm .. ?

http://www.patrickmoberg.com/november-4-2008.jpg