PoliGAF Election Day 2008 Thread of A New Dawn in America (OBAMA ELECT)

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Jackl said:
Indeed. Sent it off last week. Glad after nearly a year of election mess its finally over.(Unless another Florida fuck up happens again. Then we'll never hear the end of it.)
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This election would need 4 or 5 states to fuck-up like Florida to hand it to McCain.
 
smurfx said:
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Did Bill set a pick against his wife? Awesome.
 
Hmm, I think I'm gonna buy some chips and watch the election on Tuesday, actually. Hopefully it won't drag out too long.
 
Your wife's due date is within a couple of weeks of the election....

She just started early labor at 1 AM. She's likely going to give birth today, at latest tomorrow!
 
Another question regarding the American election system.

Why do you have to register in order to vote? Am I missing something here? In Sweden, you just get a paper in the mail without doing anything that you bring when you vote.
 
Midas said:
Another question regarding the American election system.

Why do you have to register in order to vote? Am I missing something here? In Sweden, you just get a paper in the mail without doing anything that you bring when you vote.
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Here in the states, you either have to go register at the DMV, or mail in a registration form. This allows you to vote in YOUR COUNTY ONLY THOUGH. Voter cards are offered, but at least in my counties are not required to vote.

Also.....

I VOTED! This is my first election, so I am happy.

The guy I voted isn't gonna win though, but even so, I am happy I got to participate in something so important! I am proud of the time I put into making my choices. It made me look at this country in a totally new light.
 
HUELEN10 said:
The guy I voted isn't gonna win though, but even so, I am happy I got to participate in something so important! I am proud of the time I put into making my choices. It made me look at this country in a totally new light.
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So you voted for McCain? Bastard.
 
Cheesemeister said:
Oh, snap!

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A little background information would be nice. Perhaps, say, what in the world it's referring to.
 
StopMakingSense said:
Haven't seen these posted here, but Zogby's battleground polls:

PA
O: 53.7
M: 40.0

OH
O: 50.2
M: 43.9

VA
O: 50.7
M: 44.6

NV
O: 50.7
M: 42.9

FL
O: 47.5
M: 46.2

MO
O: 47.4
M: 45.7

NC
O: 47.7
M: 49.3

IN
O: 43.9
M: 49.1
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These are incredibly encouraging.
 
Plinko said:
A little background information would be nice. Perhaps, say, what in the world it's referring to.
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The trendlines are the direction of the polls. The projection is where they think the election will wind up compared to what the polls say.
 
Midas said:
Another question regarding the American election system.

Why do you have to register in order to vote? Am I missing something here? In Sweden, you just get a paper in the mail without doing anything that you bring when you vote.
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If you're too lazy to even register to vote (it's obscenely simple here), then we probably don't want you voting anyways.
 
Stridone said:
So you voted for McCain? Bastard.
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Hey now my ballot had 5 choices on it. :D

Something they've tried to change this year. A new measure that only top two majority candidates at primary can be on the ballot.
 
iapetus said:
http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/results

Interesting (to me) snippets:

Armenia is 100% for Obama. Go Armenia!
Nowhere in the world votes for McCain. The closest is Venezuela, where he has 43.2% of the vote.
The UK (including my vote) is 92.6% pro-Obama (probama?).
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Isn't that because barely any governments in the world recognise the Armenian genocide of 1-1.5 million? And maybe they think Obama will be more likely to have it officially recognised so then it becomes a commonly known part of history.
 
Midas said:
Another question regarding the American election system.

Why do you have to register in order to vote? Am I missing something here? In Sweden, you just get a paper in the mail without doing anything that you bring when you vote.
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Republicans want to make it as hard as possible to vote in this country, because if everyone could and would vote easily they'd lose most of the time.

I assume they'd whine about voter fraud if we actually mailed papers out to everyone.
 
BenjaminBirdie said:
I love that MSNBC is now ignoring Chuck's advice about not comparing different pollsters.

Oh, television.
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I like how Scarbs accidentally invalidated his own thesis. :lol

He thought the Mason Dixon polls were from the past couple of days but actually they're from a week ago. The national polls and trackers which are showing the gap widening are more recent.

Poor Scarbs.
 
The Chosen One said:
I like how Scarbs accidentally invalidated his own thesis. :lol

He thought the Mason Dixon polls were from the past couple of days but actually they're from a week ago. The national polls and trackers which are showing the gap widening are more recent.

Poor Scarbs.
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The worst was them saying that "last week's polls said this and now this says this" when earlier saying there wasn't a Mason Dixon poll since last month, thus guaranteeing that they were comparing different pollsters, VIOLATING TODDIAN LAW.
 
Just when I think I can stop being worry-GAF for a day and relax, Obama's coal statement comes out.

One more day of this stuff. One more day.
 
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